The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-11-22
NEWS In NOTES.
STATE NOTES.

1t cost about $40, 900 to pay for the
recent election in Monmouth county.
Moorestown residents are trying to
induce a large carpet manufacturing
firm to move its plant there.
Members of the Park Island Canoe
Association are very proud of their
possession, Park Island. Its beauty
and fertility furnish frequent topics
for conversation among themselves
and their canoeist friends. A short
time ago a sweet potato was dug by
the tenant in charge which measured
sixteen and three-quarter inches in
length and weighed almost three
pounds. Yesterday Mr.. w. @. Law
renee returned from a trip to the
Island with two English radishes; one
measured twelve inches and the other
thirteen in length and seventeen
inches in circumference. The largest
weighed three pounds and two ounces
and the smaller one weighed two
pounds and a half. The big vegetables
will be placed on exhibition.
The Biological Department of
Princeton is indebted to Prof. VIM. Il.
Scott for the purchase of a fine set of
charts of insects in India ink, drawn
from nature by the late Prof. Frank
lin G. Hill.
Mr.. James Oliver, of Newark, has
sem out a communication in the form
of an appeal for the organization OF a
regiment of colored men in this State.
Mr.. Oliver states that a bill to organ
ize such a regiment was sent to the
Legislature last winter, but that it
mysteriously disappeared.
Ernest Ress, a drug clerk at Long
D--.. I.- trA1.st.1 co. AAn ~
the death OF an uncle at New South
Wales.
The Stokes File Manufacting Com
pany, of Freehold, have recently
shipped a number of rasps and files to
Germany.
Frank McMahon, a Seabright florist,
has seventeen greenhouses. Last
week he shipped 1000 cut flowers to
New York.
The hand of a~fliction has been
heavy upon Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Mount, who live just out of the deep
cut near Middletown, as you go
toward Holmdel. On December 3 his
wife was stricken down with typhoid
fever. but is now recovering. The
daughter, Mrs. William Dorm, came
home to nurse her mother, was taken
with the malady and died. Then
John, the son, aged twenty-three, was
stricken down with it and died. Next
Joseph, the son aged twenty-one,
took the disease. He is recovering
from that, but has taken pneumonia;
and now the youngest son, aged fiji
teen, is stricken down with the fever.
The Kings Daughters, of Newark,
have sent down two excellent trained
nurses to relieve kind friends and
give their experience at the beds OF
sickness.
The Elizabeth Common Council
has voted, % to ?, to reduce the sal
aries of the Councilmen to 81 per
year. They have been getting $500
each, and the $12, 1000 has been a Sc
we're annual drain on the city.
Samuel Hannah's Patchen, Jr., a
Salem horse, trotted a mile in z. 244 in
a race with Warren j., at Bridgeton.
one day last week. This is the best
time eyer made on a half-mile track
in South Jersey. The horse gets no
record, as the race was not finished,
and the meeting was moi a regular
one. The track was muddy and in
very bad condition.
DIR. o. G. Bogardus, of keyport, is
announced as a candidate for Secre-
tary of the State Senate. Colonel
Charles d. Hendrickson, of Middle
town, is also IL candidate for the same
position.
Salem county breeders have been
raising some valuable trotters. York
town Belle sold for 1900; $15, 900
was offered and refused for Bellman,
and So, 500 has been refused for
Camilla, a three-year-old.
The new Brussels looms at the
Mount Holly Mills are being rapidly
placed in position. The first Brussels
sample was made on Tuesday and was
pronounced a success.