The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-17
NEWS IN NOTES.
ALL OVER TIE STATE.


tt is currently reported that John Can
field and a syndicate of capitalists have
purchased the George I. Cobb farm
tract on South street. Morristown, the
price being somewhere In the neighbor-
hood Of $780, ZOO.
While drilling in the quarry at the
Valley Of the Rocks. Paterson, q few
days ago, Foreman Andrew Ash dlscoV-
cred O handful of dark brown hair, ap-
parently that of an animal, embedded be-
tween the blue and trap rock. How 1t
found its way there is q mystery TO tne
workmen.
One of the queerest damage suits in the
history of the State, perhaps, has just
been commenced by Lawyer nun
for James G. Porch. of Cape May City.
Porch wants $40, 900 damages from Joseph
Chester, q well-dc.farmer of Iona, Glou-
cester county. The complainant. when a
boy of twelve, in 1878, was attending to
some rabbit snares near his home In Glou-
cester county one October day. when,
without warning, he says, Chester nreu
at him and riddled his side with shot.
The doctor who attended him picked out
fourteen, but fifty-three have ever since
remained, causing him much annoyance
and breaking his health. A very curious
circumstances connected with the case
was the 'birth-marking" of Porch's sis
ter's child. Soon after the shooting the
sister became q mother, and her Offspring
has been marked, at each recurring DC
tober since, with spots resembling me
wounds on young Porch's body. They
disappear with the going out OF that
month. Chester is said to claim that the
shooting was accidental
Joseph Matlack, near Canton, picked a
tomato last week that weighed three and
one-half pounds. He has several that
weigh three pounds.
.Tudna Van SvnEnI on Eridqv will
supervise at Elizabeth the drawing OF
struck juries to try the indicted book
makers and the officials of the Linden
Park Association and the New Jersey
Jockey Club. A strong effort is to be
made to secure convictions, If possible.
The Union county Prosecutor is to have
the aid of some noted lawyers of the State
in the conduct of the trials, which prom
Use to be decidedly interesting. Sub
ponas have been served on all the in
dicted parties to appear on Friday at the
jury drawing.
Christian Radenski, forty years old,
and his little girl of seven were found by
Policeman O'Laughlin on Sunday night,
lying crouched under some bedUlothes in
q vacant lot near the Central Railroad
tracks at Elizabeth. The pair were wet
to the skin by the heavy rain and were
nearly fa1nished from hunger. Beside
them was an old stove and two trunks.
They had been a week in this condition,
and previous to that had lived in an old
woodshed. There were two more chill
dren, both boys, who were found asleep
In a shed. A small purse was raised for
The people.
Coroner Franklin, of Gloucester county,
was, on Monday, called upon to take
charge OF the body of a drowned man
who was found by a gunner on The shore
of Norton'S Island, above the mouth of
Old Mans Creek. The body had been in
the water for several weeks, and the flesh
had entirely disappeared from the face
and head, leaving Identification tmpossi-
bic. The man was about five feet nine
inches In height, dressed in a black alpaca
coat, light vest, and light striped trousers.
The body was buried near where it was
found, the coroner not deeming al in
quest necessary.
Peter Bells, of Finesviile. Warren
county, who is in his eighty-second year,
walked from that place last Friday to
Phlllipsburg, a distance of nine miles and
4 half, in two hours and twenty minutes,
being q little over four miles an hour.
The large grain barn on the farm of ex-
County Clerk John B. Deacon, near
Mount Holly, was set on fire by lightning
during the storm Monday morning and
consumed. Several hundred bushels of
rye and q lot of straw were destroyed.
Burlington county Prohibitionists have
nominated this ticket:-Sheriff, Francis
French; collector, A. G. Ridgway; audi
tor, Gilbert Aitken; %coroners, Van Buren,
Hansbury and f.. r. Austin.
Edwin Beekman, of Middletown, Mon
mouth county, shipped four baskets Of
peaches to New York a few days ago.
This was his entire crop from 1000 trees.
Another fruit grower in the vicinity mad
U crop of twelve baskets.
Practical jokers stole a lot of dynamite
from side tracked freight cars at Bound
Brook on Saturday night and then scat
tered through the town such notices as
This town will be blown upi Bewaren'
and other fiery threats.
OF the $50 election officers appointed
by the Camden county Registry Boaad,
under the new law, only eighteen nave
so far been sworn in. 1t has been found
that the Boards have never been officially
notified of their appointment.
Residents of Middle township. Cape
May county, will endeavor TO secure an
election to fix the liquor license fee at
The fund being collected by popular
subscription to erect a monument to tho
memory of DR.. Thomas G. Chattle at
Long Branch, TO- amounts to over $3.50.