The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-25
STATE NOTES.

A rather singular case of robbery oc
Cured below Ph!llipsburg. A farmer in
vited a number of guests TO his house to
spend the afternoon and enjoy his fiesta
board. The farmer had occasion to go
upstairs while the guests were down.
stairs enjoying themselves, n found
that S120 had been stolen from q
drawer in his bureau. He at once had
every guest searched, but no trace of the
money was discovered.
The scheme for building a Masonic
temple in Camden has at last been put on
a solid foundation. At a meeting of the
joint committee from the various Masonic
bodies on Saturday, 5000 was subscribed
and a public meeting was ordered cal ed
on March 31sr, TO discuss the matter and
secure the necessary balances. An option
has been secured on property on the
north sid of Market street above
Fourth. running from Thomas O'Hara's
SILICON TO the residence of DR.. M. +. Mid
dleton.
The residents Of Little Egg Harbor
township held al indignation nesting on
Saturday In view of the action ofthe Leg
islature in setting them over into Ocean
county. The bill has not yet been signed
by the Governor.
The residents of Hammonton, Atlantic
county, have voted $4,000 towards the
erection of a brick public school building,
of modern architecture. Work will be
commenced on the structure imme-
diately-
Rev. R. J. Burtt of M~arksboro, War
married the slxteen-year-old daughter OF
Farme err Howell to Jacob Cruiser, ha paid
the indignant father of the bride the sum
of $125 to settle the matter.
A movement is on foot at Long Branch
to erect q monument to mark the graves
of the sailors who were drowned by the
wreck of the New Era, near Deal Beach,
some years ago. A ball is to be given In
April and the proceeds will go TO the
monument fun
Mayor Lodge of Island Heights lives in
Camden in the winter, but last Saturday
night, hearing that the City Council was
to elect a Clerk and was evenly divided.
he hired a special train. and accompanie d
by a few friends arrived in time to cast
the deciding vote.
The new Cape May County Agricultural
Society has a large force of men at work
on their new fair grounds at Cape May
Court House. A half mile track is being
constructed, and a fair lasting a week
will be given next fall. The cost of the
grounds will be 10000.
Measles are epidemic in the Italian
colony at Stockton, n already twenty
deaths nave been recorded. The Italians
being ignorant of sanitary precautions,
are very hard to control in matters of this
kind. When d little boy died Of this dis
ease three weeks ago, nearly every one in
JUe COtOQy aLltudtQ bH6 lu4tIdt. I've
result is this epidemic. There are $50
Italians in the place, fully one half OF
whom are i'll A rigid quarantine has
been set up against the colony by people
in the county at large.
The Atlantic aud Burlington County
Boards of Freeholders met in the Ridg-
way House, Philadelphia, Saturday, and
awarded the contract for the new bridge
over the Mullica river at Chestnut Neck
10 the Croton Bridge Company of New
York for S2S, 945. The bridge will be 730
feet long aud have four spans and a
draw. The draw will be 144 feet wide,
with SO feet in the clear on both sides.
There were ten bids offered and the high
est was $40, 600. The plans Were drawn
by A. Lucius. civil nglneer of New York,
who will also superintend the consEruc
tion. The bridge will connect Atlantic
with Burlington county, and will be a
great benefit to the farmers and baymen
of both counties.
The Bunterdon Democrat says there
are places in that county where the peach
buds are much injured by the cold
weather of week before last, but 50 far Us
il can learn the damage is not general.
Thomas Il. Hunt, who has q peach
orchard of sixteen hundred trees just
outside of Lambertsville. said a few days
ago that he had examined the buds on a
number of trees and found about nine
ont of ten killed on the mountain rose
and yellow varieties. On the other trees
the damage did not seem TO be so severe.
other growers in the neighoorhood re-
port about the same average Of damage
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