The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-05-11

about $4,000 per year OF this about $4,000 is
for gas. 2,009 for electric light, SA.u00 Ter case
line anil 500 for kerosene. Estimating the
number OF families on each side Of the brook at
+ 8 08d. this would make the cost per family per
year for light nearly SIt o. On say thirty7three
cents per week, or less than five cents per day.
or about one cent per inhabitant each day. This
I is for both public and private lighting.
Burlington Military College will close perna-
nently at the expiration Of the current term,
which ends in June, owing TO limited patronage.
William Walter Phelps the United States
Minister at Berlin, gave q dinner Wednesday
evening in honor OF Hon. Charles Emory Smith,
Minister to Russia. Among tho guests were
many persons Of prominence,
AS a scheme to lessen the annually increasing
number of delinquent taxpayers Burngton's
| City Council has adopted resolution Offering a
discount OF ten per cent. for prompt payment OF
taxes
Company f, Fifth Regiment. Natonal Guard,
| of Newark, at an excited meeting Tuesday night
voted to withdraw from that regiment and join
trouble in the Fifth between Colonel Barnard
and some of the line officers, and number of
designations were sent in The trouble was
chiefly in Company 4. Colonel Barnard and his
staff We're present at the meeting when tho vote
was taken. The transfer can only take place
with the sanction of the division commandment.
At the last meeting Of the Atlantic County
Agricultural Association it was resolved to hold
the annual exhibition on September 10, 90, u
and ~
The issue at the Morristown charter election
Two hundred and thirty of the finest Jersey
COWS in this country bowed welcome to dele
gatien Of the Jersey Club at the magnificent
barn Of the Mountainsde Farm Of Mr. Theodore
Haveneyer III Bergen count one day recently.
Mr. Havemeyer had sent an invitation to the
club to visit and inspect the model farm. which
is his especial PRIDE and some thirty or forty of
the members responded. special train was
waiting at the Erie Railroad depot in Jersey City
at ten O'clock aud a run of thirtyf minutes
brought the party to the picturesque depot at
Nofax cd he rtxy IN,
the farm where two hours were spent in exam
lining the cattle and Mr.. Havemeyer's devices
for feeding and watering them. lunch was
served ia the dairy and then an examination was
made of the method OF manufacturing butter,
and g visit was paid to the different parts and
features of the farm. Among those in the party
Dr.. II. NJ Howe Nj. G. s. Mouiton of the Green
Mountain Farm; E. w. Farley, J. w. johnson,
L. S. Hardin, Nathan Robins d. J. jenkins, u.
+. Appleton, Major Thomas P. Branch, J. d.
Henderson, w. i. Williams and w. j. G.. Dean.
At haf-past four the special train took the party
back to New York.
Mayor Dubois, of Bridgeton has determined to
break up skylarking in that city and on Thurs
day night four sons of prominent merchants
were arrested and fine Of $2.75 was imposed
on each of them.
in the Camden County Clerk office by the Luray
Manganese Company OF Virginia. The objects
Of the corporation are to mine manganese ore
and other mineral substances. The capital
stock is $250000, and the amount paid is said to
be $500.
The Egg Harbor City Council Thursday night
decided TO make the license for hotels $3.50 and
for saloons $500. The present rates are $l10 and
500 respectively Twelve hotel and Ave saloon
licenses were granted.
The first hatch of the season on the steamer
Fish Hawk, OF the United States Fish Commits
sion, now lying off Gloucester City, consisting of
two million young shad. was shipped Thursday
TO the head waters of ths Delaware and Hudson
Rivers for distribution
err.
farms IN Sussex county. upon one OF which, at
Hamburg, is an elm tree known as .Hardiston's
Big Elm, which has besn made the subject of
a prize essay. The tree is nineteen feet in Cir
conference at the base Of the trunk.