The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-05
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

A cOlored ChautaIqua has been formed bysth
leading members of the New Jersey Methods
Episcopal Conference, now holding its session
at Asbury Park. Courses will be given in churcl
history, church government, Greek, etc. TIL
evenings viii be devoted to entertainments ant
debates, participated in by the leading colore,
men of the North. The Rev. j. C. Aylor, o
Princeton, is the conductor. He will be assisted
by Francis Thompson, the Rev. J. II. Bean, o
Bordentown, and the Rev. A. H.. Newton, o
New Brunswick.
Samuel L. Moore & Sons, of Elizabeth, wht
are TO build the government practice cruiser
will today launch from their Yards the frs
steel steamer built by them. The vessel is fol
private parties in Mexico. In commemorative
of the event the firm will next Tuesday give {
Hopatcong. special train will be provided fol
the occasion and a band of music will accompany
the excursionists. Each of the $50 employees
win be furnished with two tickets and can take
his wife or q friend.
Warren county reformers have organized 6
Single Tax Club. A. W. Davis, of Oxford, il
president; Nathaniel Beatty, vice president
John Morrison, of Washington, secretary, and
II. L. Beatty, Of Port Murray, treasurer.
Next Tuesday will witness the greatest demon
~stration ever made by the Knights of the Golden
Eagle in New Jersey. 1t will occur in Trenton
in connection with the annual session of the
Grand Castle, and it is expected that from 1,00(
to 1000 Knights in the gorgeous array of the
order will take part. In addition to the New
Jersey contingent many members of the order
from Pennsylvania, including prominent officers,
will be present.
A valuable stone quarry was recently uncov-
cred at Bridgeton.
The Hotel Windsor at Atlantic City will be the
rendezvous next Tuesday and Wednesday of the
New Jersey State Homeopathic Medical Society
for their semi-annual meeting.
Newark stands twelfth among the twenty
seven principal cities of the country in respect TO
value of buildings erected in 1889, and eighteenth
in the number of buildings erected. s.
The State Board of Medical Examiners organ
iza1 and alprfa1 THAR Ofiporc in tbo Gtofa JIo,,oo
at Trenton on Tuesday. 1t was resolved that no
examination should take place till October 8,
when the Board will be ready for business.
The vineland Far opened Tuesday with an
excellent display of fruits, vegetables, poultry
and miscellaneous articles. The far closed yes
terday.
Mrs. DR.. j. Inskip, wife of the late Rev. DR..
1nskip, the evangelist, of Philadelphia, was mar
Bateman. member Of the North Ohio Confer
ence, by the Rev. John Thompson. The bridal
party left Immediately for Ohio.
William e. Andrews, of Highlands, announces
himself as a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Senator in Monmouth county.
The premium list at the fair OF the Hunterdon
County Agricultural Society amounts to So, 900.
The fair will be held September Is to 10.
South Jerseys greatest sporting season, the
wood duck, rail and reed bird shooting has
opened. The ponds in the vicinity of the Egg
Harbor River were alive with gunners. Wood
ducks were never known to be so plentiful be-
lore. One gunner killed TOUR DUCKS at one shot.
Editer E. G. Shaner, of the Mays Landing
Record, and ]. w. Shinn bagged twenty-five
ducks. 1t may be safely said that $50 ducks
were killed yesterday.
The country people around Danville are ar
ranging for a double birthday celebration at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Vreeland. The
two old people were born within one day of
each other, and are now in the nineties. They
have been married sixty-three years. Both are
still hearty and active and anticipate the APP
preaching anniversary glee day. with much
pleasure.
A rare set of Father Mathew chinaware,
which at one time was considered a famous ad-
dition to any table, has just been discovered by
Henry G. Apgar. of Frenchtown, in an old
Hunterdon county farmhouse. He paid q high
price TO secure the cups and saucers alone,
which bear a portrait of Theobald Mathew, the
Apostle of Temperance " a picture of a bee
hive representing Temperance and industry
and the quotation from Mathew, Industry Pays
Debts. !" The ware is now very scarce, but a
half century ago was very popular.
Very Rev. Dean McNulty is on the briny deep
and win soon be once more among his parishion-
ers in Paterson. A letter has been received
from him by the Rev. Father Hall, containing
the welcome new that he is in perfect health.
The epistle is dated from Paris, which the tour
ist visited after a prolonged stay in his native
land. He embarked for this country on Friday
last