The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-24
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE

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In Monmouth county the crop of small fruits
is smaller this year than it has been IN Il decade.
The peach crop is poor. There are but few
apples. The raspberry crop is poor, but the
yield Of blackberries is excellent.
Fish Warden Mccormick, for the upper dis
trict of Camden county, has just made his an
nual report to the Fish commissioners. in which
he states that the catch OF shad during the past
season was very large and the fish large in size.
The number Of boats engaged in gill fishing was
&C, which gave employment 10 40 men; the
number of fish caught was about $4,000, the
number Of fathoms of net i'll use was l., 1850.
Lieutenant Colonel Edward II. Snyder, COM
mandant Of the Third Battalion, and Assembly
man from the Orange District. is dangerously
sick at his home, in Snyder street, Orange, with
typhoid fever.
Fifteen years ago the people Of Hackensack
h~esitated TO express praise of themselves for
voting 5000 annually for commission and fire
purposes. This year SCI, 200 win be raised by
taxation, to be expended by the improvement
Commissioners
The fine building just completed at Cape May
Point for Mr.. Lankenaw, OF Philadelphia, as a
donation to the family nurses and other employees
of the German Hospital of Philadelphia, as a
summer place of rest and recreation, ELECTS
praise from every one who visits it for its COM
pleteness and solid effects.
A party of officers of the Morris Canal took a
trip through that waterway on Tuesday and
Wednesday Of last week. The trip covered 205
miles, going and returning, and occupied two
days, a light boat, with frequent relays of fast
and more or less steady mules, being used. The
party was bent on business and pleasure, and
say they got plenty of the Halter. 1t is under
stood that the canal will Continue to be used for
navigation for three or four years to come at
least.
The historic old oak tree that shades a large
part of the Friends Burying Ground at Salem.
was measured a few days age, and four feet
from It's base it was found to be eighteen feet in
circumference. The branches cover q space of
ITO feet by 107 feet. 1t is said to be the largest
oak in this country.
The State Library grows at the rate of about
1900 volumes a year, and it will double itself in
about thirty years. There are now about $4,000
volumes on the shelves.
A story, which is tainted with q ishy unsavori-
ness is going the rounds of the State press to
the effect that near Deckertown, N. j., the other
day, q rattlesnake attacked a litter Of kittens,
when the old cat sprang at the reptile and a
fierce fight ensued. The. cat sank it's teeth into
the throat of the serpent and the snake coiled
itself tightly about the fur-coated body. The
cats ribs gave way under the pressure, but she
retained her grip on the neck of the snake and
with her claws tore open its body. After sew
eral minutes of bitter warfare the life of the
snake was crushed out by pussy's teeth. When
the coils of the snake were cut away the cat
was nearly dead. Its first blow, however, was
sudden and its grip 50 vice-like that the ~Grattler
was unable to sink its poisonous fangs in her
flesh. Pussy was resuscitated and when her
ractured ribs mend she will be all right.
1t is announced that negotiations are pending
for the sale of the United States Hotel property
at Atlantic City for $135, 600.
Deckertown Independent:-T. E. Smith adj
vises US of two snake stories and vouches for
their veraeity. Both snakes, of course, were as
long as q rail, and this is the way the tale be-
gins:-At Clinton, a little town a mile or more
above Newfoundland, where the East Jersey
Water Company is now engaged building. a
measuring five feet and six inches was killed by
the employees there at work. The most singular
thing is that so large a reptile should have only
seven rattles. The other was killed by Toms
eldest son, and was just as big around as a
stove pipe. This snake mad ten rattles.
Al architect has drawn a plan for a ten thou
sand dollar building for the accommodation of
the feeble minded children of New Jersey. The
several cottages at the Home are now crowded
to their utmost capacity and still more room is
wanted. Parents of such unfortunate children
see the good effects of such instruction as is re-
ceiyed here, and the consequence is more children
are being brought forward to receive benefit.
The new cottage is not yet an assured project,
but may be in the near future. On OF the dlrec-
tors of the institution is so much in favor of a
new building that he offered a donation of one
thousand dollars.
william Robinson, of Bridgeton, has a chicken
with two bodies, each with two legs and two
wings. The chicken was dissected and found to
have but one heart. One head answered for
two perfectly formed bodies.
1t has now been nearly three months since
Cumberland county has been visited with any
rain of any consequence, and vegetation of all
kinds Is suffering greatly in consequence. The
heavy r~ainfalls reported from other sections
have totally ignored this section. Farmers re-
port no pasture for the cattle, the grass being
burned by the scorching sun. Fruit of all kinds
is blighted, and the crop of tomatoes (which
gave fair promise in the early season, now is in
o very doubtful condition, and unless a good
soaking rain comes soon the crop VIII De a
failure,
A fsh-hawk nest is built en- top of one of the
cl1imneys of the hotel at Port-au-Peck, Mon
county. Formerly there was a large tree stand
ing at that end of the house, which blew down,
and the hawks rebuilt their nest on the
chimney.
Ex-Sherif George W. Brown, W. s. Throck-
morton, T. S. R. Brown, ex-Judge Alfred Wal
ling and Assemblymen johnson. WINS and
nomination in Monmouth county. William T.
Van Woert, John T. Haight, G. Ewing Patterson
and ex-Sheriff Theodore Aumack want the
..Geissenhainer is a candidate for denomination in
the Third district.