The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-20
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

Mr.. Gustav Metzler, of the B. O. T. c. H., has
received a cablegram from Mrs. Metzler an
nouncing the safe arrival of the steamer Elder
at Southampton, in which she and Mr.. and Mrs:
Ferd Heintze sailed a week ago. They had good
weather and a pleasant voyage across.
The Right Rev. Bishop Starkey and Mrs. Star
key will sail for Europe next month.
A number of Indian relics have recently been
found on DR.. Leslie d. Wards farm near Madi-
son.
County Physician Thompson, of Cumberland
county, declines to give way to his successor,
DR.. Oliver, who was elected on Wednesday last,
claiming that he was elected for three years.
The corner stone of the new Osborne Memorial
Presbyterian Church at Cedarviile,, the gift OF e.
O.. Thompson, of Philadelphia, was laid Saturday.
The church will cost $4,000.
A certificate has been filed with the Passaic
County Clerk Of the organization of the Dayton
Dry Goods Company, the company proposing to
do business In Dayton, o., New York and Passaic
City, its business beng the buying and selling of
dry goods, boots ana shoes anu other articles.
The company has a capital stock OF 10000 and
the incorporates are Alexander Meidrum,
Arthur B.. Meidrum, James b. Sleigh, Charles III.
Flint and Charles II. Daniels.
The State Convention Of the Industrial Senate,
composed of delegates from the Knights of La
Dor and the Farmers Alliance, met in New
Brunswick Sunday and approved the Werts Bal
lot Reform bill.
The Paterson Press says that building prog
poets in that city do not look as bright as they
uu ut las illlc laob year. luCI0 oCCllS Z DO du
unsettled condition of affairs in the building
trade, which results from the depression in bust
ness, the fear of strikes and other causes. An
architect who has prepared plans for eighteen
buildings this spring says that the contracts for
only seven out of the above number have been
signed. What with the increase in wages and
materials it costs about twenty per cent. more
to build this year than it did last.
DR. Spratling, an assistant at Morris Plains
Asylum, read O paper in New York, one evening
last week on .'The Treatment of the Acutely In
sane in General Hospitals
At q meeting of the New Jersey Historical
Society in Newark last week, 1t was announced
that the society could obtain a triangular piece
Of ground in Broad street, the property of the
city, for O. site for a new building, and that
three or four citizens stood ready to subscribe
$100,0O0 for the building. A committee was 2p-
pointed to consider the matter.
1t is said that Bishop Starkey, of the diocese
of Newark, is about to send a minister to the
quarters at Cooper's. Landlord Fuller has made
q very liberal offer in order to have the lower
end looked after in its spiritual affairs. 1t will
be remembered that several months ago the
degradation of that vicinity was described in the
papers, and that Bishop Starkey's attention had
been directed to the matter.
Some malicious person poisoned Harry Lip
pincott's tame deer at Long Branch a night or
two ago.
The Rev. c. D. C%hapewan, of the Grace P. E.
Church, is receiving the congratulations of his
parishioners. 1t is q girl, and is now five
days old.
The Citizens State Bank Of Elizabeth has
fled articles Of incorporation and will begin
business June l. Ex-Congressman Amos Clark
will be president and City Treasurer Whelan
cashier.