The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-16
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE

Mr.. Joseph A. Dear, of the Evcpino Journal
and his two sons, Joseph A. Dear, DR., ano
| William y. Dear, sailed for Europe today
| by the steamship City of New York, OF the In,
| man Line. Allan L. McDermott, clerk of the
| Court of Chancery, sailed on the SAINT
| steamer.
Black ice cream is the latest fad for the con.
fectioner. 1t is colored by the use of charcoal
and the use of Turkish prunes.
Colonel G.. G.. Green's summer residence at
Lake H~opatcong will cost $4,000.
The steamer General Cadwallader. of the
Ericsson line, arrived at Cape May Sunday, from
Baltimore, with about one hundred passengers.
This was the initial trip of the steamer.
Reuben Chew, a prominent glassworker at
Millville, sailed for Europe on Friday last as the
delegate from New Jersey to the Biennial Con-
vention of Internal Glassworkers' Federation in
Paris.
The population of Pennsgrove announced by
the census taker is given at 1855, an increase Of
43 over the census OF 1885.
Nurserymen in South Jersey are greatly an
noyed by swarms of caterpillars.
A $4,000 pipe organ is to be placed in the new
building of the Central M. L. Church of Bridge
James A. Bradley is about to establish a new
riding school at Asbury Park, near Sunset Lake.
Governor Albeit yesterday signed the com
mission of William Pierson, Second Lieutenant
Company +, Third Regiment.
AT a meeting of the Bergen County District
CAlka OCtCl ~ 1dChEnSdlh Ou 1ilOSadf All
application for membership was received from
Dr. Hardy NJ. Banks, of Englewood, who said
that he had renowned his allegiance to homoeo-
patty and would hereafter adhere to the prac-
tice of medicine as prescribed by the bylaws
and code OF ethics of the society.
The Holland Society, of New York, will issue
in the latter part of this year a register of the
membership, haptsms. marriages and consis-
tory of the Dutch Reformed Church of Hacken-
snck, from the days of Dominic semak
1856, to 1901. The Schraalenburgh Church is in
cluded in this record, which will be accompanied
by a historical sketch of both societies.
The farmers in the vicinity of Mullica Hill,
Gloucester county, during the past weak have
been delivering at the railroad station large
quantities of early potatoes. Some of the
growers average daily about four hundred and
fifty baskets. Parties from Boston, New York,
Newark and Philadelphia, are buying for these
markets, and five to eight carloads are being
shipped daily, with prices averaging So SO to $40
per barrel.
A forest fire in the woods between Cedar
large cranberry bog, some standing timber and
twenty-five cords of pine wood, A few days
later q large Cract was burned over at the same
place. Both fires are believed to have been of
incendiary origin.
Colonel James S. Yard has associated his son.
Joseph A., in the business of publishing the
Monmouth Democrat.
Al alligator has been captured by Peter John
son in q pool at Rutherford, and is now exhibited
in q saloon.
Assistant Prosecutor Joseph NJ. Noonan. and
his family, accompanied by Colonel John Grimes,
warden of the Penitentiary, started today for
until September, but the warden will return be-
fore then.