The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-28
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

Hurff Weatherby, of Swedesboro. has taken
over 81, 800 worth from his eitron patch this
season. Samuel Longacre on Friday last
shipped from Swedesboro over 49, 200 worth of
sweet potatoes.
The proceeds OF the charity ball at the United
States Hotel, Atlantic City, on the night of
August 90, amounted to $1,000, which was
turned over at once to the trustees of the Chill
dren's Seashore Home.
A farmer of Lower HopeweIl carried his crop
from 1,5OO peach trees into Bridgeton August %.
1t was four peaches.
The oil cloth printers employed by j. G. Dunn
& Co., of Camden, who went on strike on Mon
day last, owing to a reduction in their wages,
are still out. The men say that they will not re-
sumo work at the present prices. They have
had several meetings and say they are resolved
to stand firm.
Rutgers College will receive Sf5,0 900 a year
under the law recently passed by Congress CIV
ing appropriations to scientific and agricultural
colleges out of the proceeds of the sale of public
lands. This sum will be increased 81, 900 each
year for ten years, and will then remain at
SIS, 900 a year.
The board of directors of the Interstate Fair
which is located on the line of the Pennsylvania
railroad near Trenton, are making additions TO
the poultry building and are increasing the cat
tie sheds, and have arranged for their drainage.
Better facilities will be afforded for getting into
the grounds by The addition of new stiles and
board walks. A cosy room is being arranged for
the representatives of the newspapers, and they
will have all the information they want about
lLlt NdllOuS CAulUibo al blto lOOlll, WHICH Will Do
provided with writing tables. Applications for
space are coming in daily. The entry books will
be opened Monday next. The sale of privileges
takes place on September Is.
Extensive preparations are making for the
Jamesburg Sunday School Convention, 10 he
held in Wigwam Grove. This is one of the most
celebrated semi-religious conventions of the
State, and thousands attend the services and
picnic in the grove.
1t is said that one of the census takers Of Pas
sale county found back in the mountains of his
district a family that lived in a dug-out and
| wore no clothes; the family was composed of
six children and the parents. The father wore
the cheapest kind of garment while the chill
dren, ranging in age from six to nineteen years.
remained In a perfect state of nudity. At the
time the census taker visited this family the
father was at work somewhere down country
in hay" while the mother and children were en-
| gagged in hoeing potatoes on their little place.
The children were tanned SO brown that at first
they were taken for mulattoes.
The formation of the Perth Amboy military
company is progressing finely. Hugh McCul-
Tough presided on Thursday evening last at a
meeting, and many young men enrolled their
names.
A brick manufacturing plant to cost 81, 900, 900
will, it is said, be erected at Winslow Junction
by a syndicate which now has huge kilns in
Wisconsin.
A new lighthouse is to be erected at Sea Girt
contiguous to Wreck Pond inlet. The structure
will be of iron and steel and will be the best APP
pointed lighthouse on the Allan tic seaboard.
The appraisement of the assets Of the Mt
Holly Mills Company shows less than $50, 600,
with liabilities reaching nearly 100000.
William c. Lawyer, of Clarksburg, while now
ing his meadow on Saturday, killed a snake. 1t
measured three feet six inches long. After cut
ting her open he found forty-two young snakes,
eight inches in length.
Phil. Meredith, of Burlington, was found by
two little girls, buried up to the neck in a sand
pit, about two miles from that city. He was
loading a wagon with sand when the bank caved
in. and being alone. he was uuablA to QXtripnta
himself. He remained thus until his cries at
tracted the attention of the two girls, who Sc.
cured help. No bones were broken, but the
weight of the earth strained various parts of the
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