The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-03
NEWS In NOTES.
STATE NOTES.


CedarviIle has a branch of the Far
mers' Alliance, with tw~enty-four mem
bers.
Atlantic City now has three wards,
the Second having been divided by
the City Council on Monday night.
The city of Plainfield has received a
New Years gift of 5000, which Coun-
Gilman johnson found slowed away
in an old desk of ex-City Treasurer
jeremiah Van Wrinkle. The money
was raised years ago by a special tax
to help pay for the construction of a
on New street. Because OF a
dispute as TO the legality OF the assess
ment the sun was not used and was
afterward lost sight Of.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Com
many is letting no grass grow under its
feet in Elizabeth since the signing of
the contract by the Mayor for the abo-
lition of grade crossings. The COM
pany for a long time has desired to
Law its fourth track through this city,
but was blocked by the refusal of the
CITY Council to close part of Railroad
avenue. The contract for the abo-
Iition of grade crossings had, how
ever. a clause which provides for the
closing OF the disputed venue This
was what the railroad company
wanted, and Thursday morning about
two hundred men were put at work
LAYING the fourth track through the
coveted thoroughfare
Burlington county was formed in
1851. 1t gave birth almost immedi-
ately to Gloucester, and in 1710 to
Hunterdon county. All the territory
covered by Mercer, Morris, Sussex,
Warren, ATLANTIC and Camden be-
longing at the time of its incorpora'
ton to Burlington. OF the counties
into which Burlington was split, Hun
terdon, named in honor of Governor
Robert Hunter, was set off in 17l0; and
in 173S 1t gave up part of its territory
to make Morris. Morris in turn di-
vided its land with the county of Sus-
sex in 1858, and Sussex grew into two
counties, when, in 1924, the county of
Warren la created.
The Rev. John J.. Lands, late a
tor of the Cold Spring Presbyterian
Church, yesterday purchased the
Cape May WaCe of Mayor Edmunds,
and will take charge next Monday.
The price paid was IS, 900.
A large brass tablet, appropriately
inscribed, as a memorial Of John w.
Wright, who was for years manager
of the vast Cooper estate, has arrived
at Cooper Hospital, Camden. 1t is to
be placed upon the wall in the man
ayers room.
Vital statistics of Camden show
figures that will allay considerable
dread of d~iphtheria- The returns OF
physicians to the Board of Health
show that of 256 cases of that disease
but 90 proved fatal. The proportion
of the deaths in cases of typhoid
fever is shown to be greater, 80 out of
191 cases proving fatal. In scarlet
fever there were but 8 deaths in 17s
cases.
Somewhere between 500, 900 and
$3.50, 900 has already been spent by the
Avalon people and the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company in vain efforts to
keep a bridge across Townsend Inlet. |
1t would seem that the wisest course
for them now to pursue would be to
abandon the old route and build a
branch from the Court House to the
middle of Seven Mile Beach.
Mrs. President Harrison has sent to
the children of Captain James Ell
bridge, of Cape May Point Life Saw
ing Station, a magic lantern and set
OF VIEWS II captain cHlluren, |
Masters Samuel and Bolton, took
care of Mrs. Harrison's COW last sum-
mer.
A clay is being taken from a bed at
the mouth of the Pattenburge tunpel,
which is used in the manufacture OF
paper.
DIR. Peter Il. Austin, professor of
chemistry in Rutgers College, has re-
signed peremptorily from the college.
He will accept a more advantageous
offer in a New York business house.
Fashionable girls at Cape May ar.
ranged a charming dance at the Eb-
bitt, to which they escorted the gen
tIemen. The girls paid all the bills
from their pin-money.