The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-28
STATE NOTES.

Lemuel Warren of Pennington lost q
valuable Jersey calf on Thursday. No
satisfied with the fodder that had been
given 1t, the calf chewed up a red paper
curtain which had been hanging over one
OF the windows In the stable. The poison
Gus coloring matter killed the calf.
Ex-senator Emson has served as a mem
Der Of the Ocean County Board of Chosen
Freeholders for twenty-five years without
a break.
Paterson Guardian says:-The tenants in
one OF Matthew Suites houses on the cor
ner of Bridge and Division streets expert
enced a twenty-four hour5' thirst which
terminated at nine O'Clock this morning.
For the past few days the residents were
obliged to keep their faucets open cor
tfnuously in order to secure sufficient
water for household purposes. This morn
ing plumbers were set TO work to unearth
the pipe that leads from the street. They
happened to strike the right spot. When
cutting the pipe the manipulation of the
chisel discovered that he had severed the
body of an eel fifteen inches in length.
Plumbers say that this branch of the Il n
family lives and grows fat in the main
pipes, but when the fully developed mem
bers undertake to visit kitchens through
the mail tubes they never return to tell
the story of their explorations.
In the Second District Court at New
ark, on Thursday. Mrs. Adele .Cubier, of
new 1OTk, bueu the luSDAQQ OIL MIS-. Ed
ward b. Aymas. a wealthy resident of
East Orange, for $3.50 for making two
dresses. Mrs. Aymas, who was accom-
panied by her sister, husband, maid and
nurse, attended the trial, aud testified
that the dresses did not fit her. In order
to prove this she put on one of the dresses
in an anteroom. She then showed tn Q
judge that it was impossible for her TO
button the dress, and that the body did
not meet the skirt. 1t was shown by
the testimony that Mrs Cubier made her
thirty dresses last year. The dresses in
question were made for her to attend the
wedding of her sister at Philadelphia in
December. Decision was reserved. Mrs.
Cubier conducts her business in Lexing-
ton avenue, New York city, under the
title of Madame Chevalier.
Mrs. Francis Mcknight was found at
the bottom of the we'll at her home nea I
Marlboro on Monday, crying for help.
The little girl who heard her cries gave
he alarm and the woman when taken
out was injured only slightly. There was
nearly five feet of water In the well. She
is thought not to be in her right mind,
but IL Is not known whether she acct
dentaliy fell into the well or had eontem-
plated suicide.
Ex-senator Fish is about to leave
Newark and take up his residence per-
manently in the West. He has accepted
the position of general counsel to the
Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing
Company, Of South Bend, Ind. and will
have the oversight Of the entire legal
business.
Tn doors of the African Zion Church
at Tfmbuctoo. near Mount Holly. have
been closed against the pastor, Rev.
Thomas Harris, who was appointed to the
charge in 1889, put who has found IL hard
work trying TO serve the Lord and keep
in wild de brethren at de same time," as
he expresses X.
A committee of the Camden Common
Council is investigating charges that
members of the Excise Board have been
bribed to grant licenses aud transfers. 1t
is said also that sellers of a certain make
of beer have been more successful in Sc
curing licenses than others.
A Salem county farmer says that for
the list three years he has planted a bean
or W in each potato hill and has never
seen a Colorado beetle on the potato tops
where beans were growing in the same
hill.