The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-05
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

The Burlington county farmers state that the
oat crop is almost an entire failure on account
OF lice.
A strange animal, supposed to be a panther,
is disturbing the people of the little hamlet of
Cokesburg, Hunterdon county. Those who
have seen the animal claim that it Is three feet
In length and stands about twenty inches high.
Unknown persons attempted to burn several
dwelling houses at Egg Harbor City one morn
ing recently. The fires were discovered and ex-
tinguished before any damage was done. None
of the incendiaries have been found.
About fifty silk-ribbon weavers employed by
Pelgram & Meyer, large silk manufacturers at
Paterson, struck against a reduction in wages
from fifteen to twenty per cent. The weavers
Of the Helvetia Silk Mill, and over one hundred
employed by johnson, CoWdln q Co., OF Pater-
son. are also out, resisting similar reductions.
Venerable Walt Whitman, the poet, of Cam
den, dined with a number of friends last Satur-
day evening at a Camden restaurant on the oc
casion of his seventy-second birthday. Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoli was present and paid an
eloquent tribute to thepoet.
The American Sanitary Washable Wallpaper
Company will remove its works from Decker
town to Clifton, a suburb of Passaic. The bust
ness is no longer an experiment, and larger
quarters and better facilities for manufacture
have been found desirable.
The honorary commencement appointments
from the senior class of Princeton College, as
announced by the Faculty, are:-Edward p.
Burgess, Jr, Massachusetts,, first honor man,
Latin salutatorian; Robert II. Shick, Pennsyl-
vania, second honor man, English salutatorian:
Francis Palmer, Maine, valedictorian; John NJ.
Yeakle, Pennsylvania; Edgworth B. Baxter,
Georgia; Huntington W. Merchant, New York.
Robert 4. McCreedy, Pennsylvania; Harlie w.
Hathaway, New Jersey, and Tiliston 4. Cham
bers, Washington, D. c., honorary orators.
The Union Township Committee, Bergen
county, has issued a call for an election on June
10, to decide whether the town should be bonded
for $42, 500, the money to be used in macadam-
izing streets.
rha Whitnev Gloss Works Glassboro have
received a boiler Of 10000 gallons capacity for
furnishing oil for the factory. 1t is used in tenn
pering the bottles in The ovens.
sherman B. Oviatt and q Newark firm of con-
tractors will macadimiZe the old turnpike from
Shark river TO Aubury Park.
Mr.. William D., Rand and Eddie S. Cooper,
while fishing in Deal Lake on Monday, hooked a
61S-pound striped bass and it gave both of them
ceeded and felt proud of their trophy. The won
der is how this salt water fish has lived SO long
and attained such size in fresh water, as the
lake has beyn closed from salt water at least
four years. The fish was on exhibition Monday
afternoon in the window OF Wortman's real es-
tate office. and was then photographed.
Long Branch has over $13,0 900 worth of unpaid
taxes for the year 1889.
w. "A. Manda, of the United States Nurseries,
Short Hills, New Jersey, has arranged for q hear
ing to be given by the Senate Finance Commit
tee to the florists of the United States to protest
against the proposed tariff on plants inserted in
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The representative florists of the country will
visit Washington in a few days to attend this
hearing.
A Bound Brook young man received a box
from Fargo last week, with over $500 express
charges on it. On opening the box he found
that its contents consisted of a live cat. He
thinks this is carrying the joke too far.
AS a number Of young men were standing on
the Broad street bridge, Elizabeth, they espied a
German carp. disporting in the water. Charles
Lehr and Fritz Breidt were among the first to
make the discovery, and Lehr attempted to
shoot it, but did not succeed III doing SO. Get
ting a spear, however, he was more fortunate,
for with this implement it was speedily cap
tured. The fish weighed five pounds, and is re-
pnrded as one Of the finest specimens OF a carp
That has ever been captured in this vicinity. 1t
is supposed to have come down the creek from
Lake Ursino.
Having won more or less distinction in the last
Alternate election in the Fourth ward Of New
Brunswick, MIR. Richard Strassburger is now
said to have aspirations for the Assembly or the
Senate. Senator Adrian and Assemblyman
Jacques, Of Middlesex, will Of course recognize
MIR. Strassburger's superior claims for recogni
ton, and gracefully step aside and give the
local Bismark a chance.
Depositors of the broken Gloucester City Ma
tional Bank are confident Of getting all or 6
large part OF their money back
A valuable silver communion service has beer
| presented to the Episcopal Chapel at Ceilings
wood by Charles Giidmeyer.
The Plainfleld Seventh-Day Baptists arc
| about to begin the construction of Il new
church edisce of fine quaeried stone with q
| lofty tower and "rhinocer0s tile'' roof. The
cost viii be $4,000.
This being the semicentennial jubilee veal
| of Pennington Seminary special preparations
are being made for commencement Day, which
occurs on June S6, and for the alumni reunion
| on June rs. MI. Willis Fletcher johnson, OF the
| New York Tribune, will preside at the alumni
reunion, and Prof. Borden T. Bovine, LII. D,
\ Dean of the College Of All Sciences, Boston
University. will deliver the GRAFTON. An elabo
rate banquet will follow.
The Camden liquor dealers are preparing Il
pay the increased fee Of from $3.50 to 500. al
ready I05 saloon keepers have filed their appll
cations for a renewal OF their licenses, leayiu:
about fifty yet to apply.
The monuments erected on the battlefield o
1 Gettysburg by the State Of New Jeityy were oi
Decoration Day inspected by the STATE Commits
sioners:- Colonel w. II. Corbin, OF Elizabeth
Colonel Z, L. Stratton, OF Mulica Hell, and d.
I George 7. Ribbe, of Milford. All OF the monu
ments are La good condition.
The new planr Of the Long Branch Electri
Light company cost d cool SlO9,000 for its com
plefion. The town viii be lighted this slmmel
BY 7b0 incapdescent and 20 arc lights.
bill for the deportation Of mosquitoes t
Africa was passed by the House OF representa-
t YES Of the Camden X II. 9. A Lyceun
May 70.