The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-06
STATE NOTES.

The annual fair of the Cumberland
County Agricultural Society is announced
To take place on she grounds of the society
at Bridgeton, on August IL, 10 and 20.
Negotiations are said to be in progress
for the consolidation of the Newark Pas
senaeE Railway Company with the South
Orange AMI Rapid Transit Line.
The annual reunion of the Thirteenth
Regiment. New Jersey Volunteers. will
be held at Bloomfield early In September.
Governor Albeit has been invited to at
teud.
Last Thursday. on the New Jersey
Southern Railroad. all trains were stopped
between $50 and IL NJ, as heavy guns
Were being tested nj Sandy HOOK Point.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
has begun building n Goa yard in South
Plainfeld, where all the coal mined along
{ e line of the road will be stored until it
can be shipped to tidewater. The new
yard will hold LOCO, 900 tons of coal. and
the new method of handling 1t will save
3 ~ per cent in expense.
Lower Ailoway correspondence of the
Salem Sunbcdm:-Anos Harris caught a
patriarchal bull frog recently in Dolls
ditch. The frog being in circumference
out OF all proportion TO its other dimen-
sions, curiosity prompted him to make
an autopsy of the animal, when in its
nav was found a mother field mouse
and five Of her young and a red belly ter
ltp4n. SthahEtot bAtl ~ Oc
told. The terrapin was alive, and on
heiug released from its strange cavity
pol to tie water as If nothing had hap
pened.
Eighteen narrowly escaped
losing their lives by drowning at Boyn-
ton Beach on Thursday. They were
among 600 members in an excursion to
the beach. They stood on a stairway
leading to a float, h the stairs gave
way pr~ecipitatipg them into the water.
All were saved by the bystanders, but six
OF the party tainted and remained IN
conscious for an hour.
TIL officers of the State Firemen's Re.
lief Association have refused to sign the
papers Of the Madison FIremen's Relief
Association. and as a consequence they
will not receive this yea their share OF
the two Ger cen~tinsurance fund disbursed
by the State among such associations.
The Madison association has paid a bill
of $3.50 for the privilege of holding their
meetings in the rear OF a drug store for
seven years, and have loaned 81, 600 OF
their relief money to a local fire company
for twenty years at one per cent n year.
The State officers objected to this method
of doing business.
The Post Olice authorities at Eliza
beth ale in a quandary over the refusal OF
the OF the City steam Laundry
which has been selected as a site for a
post Office, to remove his stock so hat the
place can be toru down and a new post
Office building be erected. Th Post
master General accepted the proposition
OF w. p. Thomas 10 build a suitable
home for the postal business. and the lat
ter was ordered to go ahead as quickly as
possible. When Mr.. Thopas asked ID. L.
Howard the laundry proprietor. TO
vacate the premises, he re-
fused to do so, saying that he should
have had three months notice in writing.
He has engaged q lawyer and proposes to
fight it out. aud it ooks now as Ii Eliza
beth would not get q new Post Ofite this
year.
Peter Sweeney, a well known character
of Miliburn. carried a fifty pound dumb
hell In each baud, on Thursday, for a
quarter OF a mile without resting, on a
wager of ten dollars.