The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-01
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

Fish is cheap at Seabright. The fishermen of
that vicinity held a meeting Thursday at the
protective union. They resolved that hereafter
no fish would be sold from the landing for less
than two and a half cents per pound.
Last year q large dog, the property of a man
living near Atlantic City, used to race with all
trains on the Longport road. One day the train
overlook him, cutting off one hind leg. This
year he is one of the special attractions on the
road, racing with the trains as usual, upon three
legs.
The Sil-Crusta Manufacturing Company was
incorporated in Camden tuesday.
George Van Houten, who left his family in
East Amwell, Hunterdon county, twenty years
ago, returned week before last. He says he has
been working in the Pennsylvania coal mines for
the past seventeen years. The children he left
have grown to be men and women, and some of
them are married. 1t was not an Enoch' Arden
case, for Mrs. Van Houten was not found with
another husband.
The berry season is about over for vineland,
and, on the whole. has been quite satisfactory to
the farmers. Although the crop has been COM
unusually good. About $780, 00 quarts of rasp-
berries and $4,000 quarts of blackberries have
been marketed. The raspberries sold at an aver
age price of IS cents, or $23, 400. and the black
berries at IL cents, amounting to $4,000. The
trawberry crop would swell the grand total for
he berry crop of 1890 to 500, 900.
The Rev. d. L. Frambes, now stationed at
Flanders, Morris county, was one of the Oldest
1laCLo u ltLLl a NOhN
tury ago. His first charge was the Stockholm
Circuit, extending through Sussex and adjoin-
ing counties. 1t was called a four weeks cir
cult, because it required that length of time to
reach all the preaching appointments, and even
then, in order to do it, he was compelled to
preach, three times each Sunday and five nights
out of seven each week. To minister to the
wants of the Methodist people in the territory
he used to cover there are now employed six
teen stationed preachers.
Census Supervisor Bumsted has tabulated
the returns of four more counties. Hunterdon
has IS, 4S2 inhabitants. In 1885 she had 81 ,420,
and in 1880, 38, $40. Somerset has %, lSS; in 1885,
2T,4s5, and in 1880. q, 1862. Union has 70,465; in
1885, 81, 1893; in 1880, 55,571s Middlesex has 60, 745;
in 1885, Sc, $780,; in 1880, 81, 2S6.
Mrs. Sarah Heath celebrated her one hundred
and first birthday on Friday, near Peapack. She
was born near Pennington. Mrs. Heath has
fairly good health and has not missed n meal
during the last six years. Her sight is failing,
and her recollection of recent happenings is i'm
paired. Her early life is still clear in her mind,
however. She walks easily and says she expects
to live several years longer.
Philip Leve, the orchestra leader of Paterson,
recently purchased an old violin in New York for
a small figure. 1t needed some repairs and he
sent the instrument to an expert to have the
work done. In cleaning up the violin the expert
was surprised, in scraping the instrument, to
discover it to be a genuine Amati, and upwards
OF one hundred and thirty years old. The violin
is worth several hundred dollars. 1t has q deli
ciously mellow tone, which only comes to a VIC
lin with age.