The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-11
AND NOTABLE.

Rutgers College, at New Brunswick, fears that
President Gates win resign his position to accept
the presidency of Oberlin College, in Ohio, TO
which he was elected by the trustees in June.
President Gates recently spent two days ct
Oberlin, but has not yet decided what he will do.
year, and that he gets only 81, 100 at New Bruins
wick. Altogether. deducting the students en-
rolled in two departments, there were 1,7I3
students at Oberlin last year. With the excep-
ton of Harvard and Ann Arbor, it is perhaps
the largest of the colleges of the country In
numbers 1t has between fifty and sixty upon
its Faculty of instruction in all departments.
The foxes which certain Salem gentlemen
have had brought into the county and turned
loose seem to be getting down to business. A
few weeks since in one day two farmers living
on adjoining farms, near Auburn, lost nearly
that day in the field in which were his turkeys
ana he thinks he had an uneaten turkey in his
mouth when he saw him. The day previous the
fox was seen in the field of Mr.. Featherer, where
his turkeys feed. Another farmer has lost a
whole litter of young pigs. He thinks q fox
took them. A few months back Mrs. William
Webber, near Courses Landing, saw a fox make
a rush for one of her fowls, but the chicken
escaped by flying up through the bushes.
Attending physicians directed Mrs. Job Som
ers, Of Atlantic City, to take her nine-months-
old sick child to the beach, in the hope Of saving
it's life. The fond mother was giving her the
benefit of the sea breeze, when it suddenly fell
back in her arms dead. The mother tainted,
and there was an affecting scene for a while on
the ocean front.
Warren Leland, Jr., has introduced the Eng
lish bath-house on wheels at Long Branch. Its
occupants, attired for bath, are drawn by horses
in a ~four-wheeled private bath-house to the
necessary depth. Descending into the ocean by
steps from the rear door of the vehicle, they en-
joy their dip" in peace and comfort, are drawn
back to the beach, and thus escape all annoy
ances of sand, glaring sunshine and general OBJ
Servation.
The Sussex County fair will be held on October
9TH, 6th, 9th and 10th, a week later than usual.
1t will require a million bricks to lay the walk
in front of the grand stand at Monmouth Park.
The Camden Board of Education has decided
to establish a manual training school in a short
time.
Dover Ilder. Elias Millen, of Mine Hill, while
in Dover the other day, showed us a linen shirt
over sixty years ago. The goods were in excel
lent condition and the shirt will yet outlast
many Of the modern make. He says his mother
spun the fax, which was raised on the Millen
homestead farm at Mendham, and then worked
it into cloth. He has a number of these shirts
yet. He said in those days in the long ago
everybody used to wear homespun linen.
Edmund Willetts, of Bridgeton, convicted of
killing two mammoses, or young sturgeon, was
fined $40 by Justice Riley. The action was the
first brought under the new law. An appeal
may be taken.
A Morris County farmer at Pigeon Hill raised
a field of rye, the stalks of which were seven
feet high.
Lafayette College, of EastQn, Pa. has con-
ferred the honorary degree of LID. on DIR. E. M.
Hunt, Of Trenton, secretary of the State Board
of Health.
The Board of Supervisors, of Richmond County
has appointed William A. Bacot, of Orange, N.
j., engineer under the new bill for the improve
ment of the county roads, at a salary of So, 500
per annum.
A snake skin seven feet long was found by
David DeMott and Louis Deckers, of Tenafiy,
while taking down an old stone wall TO use the
material for road purposes.
1t is stated that the macadamized road from
Ocean Grove would be completed to Shark River
by next Saturday night, and the contractors
would then begin m~acadamizing from Ocean
Grove gate north to SteInbach's corner, and,
when that strip was finished, they would com.
mence at Deal Lake and come south to Asbury
n noipt and cookpln uruV will n not sf be b,il pe IN Ta, TINS