The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-07
NEWS In NOTES.
STATE NOTES.

Negotiations are being made for the
purchase Of the Rothschild building
at Long Branch for Government pur-
poses.
Mrs. Agnes Space, of Deckertown, is
so firmly convinced that the victim of
the Railway mystery was her sister,
Mary Dorman, that n has asked
permission to erect a tombstone at the
head Of the grave. at Railway,
Ex-Assemblyman Thomas McSran
was locked up in the Police Station at
Paterson, on Saturday, and afterward
fined Sf.6s for drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct in interfering with a
policeman who was arresting one OF
McCran's friends.
A tract Of land has been purchased
in the pine woods north OF Deal Lake
and adjoining the new resor known
as Interlaken, for the avowed pur-
pose of establishing q permanent
summer resort for the colored ace.
The project is a big one, as it also in
cludes the erection of a brick college
capable of rooming 500 colored stu
dents. somewhat after the style of the
Fisk University in the South. There
will also be a permanent camp meet
ing ground and a SUMMED school OF
general work. as at C~hautauqua. Last
season the first seaside and summer
educational institute ever held in this
country fof the colored people con-
vened in Educational Hall, Asbury
Park. 1t was in session a week and
was a marked success.
In a two-horse covered wagon, pro-
vided with arrangements for all their
needs, Mr.. and Mrs. John Parsels. of
Pleasantville, and Mr.. and Mrs. Steel
man, of the same vicinity, have start
ed for Chincoteague, Virginia. They
expect to the 200 miles and re-
turn within two weeks.
Secretary Dye, of the State Board
of Agriculture, says that the annual
cost for tht repair and improvement
of roads, exclusive of new roads,
bridges, removing snow, etc, is $780,
900 per veal in New JERSEY. IL this
sum was spent each year in building
telford roads the State would o o
have the best highways in the coun-
try.
r. G. Smith, of West Cape May, has
been raising a small crop of tobacco
for several years, and he says $500
worth TO the acre can be raised In
Cape May county, with proper culti-
walton. Mr.. Smith thinks the sea-
shore is the best place for the tobacco
crop, because of the heavy dews which
give tobacco its richness.
The Rev. DIR. Henry M. Booth, who
has been for twenty-four years pastor
OF the Presbyterian Church at Engle-
wood, resigned his charge on Sunday.
About five years ago he suffered from
sunstroke, from which he has never
fully recovered, and has lately been
incapacitated for pastoral work. DIR.
Booth intends to spend a year or two
in travelling abroad.
John Masker, a famous trapper and
bee hunter of the Vernon and War
wick mountains, died last week at his
home near Stockholm. Sussex county,
aged eighty years. He was wonder
fully successful. No man in the
region secured such large and valua-
BILE collections of skins of foxes, offers,
minks, muskrats, rabbits and other
fur bearing animals, and no bee
hunter took to market such stores of
choice wild honey.
Nathaniel Niles, ex-president of the
Tradesmen's National Bank, New
York, has been arrested in suit
brought by Madame Parrot, ''the
French Madame" who accuses
him of swindling her out
of $73, 900. Mr.. Niles is an ex- Speaker
of the New Jersey House of
Assembly and a prominent member of
the Presbyterian Church at Madison,
near which place he has his home.
This is the second time he has been
arrested within the past year.
A letter just received from the Rev.
r. Hamill Nassau, a Presbyterian
missionary on the Ogove River, West
Africa, announces that he is prepar-
ing to return To this country with his
motherless little daughter. DIR. Mas
sau once lived in Trenton and also at
Lawrenceville, and his wife was we'll
known in Freehold and Ocean county.
Mrs. Nassau died at Talaguga. in the
wilds of Africa, with no white person
near except her husband. After a
brief sojourn on the coast at Gaboon
and in Liverpool, DIR. Nassau expects
to arrive in Philadelphia about the
1st of May.