The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-08
NEWS In NOTES.


first time In several year the PasSaic
River in mary places is frozen over
from shore to shore, and though the
rapid current in the centre has pre-
vented any thick formation of ice
there, along the edges skaters find
plenty of safe sport. Near the Belle
vile bridge eel spearers are busy
every day. They cut oblong holes in
the ice, and thrusting their long
barbed spears into the mud, where
the cells have buried themselves for
their winter sleep, they bring some
enormous one TO the surface. In
many parts of the river the sport is
carried on at night by torchlight and
the scenes from the shores are pictur-
esque.n
A Law suit involving fifteen cents,
the value OF a pigeon, bids fair to DO
n celebrated case in the Sussex courts.
One day last fall Alfred Shower, while
cunning, SHOT into a flock of pigeons,
thinking they were too far away for
him to reach them. One of the birds
fell and tho owner, Mr.. Ball, appeared
on the scene and demanded repara-
ton. While he was talking the
pigeon .'came ltor and flew away.
Afterwards it was found dead at Mr..
Balls home, and suit was brought
0W0lUsl MI OlONtI tut htlllnR tllt
pigeon. The jury fixed the value of
tho pigeon at fifteen cents and re-
4 turned a verdict of no cause for action.
This placed the costs on Mr.. Ball, and
he has appealed the case.
Maria Hollingshead, a Moorestown
girl who disappeared from home
several months ago, has been found at
Broadaxe, Pa, where she was living
as the wife of Isreal King, a former
resident of Moorestown, where he has
a wife and several children.
The Rev. John Macnaughtan, of the
First Presbyterian Church of Morris
town, has declined the call rendered
him by the Collegiate Dutch Reformed
Church of New York. The New
York congregation offered a salary of
$40, 900 and Mr.. Macnaughton receives
only $500 and parsonage rent in
Morristown.
James and Pierre Comerford, broth
ers, who came from England forty
seven wears ago, have Just met for the
first time since they parted on the
other side. Pierre settled at High
Bridge, Hunterdon county, and James
went to San Francisco. The latter
came on to spend the holidays with
his brother at High Bridge.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has issued orders at New Bruins
wick against the general public tres.
passing on their tracks. Employees in
the factories have been accustomed to
use the tracks in going TO and from
work. Several lives have been lost
recently, and many narrow escapes
have been witnessed. Detectives have
been employed, and instructed to
arrest all who persist in disregarding
the order.
There is considerable opposition to
the erection of a new borough in West
Asbury Park. George X. Lord,
founder OF the place. has flooded Nep-
tune township with circulars in which
he attacks the scheme. He says that
if the borough is formed the taxes will
be largely increased and claims that
the scheme originated among a lot of
individuals who want TO hold Office
and have their fellowmen call them
Mayor or Alderman.
The First National Bank of Somer-
,YilIe earned a semi-annual dividend
irregnlarA per cent. for its stockholders
for the hMgyear ending with Deem
Der 81. p
President Judge Charles G. Garri-
son is ~conyalescing, and will be able
to open the January term of the court
next Iuc5uay.
The Erie Railroad Company has
ordered ten ten-wheeled passenger
locomotives from the Baldwin works,
and five six-wheeled engines from the
Cooke works, to be delivered early
next March.
The Clinton National Bank, in
Hunterdon county, has just declared
a semi-annual dividend of eight per
cent.
Mrs. N. Z. Slack, of Lambertville,
has in her possession a can of peaches
thirty years old, which were put up
by her mother.
Atlantic City has a Sunday
paper. The weekly Journal, reorgan-
lied and rejuvenated. was issued
January 4 for the first Sunday sheet.
This disposes of the rumor that the
Journal was to be converted into a
daily.
Ex-Alderman Frederick H. Frank
Ign, superintendent of the Elizabeth
Ice Company, met with a serious in
jury at the ice house, at the Elizabeth
reservoir, Monday night. He fell
twenty feet, striking on his stomach
ON the edge of a cake of ice. He was
removed in state of collapse to the
City Hospital.
The plant of the Camden Morning
Netos, which recently suspended pub
LEGATION, was on Monday seized by
Sheriff West for $500 rent due Frank
II. Patterson.