The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-02
STATE NOTES.

A new disease which plays havoc with
noses, painting them q rich carmine, has
broken out in Mount Holly. the trouble
is accompanied with severe pains, swelling
and excessive catarrhal deposits. There
are said to be 100 cases in tine town.
The Paterson banks have decided TO
keep open Saturday afternoons. They re-
fuse TO taxi advantage of the optional
clause in the Haif-Holiday law, much to
the regret of the clerks, who hoped they
would take the course followed by the as
ISOLATED banks Of Newark, Jersey City.
Elizabeth, Trenton, and other cities and
close at loon Saturday.
Miss Flossie Duffield of Woodbury. has
just finished a be- quilt containing 1900
pieces. The little girl is only ten years
old, and has been working faithfully on
the quilt for eighteen months.
The Paterson Press sHys:-A peculiar
incident occurred yesterday near the
residence of DIR. J. N. Stevenson at Haw-
thorne. The doctor has two FLIES which
have shown great friendship for each
other. and have been enjoying themselves
hugely for some weeks past in the pasture
near the DOCTORS residence. Yesterday
they were INDUCING In some OF their
capers. biting each others names and
kicking up their heels in playful sport.
Then one ofthem begun hcking the other
in the mouth, when suddenly the teeth
of the former closed tightly, the result
being that the tongue of the latter was
bitten completely off. 1t is apparent that
the injury was done in sport, as neither
of the tillies ever showed the slightest in
dication toward ~viciousness. AS the in
jured horse could not recover from so ex
iensive an injury it was found necessary
to kill il.
The Morristown Express has been re-
viyed as a weekly Democratic paper, by
Abraham l.. Adams.
Rev. j. 3. Hamilton will remove from
Brooklyn to Hackettstown, and will de-
vote his time TO lettering the condition
of aged ministers Of the Methodist
Church.
New York parties contemplate estab-
fishing a SHIRT factory al Matawan mat
will employ 400 hands. They want citt-
zens of the town to erect n building,
which they will lease for five or ten years,
with privilege of purchasing then.
One of Eatontown's citizens, having
declared he would never again step upon
a hotel piazza in hat town, found it
necessary on election day, in order to vote.
to fasten his ballot 10 the end of a long
pole and, standing on the sidewalk passed
it way across the piazza OF HaiI's hotel to
the window, where h polio clerk received
it.
The American Brick and Tile Company,
whose plant is located along the Della
ware, a short distance above PhilliDsburg,
will shortly add to their works a plant
for enameling brick. All enameled brick
used in this country at present are inn
ported II this company claims that no
company other than theirs, in America,
manufactures the kind Of brick that may
be enameled.
L. g. Waldron has been appointed post
master at Martinsville, Somerset county.
A seasons racing at the DIVER and
Linden tracks is worth about $4,000 TO
Elizabeth merchants, hotel men and
others.
Blairstown can boast of rather a re-
markable coincidence in having two fam
lies representing four generations each,
One is the family of Mrs. Hannah Divers.
which consists, besides herself, of her
mother, Mrs. Bloom, her daughter, Liz
zie, and her granddaughter, Miss Angie
Emmons, the latter being about ten years
of age, and her gTeat-grandmother,
ninety-one years. The other family is
that OF Mrs. Barnet Huff, consisting be-
sides herself. of her mother, Mrs. Divers,
her son. r. ID. and his children. Mrs. Div
ers is eighty-one years OF age, q her
youngest gr~eat-grandchild about four
years. We doubt if any town in the
county can show such q record. In fact
Blairstown township is noted for its
many aged persons.