The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-08
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

A farmer in New Gretna was paid $50 for six
matermelons, the highest price on record. Sew
eral boys stole the melons and when discovere-
preferred to pay the money rather than answed
at court.
The Yachtsmen's Association at Atlantic City
has instituted proceedings against two of its
most prominent members-Captain Samuel
Gale and Captain William Downs-tor carrying
more passengers than allowed by law.
The Warren county Canadian thistle cases
have come to naught. They were tried a few
days ago and the jury rendered a verdict of no
cause of action, on the ground that the plaintiff
did not make it appear that the defendants
knew of the existence of the thistles in their
fields.
The assessed valuation of property in Cumber-
land county, as shown by the assessors dupli-
Gates at the meeting of the County Board, is
S14, 81, 600, as compared with $14,5 97, 900 last
year.
Mount Holly is to have a street car line, and
the people OF Burlington want to know why
they are not going to have one since, the Legis-
lature granted a charter for q street railroad
before the Rebellion.
H. W. Hayes, of Newark, assistant United
States district Attorney, on Wednesday sent his
resignation to District Attorney White, recently
appointed. with the request TO forward it to
Washington. Mr.. Hayes was appointed by Mr..
Whites Democratic predecessor.
Two white cranes have recently been seen
on the Warrington meadows in Salem county.
A new metallic circuit telephone line will soon
be erected between Elizabeth and Plainheld by
the New Jersey Telephone Company.
The citizens of Little Egg Harbor township,
Burlington county, have decided that the license
fee for a hotel or saloon there shall be $4,000.
The Republican County and Assembly Con
~ventions in Bergen county will be held in Hack
ensack on Thursday, the 25th inst.
Counterfeiters have been circulating a bogus
ten cent piece at Dover, Morris county, which
it is difficult to detect from the genuine.
The wife of Upton s.. Jefferys, managing
editor of the Camden Daily Telegraph, died of
consumption early Wednesday morning. She
had many friends.
Peaches in Warren county sell at from So to
81 a basket.
A new creamery is TO be erected at Quinton,
in Salem county.
Last week Asbury Park had three daily papers
and now she has none, the summer dailies hav-
ing suspended.
convention at Somerville on Wednesday and
nominated a full ticket for the ensuing fall cleo
lions. The ticket nominated is as follows:-For
Senator, William P. williamson, of Birchburg;
Assemblyman, Thomas Maier, of North Plain
field; County Clerk, Arthur 2. Sutphon, of
Bridgewater.
The Rev. Charles W. Doane, who has been
pastor of st. Andrews Protestant EPISCOPAL
Church, Thirty-sixuh and Barring streets, West
Philadelphia, for nearly eight years, has been
appointed president of q school for boys at
Burlington, which post he will take in October
next. Mr.. Doane is eminently fitted for his new
office, being a finished Hebrew and Latin scholar.
He has devoted his vacations for the past
several years to the study of these languages.
A Salem game dealer on Tuesday brought
1900 dozens of reed birds at 35 cents a dozen.
The Moorestown Baptist Church has extended
q call to the Rev. Mr.. Lumbar, of New York
city.
Two Salem county girls recently caught 1928
perch in Alloway Creek in three and one-half
hours.
George Lippineott, of Auburn, Salem county,
has an apple tree in his orchard in bloom, and
his strawberries also have several blooms and
green berries on them. Samuel Layman, of the
| same place, sold w~atermelons TO the amount of
81, 900 from sixteen acres of land.
Isaac H. Turner, living at Point Airy Station,
Salem county, has received this year from four
acres of cantaloupes $437, and will get about $3.50
! off of his acre and a half Of
Attorney-Genera Stockton has written Henry
B. Paul, OF the Camden Registry Board, that a
man who has been elected an election officer,
but never qualified. or who resigns, is eligible as
| an officer under the new law.
A bogus insurance collector has been swim
| ding many of the poor people of New Bruins
| wick by making collections, claiming 10 be an
| agent Of the Prudential Insurance Company,
| and calling himself William Barrett. He had
collected large sums and fled.
Indications OF coal and iron have been found
| on the farm of Richard Probst, near Croton,
| Hunterdon county, and E. G. Rosensi. of Phila.
delphia, has the mining rights for twenty-one
| years, and he will prospect at once to see if the
deposit is rich enough to pay for mining.