The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-17
STATE NOTES.

The ore that is being mined on the
John Auble farm, near Peapack, shows
from sixty to seventy-fve per cent of iron.
1t is O rich ind.
Owners Of pear orchards about Bridge
tons say the sparrows are eatin the buds.
A lively competition has reduced the
price of peanuts in Salem TO two quarts
for five cents.
The strike Of the carpenters and ~joiners
of Bridgeton is virtually ended. State
Organizer 2. ]. Mcguire came to Bridge
ton last night. and with a committee Of
the local union held a conference with
the contractors, which resulted 10 nearly
all of them acceding in the mems terms.
All the carpenters except t~hirty-fiye We ut
TO work this morning. The terms secured
by the men are S2L25 per day of nine hours
except In December and January.
Camden. the Gretna Green of New Jer-
sey, comes to the front again the past
month with a record OF 400 marriages
Seventy-five per cent. of this large num-
Der were from Pennsylvania, who desired
marriage license act.
Burn Dickinson of Chatham a few days
ago, while making some repairs in his
house. came across an old ~iron-bound
chest. about one foot square. firmly en-
bedded In the masonry OF the wall. The
.old-fashioned padibek. On opening it
Mr.. Dickinson found a small box In which
was a roll of paper yellow with age. 1t
was an old land grant, written on parch-
ment, and signed by William Penn. The
grant consisted Of forty acres of Philadel-
phia property made to M Dickinson. an
ancestor of the finder. In the same box
there were also tou nd q quantity OF wam-
pun Qndian money and a beautifully
carved Indian pipe.
Five boys were arrested at Elizabeth
Wednesday night for selling quantities
nf nnefQI 0ardG that fbau had 4Onn1 in the
ruins of the post Office fire for five cents a
package OF twenty-five. They unearthed
thousands of cards not damaged. The
stationer who purchased the cards will
also be arrested.
The Arnold House, at Point Pleasant,
has been rented by the Episcopal Sisters
of Philadelphia, who will take children
there for a vacation this summer The
Sisters have the privilege of purchasing
the property at a fixed price.
tuberculosis has spread so extensively
among the cows throughout the State
that Newark veterinarians are urging the
State authorities to fight the disease. On
Tuesday Two cows suffering from the
malady were slaughtered in the pound in
Newark in the presence of Governor Alb
bett, James smith, Jr.,. Congressman
Thomas Dunn En- glish and other promi-
nent officials. At Summit seven COWS
out of a herd of forty-three were diseased,
their milk being sold and some animals
slaughtered by butchers. The lungs of
the dissected cows were found to be al
most entirely consumed or thick with
tubercles.
The Coast Democrat says:-Conductor
Hatfield was handed two very old tickets
by a gentleman on "Wednesday morning,
who was on his way 20 Ocean Grove
They had been punched, and the charac-
ter OF tue punch attracted Mr.. Hatfeld's
attention On seeing the conductor ex-
aiming the tickets SO closely he became
suspicious that they might not be good.
and began 10 explain how they came to
be punched, He was ON the traiu of
which Conductor Hatfield had charge,
and which ran into the open draw at
Oceanport in 1877. The tickets showed
tine effects of having been in water. They
had just been punched after leaving Red
BANK, where the gentleman got on the
train, and running into the river prevent
ed the taking up OF tickets. 1t YVES singu-
lar that after preserving these tickets Tor
nearly fourteen years the gentleman
should get on the train and present them
TO the same conductor who had charge of
the train that met with tine accident. The
conductor and gentleman, Of course, had
a long talk over the accident