The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-16
STATE NOTES.

An Anglesea fisherman caught 1,100
pounds of Goldfish in two hours.
In anticipation of having free postal de-
livery Cape May people will number their
houses.
For whipping his mother. Hugh McCor-
mick, Of Atlantic City, will serve a mouth
i'll the county jail.
Clinton, at a special election. voted %
10 II in favor OF purchasing an engine aud
other fire apparatus.
The Rio Grand sugar plantation is now
devoted to other crops, and this year pro-
duced 5000 bushels Of corn.
A goose sold ut Lower Allowav Creek,
Salem county. last week, was twenty
three years and seven months old.
The Bayslde meadows, Cape May
county, support u number of families
who make their living by trapping musk
rats.
Ocean Groves twenty second anuiver-
sary will be celebrated December % by u
social reception at Association Hall from
7.30 TO 10 O'clock.
Asa Kinney of Belvidere cast his first
vote in 1910. and has voted at every one
of the titLy-one annua elections since.
He is a Democrat.
As Christopher Mack Of Vr~edenburgh,
Monmouth county, was firing u gun the
other day, the weapon exploded and blew
off one of his hands.
The Somerset County Board of Can
YHSSEIS udNO HldoC u LCAuGSt Uldb Liz
official envelopes at the mex election be
OF a different color from the white ballot.
Albert III. Godfrey, who tried TO wreck
O train on the New Seashore Railroad,
near Tuckahoe, wanted to be revenged
upon the company because they had
moved his mothers house.
Samuel w. Wiley, a conscientious Cape
May member OF a rich quick order, after
having drawn out 5000 for which he paid
bnt $40, has returned to the supreme
officers the $50 overpaid.
One day recently while Lille Lavine,
aged nine, was on her way to school at
keyport, she was struck III the left eye by
a stone thrown from Il sling shot by a boy.
She will lose the sight of her eye.
Rev. w. Hollingshead, pastor OF the
Mount Freedom Presbyterian Church. has
notified his congregation that he has ac-
cepted the call from the Sparta Presby-
terrain Church and Will commence mis-
labors on Sunday, January g.
Frank Gibbs, of Augusta, Sussex
county, recently set u trap for u mink and
a few days later. on making a tour of in
spection, found a large hawk caught by
IDENTITY been attacked by crows while in
This unhappy bondage, which he. had
pyerpowered as four dead crows Were
found near him.
The Sussex county Herald says:-'.Mrs.
Catharine Arnse, aged IS years. who
IGSlAtS a. hCt W = go oNA 1lf
In Hampton township, about four miles
from Newton, is the ancestor f4 children.
IL grandchildren, 80 Observation-Disclosures,
aud Z great Observation-Disclosures, or u
total of &c. In addition to this number,
Is descendants have died. Mrs. Arnse
is still quite smart n active. -Four
generations now live in the same house
with this remarkable old lady.
Captain Thomas Townsend. of South
Seaville, Cape May county, a retired sea
captain, is the originator of a new idea in
sea front protection. 1t consists of iron
tubss laid ont in the ocean at frequent in
tervals along exposed portions of the
coast. In times of heavy northeast tides
Ihese tubes are kept filed with oil, which
s discharged upon the water and pre-
rents the ceaseless breaking of huge
waves along the beach.
which causes such immense damage.
Several experiments have been made, and
ire said to rave been successful. Captain
Townsend says that crude petroleum oil
;an be used. aud he believes that the plan