The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-02
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE

The proprietors of the Carlsbad marble works
are preparing TO manufacture extensively onyx
cabinets, two of which have already been turned
out. They are worth about $1,000 each.
Collector Of Internal Revenue Isaac Moffett,
received a most harterlng Letter last week from
the Department at Washington, approving in
the strongest language his efficient and salts
factory conduct of the office in this district.
Plans for Camdeu's new government building
We're received on April rs by Postmaster Brown
ing, and ex-Asselnblyman Adam Clarke Smith
received his appointment as superintendent Of
construction. the specifications cali for the
completion OF the work by June |, 1891.
The Morristown Charter election will be held
on May X.
A union of beer brewers in Paterson is pro-
posed to boycott New York pool brewers.
The shackelton Car Heating Works at Bound
Brook has been closed owing to nonpayment of
its men.
The Rev. Mr.. Lattice. Of Unionville, has ac-
cepted a call to the First Presbyterian Churoha at
Efoboken.
The annual convention Of the New Jersey
held in New Brunswick, May IA.
The Singer Company has added a new indus
try to its works at Elizabethport, which will
furnish employment to a large number of per-
of electric fans. The polishing OF the fans is to
be done by girls. The new building built for the
work will be occupied next week
Much anxiety is felt among the ESQ male and
female operators OF the cordage works at Eliza
beth over the long suspension. The works have
been shut since January ], and it was con-
fdently expected would start up this week at
the latest, but there is no sign OF resumption.
The average weekly consumption Of ice in
MooFegtown Is sixty tons, and as the citizens Of
that piece do not propose to pay $3.50 per hun
dred weight for that commodity. an ice manu-
featuring company has been organized The
capital stock will be 5000. The shares will hs
sod at S25 each.
a new source Of trouble to the farmer has
turned up in the shape of a strange, voracious
insect. something like the apple tree ophis. The
State Etomologist is after it hot-footed.
Ground was broken in lakewood on Monday
for the 5000. 600 hotel TO be erected by the new
hotel company, of which Nathan Strais, OF the
firm OF Macy & Co., is one OF the heaviest stock
holders.
Bound Brook, according to the Chronicle, is
~agitating the addition of sewer improvements.
New Brunswick was sifailariy afflicted until the
sewer was built, and then q debt appeared of
the sizesof ST. 5000 tU.
Five-cent fares have been established on At
lantic Cityis street cars.
A syndicate of New Workers, it is said, pur-
chased the deserted Downs & Finch shirt factory
at Bordentown, and will resume operations
there.
This Bergen county taxpayers will have to
raise S5a. sl0s16 for school purposes this year.
Egg Harhor is to have high license. The fec
now is Sl10, but 1t VIII probably be $3.50.
Abraham Long. of Elizabeth, the veteran skip
per Of the Kills, who for the last forty years has
been familiar on its waters and whose skill in
handling q yacht was unsurpassed, has met a
painful misfortune. For some years the old
salts sight has been failing, and now the an
nouneement IL made that he is totally blind and
sorely in need OF assistance. being penniless and
actually la want.
Five hundred tons Of Canadian ice, or thirty
four carloads, have just arrived at Pennington.
The ice was furnished by John B. Hunt, the
general travelling freight agent OF the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company. Mr. Hunt several
weeks ago secured 5000 tons OF the large guam
tity harvested at the Bay of Quinte. This ice is
delivered at Pennington for $3.50 O ton. 1t is
about fifteen inches thick and is cut In immense
blocks.
The groeers Of Morris county have organized
AIN association for mutual protection against
dead beats, to stop unlawful peddiing, prevent
manufacturers from peddling their wares, and
To prevent the snie Of adtrtterafed food.