The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-06
NEWS In NOTES.
STATE NOTES.


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The Newark Freie ZeituBg calcu-
lates that there are 1855 Germans in
Newark. The estimate is based on
the German names found in the
directory. Other estimates fix the
number as over Ga, 1000.
Thirty-seven persons Joined the
Simpson NJ. f. Church at Long
Branch last Sunday morning. They
were converted during n recent re-
vival held there by the Rev. George
L. Barker, the evangelist.
Prof. Hague. of Hackensack, over
seventy years of age, who Is now the
oldest living graduate OF Hamilton
College. has translated into English
verse. from the Latin verse, the odes
and epodes OF Horace.
Charles w. Thomas, who was in
dicted for pool selling in Passaie
county last summer, jumped his bail.
He was found at Gloucester City on
Saturday, and taken to Paterson.
Captain Howard 4. Steward, OF
East Orange, who was employed as
an engineer in the construction OF the
Nicaragua Canal, was drowned in
Central America on November 80.
The people of Deal, a village near
Long Branch, have issued a call for a
public meeting for the purpose OF
changing the name of the town TO
West Elberon.
The Rev. George Mcclellan Fiske,
ID. d.. rector of st Stephens Church
at Providence, II. l.. has been called
to the rectorship OF st. Mary's Church,
of Burlington. DIR. Fiske was elected
Bishop of Fond Du Lac, Wis, two
years ago.
The Camden county Freeholders
failed to appropriate sufficient funds
to pay the years expenses. and there
is no money to run the January term
of court. The county owes ex-Sherin
Baird S., 900, and Sheriff West $5,51,
which they have advanced. Unless
the Sheriff advances So 900 or S2O.000
more there can be no term OF court
held in January.
Vice Chancellor Van Fleet has
granted an injunction restraining
William Showles from erecting an I'M
slightly barn for the training of circus
horses in a fashionable neighborhood
at Long Branch. Besides proving
that the structure would be a
nuisance, the property owners showed
that the restrictions in Showles' deed
prohibited him from erecting such a
| building. The work of tearing down
the part of the building already
erected has been begun.
Miss Harriet Schuyler, who lives on
the Schuyler estate at Pompton Lake,
is the recipient of a Christmas gift
| 500 years old. The piece of cloth
was taken from the wrappings of a
mummy brought from Egypt in 1857
| bv the Rev. j. G.. Lansing, d.. b., Pro.
lessor in the Reformed Theological
Seminary at New Brunswick. The
mummy is in the museum OF the Theo-
logical Seminary there, and is the
mortal remains of a priestess and
princess who lived between 1900 and
i,S00 b. c., and is at least $500 years
old. The present was made by the
Rev. J. N. Jansen.
Mount Holly butchers are at vari-
ance over Chicago beef.
Palmyra looks confidently forward
to a spring building boom.
Rev. DIR. Hanlon's tour of the State
has so far resulted in the raising OF
$40. 900 for Pennington Seminary, OF
which he is president.
While chanting the Last Rose oil
Summer" in a Beverly hotel John
Smith was called out, and three men
beat him into insensibility.
The guests of the Grand Avenue
Hotel, Asbury Park, which remains
open all the year, were made violently
i'll on Friday night by eating canned
| peaches at supper. The sick person:
| displayed all the symptoms of lea6
| poisoning. Physicians were called in
and the patients are now out OF dan
ger.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has already begun the work o
Changing the grade OF Walnut street
Elizabeth, which is the first step to
ward the big changes which are to b
made during this year. The laying o
the ballast for the fourth tract
through Railroad avenue was finished
ON Saturday, and the rails were lai'
Monday. .