The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-30
STATE NOTES.

At SomerviIle. on Saturday, five shares
of stock OF the First National Bank OF
New Brunswick were sold at $3.50. %.
Eighteen shares of First National =
OF Somervllle stock sold at from $500 to
SOL q share.
The Pitman Grove Camp Meeting Asso-
citation is having an artesian well bored
iu the grove. 1t has reached a depth OF
140 feet, but mas not yet reached water.
Caleb Anderson Of High Bridge has a
three months old daughter who gives
promise of developing into a unique
freak. AT birth her tiny pink ears were
covered with a very fine, fuzzy growth OF
hair. Since then this hair has grown so
that the long, silky locks hang down
nearly to her shoulders.
The longest board fence in New Jersey,
and possibly in the country, is just being
completed at Tranquility, Sussex county.
It enclosed j. O. Stuyvesant's new deer
park, aud will be twelve miles long. The
tract is 1000 acres. The fence Is ten feet
high and is made of hemlock boards an
Inch aud a half thick. The saw mill at
Ailamuchy has been running constantly
for a year cutting lumber for this one
fence. IL will cost $4,000.
Newark carpenters and joiners will
strike on May l, If an eight hour day is
refused them
AT Egg Habor City, on Tuesday. the In
dependent Citizens ticket, with high
license principles, was elected by a hand
some majority.
Mayor Barnert has decided to give a
prize of $50 in gold to the student OF the
Paterson High School with the highest
average in mathematics during the year.
Counterfeit 81 bills with the head of
General Mcclellan on them are danger
ously numerous. They are so we'll exc
cut=d that it is difficult to disting uish
them from the genuine. Wonder IL we
have had any OF them?
Miss Wilson, daughter of Jailer Wilson
of the County Jail at Somerville, discov-
cred on Tuesday a plot of some of the
prisoners to break jail. Mrs. Wilson no
ticed an unusual activity among the men.
She quickly notified her father. An in
ves;igation disclosed a hole in the brick
wall of the Jail. The opening, about
three feet u was covered with a
newspaper. The tools used by the pris-
ouers were a wire rod taken from a chair
and an old whitewash brush.
A needlework guild has been formed
in Railway. to furnish free garments to
hospitals, asylums aud other charities.
For several years the Plainfield munich
pal Government has been gradually in
creasing the license fee, until now the
liquor dealers are forced TO pay 500 into
the city treasury to obtain a license. Oh
jectionable applicants ave been unable
10 obtain licenses at any price Under
these close restrictions the liquor dealers
found themselves forced TO obtain outside
legislation, and the County License Com
m~issioners LAWS said to have been forced
through at the solicitation OF Piaintield
liquor dealers. Under this Law all of
P~iainfield's liquor dealers, If they do not
care to pay the city 500 for a license, NAV
20 to the County Excise Board and pay
$3.50 for a license which will give them
the same privileges granted by the city
authorities. The full meaning of the bill
has just been made apparent, and the
better class of citizens are de~nouncing its
provisions and the Democrats who pus he'd
il In bitter terms.