The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-13

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Sheriff Davis, City Collector o'Neill and As
semblyman Mullone started yesterday morning
on a trip to Sharon Springs.
Arthur B. Gladwin, of Leonia, who is student
at Princeton College, is one of the six persons
designated by the Government to accompany
Prof. Scott, OF the Geological Department OF
the College, to southwest Dakota and north
west Nebraska, to assist in the making Or sciene
tifc explorations among the fossil beds OF
White River and Loup Fork. This IS quite q
compliment to a deserving young man, VINO al
ready ranks high in geological studies.
Ex-senator Griggs, as counsel for the Pater-
son Board of Education, and City Counsel Simon
ton, representing the Aldermanic Board, decided
to submit briefs at the present term OF the SUI
preme Court to ascertain whether the Board 81
Education has a right to SIS per capita on the
attendance at the evening schools as well as on
| the attendance at the day schools. The briefs,
it is expected, will be submitted Monday. and
| The Supreme Court will be requested to give a
| prompt decision. Should the decision he adj
| verse to the Board of Aldermen the Tax Ordi-
! nance will have to be amended
Water is sometimes sold in Atlantic City for
| o,te cent a glass, but Port Norris, we are in
| formed, get ten cents a swallow, or whereabouts.
| a dealer in liquor buys one barrel of whiskey
each week and sells eight barrels OF wnlskey and
| water, making a net sale of seven barrels Of
| water per week at ten cents q drink. The water
at Wholesale is inexpensive and the dealer real
| ICES a handsome profit.
The married men of Englewood played a game
| of baseball with the married men of Ruther-
Tova last Saturday, which was very amusing.
rrhe score was 80 to IS in favor of Englewood,
| and twas a singular fact that Duryea, a single
| man, made most of the runs for the Engles
| wooderS.
reunion viii be held by the association of
| the Thirty1seventh Regiment of New Jersey
Volunteers, on the 23d of June, at the residence
| of General E. Burd Grubb, at E~dgewater Park,
| burlington, N. j. All ex-members of the
/ Thirty-seventh Regiment are invited to be pres
| ant General Grub desires as large a gathering
| ON that occasion as possible.
| r.-A+ninr strr,eIy in 81 ward in S0uth PREDICTION
Wednesday night and colored some OF the earth
a beautiful gold and purple. 1t is believed that
| another bolt struck somewhere out Irving ave
nue..
LAWYER J. Eugene Troth has at fast received
| his appointment as Collector OF the Port OF Cam
den.
Law Judge Hoagland, of Cumberland county,
| has granted the applications Of Downe and Law
renee townships for special elections under the
Werts law, to fix the liquor license fees IN those
| Townships. Tuesday, August 26, was decided
upon as the date for each election. These are
| strong temperance townships, and it Is believed
that the fees Will be made so hlgh as TO De prac-
| tically prohibitory.
Two more prisoners escaped from the new
steel cages in the Morristown Jail on Tuesday
NIGHT. by saving through the iron bars. Then
| they ripped the iron screen from the window
/ and were free. The men are FLOOD, the would-pe
| murderer, and Charles Lee, the bigamist,
The Morristown Artificial Ice Company expect
toNstart their machinery this week and TO be
| ready for business next week.
The last deed of conveyance Of Petty's Island
| land 10 the government has been entered for
| record in Camden. 1t is made by Thomas M.
Montgomery and William Il. Castletal, for a
| nominal consideration.
Don't pait to be kicked out, Nh. CleUe-