The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-07
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

A reception will be given to the Rev. T. De-
Witt Talmage at Asbury Park on Sunday at ter-
noon. The affair is under the SuperviS ion of the
Westminster Presbyterian Church. There will
be an open meeting, at which DR.. Talmage will
preach. The gathering is expected to be- the
largest open air meeting ever assembled at the
park.
What might have been a panic occurred at
Tony Pastors theatre at Long Branch on Mon
day night. The gallery, which is a shaky affair,
began to shake and creak. Several persons
made a rush for the door and we're followed by
others. Luckily no one was hurt. A few women
tainted, but that was all. One man jumped
from one of the windows, but did not sustain any
injuries.
The proprietor of the Stockton hotel at Attain
tic City was swindled by a boy who came to the
place some days ago with q letter from John
Collins of Grafton, Md, which stated that the
bearer was his son, and that the hotel keeper
should furnish the boy with a room and pocket
money. The letter further stated that John
Collins would settle with the proprietor. The
boy lived in the highest style and spent much
money. He hired a bicycle on Sunday and has
not been heard of since. The impression is that
he sold the wheel and started for parts un-
known. He is supposed to be George Sheppard,
the boy sharper.
The camp meeting at Mount Tabor, Morris
county, begins on Wednesday, August %.
A trotting meeting will be held at Morristown
on September !, 2 and 3. The purses will
amount to $4,000.
The Woodstown Agricultural fair will be held
on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, August
26, q and rs.
The Huntendon county Prohibitionists will
hold their convention at Pennington, on Tues
day next, to make their nominations under the
new law.
1t Is probable that Keeper Speck, a former
fire commissioner of Jersey City, will soon be
removed from his position at the State Prison.
He is a political turncoat.
Miss May WolIen, who is visiting at the house
of an aunt, Miss Martha Brown, near Bridgeton,
is suffering from q lightning stroke. She says
she distinctly saw a ball of fire fall into her lap.
A red streak shows the course OF the current
from her head TO her feet, down one side. The
house was somewhat damaged.
A singular case is taxing the skill of the local
physicians of Mount Morris, this State. Miss
Lizzie Long, aged twenty-six years, went TO
sleep Sunday, July 10, and has not since
awakened. On that day she complained of
numbness and drowsiness and was put to bed
and medical aid summoned. Restoratives were
administered and she passed into what APP
peared to be a peaceful sleep. On the follow
ing day q diagnosis of her condition was made
and it was pronounced a case of catalepsy. Up
to the present time she has showed no sign of
wakefulness except when ice water is applied
to her temple and wrists, and even that now
and naturally with pulse nearly normal. The
outcome of the case is anxiously watched by the
medical profession.
A little spider bit John McGrate, of Bridgeton,
of it at the time, but on Monday McGrate's leg
was terribly swollen, and he raved and frothed
in an insane manner, especially when water was
brought before him. His symptoms are very
much like h~ydrophobia.
Henry Pickle captured four copper-head pilots
at a bridge near Peter L. Apgar's farm, above
Pottersville, in Morris county, on Sunday. His
little girl saw two snakes at the bridge the day
previous, and Mr.. p. went after them with a
gun and gig. He found two together and
gigged one Of them, the other escaping. At
another spot he found two more, and these he
shot. Then he saw the one that had escaped
and shot that. They measured from two to
three feet each. Seven young ones were also
destroyed. II. f.. Ward has killed several re-
Gently near the same place.
The g~lassworkers in South Jersey are worked
up over a report that they are to be supplanted
by English and Belgian workmen when the next
blast opens. The manufacturers deny the re-
port. The blast will open about September l.