The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-26
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

The Kansas City Veteran Guard will visit
Elizabeth on August Is, on its way home from
the National Encampmant Of the Grand Army
at Boston, and will be entertained by the
Veteran Zouaves in fine style. The Zouaves will
meet the Kansas City men at New York with a
big steamer, accompanied by a flotiila of smaller
craft, and will escort them through New York
Bay and the Kills to Elizabethport, where q
landing will be made at Old Point, where Gen
eral Washington embarked for New York in
1889. There will be a parade, a dinner and pub
PIC ceremonies.
The six-year-oId daughter of Mrs. Rose Free
man had half a dozen gold buttons Clipped from
her dress while she was playing on the beach at
Long Branch on Tuesday. She was shoveiing
sand when q strange man stepped up to her and
entered into conversation with her. After hav-
ing gained her friendship by buttoning up her
dress, he stole the buttons which were attached
to q fine gold chain that held her clothing to-
gether in front, ana substituted SIX DraSS Safety
pins.
The Rev. 7. Logan Murphy, rector of the Holy
Cross Episcopal Church, and president of the
Plainield Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
TO Animals, stepped IN front OF the carriage OF
OrvilleT T. Waring. O Standard Oil man, Wednes-
day morning, and ordered Mr.. Warnings coach
man to stop. MIR. Murphy then lifted from the
the coachman If their use was continued he
would be arrested and held responsible for vio-
isiing the laws OF Ners Jersey, Mr. Murphy said
that he had loosened the checkreins once before,
and that DR.. Fl. G. Stephenson, the society's
| surgeon. also had warned Mr.. Waring to desfst
| from the practice of high checking, '''The third
lilll0G kltLl i lAlu " AOAoS5 ny hi5AN
ly,'i said Mr.. Murphy, II shall arrest the coach
man
The colored residents of Homesteadville, Cam
den county, have organized a Law and Order
Society to suppress laWleSsneSS. Inc kew. James
X. Adams is president.
Frederic R.. Ceudert, of Metuchen, of the New
York law firm Of Coudert Bros, was thrown
from his horse Monday night while riding with
his son and a leg was broken.
Grape that hung on the door knob of a New
ark dwelling, whore the body of a woman lay
awaiting burial, was stolen on last Saturday
night.
Excise Commissioner John Furey, of Camden,
has announced himself as a Republican candi-
date for the Legislature in the First Assembly
District.
A. Keyser, a Salt Lake City capitalist, has
Just bought the largest tract of unimproved
property sold in Plainfield for a numoer of
years. The tract is in Broadway andis bounded
by Berekman street, Webster place and Wood
land avenue. The property will be improved at
once.
There are six doctors in Glassboro and they
have formed a combination to keep up prices.
The five acre hay field of William Bolinger,
near Bridgeton, was destroyed in attempting to
burn out q hornets nest.
Articles of incorporation were filed Wednes-
day in the Camden County Clerks office by the
Electric Engineering Company. The objects of
the corporation are to construct and equip cleo
trical railways, cars and engines. The amount
paid in is said to be $1,000.
In q " O0DAP0AJt ASA SAO h&A OA
collins and funeral supplies, was Incorporated in
Newark, Wednesday, with 100000 capital stock.
The business viii be conducted IN Brookiyn,
Among the corporators Is Albert Schraft. of
lrvington, N. j.
Camden politicians are agitating the holding
of the Republican Congressional Convention In
that city this fall.
The schooner Grover Cleveland, built for Cap
| tain Samuel johnson, Of Camden, was launched
/ at Bridgeton on Tuesday.
Dr. H. G.. Stephenson prominent surgeon OF
Plainfeld, is recovering from a dose Of deadly
poison which he swallowed by mistake a few
| evenings ago. DR.. Stephenson took from a shelf
in his laboratory a bottle which in the evening
dusk he believed to be full Of ginger, but proved
to be aconite.
The contest over the United States District
| Attorneyship for New Jersey has been further
| complicated by Congressman Buchanan bring
ward as a candidate. He is making an earnest
and stubborn fight for him. The contest is be-
ginning to attract considerable attention.
Parker Bros. have broken ground at ~Bridgeton
for new glass works, covering three acres of
| ground. Their plant Is at Lakeview, at the In
| iersection Of the New Jersey Southern and West
| Jersey Railroads.
Stage Driver Isaac Du Rois, of the Bridgeton
| and Milville stage line, has been an employee of
the line for twelve years, and during that time
| he has never missed a train for Cape May at
Milvile, which connects at that place.
All the lands, buildings, improvements and
/ IIauculSCS Va LAO lhiO Ok0lAAo OQHu III OIiDdlI
located at Cape May county, were sold on Mon
pay at the Camden county Court House, by
| Richard 7. Miller, special master, on an order
from the Court of 'Chancery. The purchaser
was a Mr.. Scott, one Of the bondholders, fol
$4,000.
Assembly, man George Zimmerman has been
elected Chief Of the Carlsbad Fire Department,
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation OF
Chief Stripple, who sounded a false alarm anc
ran the ladies a long distance for a joke. He
was fined s. and resigned.
Sheriff Smith c. johnson, of Eva Hamilton
fame, had O demented colorsd woman at Mays
Landing, July q, aud was trying to take her tt
the state Lunatic Asylum. She persisted in cry
ing that she had fits. and that the doctor hat
ordered her to undress when she felt one com
ing on.
The watermelon crop of South Jersey will bl
on the market next week.
The little town of Hancock's Bridge, Salem
county, has lost sixty-seven in population since
1880. 1t now has 1905.
The quiet little village Rosenlayn is much ex
cited over the singing of pretty little Sophil
Asress, who, the villagers claim, has a Patti
voice.
Firmount, Hunterdon county, has a house
which was built in 1850, and a barn bnilt in 1871
both Of which are still rooted with their origina
shingles, and the shingles are still serviceable.
Peter v. Voorhees,, the Camden lawyer, has
been appointed joint trustee with his uncle
Peter L. Voorhees,, of the vast Cooper estate. HI
has filed a bond for over $780, 900.
The Union county Board of Assessors on Mon
day fixed the tax rate of Elizabeth at 81. 93, tn,
same as last year. There was a hot fight in th,
Board before this conclusion was reached.