The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-06-02
STATE NOTES.

Ex.Asscmblyman Henry COMBS, far
mer, of Salem county. thinks it wrong TO
kill the birds of the farm. and instead of
erecting scarecrows he throws out plenty
of loose corn about his newly planted
cornfields, He says 1t works well.
In the lawn tennis tournament at Eliza
beth on Saturday. two Elizabeth players,
Witherspoou and Green, who were on
testing with Frederick and Duke Smith
of Philadelphia, in the final in doubles,
resorted TO dilatory tactics in order TO Sc
cure a -postponement. The Philadel-
phians demonstrated, n receiving no
satisfaction, quit the contest and re-
linquished the prize. The conduct of the
home players was severely condemned,
one of the judges remarking that it would
effectually debar them from many meet
ings governed by the National Lawn
Tennis Association rules.
Hiram Lively and Godfrey Simmer
were terribly gored by a vicious bull Fri
day afternoon at Millvtlle. They at
tempted to drive the bull out of a field,
when he attacked Simmer, knocked hi M
down, trampled upon him and gored hi m
viciously. Lively attempted to get Slim :
mer away from the bull, whereupon the
Infatuated beast turned upon him and
gored him badly in the leg and back.
SINNERS condition is precarious.
The Bergen county Reporter, published
at Boiling Springs, has suspended publi-
cation. English and German editions
were printed.
The ghost of Theodore Fisher, a hump
backed fisherman, is making life a burden
to the colored hostlers at the Gloucester
race track.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Harker cele-
brated their golden wedding on Friday at
their residence in Mount Holly. Both are
seventg-one years of age and have thirteen
children, thirty-hve grand children and
three great grand children.
Howard MacSherry of New Brunswick
has been secured as orator for the Fourt h
of July celebration In Hackettstown.
The seventy-second birthday of Walt
Whitman was celebrated at his home in
Camden on Sunday evening. About
forty friends sat down TO a dinner with
him. He was in good health and spirits,
and entertained his guests with selections
from his own works and on
literary affairs. Letters We're read from
Lord Tennyson. Richard Watson Glider,
Eimund G.. Stedman and Others.
Rev. J. NJ. Nardiello. a Catholic priest
at Bloomfield, in d card published In the
newspapers and by advice from the altar,
advises smokers of cigarettes TO destroy
the pictures found in the packages, in
order thai they may not fall into the
hands OF children. especially boys. Some
of them are so immoral that no chaste
eyes can look upon them without horror"
Mary Thomas, an eccentric old woman
who lived alone in the third story OF an
East Union street house at Burlington,
died saturday under peculiar circum-
stances The %neighbors had not seen her
for a week. and believing her in trouble,
burst open the door. She vas found on
the floor, her read on O starch box. dying.
Around her furniture was piled to the
ceiling She died of blood pois oning.
Years ago Mary Thomas was one of the
brightest and Drettiest girls in the town,
and among her admirers were men who
now hold high positions. For some
reason she preferred to remain single,
gradually becoming a monomaniac on the
subject of se~lf-seclusion, and. though
possessed of money, lived a life OF loneli-
ness and squalor.