The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-22
STATE NOTES.

Bids for tearing down the Assembly
Chamber were opened yesterday after.
aeon by Superintendent Ford and the
Governor. There were seven bidders, as
foilows:-Michael Hurley, 81, 700; J. S.
Fsrriotf, $500, John N. Lindsay, 81, 500,
b. f. Everitt, $4,000; Abram Swan, -, 1888,
William Morgan. $500; Rowe & Meany,
$1,000 The contract was awarded to
Major Hurley for the tearing down aud
earning WI of the debris.
Boys who work for the Cumberland
Glass Works. Bridgeton, have been prom
Used, by Clement w. Shoemaker, a watch
upon reaching their majority II they alb
stain from the use of tobacco and liquor
for the intervening period.
Morristown policemen have been accus-
toned TO shoot off their revolvers when a
night fire broke out in the town. An or
der has recently been issued forbidding
this practice. as ono of the resident s
have complained that their sleep is dis
turbed-
The Riverton New Era has been sold
by G. w. Brewster to DR.. J. ID. Janney of
Westheld, one CT the Coroners of Bur
lington county.
John Conley, a fish huckster at Cam
den, was arrested on Monday GU COM
plant OF a customer who charged that
he had sold her o stale shad, the gjlls of
which had been painted TO give 1t a fresh
appearance. Conley admitted the fraud
and will be prosecuted by the health
officers.
Union and non-union giassblowers had
a characteristic set-to at Newfield on Sat
urday night, and In their melee disturbed
a religious gathering. The Rev. II. Il.
Parker protested and was assaulted.
Constable Lowder was badly beaten and
he now has fifteen warrants for the
fighters.
The Paterson Board of Aldermen is
composed of eleven Republicans and five
I1aruORrqfG I'm the FanPnuniZaftan Rfnn-
day night. the Republicans ave the DEM
ocrats five put of the sixteen standing
committee chairmanshiDs. Thomas w.
Rawson was chosen President of the
Board, and his business partner, Arthur
3. Pearce, was elected President OF the
Board of Education.
A woman at Paterson swallowed a pin
on Sunday evening. Shortly afterward
she suffered great pain and her friends
sought a physician. Seven or eight were
called, but the services of no one of them
could be secured. Some were sick. others
engaged. and some positively refused to
visit the suffering woman because they
were not the family physician.
Rev. DIR. Henry Reeves, who has been
Principal of Ivy Hall Seminary. at Bridge
ton. for ten years, will retire from that
position at the close OF this ear. His sue
cessor will be Mrs. Rsna b.. Maxwell,
widow of the late Rev. j. Allen Maxwell,
formerly of South Orange. DIR. Reeves
retires from the principalship on account
OF the impaired health of his wife. hut
will be retained by Mrs. Maxwell us Pro
fessor Of English literature, rhetoric and
the sciences.
Andrew Brice, 10 years old, tumbied
backward out or an open window in the
third story of a dwelling at Eizabcthport
on sunday night, and escaped without a
scratch, turning over In his fall and land
ing squarely on his feet The shock, how
ever, stunned him somewhat. There was
a christening celebration IN progress. and
Brice, getting mirthful. yentured too
near the window. The horrided merry
makers, thinking be had been killed,
rushed out of the place in terror and
broke up the festivities. Briee walked
home.