The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-26
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PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.
The Second New Jersey Brigade chose the fol-
lowing officers at the meeting IN Newark on
Wednesday:-President, General Francis Price;
secretary, Captain u. B. Titus, treasurer, James
H. Talon: chaplain, the Rev. Mr.. Cline. Vice
presidents from the various companies coinpris-
ing the brigade were elected as folloVs:-Fifth,
John Rodrigo; Sixth. Major Baker; Seventh.
ston; Eleventh, Captain William Hanks. A
memorial committee, consisting of three com
rades from each company. was elected, and it
was decided to hold the next reunion at Camden
MI. on April q, 1891.
An effort is being. made to secure an electric
street ear line for Long Branch. A company
was Incorporated under the State laws on We'd
nesday. The proposed route is from Hiidreth's
West End Hotel through Second avenue and
Liberty street. to Pleasure Bay. The Board of
Commissioners will hear arguments in the case
July l..
A syndicate has been formed at Mt. Holly,
with Joseph Gross at the head, for the erection
of a large hotel and boarding house. The Mount
property has already been purchased, and the
Fall. The new hotel will be built on top of the
mount, and will command a view for many miles
Of the surrounding country.
The citizens Of Burlington are raising So, 1000 by
removal of a large industry from Philadelphia to
that place. The concern promises employment
to several hundred people.
Arrangements are being made at Red Bank
for a regatta on the Fourth of July. Outside
yachts will be invited to take part. Cup prizes
will be awarded the winning yachts in the vari-
Gus classes.
Henry G. White, of Red Bank, has issued a
challenge to any man living within three miles
of Red Bank to shoot at fifty double birds for
StG0 to S500as side.
The Hackettstown Institute graduated thirty
six pupils last Thursday. George j.. Ferry,
president of the Board Of Trustees, announced
that a new gymnasium and electric light would
probably be added to the school.
A tramp stole five twenty-dollar bills from a
residence at Wertsvflle on Thursday When he
was arrested he swallowed the money. A con-
stable gave him a thrashing, and the tramp pro-
poses to sue for damages.
Englewood pays the principal Of its public
school a salary OF $1,000.
Senator Mcpherson, having sold his Belle
Mead farm, in Somerset county, has leased Mrs.
Fred. A. Potts summer residence, at Monmouth
Beach, for the season.
During the thunder storm of last Wednesday
evening, the house of John K. Prall two miles
from Quakertown, was struck by lightning, and
things were tumbled about in a very uncomfOrt-
able manner. There is no trace OF the bolt
where it entered the house; but, passing through
the ceiling. it tore the moulding from the top of
the old-fashioned clock and threw it across the
room, ran down the back of the clock and bursted
the joints asunder, tore q great hole at the bot
tom and went out. Mr.. and Mrs Prall were
DOtIl III Iuc iOOM al llc liIlG, anu DOtl were
badly shocked. 1t was several minutes before
Mrs. Prall regained consciousness.
The Paterson Plank Road Committee of Ber-
gen county Board of Freeholders decided yester-
afternoon to macadamize the plank road through
the village of Carlsbad.
Within a recent week the sheriff of Atlantic
+ county has sold tive hundred farms to f~oreclose
mortgages, and over forty families have been
evicted.
Considerable attention has recently been at
Il fraotad fn tha fran hand drHvinp Of ~ liftla 2rJr1.
mit girl whose work furnishes indisputable evil
dence of the possession OF artistic talent OF q
very high order. rms little girIsMlnnle Baker-
is scarcely fourteen years Of age, and has
already executed several pencil drawings which
show unquestioned genius.
The directors of the Morris County Savings
| erection Of their new building. 1t will be of
Waterloo stone and brick, 50x75, three stories
and freproof.
The contract for macadamizing WestfeId
avenue, the last of the Union county roads to
be built at present. has been awarded by the
Board of Freeholders to Edward H. Lynch, of
Elizabeth, his bid being eighty-three cents per
| square yard. His was the only proposition re-
ceived.
The law library Of the late Judge Stewart, of
Trenton, has been sold for $4,000, one-half of
which was for his reports and digests.
A pair Of fish hawks have built a nest on top
of a telegraph pole ia Middletown Township,
| Monmouth county.
4 ' ~ icpOitC4 tuAt VIC eaRpfCf PEdA anu RSaNh
crops in Middletown, Monmouth county, will be
almost an absolute failure this year.
The Western Union Telegraph office at Asbury
Park has been rated as a money order station
and any amount up to $50 may now be for
warded to and from the park by wire. II the
business increases sufficiently to justify it, the
limit will be increased. Branch offices have been
established at the Atalanta and Coleman House,
and efforts are being made to have the main
Office kept open all night during July and
August.
The citizens of Plainfield are planning to raise
/ $50, 900 for a soldiers monument, TO be placed at
the intersection of Broadway and Crescent ave
nue..
The Sussex Shoe Company's difficulties have
been settled by its purchase by ira c. Moore.
The Union County Board of Freeholders has
ordered that two new bridges for the spanning
of Green and Cedar brooks within the city limit
of Plainfleld.
In the coming election under the Werts law
Down and Lawrence townships. Cumberland
County, will fix the license fee at $4,000, practi
cally establishing prohibition.
Lightning played a queer prank upon a fenc'
around the farm of Lewis Roy of saltwater re
Gently. 1t ran down o walnut tree to which
wire fence was attached, and then brancheC
each way, splitting forty tough hickory fenc
posts as Clearly as If they han been sawed apart
The Hebrews Of Alliance Colony are building
81, 500 school house.
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