The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-14

Plainfield Grand Army Posts will put up a
soldiers monument in Crescent Park. The shaft
will be of granite, 5319 feet high, surmounted by
a bronze eagle with wings outspread. At the
base will be three statues; Liberty, Victory and
O. soldier Sheathing his sword.
The hotel keepers and liquor dealers of Bev-
erly, Burlington county, last Saturday presented
their licenses, granted at a recent meeting of
the Common Council, to Mayor Fish for his sig
nature. The Mayor expressed his dissatisfaction
and emphatically refused to sign them. Mayor
Fish was recently the Pro hibition candidate for
Assembly,, but was defeated. He was elected
Mayor on a Republican, prohibition ticket, and
is fighting the City Council in which the liquor
men have a small majority. The town had been
dry" before this Council came in.
Two prisoners escaped from the Morris County
Jail on Tuesday.
Judge and Mrs. John Hopper, of Paterson.
will celebrate their golden wedding tomorrow
evening.
Mayor Edmunds. Of Cape May, is making it
hot for those brought before him for drunken
ness and disorderly conductby committing them
to jail in lieu Of imposing fines.
When Charles Peterson, of the Florence Mis-
sion. Of New Brunswick. opened his MONDAY
prayer meeting for factory employees, yester-
day, on a lot near the lamp and bronze works,
two men in the audience began bowling at the
top of their voices, In order to drown his utter
ances. Peterson found that one of them was a
nearby saloon-keeper whose business had been
interfered with by the holding of the meetings,
and that the other was a bartender. He finally
outshouted the men, and the meeting proceeded
without further interruption. There were over
300 men present.
Complaints have been made to the Fish Com
missioners by Lake Hopatcong fishermen that
the chemicals and refuse from the powder
works, which are being emptied into the lake,
seriously interfere with the Matching and growth
of Hopatcong's famous bass and pickeral. The
powder company is liable To a fine of $1,000 for
dumping the Objectionable matter into the lake,
and the commission will take steps to have the
nuisance abated.
Tf,,avx ~, IN kha Dr;drafno Ftook~nI Nfatl,1
dist Episcopal Church will present o dollar to
the debt fund July land report the interesting
way in which she has earned it. Some will take
in washing, Others will blaeken their husbands
boots, and other mental methods of earning the
dollar will be pursued.
The Plainfeld Methodist Episcopal Church
viii soon establish two 5000 missions, one at
Eyona and one in North Plainfield.
1t is rumored in Trenton that the Newark SYM
dictate, Of which Messrs. Stephen Elkins and z.
A. B. Widener are members, have made over
lures for the purchase Of the Trenton Horse
Railroad line.
Of No. 643 Elizabeth avenue, Elizabeth, swat
lowed a pin which lodged somewhere in its
throat. Bronchitis set In, and the child's life
was despaired Of A couple OF days ago it was
attacked with a violent fit of coughing and yonl-
tied up the pin, which was the cause of the
trouble. 1t was a small safety pin which the
perfectly well. DR.. e. B. Grear says it was one
Of the strangest cases he ever attended and that
the chiid's escape from death is remarkable.
". 9. Ward, Of Montclair, N, j.. left a team Of
horses standing in the street on Wednesday,
with a prize setter-dog, said to be worth $500,
chained in the wagon. The dog sprang over the
dashboard and hung against the heels of the
horses. They took fright and ran The dog
was killed and the wagon badly damaged before
the team was caught.
black hen owned by a resident Of North
'Piaintieid recently Matched ont among a large
brood, a little white chicken. which IS a cur
iosity. The upper half of the bin is rolled back
in q tight ball between the eyes. The lower half
Is perfect and well formed. The left eye is
gone, It's wings are seemingly one piece. The
oldest part Of the matter is, that it is unusually
strong and lively. On account OF its formation
it cannot feed itself, but greedily swallows small
crumbs dropped in its mouth. II is now about
four days old.