The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-15
STATE NOTES.

The Equity Land Company has filed
articles OF incorporation In the Camden
County Clerks Office. Tue capital stock
is $50. 900, and the Rev. Charles ID. Sink
inson is the president.
Congressman Boutelle, of Maine. and
G~reeuhalge, of Massachusetts, will speak
at the Lincoln banquetof the Republican
Club to be held at Orston Hall, Newark,
ON February IL.
~George i. Jenkinson, OF Newark, was
reelected president Of the National Trunk
and Bag Manufacturers Association at
its yearly meetingi n Hotel Brunswlck K,
New York, yesterday.
Professor Young, Of Princeton College.
prize for 1890 by the French Academy of
Sinces. In recognition of his discoveries
in spectrology.
Calico Pond, in Belleviiie, is said to be
a weird, ghostly, nair raising sort of spot.
Horrible tales are told about it. and
travellers late at night, when the pale
moon winks and the bright stars blink.
hurry by. 1t is a frightful locality, a rem
devious for witches, h~obgoblins, astral
bodies and the celestial cranks who get
up from their graves in the churchyard
neat by, and produce eoosefest on every
body in the ne~ighborhood. A young
woman dressed in. white has lately been
roaming round at lead of night, and the
peoples teeth are chattering- This dam
sci walks ~leisurely along the road, mind
ing her W business. until some stray
wanderer sees her. Then she scoots across
the fields and makes for Calico Pond. If
pressed too hard by her pursuer she
quietly dissolves into thin air.
The annual encampment OF the G. A. X.
of the Statewill be held at Trenton on Feb
ruary II and Is.
The Atlantic City Journal has passed
into the hands OF a company and will
hereafter be In charge of John NJ. Camp
bell. A Sunday edition with many new
features for country Journalism Is now
issued.
A new industry is about to be estab-
lished at compton A company OF caDi-
taiists has become incorporated for the
manufacture of shoes. AUnttl a large
building can be erected the company Will
occupy one floor OF the Pompton Silk
Mills.
mouth Park. owned by the Monmouth
Park Association, aud being built by Con-
tractors Dobbins & Loeb, was blown
down in the gale on sunday. The build
ing was about one-third completed The
damage is $4,000. 80
Jacob MUSCLE. manufacturers Of sausage
meat, were arrested At Paterson OIL Mon
day on d complaint made by DIR. S. Cyrus
Townsend, Inspector OF the Board of
Health OF Manchester township, Tor hav-
ing in their possession diseased meat of
a4th4dto 4llCu4IA tA4t At0As 4AO
men, who are Belgians, not long ago ran
a similar factory In Bergen county. but
their operations there made so much talk
tina they moved to Cherry Lane. They
use The meat of horses, aud have, AS
alleged, agents buying up all the dead
horses they can get in the ueighborhood
at Paterson. The product OF the concern
is used for export trade only, Large guam
titles of horse meat sausage icing
shipped to France and Belgium. The
health authorities lave in their
possession bills OF lading of the Red Star
lint OF steamships, showing shipments OF
these goods
The minca mine discovered on the farm
of Mrs. Henry Day, ut Meudham, Is prov
ing more valuable the more IL is worked,
and preparations are being made TO mine
on q larger scale.
Bass river, Burlington county, citizens
nave voted TO fix the license fee at $1,000.
u the hotels will close.
Two young men at PomptoE Plains
who were unable to procure a horse to
take their best girls out sleighing, hitched
up a Cow aud had a six miles drive.
George w. Walling, ex-superintendent
of New York City's police, has been APP
pointed chief OF the keyport Fire DEPART
ment.
The choir of the Christ Episcopal
Church, New Brunswick, has disbanden
because the pastor requested the mem
beers not TO repeat certain music.