The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-09
NEWS IN NOTES.
STATE NOTES.

Ice prices have gone down in Cam
den.
j. NJ. Garry has been appointed
postmaster at Kingsland.
Tobacco is being grown in Mon
mouth with success.
The gold leaf factory OF Hastings &
Co, at West Cape May, is to be moved
To Bridgeton.
The Rev. NJ. AZ. Finch, pastor Of
Tabernacle Baptist Church, Camden.
had q critical experience u day or two
ago. While In n restaurant he swal-
lowed q part of his dental equipment.
and just as a physician was about to
be called the dominic was seized with
a coughing fit that expelled the pesky
thing.
Mayor Howe, OF P~assaic, has in
structed City Counsel George p. Rust
to proceed against the Sunday liquor
sellers. This action is taken ut the
instigation OF the Law and Order
League. A short time ago members
of the League found that some sa-
looms were doing more business on
Sunday than during the. week. The
League men drew up a petition, had
it signed by many citizens and sent it
to the Mayor, who has concluded TO
act.
Worlds Fair Commissioner Thomas
Smith, of Newark, Is preparing n bill
which he will introduce in the Legis-
lature this month, providing for a
New Jersey headquarters at Chicago
i'm 1893. He proposes that the Com
niissioners appointed by the Gover-
nor shall interest New Jersey manu-
facturers and insure a creditable dis
pany from this State.
Tba pouneyluanio Railrnad COm-
pany has issued orders to the general
public not to tresspass on its tracks
and also to close up securely all back
doors and gates which open on its
line between Newark and Trenton.
The company will not in future allow
the general public to convert its rail-
road tracks. into a public thorough
fare, as heretofore. Detectives nave
received orders to arrest persons who
persist in using the track after being
requested to keep off.
A year ago Heinrich Pulch came to
this country, it is said, in the interest
OF a German syndicate, to investigate
tine subject of growing tobacco. After
casting about he decided upon Port
Monmouth, three miles from At
lantic Highlands. rs an available loca-
tion, and he purchased several acres
OF land and set to work in earnest.
His harvest was large and the product
had been pronounced as OF a very
good quality. Mr.. Puich is building
a large mandatory for drying and
curing his product and will next
season plant several additional acres
of the weed"
After a long siege the several Bur
lington fire companies ON Monday
night reelected Harry Carter chief
engineer.
Paterson street car drivers and on
+ ductors Tuesday had their working
time reduced from fifteen to twelve
hours a day.
William Nelson, of Paterson, has a
complete file of the Bee, the first
paper ever published in Paterson. 1t
existed from November, 1915, to
November, 1916.
A fleet OF fifteen sturgeon boats will
leave Hancock's Bridge as soon as til e
season opens south. They will EN-
pIoy over forty hands.
Edwin Ridgway, a miller at Lower
Creek. Salem county, raised and mar
keted over 5000 worth of poultry dur
ing tiie PAST year from eighty hens.
Thomas Walker, of Kearny, while
suffering from frosted feet, used al
CODoi 70 fclicNC th0 pdfnt anu tAOh
placed his feet near a hot stove. A
moment afterward his feet were in a
blaze and before the flames could be
extinguished he was very badly
burned.
The mining industry of Morris
county appears to be on the wane.
Reports from all over the county show
that forces are being reduced in every
direction. and many mines which en-
gagged the attention of many work
men night and day are now deserted.
Theodore Engiish's bucket shop in
Newark was closed on Tuesday, and
spectators are mourning the loss of
their money. The liabilities are esti-
mated 1t 500, 600.
Moses Frisbie, Of Salem, is under
arrest at Morristown, his offence con-
sisting of wearing a Ct. A. r. button
when he did not belong to that organ
iZation.
The story that has appeared in the
New York papers TO the effect that
hereafter no visitors would be admitted
TO the government grounds at Sandy
Hook, is without foundation.
The Paterson Board of Trade on
Monday night, with practical unan-
unity, voted against assuming any
responsibility for the movement in
favor of slackwater navigation to
Paterson via the Dundee Canal. It
would cost the county 500, 900 to
make drawbridges over the canal, and
$50, 900 annually to maintain them.
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