The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-04-12
ALL OVER THE STATE.

The coast life guards go off duty at the
end of April.
Wednesday, April % will be the annual
tree planting day ct Ocean Grove.
Ex-Judge Alfred Walliug has entered
upon his duties as President of the Mon
mouth Trust Company, of Asbury
Park
w. Gordon Hill, general secretary of
the Paterson Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION, has severed his connection with
that organization on account of i'll
health
The wife Of the Rev. S. HARPER Leeper,
pastor of the Mount Holly Presbyterian
Church. has fallen heir to 100000 through
the death of her mother.
George |. Seney, the millionaire banker.
has added another farm to his numerous
possessions at Barnardsville, Somerset
County, and is about TO erect a $4,000
house.
Eayre o. Oliphant has sold his water
power and several acres OF land at New
Lisbon, Burlington County, for $50. 600.
The place will be improved at once for a
summer resort.
Morristown has two merchants, part
ners, who cordially agree in their hate
for one another, and who have not spoken
to each other in over five years, aud yet
for mutual profit continue the partner
ship.
The Episcopal Church at Hamburg will
get what is left OF legacy OF $500 left
by Mrs. Jane Richards of New York for
the purchase of an organ. A lawsuit was
had over it, because of the misnaming of
the beneficiary by the testatrix. The suit
has just been settled. the court deciding
in favor OF the church, as abundant proof
was produced of the intention of the tes-
tatrix.
A $4,000 two-masted schooner is 20 be
launched on April 20 from Lonis Ed
wards yard at Dennisyille, Cape May
County.
Camden's Postofice took In the past
year $50, 800, and increase of s., 433 over the
previous year.
The Asbury Park Commissioners have
closed q contract for seventt-five arc
electric lights for the beach front and
streets. The price Of each light is SO per
year.
The deadlock in the Burlington Com
mon Council was broken on Tuesday
night, the Republicans giving up the
presidency and cierkship for Street Com
missioner and some minor offices
| The mineral spring located on the bank
of Bahcock's creek, a tributary to The
| Great Egg Harbor river, at Mays Laud-
| ing, after ceasing to flow for three years,
again started on Tuesday, with much
| greater flow than before.
/ Wealthy New York capitalists will es-
| tablish a new summer resort on the top
! of the celebrated Pinnacle" situated
near Pennington, and arrangements are
now being completed for the erection of
the handsomese hotel IN Northern New
| Jersey.
William d. Hoover, who has been the
| Atlantic County Court Crier for thirty
/ years, is seriously i'll at his home in Mays
Landing He was thrown off q Phila-
deiphia street car on Monday and Is said
to be suffering from the effects of his
| fall.
! While Isaac Sheppard of Greenwich,
| Cumberland county, was digging in his
garden on Wednesday he unearthed a
coin which is les years old Il is Span
ish piece of the date of 1928. 1t is bright
| and in good condition.
The roll of membership of the Mount
Holly Baptist Church contains the names
of six sisters, all OF whom are past
seventy years of age. They are:--Mrs.
Martha Groom, Mrs. Margaret Lamb,
Mrs. Ruth Barton, Mrs. William @. Cur
tbs. Miss Priscilla Watkinson and Miss
Lavinia Watkinson.
Ex-Governor William A. Newell for
merry of Monmouth county, is still en-
gagged In active medical practice at Olym-
pia. Washington. A recent letter from
him states that he is in good health and
In the enjoyment of a lucrative practice,
but he sighs for return to old Mon
mouth, which he calls THAT land of
happiness"
Cape May has appropriated S34, 500 for
public improvements including beach
boardwalk and Two paviliouS.