The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-14
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE

The Fourth district Republican convention
will be held at Somerville, September 1S.
State Fish COMMISSIONS F. NJ. Ward of New
ton has placed a large supply of trout fry in the
streams near Dover. Some of them are year
lings several inches long.
Hundreds of acres of Bergen comfy farm
land, lying principally near Hackensack, have
been cut up into building lots and sold this sum-
mer. A syndicate of E~nglewood capitalists has
lust bought the Paulison farm of 1873 acres, be-
tween Hackensack and Ridgeield Park, for
S27, 500. They will cut it up into 1900 building
lots.
The annual parade OF the First Regiment OF
the Uniformed Rank of Knights Of Pythias will
take place at Red Bank on Monday, September
!. Headquarters Will be established at the
armoryiof Division. The %appropria-
ton of 800 from the Grand Lodge of New Jer-
| sey will be given away in four prizes for the best
drilling and numbers
Mr.. Theron, a fruit raiser at Pomona, Allan
tic county, picked "a, 900 quarts of berries from
q twenty acre field this season. His net profit
was So, 1000.
A fifteen pound pumpkin has grown in a pear
tree in ex-Sheriff Moore's garden at Mays Land
ing.
Jacob Klotz, of Somerset, has sold to Assem-
blyman L. II. Trimmer, of Middle Valley, twelve
imported Holstein COWS and their families, num-
bering thirty-one altogether, from the Senator
Mcpherson farm at Belle Mead. This is prob
ably the finest herd ever brought into Hunter
don county. Some of the above cows have
yielded forty quarts Cor eighty pounds of milk
per day.
There are three residents OF Bound Brook who
| bear the name of George LaMonte. The report
that one of these gentlemen is to remove to
another State led some persons to suppose that
the former candidate for Governor on the Pro-
| hibition ticket was about to shake the dust of
New Jersey from his feet. His son, as already
announced in this journal, is to remove to Con-
n~ecticut.
One day last week while Mrs. Isaiah Lance
was picking berries on the farm of John Lance,
upar Walnut Valley. Warren cOnntV she killed
a large rattlesnake which measured five feet in
length and carried ten rattles. The same day
Marten Lance killed one near the same place
which was nearly as large and carried six rat
ties. The next day Mrs. Lambert killed another
not q hundred yards from the same place, car
rying fifteen rattles. Alexander Titman has
killed this season twenty-eight poisonous rep
tiles-sixteen rattlesnakes and twelve pilots.
Cape May diamond hunts are now popular at
that resort. The Cape May diamond is a bright
stone when cut and polished, of much brilliancy
and quite lasting. They are found in great
abundance on the Town Bank beach towards
Sewell's Point. These stones were looked upon
with an awe almost equal to a reverence by old
tion of fishers huts. This pebble was believed
TO be proof against diseases and bad luck. All
the fishermen carried one somewhere about
them, and il perchance they embarked their
wherries and returned without luck it was found
the diamond had been left at home.
The Prohibitionists have arranged the follow
ing conventions:-Second Congressional Dis
trict. August 10, at Mount Holly; First District,
at Camden, same day; Third, at Perth Amboy,
! August 80; Camden County Convention, August
10; and Middlesex, August 30.