The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-07
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

Assemblyman John Uirich is confined to his
home at Piainfeld with a serious illness.
After three trials, one Of which resulted il 6
disagreement, and in another the plaintiff being
awarded $50 damages, the suit of Abraham Fine,
of Plainfield, against Ferdinand 0. Smith, of that
city, for damage done in the formers garden by
Smiths poultry, a final verdict was rendered
yesterday in the Union County Court in favor of
the plaintiff, Fine, for $50 and costs, which will
bring the entire expense of the suit to $3.50 or
more.
The United States Senate has confirmed the
following Supervisors Of the Census in New Jer-
sey:-A. B. Pearce, First district; John Bum
sted, Second district; Richard I. Starr, Third
district.
The scene of the recent discoveries of alleged
Indian skeletons at Pleasantville was visited yes
terday by Francis Macauley and Stewart Curtin,
of the Archaeological Association of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. They will make a
thorough search of the vicinity.
Application has been made to the Chancellor
for authority to authorize G. L.. Lsary, receiver
of the Perth .Amboy Ele ctric Company, which
failed some time ago, to sell the company's
plant. 1t appeared that among the assets is d
contract to light the city of Perth Amboy. The
Chancellor directed that If the contract was adj
vantageous to the city the receiver should sell it;
IL not, he should let it alone.
A pretended oculist has been victimizing resi-
dents Of Sussex county again. He charged a
poor woman SIPS for operating on her eyes, did
her no good, and collected all the money she
had, S55, and took her gold spectacles, leaving
a cheap and worthless pair behind.
1t is said that a Catholic hospital similar to st.
Michael's at Newark will shortly be built in
Elizabeth.
There are indications that both the New Jer-
sey Rubber Shoe Works and the New Jersey
Lamp and Bronze Works, at New Brunswick,
may be started again within a short time. This
will be good news TO the five hundred or more
employees now out Of work. There are more
people in enforced idleness in New Brunswick
now than at any time within ten years.
John Castor, q well-to-do farmer of Centre
vile, about four miles from Bloomfield, yester-
day morning caught a man in his chicken house
in the act of wringlng the necks of the fowls, oil
which he had already killed over a dozen. The
thief made a break for liberty, but was quickly
tripped up and taken prisoner by Castor and the
latter's two sons. The thief was tied to u post
and, as many chicken houses in the n~eighbor
hood have been robbed, other farmers soon as
sembled to the Castor homestead to get c
glimpse of the fellow. Several proposed hang
ing him, and frightened him terribly. AS there
are no police within four miles of the village the
farmers decided to punish him with a whipping
which they did. He was then ordered to depart
and llmped painfully away.
Secretary w. S. Mexican, of the Democrats
Society of New Jersey, hasreceived a letter from
Congressman McAdoo, rendering the society hi
sincere congratulations on the splendid worl
they have done and their bright prospects TO
the future. They had stirred the hearts of tn
young men of the party in New Jersey to max
a battle for something more than officeholding
They had raised alott the STANDARD of correc
Democratic principles and appealed to the high
est intelligence.
One Of the oldest houses in Monmouth count.
is that now occupied by Mrs. Zilpha Chadwick
at Oceanville. The portion used as a kitche
was built in 1870, The shingles put on the hous
at the time it was built are stili in good eondi
tion. u
The auction sale Of the Newark Daily Journo
Tuesday was postponed one week at the reques
of the bondh elders.
Over three hundred oyster boats are now "
ing idle at Port Morris, and over a thousan
oystermen are out of work. The excellence &
the Maurice river cove oysters has been tn
cause Of Amos cleaning out the beds here, an
the growers and shippers are Respondent.
In the lawsuit between Lewis Kuehnle, Of A
lantic City, and the Camden and Atlantic Raj