The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-02
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

About one third of the men nominated fol
election officers in Newark under the new Bal
lot Reform law reported to Chairman Price, o.
the Democratic County Committee, on Wednes
day and were asked exactly 100 questions to tes
their knowledge of the new law. The
tion clause frightened off many applicants.
Minister William Walter Phelps has engaged
one of the West End cottages at Long Branch,
which he will occupy on his return from Europe
in August.
The veteran Snowman, Dan Rice, of Long
Branch, is going into the show business agar
with an old fashioned one ring circus.
The people of River Edge, Bergen county,
have wondered at the strange sight of the flight
of millions of white flies for the past three
nights. David and George Bloomer were the
first to detect a light cloud thar hung over the
river near the railroad station on Saturday
night between eight and nine O'Clock. The all
soon became full of descending, particles Of
white that looked like snow. In a short time the
ground was covered with white flies, and mil
lions of the insects fell into the waters of the
river. The flight lasted about twenty minutes,
and seemed to be confined to the village of River
Edge. The residents of Cherry Hill, a mile
south, and those of New Milford, the same dis
lance north, had not seen the white flies. On
Sunday night the insects made their second aD-
p~earance at about the same hour, and about q
bushel of them were collected by the light of q
single torch. Monday night the shower was re-
peated.
burly policeman named Patrick Lynch burst
into q TRADE of abuse and threatened personal
violence upon Assemblyman John Ulrich, who is
a lawyer, and who was defending several men
whom Lynch had arrested. Ulrich resent
ed an insulting remark of Lynch's, and scored
him numerically. Lynch threw off his coat
and vest and sprang at the lawyer. The latter
did not finch. but continued in his denuncia-
tions of Lynch, while the policeman pounded
his fist black and blue upon a table, which gave
way under the blow.
John S. Cramer, of Annandale, Hunterdon
county, has just celebrated his 92d birthday.
He made a hand'' in the harvest field this sea-
son, carrying sheaves and binding grain.
The publishers of the Camden Morning Neacs
have reorganized the stock company under the
name of News Publishing Company, end in
creased the capital stock from 5000 to $4,000.
A remarkable fast was ended in the death
Monday night of Harry Adams, the six-year-old
son Of James Adams, OF Beileville. Three, years
ago the boy was taken with malaria, and since
then has been q constant sufferer. Several doc
tors have attended him without giving relief.
The disease finally developed into pernicious
malariaI fever. On July 4 the boy ceased to take
food:s For twenty-four days he had abstained
from all nourishment, and was a mere rack OF
bones when death relieved him.
Six-yearold John Lyons was found fast asleep
beside the Newark and Elizabeth Railroad. near
Oak Island, on the Newark meadows, on Monday
night. The little fellow had been terribly bitten
by mosquitoes. There was not a visible spot on
his person that was not covered with big red
blotches. He said that he left his home in Sixth
street on Sunday afternoon with Tommy Carr,
for the purpose of going grabbing. The boys be-
came separated at nightfal, and Johnnie, after
wandering about, laid down to sleep. II felt
the mosquitoes, " he said, but / slept, just the
same"
A lIorristown man has a white oak cane which
he h&s Just had made from a portion of his great
grandfather's trip hammer block. which was
found when James H.. Brant laid the foundation
for his stone dam at Morris Plains. Iron was
formerly made on the site, and the old block was
perfectly sound, although 100 years old.
The Democratic Congressional Convention for
the Fourth New Jersey district, comprising the
counties OF Hunterdon, Somerset, Sussex and
Warren, will be held at Belvidere ON Wednes-
day. September II. Congressman Fowler, it is
GENERALLY conceded, will be given another term,
though there is considerable opposition develop
ing against him,