The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-14
STATE NOTES.


South Jersey peach growers are alarmed
over the fact that their trees are already
beginning TO bloom. They fear u frost
wifi kill the buds.
AT Millville a religious revival is in pro-
gress in the Trinity Methodist Episcopal
Church. N nearly 100 persons have pro-
fessed CONVERSION.
DIR. O. G. Bogardus of Keyport, Is
brought ont as n candidate for The Assem-
bly, next fall, from the Third district of
Monmouth county. by the keyport Enter
prise.
Eva, the midget daughter of Peter Au-
MEX Of Newtown, died on Friday Of
measles, aged five months. At birth The
child weighed hut eighteen ounces, n
at death five pounds.
The ghost OF Hezekiah b. Smith is said
to be roaming about the machine shops
at S~mithvilie, aud George Gilbert. who
say he has seen II several times, has been
sent to the insane asylum. The people OF
The village think the ghost Is very much
dissatisfied over the litigation of the
Smith estate and the success Of his first
wife III establishing her claim.
President Gates of Amherst College,
aud formerly President OF Rutgers Col
lege at New Brunswick, announced on
Monday that a friend Of the college. who
wished his name withheld. had just given
SfO1,000 to the general college fund, the
only condition attached being that $780,
600 additional should be raised. the latter
10 be raised for "A stated purpose or other
wise. The fund win be named in honor
of ex-President Seelye. President Gates
also stated that the amount receivable by
The wild of Mr.. Newton, of Worcester. to
en- low a chair in Greek would be $4,000
10 $50. 900.
The streets Of Bridgeton are perfect
rivers OF mud. On Tuesday night a party
of citizens secured a big boat, and. hitch
lug a horse 10 IL. passed up aud down the
principal thoroughfares, much to the
amusement OF n large number OF lockers
or. On the boat was a placard bearing
the foiIowing:-.New TRANSPORTATION
Lie. Five Cents Il Ride"
Louis S. Hoyt, a native of Mount
Salem. Sussex county. has become a mil
l~ionaire through the purchase of five
hundred acres OF coal lands In Western
PENNSYLVANIA. Mr.. Hoyt was brought
up on a farm, and afterward was a CLERK
Ia grocery and dry goods stores.
The Burlington County Board of Free
holders has adopted a resolution against
the appointment of al Assistant Prosecu-
tor OF the Pleas for that county. The
Board also refused to pay the bills for ice
and POSTAGE stamps for county officials.
A Newton paper, of February Ii. gives
this account of the ice harvest In Sussex
county:-Not outstanding bad weather,
ice gathering proceeds in this county.
The John Hancock Company, whose
main storage house at Slaters Lake is
3l2x90 feet, will flush filling their houses
this week. Difficulty is experienced in
obtaining enough men to store the ice
they could use $50 additional laborers),
but Notwithstanding this the run ways
deliver 5000 tons every twelve hours Tue
ice is over one foot thick. having lost but
little in the cold water. Kinney & Little
have gained but little on account OF de-
fects in machinery, and have their big
mouse only a little more han half full.
The United Ice Company, at lifts. which
absorbed the Plant of Hiram Weller's
Sons, have been unfortunate in their en-
CINE. which is not OF sufficient capacity
for the work, and on Monday blew out
However, they AVE not been idle, and
the three new houses are almost filled.