The Jersey City news., 1891-03-13
STATE NOTES.


A fund has been started at Belyidere
for the erection of a monument to the
late General Robert McAllister, COM
nander of the Bloody Eleventh." New
Jersey Volunteers. Clinton Blair, a
Warren county banker. has headed the
list with a subscription of $3.50. Blair
Kelsey, cashier of the Belyidere National
Bank, is treasurer of the fund.
George wilkins and Howard Couch,
lads living near Burlington, have been
suffering from peculiar malady since
Friday last. The boys, who are cousins,
went home on Friday evening appar-
entity feeling well. Shortly after young
Wilkins began to show symtons of de-
liriuni. and was so violently Ill that his
parents were alarmed. He has since i'm
proved but little. The wilkins family
were astonished the following morning
when they learned that young Couch
has suffered in precisely similar man
ner. The boys had eaten nothing but
what WAS shared by the entire families.
The parents of the lads firmly believe
that they are the victims Of hypnotism.
The Elizabeth Journal composing
room has pet. 1t is. q pigeon, not
one of the common kind, but one of O
rare yarlety. judging from appearances.
II came in at one of the windows on one
If the cold days for which March has
been SO celebrated, and declines to leave.
1t makes friends with all the men, roostS
ON their shoulders, and eats out OF their
hands. 1t goes from one man to another,
receiving favors, and in turn looks as
smiling as the traditional basket of chips.
A day or two ago IL alighted on a warm
stove pipe, but made u brief stay. A
tanner pigeon has not been known by
those who have seen this one. And yet
the bird will not allow its liberties TO be
trampled upon, for it will resent any
seeming discourtesy shown 1t. IL IL fond
of almost everything In the eating line,
and great lover of water. At nights it
is put out or the building, but pecks on
the windows each morning until 1t is
let in.
The engagement Is announced of Miss
Aunie Green, daughter of Judge e. i.
Green. of Trenton, 10 Mr.. Coleman kis-
san, of Bergen Point.
4Auctioneer A. II. Muller s. Son last
Monday held an executors sale of q farm
containing ninety-six acres IN Somerset
county. and sold the entire property at
S35. so per acre.
Ora nge Athletic Club second mortgag g
bonds sold at auction in New York yes
terday for ninety-one.
Jonn Griggs of Salem, Union Township,
committed suicide on Wednesday night
by hurting himself from the garret win
dow of his house. HIS neck was broken,
and the side Of his head crushed by the
fall Death was instantaneous. Mr..
Griggs was for years well known char
acter around the Union County Court
House. he had served on more juries
than probably any other man In the
county. He had been sick for some
weeks, and his act is believed to have
been caused by temporary alteration of
mind. He was over seventy years or age,
and formerly lived in Newark.
Vice Chancellor Green has decided that
ian assignment for a valuable considera-
tion, if a sum of money due or to grow
due on the performance of an existing
contract, will. on notice thereof being
given 10 the debtor, operate as an equit-
as is covered thereby. subject to all valid
prior charges"