The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-17
STATE NOTES.

Lakewood is to have telephone connec-
ton with Camden.
Elizabeth's tax rate this year will be
50 9S. The assessed valuation is sl4.5OO,-
600, against $14, 062, 200 last year.
The Elizabeth Board of Education have
refused, by a vote of s to 8, to restore
manual training in the public schools OF
the city.
Tramps employed as berry pickers by
the farmers in the vicinity Of Burlington
have been d~efrauding their employers of
many dollars by counterfeiting the tin
checks which are given them for each
quart of berries picked. The checks are
casheG on pay day.
The Camden County Board of Assessors
placed the assessed value OF real estate
and personal property in the county sub
ject to taxation at $50. 429. 1862, an increase
of 81 $4,000 over last years valuation.
The State tax was fixed at thirty cents
per 800, and the county tax at thirty
seven cents.
A fire consumed a quantity of grass on
the place of Urias Hoagland, In Hills
borough township, Somerset county, one
night recently. Mr.. Hoagland was
Obliged to get out his team and pillow
around the field. Last Tuesday a loco
motive spark set fle to ]. III. Lords
field Of wheat, cut and in shocks. and a
number of acres were soon burned over.
The Long Branch postofice is open on
Sundays during the season.
1t cost Cumberland county nearly
$1,000 10 publish the County Collectors
statement.
Henry PoIhemus. S~cobeyville. Mon
mouth county, gathered twenty-three
loads of hay from seven acres.
A malignant type OF diphtheria has APP
peared at Pemberton, and one death has
already occurred.
Bridgeton is going to shut out the mer-
ry-go-round5 aud "razzle-dazzles" by
making them pay a tax of SO per day.
Robert Craig Of Bridgeton mas had thir-
teen chickens killed by dogs. and under
an old law the city must pay for them.
Harry Sproul of Keyport, while fishing
in the bay one day last week, hooked up
a silver watch with a gold chain at
tached.
The Hunterdon county Board of Free
holders has appropriated 600 to purchase
books for a library in the Court House
]. b. Hill, of Bennington junction.
planted twenty-four quarts OF seed peas
last spring. He picked and sold from his
patch ninety-four bushels of peas, nearly
four bushels for each quart of seed
planted.
4 Wesley Lake boat boy named Town
send carried passengers for a sum below
the regulation price. For this cut on the
established rates he was taken in charge
by two other o boys named Dill and
McNabb, and by them thrown into the
lake and given a ducking. They were
arrested. and a local justice imposed q
fine of $40. 80 upon them.
Margaret Harnett OF Paterson was ar
rested on Wednesday for disorderly con
duct. The complaint alleged tnat Mar
garet was drunk and called a ~neighbor
hard names. To give interest TO this item
it should be stated that Mrs. Harnetr Is
eighty-six years old.
DR.. Louis Bevier Of Rutgers College,
has sent a circular to each of the 1,600 liv-
ing. alumni of Rutgers College asking for
nAre.fha ions In Nnn1nlpfQ the aInlQflP
grounds of the college. The grounds
were recently presented by City Treasurer
Nelson, and a. 1874 has been spent in put
ting them in hrst-class condition About
5000 is needed for the erection OF a JAM
tors house and stands.
John Pohlinsen. n well to do farmer of
Union Township, Union county. has been
made insane By an attack OF the grip and
will today be removed ID the Morris
Plains Insane Asylum.
The Court House at Elizabeth is TO be
entirely renovated before next fall.
1t has just been discovered BIZ Il Pater-
son lawyer that about forty years ago
another Paterson lawyer misdescribed a
tract Of land sold by the Sheriff, located
in I'M of the principal streets, and that
because of the error the title to a tract on
the opposite side of the street has been
clouded al these years.
The Lower Creek correspondents of the
Salem Sunbeam says:-"Mrs. Albert
Nicholson Is the owner of the most pro-
life turkey hen upon record. The hen
commenced to lay N the twentieth of
last March u has not failed to produce
an egg every day since. At this writing
the hen has produced a hundred and ten
eggs in all. The eggs are not of the usual
color but are perfectly white. Four
weeks ago fourteen of the fresh laid eggs
were placed under a setting hen, and
twelve produced turkeys. a most remark
able feature and one that oil who are ac-
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Turkey eggs will understand"
Residents OF the Eighth Ward of New
ark have for several days been in an ex-
rited state Of mind over the proposed
destruction Of a beautiful elm that was
pnce the pride Of General Phil kearuy's