The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-24
STATE. NOTES.

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vance Of 81 each In the price Of empty
whiskey barrels recently.
Samuel s.. Ware, well known through
out Cumberland county as a berry
grower, who had q tremendous crop this
season, bids fair TO have a second crop OF
remarkable proportions. On Tuesday he
picked several quarts OF choice berries
and unless frost comes too soon will have
lathe village OF Milestone is in a social
war, On September IL f%orty-one young
men, sons OF tradesmen, organized q
branch council of the Junior Order Of
American Mechanics. On the following
day q pamphlet was circulated restricting
the foreign born from membership, a
principle Of the order. This rouSed the
many aliens employed ut the Somerset
distillery, and an indignant meeting " a.
held on Wednesday, at which resolutions
were passed condeniping the new order,
and a protection league, having for its
object the boycottiag Of the tradesmen
whose sons are members OF the order was
established. The boycotting has begun
in earnest, and retallatory mea have
been adopted by the Order of Mechanics.
The families OF the village have taken
sides.
President L. L. Polk of the National
Farmers Alliance has issued an official
announcement to the effect that q sufh
cient number of county alliances has been
formed in the State of New Jersey ia
WARRANT the formation of a State Alliance.
He therefore calls u meeting for the pur-
pose of forming that organization, at
New Brunswick. on the morning OF No
Policeman Miller of Salem is seventy
years Of age, u has been thirty-four
years on the force.
Ocean county cranberry growers ex-
pect to harvest $4,000 bushels of cram
berries this fall.
Ardena is the name of the new post.
ofice at Fairfield, Monmouth county,
with John I. Ried Us postmaster.
1t cost Postmaster Williams, of Long
Branch, $3.50 to settle for eight OF the
eighteen registered letters recently stolen
from his Off o.
An orange tree In the yard of a resi-
dence near Freehold has ripened q num-
Der Of oranges this summer. AS fast as
they grew to maturity they were stolen.
Harry Hart, while stroiling along the
beach at Asbury Park last Wednesday
afternoon, found three live sea horses,
each Of which was about three inches
loHg.
Asbury Parks present postmaster's
term will expire In two months, and
among the candidates for the place are
Messrs. E. G. Harrison, John L. Coffiu
aud George w. Treat.
The Rev. William ". Wilson of Port
xuVu0AOnbl Ia 0@GA RO1ttlaStck ~ tudt
place for thirty-one years. aud pastor OF
tue Baptist Church Of New Monmouth
for thirty-eight years,
II publisher OF the Asbury Park daily
EVening Nelcs was unaDle to get out
thursdays issue because IVA of his COM
positors, who belong to che Third Regi-
ment, went to Keyport with their com.
psnv to parade.
A three-months-old child Of Mrs.
Archer Durham OF Salem swallowed an
open safetypiH one day last week.. Nc
serious results followed, and the parents
knew nothing OF the accident until the
pin WAS recovered.
The sensation Of the hour in Mount
Holly Is u sermon delivered by the Rev.
). II. Boswell at the M. e. church, en-.
utlsd, "The Unjust Judge" In which be
showed mp the moral ~deltnquencies OF
fhe Lay Judges of the Burlington County
9 ,urt In a way that surprised his hearers.
CITY NOTES.
The Rev George f.. Hebbard, formerly