The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-04
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

Two hundred and forty pheasant eggs will be
Matched out in an incubator on the Rutherford
estate at Allamauchy within a few days. The
young birds will be kept for breeding purposes.
j. VI. Pidcock and his son, VIII have extensive
sheep interests in Hunterdon county, sold $3.50
sheep and lambs during the month of June for a
total of $2Ts, 504.63, or an average of S4.92 per
head.
Joseph II. Gaskill, who SO successfully de-
Tended Chalkley Leconey in the Camden courts,
is named as the successor of Judge Buchanan
for the Congressional nomination in the Second
district.
The Rev. W. A. Darlington, a graduate of the
College of New Jersey and the Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary, has engaged passage for
Brazil. He goes as a missionary of the Presby-
terrain Board, August 20, with his wife to Sac
Paola, the extensive field lately occupied by the
Rev. Donald McLaren.
1.-THE Central New Jersey Telephone Company,
of which Mr.. Melville Eggleston, of this city, is
one of the incorporators, is to build an entirely
new telephone line from Jersey City as far as
Phillipsburg, where it will connect with the
Easton lines and the Central New Jersey cities
and towns in Essex, Morris and Warren counties
win soon receive more complete and better com
munication with other parts of the country.
The company has a capital stock of $780, 600, and
the incorporators are, in addition to Mr.. Eggles-
ton, Edward j. Hall, of Morristown; Edward P.
Meaney, of New York; C. R. Bangs, of Perth
Amboy. and j. c. Vail, of Hanover. The com
pany is also entitled, under its incorporation
articles, to operate other telephone lines and
also to manufacture telephone instruments.
An immense casting was successfully accom-
plished at the Pond Tool and Machine Works,
Plainiield, one day last week, when a gun lathe
costing S25,000 was poured The lathe is one of
a series of ten which are to be used in turning
the gigantic guns for the new navy at Troy, N,
Y. The contract for the lathes was awarded
the Pond Company by the government early in
the present year. Three years are given in
which to complete the contract for the monster
mechanical affair. A number Of officials were
present and witnessed the casting of the lathe.
A syndicate of New York. Philadelphia and
Richland capitalists has begun the construction
of a large woollen mill at Riehland, which will
be the biggest factory in the State. The stock
is principally owned by Z. r. Wood, the Phila-
delphia railroad magnate, and Charles W..
Jones, of Richland.
Work was begun yesterday on an immense ex-
tension to the Botany Worsted Mills, at Passaic
City, which is to be 10S feet wide and nearly 200
feet long, or as large as the two existing build
ings. Another addition, 80 by 240 feet, is to be
erected before winter. 1t is predicted that ulti-
mately the company will employ more than five
thousand operatives at these mills, transferring
their entire establishment from Germany.
George A. La Monte, the recent nominee for
Governor on the Prohibition ticket, has an
nounced his intention of leaving New Jersey for
a residence in Norwich, Conn, where he has
been rendered the management of several large
paper mills. Mr.. La Monte has been a resident
of Bound Brook for several years, and has
proved a valuable young citizen.