The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-02
NEWS In NOTES..
STATE NOTES.

The Hopatcong Ice and Transpor-
tation Company, sof Newark, who
have secured a lease for the absolute
control of the ice in that lake, have
begun suit against the United Ice
Line Company, composed principally
of the New Jersey Central Railroad,
to force the latter 10 pay ten per cent
royalty on the ice that Is now being
cut. 1t is said that 500, 900 is involved
in the suit.
Postmaster Hewitt began business
in the new ~postofIice at Bridgeton
Monday.
The Boston Cordage Company. capi-
tailed at a million and a half, was in
corporated in Camden Monday.
The Morris county Board of Agri-
culture has adopted resolutions re-
questing the Legislature to publish
the laws in pamphlet form, and at
tached to each law a statement show
ing how every Senator and Assembly
man voted; the laws to be published
by the lowest bidder and furnished at
cost to every applicant who is a tax
payer, also furnished ut the States
expense to all civil officers; if pub
lished in the newspapers, the
votes are also TO be pub
lished. The Board also advocated
the adjustment of lay judges. and
protested against the perversion OF
the riparian fund from the school
fund: demand that the law authoriZ-
ing annual military encampments be
repealed: also the repeal of the act in
creasing the Governors salary and
the salaries of other State officials;
also preventing the issue OF official
brllots under the Werts law except at
the voting place when the voter
enters the enclosure where the cleo
ton board is sitting, and the passage
of o law emitting no person to vote
unless he has paid his poll tax.
Dennis Enright, of Asbury Park,
has brought suit against his brother,
Thomas Enright, for $40, 900 dam
ages. Thomas published q card in a
local paper to the effect that he would
not be responsible for any debts con-
tracted by his brother, and it is ON
this ground that the suit brought.
A Keyport fisherman caught 5000
crabs at Sandy Hook one day last
week. He sold them in New York for
$3.50 per hundred.
Charles G.. L. Hennig, of Paterson,
has invented an airship, of simple but
novel construction, which he believes
will solve the problem of aerial navi-
cation.
w. W. Case, of Baptisttown, Hun
terdon county, has a honey crop of
over LOCO pounds.
The New Hunterdon County Agri-
cultural Society is settling with its
creditors by paying 80 cents on the
dollar.
The State Gazette celebrates thenew
year by coming out In new dress.
The paper is OF superior quality and
the type is legible and handsome.
Altogether the appearance of the Ga
zette is improved 100 per cent.
The Asbury Park Borough Com
missioners have appointed a commit
tee to confer with the officers Of the
local electric light company, with a
view of buying the plant. At present
the borough is paying over $4,000 per
veal for forty lights, which only burn
until midnight. By owning their
own plant the commissioners think
they can give the town and citizens
better service, and at less expense
than at present.
At q banana-eating contest in Sun
nyS1Qe, hunteruOn county, a lew uayS
ago, one OF the contestants ate twenty
six, while the other stopped before
finishing his twenty-fifth. The loser
paid for all the bananas.
In referring to n of his brother
aldermen, q member of the Paterson
Board at a recent meeting said he was
a "hann and no good for his country,
and that his existence was a detriment
to the community.
Ex-Assemblyman Williams. Naugh-
right, of Morris county, is "a candidate
for the position OF Engrossing Clerk
of the next Assembly.
a Board of Trade has been incor-
porated for Passaic City.
j. Morrison has been appointed
Postmaster at Chesilhurst, Camden
county.
John Candy has been appointed
Postmaster at Glassboru, Gloucester
county.
James Mcconnell, of Orange. has
lost four children in a month from
diphtheria.