The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-07
STATE NOTES.

The Monmouth Democrats has ISIS ued a
vetacreditable almanac. which is replete
with information and shows the enter
prise OF that excellent Democratic paper.
Tn Board of Long Branch Commits
s~ioners, at their meeting on Monday, d.
rected City Solicitor II. s. Ternune TO
lake the necessary steps for widening
Ocean avenue. This is absolutely neces-
sary in order TO place the famous avenue
in condition to drive upon next summer.
The Solicitor will at once proceed to ap-
propriate the property of certain residents
along the drive where 1t Is needed. The
widening Of the drive viii change the
line to a noticeable extent, but will In no
wise mar its beauty or aLtractiveness.
The New Jersey Life Saving Service
rescued during the past year nearly three
thousand five hundred lives, and saved
property valued at S5.5OO.0O at q cost OF
only 81 ,000. 900.
The st~eering.gear OF a bob sled on
which g load of coasters were going down
a steep hill at Dover broke on Tuesday
evening when half RAJ down. The sled
became -unmanageable and ran into a
ditch filed with tones. The children
were thrown with great force toto the
stones. Miss Fannie Bennett received
injuries which it Is feared may prove
fatal, and her sister, Daisy. and two
brothers, Robert and Alex, were severely
bruised. Three others received trihing
bruises.
The Long Branch Times says that Will
liam Showles, the famous bareback horse
rider, has had built a large training barn
on Morris avenue. The building is octa-
gon in shape and Is 90 feet in diameter
and 50 feet high in the centre. The cost
of the structure was 81, 800. joseph Rob
bins was the builder.
The Porgie Cnum Fish Company has
been organized at Keyport to furnish
bait to fishermen. The capital stock is
$50, 600.
On Thursday a Lafayette man shot the
deer which has been running through
Vantage, Hardyston n other townships
in Sussex county. IL weighed seventy
five pounds.
John Morgan, arrested at Woodbury. for
drunkenness, has been sent 10 the Cooper
Hospital, Camden, for treatment for n.y.
drophobia. because he frothed at the
mouth and bit at the jailer.
The new Cold Spring Life Saving Sta
ton is complete. IL has cost the govern
rnmen about sl2. 000, and Is one of the
handsomest structures of the kind on the
New Jersey coast.
The New Jersey Trust and Safe Deposit
Company, Of Camden, Is presenting small
depositors with miniature nickel plated
banks, which can only be opened at tho
institutions, TO help them increase their
accounts.
Oliver Dunster, eighty years old, of Ber-
nardsville. was married To Mrs. Mary C..
Leek. fifty years old, on Saturday, at Nor
ristown.
Alfred Simkins. who lives near Woods
town, paid the $500 rent or a 150-acre farm
last year out Of the profits OF an eight-acre
potato field.
The wagon house and potato house on
the farm of Amos West, aud occupied By
o. X. Hurley, at Lower Penns Neck. was
destroyed by fire on Wednesday after
noon about four O'Clock. with all its con-
tents, consisting of 200 bushels of corn,
go barrels Of sweet potatoes, 100 bushels
OF wheat, farming utensils, a lot of pork,
all the canned fruit of Mrs. Hurley. a
trunk Of cioLhinG belonging to the hired
man, and other articles. Most of the
pork was saved. The fire originated from
a stove used to neat the part IL which
the sweet potatoes were stored. The loss
is estimated at about 5000 on building
and contents, with no insurance.
On January 4. Rev. Joseph Weber, of
Preston, o., began in Bridgeton central
Methodist Episcopal Cnurcn. which had
just been dedicated, a series or e~vangelis-
Tic services. At every service the large
ediice, seating LOCO persons. has been
crowded, and the scenes have been affect
lug. Six hundred and thirty persons
have professed conversion. 202 have
Joined Central Church aud many more
are waiting to do so, while other churches
have also received additions TO their
membership rs a result Of these meetings.
Mr.. Weber, VINO is popularity known as
s'the Tornado Evangelist came TO
Bridgeton almost unknown. On Thurs
day, when he took his departure, nearly
two thousand people We're at tine depot to
see him oil.
Mrs. Lama easier. of Salem, was Sc
yerely burned on Thursday last by an
explosion of powder. She was cleaning
a cupboard and threw some papers in 4
stove. A small package of gunpowder
was in the lot. and 1t exploded, burning