The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-04
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

The Rev. George r. Snyder, of Ocean Grove,
has been nominated for Congress by the Pro-
hibitionists of the Third Congressional district.
Mr.. Snyder is a member of the Methodist
Church. He has been an active leader 10 the
temperance cause for years. He is the secre;
tary of the Law and Order League of Asbury
Park.
ALI is activity among the glassblowers in this
State and oil through the East, the time agreed
upon to start the factories. With few exceptions
th is programme was carried out. ALI factories
will run to their full capacity. The outlook for
the window glass trade among the South Jersey
factories is fattering. Only one factory is idle.
Two-yearold Louis Koening. of No. COS Roberts
street. Camden, so badly chewed his own chubby
fingers yesterday that a Cooper Hospital surgeon
had to dress them.
L. D.. Sibley killed a rattlesnake on East av-
enue. near Plum street, Vineland, day before
yesterday which was almost three feet long and
several years old, having two rattles on the end
of the tail. Mr.. Sibley saw the reptile in the
grass and jumped on It the same as he always
kills common snakes. When he learned it was a
'~'rattler" he was frightened at his careiessness.
John A. Brown, Of West Deptford Township,
has raised this season a watermelon Weighing
forty-six pounds.
Elmer. Salem County, has tn e reputation Of
raising large catalogues. Farmer John Wool
man recently raised one measuring 33x40 inches.
A tin cup from some vessel in Delaware Bay
was carried by a recent storm straight across
five miles into the b~arnyard of Job Cliff in Salem
County.
A baseball nine has been organized IN the
Orange police force, the united weight of which
is LILO pounds. A game has been arranged
with the police force of the Second precinct of
Newark, and the conditions of the arrangement
are that the minimum weight of the team shall
be 1900 pounds, and that none of the players
shall have ever played in a nine before.
The Camden Courier is authority for the
story that a kite eight feet high lifted
two little boys about ten feet from the ground a
night or two ago, and they were saved, it is
averred, only by the breaking Of a stick in the
kite.
Mrs. Acton, a widow living about three miles
from Bridgeton, has for some time past been
raising chickens for the market. She had fifty
spring chickens which weighed about eight
pounds to the pair, worth $3.50, This is Mrs.
Actions only means of gaining a livelihood. On
Saturday night a thief entered the roost and
carried every one of her chickens off.
There are two candidates in the field already
Leonard Kalisch, the senior member from Essex
county has stated that in case of his reelection
he will go in to win the gavel. Kalisch is a
staunch Democrat and bases his hopes on Demo
cratic success. He is known throughout the
State as the great introducer, =" having made a
larger record last year as an author of bills than
any other member. Assemblyman William d..
Campbell, of Monmouth County, who frequently
occupied the chair last winter and shed
the members with excellent rulings, is out for
the Office.
Three long trains of forty-four cars conveyed
the employees of the Clark Thread Company of
Newark to Asbury Park yesterday. Between
1900 and 5000 persons filled the cars.
a veteran whale ship attracts much attention
at the inlet at Atlantic City. She has on board
bombs, guns, harpoons, lances and other de-
vices for killing whales. She is forty-two years
two to four years, and has captured 800 whales,
including seventy on a single voyage.