The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-05
NEWS In NOTES.
STATE NOTES.


The Republicans of Nor tn Bru ns-
wick township received as a Christmas
present the announcement that the
Postmaster General had re-established
the Midtown Office in the borough.
A number OF prominent colored
clergymen and laymen of Asbury
Park have decit ed to found an edu-
cational institut on, to be known as
the Park University, and the articles
OF incorporation will be filed with the
Secretary OF State.
The annual Princeton Alumni din
ner will be held on Thursday even
ing. January Is. at the Hotel Bruins
wick. ALI who have received degrees
from Princeton, or who have been
resident students there, are invited to
be present.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany Is making an encroachment on
the properties of the Second NJ. E.
Church, OF Railway, and commission
ers have been appointed TO consider
the damages as follows:-Dr. Henry
r. Cannon and NJ. w. Reeve, Of Eliza
beth, and ID. It. Coles and Samuel
Sanders, OF Railway.
A potato thrown by another lad
struck Bertram Fisher, of Quinton,
0A hto wv bA1occcs VnG kAtoS was
knocked out and the frame was
broken and pierced his eye ball. 1t
is believed hat he will lose the sight
of the eye.
At a meeting OF the voters of West
Asbury Park, a settlement just west
OF Asbury Park containing a popula-
ton 81 more than one thousand, 1t
It was decided to boom q borough
government under the State Borough
act OF 1880. Committees were APP
pointed to decide on the boundaries.
The new borough will be called Nep-
tune.
A new charter is proposed for Cam
den city.
An application will be made to the
court soon for the incorporation of
Bound Brook under the general Dor
ough act. 1t is required that the APP
plication DC signed by one-half of the
citizens, and this has already been
done. The borough will be the same
as the present corporation limits, ex-
cept on the north side, where the line
will extend 1000 feet further.
A Board OF Trade has been organ
lied at Atlantic Highlands.
James Thompson, a shirt manufac-
turer of Manasquan, will move his
plant to Salem, the Board Of Trade
there agreeing to pay his rent for five
years.
Editor Carpenter of the Gloucester
Democrat says he is not in the race for
e~ngrossing clerk of the Senate.
Aubrey Z. Meyer of 482 Broome
street, New York city, has written u
letter to the authorities at Keyport, |
stating that he wishes to establish a
silk factory there, employing over
three hundred hands, mostly girls.
The Board of Town Commissioners
will take the matter in hand, and at
their next meeting will discuss the
subject. An attempt will be made by
Keyport's spirited citizens 20 secure
this establishment.
Last September a bull belonging to
Joseph X. Lippincott fell into an ice
house on his farm at Woodstown and
landed fifteen feet below the surface
of the ground. Not knowing how to
get the animal out. he has been
served with his regular rations aver
since in the pit. Last week he gained
his liberty after a ton of hay had been
thrown in.
Mrs. r. p. Williamson, OF Lower
Alloway Creek, has sold this year
from the product of twenty-five hens
eDO0e W. "OAtA VI POAAtt aho CESot |
from which she has cleared. after de-
Quoting expenses, about $50. Her sis
ter, Mrs. Joseph b. Williamson, has
even done better than this, From the
product of five hens she has sold $50. 10
worth, but did not keep account of
expenses.
G. 8. Hutchinson, near Penton vile.
Salem county, recently caught a rat
that had teeth five-eighths of an inch
in length, an unusual occurrence and
denoting old age.
Henry Paris. a small boy, left his
home at Deerfield, Cumberland coun-
ty, thirteen years ago, and his family
gave him up for dead. On Christmas
Day a peddler called at the Paris
residence in Deerfield and vainly en-
deavored to sell Mrs. Paris some
towels. Then, throwing off his dis
guise, the long-lost Henry stood be-
lore his in~credulous mother. Henry
is now a well-to-do W~esterner.