The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-24

repaved or reconstructed. II Is M ade of
broken rock with tae crevices Ill led n
with crushed PARTICLES OF the stns N
Re ria aud thoroughly rolled. 1t 10 form
ing int "A hard rock bed. with jast n
suggestion of mud forming from the
lust on top after rain. Wheel this IS dry
1t Is blown of By the breezes.
Thirteen-year-old Henry Anderson OF
N 0. 10 Van Horn street. was arraigned In
J Justice Kimmerly's court this morning
c harged with assault and battery upon
Amanda Kearney. Amanda Informed
the Court that the boy called her a
"siob" and hit her with a stone, She re
scented the insult Dy causing his arrest.
He is held. Amanda is about thifty-five.
Michael Manning. a bricklaysr OF No.
IS Westervelt ST. Get, was arraiGned In
Justice Kim merly's court this morning
{ o answer a en- urge of assault and battery
upon Catherine Norton. Catherine
failed to appear against the pris oner and
he was discharged.
Lafayette.
Mr.. David Edwards is at Keyport, study
ing under a private tutor. When he re-
turns, he will enter college.
A crowd of youngsters, whose ages run
from nine to fifteen, congregate at the
corner of Ash street and Pacific avenue
every evening. They are not a rough
crowd, bat they manage to make life a
burden to the groceryman on the corner.
The pleasant weather last evening at
tracted a number Of young people TO the
shore ut the foot of C~ommunipaw avenue.
which - becoming a summer resort.
w. H. Schoppe of No. 10 Engine Is
spending his vacation at Point Pleasant.
The Leonard J. Kaiser Association will
meet in Lafayette House next Monday
evening.
More crabs have been caught in New
York Bay than for five years. Every day
boys can be seen coming up Com NUM-
paw venue with fifty or a ndre crabs
in their baskets.
A good sweeping would do many of the
streets in Lafayette a deal Of good. Com
muntpaw avenue needs 1t badly.
Lawn tennis seems to have lost its hold
on Lafayette. Nearly all the clubs have
either disbanded or given up work for
the summer
Edwards Bros, the contractors of Com
munipaw avenue. have over two hundred
and fifty men employed on work for the
Lehigh Valley and New Jersey Central
Railroads..
1t is said that a Democratic Club will
be started in this vicinity In about a
month.
1t is almost impossible to keep Pacific
avenue clean. Tn carts from the Zinc
Works are continually dropping coal
| along it, and the people get discouraged
aud maze no attempts at sweeping.
Greenviile.
A force of men commenced yesterday to
Law the new water pipe on Gator avenue.
Miss NJ. Kroger Of New York city Is at
the residence OF Mr.. Charles Woeckner,
on Danforth avenue, for the summer.
Yesterday afternoon a boy named
Joseph Gibbeny struck the daughter OF
Mr.. James Decker, of Pamrapo avenue,
a blow on the head with a piece of iron,
inficting a slight scalp wound. The boy
was arrested.
The residents OF Columbia place are
complaining mat the dogs Kill their
chickens. Last night ten were killed in
one yard.
Mr.. Rinehart. principal of Public School
No. q, Will leave shortly for the Della
ware Water Gap.
The GreenviiIe wheelmen held their
first meeting in their new rooms at the
Minkakwa Club last night. Refresh
ments were served, aud a snort entertain
ment was given. The club will meet
every Thursday evening hereafter.
A drunken woman stopped at the cor
ner of Gator and Ocean yesterday
and attempted to instruct the working
men in their duties. She became noisy
aud violent, n it took two policemen TO
gather her In.
West Bergen.
Men were at work yesterday laying
stones between the car tracks along West
Side avenue.
Lawn tepnis is becoming very popular
in this neighborhood. A fine court has
been laid out on the grounds of Mr.. L. o.
Cummings.
There are several pieces of flag stones
and curbing lying across the sidewalk OF
Mr.. Vreeland's building on West Side
avenue. Several persons have stumbled
over them in the dark, and they should
be r emoved.
A number of children are sick with the
measles.
Now tina it seems impossible to get a
Postofice branch in this vicinity, the
people are talking about a stamp agency.
The majority seem to favor George San
der's store as the proper place for it,
This is a matter that should be worked
up by the citizens. as there is no doubt
that better postal facilities are needed at
once.
The S~uhurbans Of fremont, N. Y, will
play the States Club a game of baseball
tomorrow afternoon on the Brennan
grounds.
Skillman & Newkirk have a sign on
the old schoolnouse offering 1t for sale.
The flag of Nichols Hotel is flung TO
the breeze every morning In the year,
rain or shine.
Mr.. Nicholas vreeland, OF Bergen ave
nue., is spending part OF his vacation at
/ Metuchen.
The building occupied by the West
Bergen Athletic Association is receiving
q Goa of paint.
There was an attendance of forty-six ut
the Bible Glass of the West Side NJ. K.
Church Tuesday night This Is consider
ably more thar usual.
The ladies of the West Side NJ. Il.
Church held the first mothers meeting at
the church on Tuesday evening.
Phillips & Wolfe. the builders, have a
number of new houses under way.
. BAYONNE.
Mrs. Edward Koch and Miss Katharine
Koch OF East ~Fifry-drst street are hnuing
pleasure at a popular resort among the
Catskills.
The Rev. James +. Riggs ofthe Bergen
Point Reformed Church is spending the
summer at Moriches, L. l., IN company
with Mrs Riggs.
Mrs. A. G. Hubbard of Buffalo, and
Miss Lillian Clark OF Brooklyn, are the
guests of Mr.. p. A. Clark of Avenue r..
Justice of the Peace W. I. Overlook
and his son are in Germany, and Will re-
main several weeks.
After seven days rest and recreation,
Policemen Russell and Holman have re-
ported for duty, looking bright aud
cheerful.
One. OF Bayonne's popular young men,
Robert Annett, falls heir to ten thousand
dollars on his twenty-first birthday.
The Rev. II. NJ. Lowry of Port Jeffer-
son, L. l.. will preach at the Bergen
Point Baptist Church Sunday morning
aud evening.
Mrs. William 5. Emery Of No. So East
Twenty-fourth street recently returned