The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-08-31
ALL OVER THE STATE.
A Batch Of News Nuggets, Personal
and Curious.


Passac City, has, throught his counsel, ex-Sen,
ator Griggs, fled his answer in the Passaic
County Courts in the suit for libel brought
against him last fall by ex- Assemblyman James
Keys. The answer recItes that Keys is a self
seeking politician; that he represented u class
of men such are usually and properly called
''heeers; that he used money to influence votes
and favored colonizing of voters at primary
elections that his principal adherents frequsnt-
ed liquor shops; that he was negligent Of his
duties in the Assembly, and that the sergeant-at-
arms had to 90 after him to bring him to his
post. All this MIR. FfllSins expects to prove in
court. The funniest part of the family trouble
is that when Keys first brought suit FilkIns pub
lished rather humble apology, in which he said
he did not mean to call Mr.. Keys "heeler,"
but only 10 say that his supporters were largely
of that class The apology did not soothe the
feelings Of the Paterson statesman, especially as
he was defeated by the detection of the Passaic
City Democrats and he determined to press the
suit.
J. Bingham Woodward. of the Delaware and
Raritan Canal, and for many years member of
the State Board of Education, is lying very i'll at
his residence in Bordentown.
An electric ball dropped into Henry ElweIl's
tomato patch, in Lower Greek, Salem county,
during recent thunder storm, and exploded,
killing fifty tomato plants.
The owners of cranberry bogs throughout the
State are expecting large crop this year, with
better prices 1t is believed that the cost of the
harvest will amount to over s., 100000.
one-thrd of an acre in lima beans netted 500
for Captain Peter Campbell a Cumberland
county farmer.
Surrogate Dusenberry and Assistant Prosecu-
tor Louis Hood, of Essex have returned home
from their outings and are at work again.
The Camden Board of Trade has decided TO
seek the cooperation of the State and City
Board of Health and to the Prosecutor of Pleads
to prevent the pollution of the Delaware near
the water works.
A handsome window has been presented to the
new Baptist Church at Collingswood by ex-
Sheriff william p Tatem, as memorial of his
wife.
The Central Neuo Jersey Times, the Oldest
paper in Plainfield, has been purchased by
FEank W. Runyon, who will convert it into a
i've Repubi can paper. A semi-weekly, instead
of a weekly edition, will be issued. Mr.. Runyon
a graduate of Cornell, and has served on the
news and edition stats of New York and Phia-
delphia papers, besides doing service for the
Madison Square Theatre, and managing the last
lecture tour of Henry Ward Beecher. Robert
F. R. Huntsman will be the Times new editor.
A new counterfeit ten cent piece is in circula-
ton which so closely resembles the genuine
that It can easily be passed. It differs from the
usual counterfeit in that genuine silver plating
covers the German silver which forms the body
Of the coin.
The sale Of the pro perty of the late Andrew
V. Stout, known as Crowndale, at Bernardsville.
to John H. BaIlantine, of Newark, has just been
consunmated- The price paid was 100000.
The property thus acquired is a large farm of
between three and four hundred acres. located
In Demands township, on the road from Ber
narusyille to Mendham.
There are two candidates in the field already for
the Speakership of the next Assembly. Leonard
Kalisch, the senior member from Essex county :,
has stated that in case of his reelection he viii
go in to win the gavel Kalisch Is a staunch
Democrat and bases his hopes on Democratic
success. He is known throughout the State as
the great introducer, - having made larger
record last year as author of bills than any
other member. Assemblyman William D.
Campbell, of Monmouth, who frequently occu-
pied the chair last winter and astonished the
members with excellent rulings, is out for the
Office
When the midnight meeting of the Florence
Mission, at New Brunswick, was held on Sunday
night number of victims of liquor stepped for
ward to ask for the prayers of the congregation.
There was some surprise when it was noticed
that among them was wealthy farmer who
off md ic - he
local churches. He had come to town and in
stead of going to church stepped into saloon
and got drunk. He expressed sorrow for his
act and was cared for over night by the people
of the mission
Ely Shafto, a farmer living about six miles
west of Asbury Park, recently died a horrible
death. His disease is said to have no parallel in
medical records About three years ago
cancer appeared under his left arm 1t was
skillfully operated upon and the result was a
terrible aggravation of the original trouble
Cancer after cancer grew until they numbered
twenty, some of them larger than mans fist,
and were located in various parts of his body.
The bones of the arms and chest crumbled away
until they could be broken as easily as fagot of
wood.
Mr.. Charles Nordhoff, who was the chief of
the New York Herald Washington bureau for
many years, has retired from active journalistic
work, on half pay salary for life, allowed him
by Mr. Bennett, the proprietor of the Herald.
Mr. Nordhoff is a resident of Alpine on Hudson,
in this state.
There are ffty-seven companies of the Ma
tional Guard in this State. but three counties,
Salem Warren and Ocean, are not represented.
With the companies already organized the quota
is fun. but an effort win be made to establish a
company in each OF the counties above named
under the law allowing one company for each
county in the State
Mayor Rankin, of Elizabeth, has received
check from the Singer Company for S2s, 226,
being the amount of its tax for the present year.
This money comes just in time to pay the polio
and other local creditors, and also the county
tax of S7,79i. now due
carnival occurs at Lake Hopatcong tonight.
The owners of every craft on the luke have been
invited to take part, and there win be illurnina
tions and fireworks.
The congregation of the Grace Protestant
Episcopal Church at PlainfieId will celebrate the
twentieth anniversary Of the rectorship OF the
Rev. +. NJ Rodman this fall, and contemplate