The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-08-21
STATE NOTES.

Long Branch Will not have free letter
delivery this year.
A movement is on foot in Passaic to es-
taAlish II publ c hospital
A lodge of colOred Odd Fellows has been
oTaanized ut Lanlbertville.
John Kelley was fined SO for disturb
lug a minstrel snow at Red B1nk.
The Rev. Charles Il Hill of Red Bank
has married 2,460 couples during his min
islry.
The growing tobacco on the Red Gate
farm. in Sussex county, is more thrifty
than the crop grown last year.
Mrs. Mary J.. Roberts. Of keyport, has
come into the possession of $780, 900 by the
death of a brother IN California;.
A party of eight gunners killed one
hundred doves on the farm OF u. +. Con-
over, near West Freehold. one afternoon
last week.
Fee Gee is the name of Mullica town.
ships representative on the petit jury for
the September term of the Atlantic
county courts.
There is a peach tree on Jones' Island.
Cumberland county ,-that has been bear
ing fruit for the past seventy years. The
fruit this yea is excellent.
A turtle found a few days Q at Little
York. Hunterdon county. was marked
with the initials of Jacob Bum, who had
cut them on the shell in 1884.
The Presbyterian congregation of
AltAA q AA8o ia a
call to Rev. Edward p. Gardiner, of APP
p!eton, Wis, who has accepted.
Lafayette Schanck, of Atlantic town
ship, Monmouth county, expects TO gather
5000 barrels of apples this fall. He has
already sold 500 barrels at an average of
So per barrel.
Walter Holmes, aged seventeen, died at
the residence of his parents In Matawan a
few days ago. He was addicted TO the
cigarette habit, and this was the cause
Of his illness which resulted in his death.
A resident OF Lower Creek, Salem
county, mas a hen that has been setting
nearly three weeks q every day she
leaves her clutch Of eggs and repairs to
mother nest some distance away, lays an
egg and then returns to her setting busi-
ness again
Alfred Reed of Holyoke. Mass, has ac-
copied a call 10 become assistant secre-
tary aud physical director of the Cande
Young Mems Christian Association. He
will assume charge on September l.
An Alloway man who had a milk can
completely ground mp by the cars made a
claim on the railroad company for its
value. "Isn't there some part of it left
that can be used again?" Eyes" said
the claimant; "there are the two handles;
they are not a bit hurt aud you can build
a new can to them"
Major John Leonard and his wife,
Bridget, formerly warden and matron of
the Essex Luuatfc Asylum, are charged
with withholding S39e. "A belonging to
Jane Grier. Tn LeoDards were turned
ont of Office over five years ago, after con-
siderable trouble and investigation. Mrs.
Leonard drew the money from Mrs
Grier's bank on November p, 1888, unde +
pretense of paying a debt for Mrs. Grier /,
and banded the proceeds to her husband.
Leonard admits holding the money. and
says he Will pay it over as soon as he can.
About a year ago the Merchants Bank
of Atlantic City, which had branches in
Elmer, Pl~easantville and Egg Harbor
City, failed for neHrly sl00. 900. At that
time the cashier, o. Il. Dunkle, was ac-
cused of wrecking the bank by embez-
zling its funds, but he escaped and was
found at a small village in Alabama,
where he was cashier Of a bank. Owing
TO legal distractions he has never been
arrested. On Sunday night, after months
of legal proceedings. extradition papers
srrived at MAYS Landing for his arrest,
aud the Sheriff has started to arrest him
When he was cashier er the Merchants