The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-11-20
NEWS IN NOTES.
STATE NOTES.

After waiting two years for their
money the Deputy United States
Marshals who served in the Presi-
Dental election of 1883 in New Jersey
are to get their money at last, the
amount having been forwarded to
United States Marshal w. Budd
Deacon.
The storekeepers and residents OF
Long Branch are alarmed at the num-
Der OF counterfeit 50 silver certificates
which have during the past few days
been put in circulation. Over a dozen
OF the bills have been presented at
the postoffice yesterday by respect
able persons, on whom they had been
passed. There is no clue to the
counterfeiters.
Sheriff Rossiter, of Paterson, has
decided not to appoint deputies for
the Clifton race track. This leaves
the association to preserve order. BY
taking this step the Sheriff deprived
himself Of the opportunity Of dispens-
ing pap to politicians. The appoint
ment Of deputies by the Sheriff, it is
claimed, would look like an approval
of the practices at ace tracks.
Peter II. Hopper, president OF the
Passaic Ice Company, says that he has
received reliable information that
there will be an abundant crop OF ice
next wear, and ON the strength of his
foreknowledge of the weather his
company has erected three large
houses. which he says will have sufi-
Gent capacity for the storage OF two
years supply.
Davenport's old hotel at Green
Pond. Morris county, was destroyed
by fire Wednesday night.
Judge Terhune and wife, of Passalc
county, celebrated their golden we'd
ding on Wednesday evening.
The firm of Mclaughlin Brothers,
manufacturers of silk braids, in Pat
erson, made an assignment Tuesday.
Miss Elizabeth Blair, niece of John
/. Blair, was married at Scranton last
week to H. G. Shafer, cashier OF the
Scranton Savings Bank.
The Bergen authorities are investi-
eating the alleged cruel treatment OF
a child at Hackensack. who was COM
pelled by a grandmother to sleep in a
pig pen and an clubhouse.
Many Rutherford people are suffer
ers by the suspension of the North
River Bank, of New York. The Beat
tie Manufacturing Company, of Little
Falls, in Passaic county, is also heavi-
ly interested.
The Elizabeth policemen have asked
for an advance in salaries, and a special
meeting of the City Council will be
held to decide whether the question
shall be submitted to the people to
vote on at the charter election on De-
cember 2.
Parties in this country have agreed
with Mr.. Hobart, as representative OF
the estate, for the purchase of the
quarries recently operated by the late
4. Frank Hoxsey, of Paterson, with
their entire equipment, and +. w.
Burger, who has been connected with
Mr.. Hoxsey in the past management,
will remain with the e concern as
superintendent and general manager.
John, the ~five-year-old son of Mel
bourne Soay, of Oceanville, while his
parents were out visiting neighbors
yesterday, found a powder horn
partly filed with powder. While in
the act of touching a match to the
powder it exploded, filling the room
with smoke. The child's clothing
caught fire. and but for the timely aid
OF a brave little sister, who dashed a
bucket of water over him, he would
have undoubtedly burned to death.