The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-10
STATE NOTES.

Matawan has 4 horse-coliar factory that
employs eighteen hands.
The janitor of Hancock's Bridge school
house. in looking up the cause of the de-
fective draft of the chimney recently,
found IL filled with SCOT from the bottom
To above the end OF the stove pipe. In re-
moving the SCOT, robins and other birds
were onnd that bad entered the chimney
for shelter and had been overcome and
died from the gas.
Fourteen chickens from thirteen eggs
is Il piece of luck which Il Salem county
man is reported to a v had recently.
Steps have been taken by the newly
formed Farmers Alliance, at Bridgeton,
10 establish a county exchange for the sale
of armer produce.
Lakewood has a hunting club whose
members took their first cross-country
ride on Saturday in pursuit of the Gun
Mug and gamty anise-seed bag.
Woodbury. Methodists expect TO dedi-
cate their new $50. 900 church on February
20
be organized In Woodstown on Saturday
next.
The seventeenth annual meeting of the
New Jersey Sabbath Union, held ut New
ark. on Thursday, reelected the Rev.
George S. Mott, d. d., OF Bennington, as
president.
Deacon William Bagshaw has been ex-
expelled from the Baptist Church ut
S~iantoDe, for calling the pastor, the Rev.
William Shawger, a liar, during Il service
in the church.
The Washington Association of New
Jersey will. celebrate the birthday of
George Washington on Monday, February
23, 1891, at MOrristown. AT half-past one
4. m. a national salute will be fired from
the site of the associations monument on
Oh Fort Nonsense. A meeting of the
association will be held at the head
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meeting the secretary OF the association,
Edmund d. Halsey, Ed, has been re-
qaested to read. in lieu of the usual
imper. the history of the association
with has been complied by him.
Tue White House Manufacturing Com
rany have just closed a contract with an
Elelish firm of car builders for one-half
million feet of Jersey oak, to be delivered
in six months. IL will lake over one hun
dred cars to carry this large amount of
timber TO New York, and will give en-
ployment to over twenty men. The COM
panv has over one million feet Of timber
bought in Hunterdon, Warren and Morris
counties, and have an option of purchase
on 100 acres of timber land that will cut
fully one million feet more.
MIR. and Mrs. o. a. Martin, of Perth
AmbeY, celebrated their golden wedding
last Wednesday. Four generations OF
the family, including the nine children.
sixteen grandchildren n one great
~grandchild, were present. Mr.. Martins
brother, two cousins and Mrs. Benja-
min Hull were present on the occasion
of the wedding in 1S41 and were
al o guests at his anniversary. Mrs.
HUI Chen Miss Wright) made the we'd
ding cake and assisted the bride On her
wedding day. She was also present o
this evening and had prepared an elegant
golden cake with the dates 184l-1S9l
wrought on the top.
Ezekiel NJ. Patterson died on Sunday at
New Brunswick, after a long illueSs. He
was eighiy-two years old. A will made
10y him several years ago left to his son
John and daughter Mary $50. 900. to be
paid when the former became twenty
eight years old, but John died a few
weeks ago. being only twenty four years
old, and a legal fight will follow, his wife
and other children getting nothing. and
Mary not being On good terms with them
since Johns death. Mr.. Patterson has
been so i'll that he was unable TO make
any change in his will, and Johu's cred
itors are much worried for fear they will
lose their money. while his wife and
children ave nothing.