The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-03
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

James a. Bradley lost $40, 600 on the beach al
Asbury Park last year, but he Is at present en-.
gagged in putting everything in tip-top shape for
the coming season.
Eight dynamite cartridges were found in coal
being wheeled to the furnaces at McNeal's Iron
Foundry, Burlington, a day or two ago.
The Union county turnpike contractors have
about completed the new road which runs
through Westfeld to Plainfeld. The thorough
fare is one of the longest stretches of fine ma
~cadamizing in the State.
At the Camden district stewards meeting OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Woodbury.,
Wednesday,, 1t was voted to increase the pen
sions of superanuated preachers and to create a
veterans day for these collections.
Dover, Morris county, is looking for the re-
moyal to the government powder magazine near
that town OF the naval powder depot now To-
Gated on Ellis Island, in New York Bay. which
is TO be taken for an immigration depot.
Sussex county farmers are turning their at
tention to tobacco growing. Some trial crops in
the past two or three years have proved profit
able ana more will be planted This summer.
Five acres are to be planted on the Red Gate
farm.
a mysterious explosion occurred in the Edison
monograph Works at Orange, Tuesday. The
furnace that is used for the melting of the in
gradients that are employed in making the
record cylinders suddenly exploded, and bricks
were hurled about the place with great force,
fortunately without causing any injury. No
cause for the explosion can be assigned.
A charter election viii be held in Morristown
on May.
Mrs. Parnell IS living at a Trenton boarding
house and is enjoying good health.
The grape crop at Egg Harbor City, it is said,
Will be immensely large this season.
1t is reported that the new Paterson Board of
Aldermen will create the Office of personal tax
collector.
State Senator John j. Gardner, of Atlantic
county, owns one OF the largest farms in the
State, and raises tomatoes for canning, being
the owner OF q large canning factory.
The spring at Cooper's mill. Schraalenburg.
contains u brook trout fourteen inches in length,
There are about Al, 900 colored people in New
Jersey whose children are without Ia industrial
school.
The largest tree probably in the State is a
chestnut tree standing on the line between the
Edward Brophy and ?. 5. Garrison properties In
Somerset county, and measures twenty-four feet
in circumstance around the trunk.
Prof. DeVoe says we are to have another wet
summer, with thunder showers in rapid success
sion. According to his idea the dryest weather
will be the last part of April and the first part
Of May.
Sarah N. Drummer, a widow living at Asbury
Park, has lost $4,000 through the defalcation Of
Lawyer shellenburger OF Doylestown, Pa.
Three schooners arrived at Keyport last week
from Virglnia with a total OF $3.50 bushels of
plant oysters consigned to four oyster growers
in that neighborhood.
The principal peach growers Of Sussex county
report that their orchards appear to be unin
5u'fe' H''h hifs Luz iIt1s give promise OF = large
crop,
A movement is on foot in Mays Landing to or
ganize a Board of Trade and to change the name
from Mays Landing to Wildwood.
Ex-Mayor Daniel f. Beatty, of Washington,
has returned from a circuit of the globe. He
covered 5,9T4 miles.
The New Brunswick Gun Club being organized
and Incorporated under tho game Iaws of the
State. each member is an officer competent to
arrest and prosecute for all attractions of the
laws. President Harvey Iredell announces that
it is the intention OF the club to carry out the law
TO the letter without respect to persons.
1t Is reported that before long several large
vessels win be built at Mays Landing by local
capitalists.
Atlantic county farmers and citizens have suf-
fered q loss Of $4,000 during the past month
from forest fires.
G. E. Beebe, of the Standard Oh Company,
has purchased the beautiful residence in Milton,
formerly the home Of John Harper.