The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-02
STATE NOTES.

Over 500 persons have professed CONVEX
sion in revival services in Central M. e
church, Bridgeton. In the past four weeks.
More, Jonas & More. glass manufac-
turers, Of Bridgeton, have purchased a
ten acre glass san tract near Newport,
and Will put in operation a sand wash at
once.
John L. CONN, Of Asbury Park, has
published n card announcing himself as a
candidate for the postmastership OF that
place. Mr.. Coffin was until recently the
editor Of the Asbury Park journal.
A swindler has been taking in the
housekeepers at Elizabeth, by selling
them a Don Of cheap laundry soap for a
dollar. and promising a rubber DOR mat
with the purchasers name stamped
thereon. The soap is delivered, the
money collected, but the door mats were
not delivered.
AT Camden. on Friday. David Carpen-
ter and Henry Jordan, two colored resi-.
dents of East Camden. were convicted OF
chicken stealing L sent TO State Prison
for three years each. These are the first
sentences under the law passed last win
ter making poultry stealing a felony.
Edison, In speaking to the employees at
the Ogden Iron Mines, at Dover, a few
laws ago, said:-"Boys, wait until next
winter and we shall have no snow 10
bother us upon this hill. During the
coming year 1 shall invent electric and
6uUllknl ItllcCiOl5 duab Il AlCAb hlC 5uOW
as fast as it falls"
A Conference Committee of six Repub-
lican and six Democratic members of the
Newark Common Council last week
agreed upon a plan 10 break the dead
lock and organize the Council. When It
met Friday evening. eight OF the Demo-
Gratis refused to ratify the action OF the
committee, and consequently Council Is
not yet organized.
Winfield 5. Price, of Oceanport. Mon
mouth county, while at Virginia Beach
last aummer,. rescued two ladies from
drowning. He refused to accept q check
sent to him, returning IL with the state
ment that he had only done his duty.
Last week he received by express a hand
some Remington breech-ioading gun
from the ladies.
A carriage in which were James H.
Murphy and hts daughter, of Fleming
ton, was carried away by h rushing
water while crossing the Neshanic
creek one day last week. The carriage
and horse finally lodged against a fence,
when the occupants were enabled to
escape the flood. The horse was also
rescued after much difficulty and brought
TO land.
With a neatly painted wagon. plainly
lettered TO indicate its mission. a collector
for the New Brunswick Retail Grocers'
Association will hereafter call on all old
debtors who owe members of the asso-
citation. If they don't pay at first he is
hired 70 call daily until they do. The
Of the ''old debt wagon in
front OF their houses regularly is ex-
pected to bring out the cash.
The Rev. james ~Caughey, a retired
member OF the Methodist Church and
the author OF several valuable religious
works, died at his residence at Highland
Park. Middlesex county, on Friday, aged
about s~eventy-eight years. He was born
and entered the ministry In Ireland. He
was for many years a successful revival
list, doing work all over the United King
dom, Canada and the United States. He
was for fifty-seyen years a member of the
New Jersey Conference
Eiam Stockweil has purchased the
Brown tract of 1900 acres of land in the
eastern part OF Hammonton. and will
divide it up into small farms and put 1t
a., rho nnarkaf