The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-04
STATE NOTES.

The triplets born to the wife of Caleb
Hopkins, the wife of poor basket maker
ct Archertown, Ocean county, have been
christened. The boy is named Grover
Cleveland Hopkins. and the girls are
Frances Cleveland HOPKINS and Ruth
Cleveland Hopkins. named after EXPIRES
ident Cleveland, wife and daughter
MRS. Oscar Robinson of Freehold made
twenty-five entries at the Somerville fair
and received eighteen first and three Sec
ond premiums.
Moorestown has just 900 voters.
Mays Landing wants factories erected
there. Free sites are offered.
Leesburg girls are working on farms to
make dollars for the patronage fund.
A contest for q gold watch for the
benefit of st. Joseph's Church. at Bound
Brook, realized 81, ,138 As.
Edward Ludlow gnessed the exact
weight OF prize pumpkin on exhibition
in a Haddonfeld store. 1t was 1928
pounds.
DR.. G. G. Green. the patent medicine
man of Woodbury., is building boat
house at Lake Hopatcong which will cost
$3. 600.
A Pomptou truck farmer set out TO- 600
tomato plants on two acres OF ground.
He gathered $3.50 baskets of tomatoe s
and sold them for from six to thirty cents
bssker. the whole crop averaging him
1915 cents per basket and yielding the
handsome sum of 81, ,347.30
Thomas Sinnickson. Jr., of Lower
Penus Neck, Salem county, has curios
ity. A wisteria vine had entwinsd itself
around his lightning rod and had broken
off piece of the stout metal about ten
feet long. The rod was of twisted metal
and the vine had crawled up the hollow
formed by the twist and fitted it per-
fectly.
WI q QtO bfu-thrpa old
went into a field recently and husked
seventy-two large shocks of corn In ten
hours.
The Methodist Seminary at Hacketts-
town has begun the most successful year
in it's history. Every room is occupied
and there are many day scholars.
Ex-Assemblyman Milford Ludlam and
wife, of Miliville. celebrated their silver
wedding last Monday evening. Over u
hundred guests were present.
Hammonton will give $4,000 and free
site, with exemption from taxes, to big
glass manufacturing company, that will
locate at that place i'm n ediately.
Rev. Albert Swift has been appointed
pastor of the Little Church in the Woods
at Bradley Beach, in place of Rev. NV.
Davis, who resigned TO take up with new
work in Minnesota.
Adrian Post of Passaic carries one arm
in a sling and the other Is badly swollen.
black spider bit his right hand. Mr.. Post
awoke and the spider bit his other hand.
Mr.. Post jumped out OF bed and lighted
match. He saw the spider but it got
away. Blood poisoning has developed.
VIM d. Barrows, farmer near Cape
May City, went out recently to view his
pumpkin patch, when his attention was
directed to one with q small hole that
had been eaten into 1t by something, and
upon examination it was found that the
seed and inner part of the pumpkin had
disappeared, when lol to his surprise, all
had shared similar fate except one, and
they had been in this state so long that
they were even UNIT for COW feed, there
being only one pumpkin to answer for the
seasons crop. The damage was done by
rabbits.
A small locomotive on the Blairstown
Railroad was standing on the main track
at Biairstown on Friday with no one on
board, when Pennsylvania, Pough-
keepsie and Boston freight struck it and
the shock threw the lever. The engine
at once started down the road at
terrific speed, which increased with
every revolution of the driving
wheels. Warning was telegraphed ahead
to keep everything Off the track. Going
up a steep grade near townsville its
speed was checked. ana Michael Nealey,
a section boss, made a daring leap and
landed aboard and stopped it. The en-
gine made the twelve miles from Blairs-
town to Portland in six minutes.