The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-28
STATE NOTES.

Detective Gregory, OF New Brunswick,
has Just received $50 for service eudered
to a lady recently. The lady lives 10 New
York and was on the cars that stopped at
Seabright. She aid a sealsgin sacque.
valued at $3.50, on the back OF the seat,
and as the train stopped. stood up and
looked out the window. A man living in
New brunswick Immediately stole the
sacque, and left. The lady found where
the m had gone, Motif ed Detective
Gregory. and within TWENTY-FIVE hours
the missing sacque was in her hands.
Burlington merchants talk of organic
ing a Board of Trade, in the belief that il
Will benefit the town.
South Jersey dairymen get 81 cents n
quart for their milk. The Philadelphia
retailers charge eight and ten to tine con-
sumers
The Postmaster at Brook Valley, Nor
ris county, dissatisfied with his salary of
a a year. has resigned, and Il search is
now being made for some one to take
charge of the office.
Camden's new Manual Training
School will open on the first Monday in
February.
Greenwich township, Gloucester county,
must be a good place to live in so far as
health is concerned. Out of a voting
population of about $50 there are 107 resi-
dents whose ages reach sixty and about
fifty who have reached or passed their
allotted three score and ten.
The Grand Opera House. Atlantic City,
has been permanently closed. Manager
j. G. Idler has surrendered his lease and
is canceling all engagements. II. c..
Louchheim, the owner, says the hous
will never be re-opened as a place of
amusement, having proved q disastrous
venture from the start.
Mr.. William G. Miller, of Salem, has a
curiosity III the shape of a brass spectacle
case over 400 years old. The outside case
on top and bottom has a ten years calen-
dar from 1887 to 1497) engraved thereon,
with Instructions in Dutch, the figures,
letters, etc. being quite legIble.
w. G. Hopkins. manage of the Lake
End Hotel. has bought of the heirs the
Nathaniel Df@kerson tract of land at
Lake Hopatcong, located on Byram Cove,
for s., 125. 1t comprises 26S acres and
5000 feet of shore front on the lake. Mr..
Hopkins will form a stock company. in
cludiug Walter j. Knight, of Newark.
What is believed TO be the largest wheel
in the world was cast last week at the
Dickson Works in Phillipsburg. 1t
weighs 400, 900 pounds.
A double funeral tool place at Neither
wood yesterday afternoon. when Eliza
beth Hews0n aged ninety-three years,
was buried beside her son, General Mich
ael Butt Hewson, aged seventy. Services
were held in the Church of Our Saviour.
Mother and son died within two hours of
each other-the mother in Plainfleld, the
son in Washington, d. c.
The epidemic Of CHAMBERS. which threat
ened to affect stabbed horses throughout
Central New Jersey has been effectively
stamped out by the prompt action OF the
State Board Of Health. Those stables
which have been ~quarantlned for about a
month have been declared cleared of the
disease. and j. Gerth. Jr., d. V. s., or
dered the quarantine raised on ali within
Union ~couHty's boundaries.
Tomato growers in the ~neighborhood of
Hancock's Bridge, Salem county, have
signed an agreement not to grow toma-
toes this year for the Starr and Nef can
neries unless they are first paid for last
years crop. Forty-seven names are
signed TO the agreement M a forfeiture
of $50 is provided for a violation of the
agreement.