The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-24

whether they had not some private
understanding from the very outset.
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.
Measles that attack elderly as well as younger
folks are epidemic IN Glassboro, Bridgeton and
other South Jersey towns
An order has been issued for a meeting Of the
State Military Board next week. The Board con
sists of Governor Albeit, Major General Plume.
Adjutant General s:ryker, Quartermaster Gen
eral Donnelly and Brigadier Generals Sewell and
Steele.
The property owners in Mechanic street, Pat
erson, are trying to drive out all Objectionable
tenants and have sent a petition to the Aldermen
asking a change OF name to Sixteenth avenue.
They assert that an evil repute attaches to the
old name.
The members of the Ayrshire Cattle Breeders
Association spent Friday in New Brunswick,
visiting the State experimental station at Rut-
gers College and the experiment farm, where
important experiments ON cattle breeding are
being made.
1t Is now known pretty definitely that Robert
+. Ballantine, of Newark, intends to turn Library
Hall, that city, into an elegant theatre. devoted
to local interests; q place where society may
hold its balls, routs, theatricais and all sorts of
fetes, q place for concerts as well as the legiti-
mate drama.
At the Republican City Convention held at At
lantic City. Friday night, the following nomina-
tions were mads:-For Mayor, the incumbent,
Samuel D.. Hoffman; Recorder, Joseph r. Bart
lett; Aldermans Robert Strand; Treasurer,
Cnalkley S. Lees; Assessor, Henry Wooton;
Collector of Taxes, James Stokes; Councilman
at-Large, NJ. C. Frambes; CITY Marshal, A. S.
Faunce; Overseer of the Poor, Henry G. Nor
man. The election takes place on March II
next.
Rev. j. 1. Boswell, of Nyack, N. Y. has re-
ceived a call from the NJ. e. Church, of Madison.
The Rev. c. F. Sitterly, the present pastor. has
decided to pursue a course of instruction at Ok
ford University.
At the examination just concluded at Trenton
the following persons passed and obtained the
degree Of Counsellor:-Joseph G. Garretson, w.
Holt Apgar, Charles W. Parker, William R.
Howe, Isaac u. Antrim, Eckard P. Budd, Linton
Satterthwait, William L. CLARK, David Harvey,
Jr., Guy J. Edwards. The following passed the
examination for attorney : Louis Morris, Edw in
O.. c. Bleakley, William H. Beicher, Edward W.
Hicks, Willard +. Steelman, Jacob Willard De
Yoe, Thomas B. Steele, George e. Clymer,
Francis D. Weaver. Anderson Price, James T.
Kernshan, Thomas v. A~rrowsmith, N. Henry
Stevens, Ulysses G. Ludlow.
s. ". woodruff, formerly of the Coleman
House at Asbury Park and the Netherwood at
Ptainfeld, lis charged with Irregularities at the
Balmoral Hotel, Montreal.
New Jersey Agricultural College Experimental
Station Bulletin "a treats of some fungus dis,
eases of the cranberry, by Byron D. Halsted
botanist and horticulturist.
The women of the First Presbyterian Church,
of Passaic, dressed in the old New England fash
ion last evening and gave a New England supper
in the church parlor.
Thursday evening Mr.. AMI Mrs. R. H. McCar-
ter, of Newark, gave a dinner at Delmonico's
and q box party for their friend Mrs. Eiler, of
Philadelphia, who is visiting them. Judge and
Mrs. William P, Hardenbergh were of the num-
Der.
Among newly appointed postmasters are:-
John Pittinger, Washington; Elins R. Pope,
Plainfield; John l. Blair Kelley, Phillipsburg.
In the Senate, the following postmasters are
among those confirmed friday. $. Fisher.
bennington, and W. H. Baldwin. East Orange.
The orators at the commencement of Drew
Theological Seminary, this year, have all been
chosen, and the list includes the cream of the
class of 80. They are:-George H. Buckley. Jr.,
Charles N. Church, Laertes T. Conrad, Walter
G. Hull, A. L. lShute, Alfred Walls and Herbert
WEIGH.
The Botany Worsted Mill, Passaic, a branch of
u large manufacturing concern at Leipsic, Ger
many, which was forced TO set up in business In
this country by the tariff on worsted yarns, is
soliciting bids for a building twice the size of
that erected last fall, which covers six acres of
ground and is one story high,
Mrs. Mary Banahan, aged 1902 years, is danger
ton Township, Warren County. Until about five
months ago she made occasional visits to Oxford,
several miles distant, on foot, and read without
The use of glasses. She has never been attended
by a doctor, nor has she taken medicine.
The historic mountain facade known as
washington Rock, = because of its associations
with the commander of the American Revolu-
tionary troops in the Jersey campaign, received
its annual coat of white paint Friday. Each
year a patriotic citizen of P~lainfield causes the
rock to be coated with pure white as Washing
toms Birthday approaches.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Sutro, of No. $50 West
Flfty-ninth street. New York, have closed their
home for the season and left for Calfornia
today.
LEAPED INT0 THE RIVER.
Because He Could not Give a Gift to His