The Jersey City news., 1891-07-16
STATE NOTES.

A woman employed in the pantaloons
factory at Woodstown lately put the but
tons on forty uoZen pairs OF trousers,
making total OF $3.50 buttons in Two
days.
A SOW owned by Isaac Parker, who
lives on the Mount Holly road, near
Burlington, has given nirth TO litter OF
seven pigs, every one OF which is
strangely deformed in some way. One
has but two legs. another has three. a
third is blind, a fourth is tailless, u FIFTH
has no ears aud the sixth has bears feet
All are moDstrosities, but the mother is
perfectly formed.
BY foiling upon the point of butcher
knife, Mrs. Lucy Hess, of Union Village,
a suburb of Plainfield, nearly lost her
life on Tuesday. Mrs. Hess was descend
ing staircase and slipped and fell. The
knife which she held IN her hand pierced
her breast and caused an ugly wound. 1t
penetrated the body TO Il considerable
depth. The knife struck rib, and was
turned from its direct course, else 1t
would have penetrated the heart. She
will recover.
Miss Maggie McCluskey of BeiIeyilie,
wounded herself seriously on Monday
evening. She was sitting in carriage
on the river road opposite BeiievilIe when
the horses started suddenly and she was
thrown TO the ground A big rubber hair
pin which she wore was driven into her
skull. rendering her unconscious. She
was driven rapidly TO Belleville, where
the pin was extracted. she Is now con-
sldered out of danger.
A big chimney on the Overton Smith
property, near Stanhope, has been taken
possession of by large crowd of honey
pees. Thousands upon thousands o. the
little insects are storing up honey which
in the fall will go to market.
The glass manufacturers ana some OF
tie workmen OF South Jersey are seriously
contemplating working during the sum
mer months, which has never before been
done. Most of the workmen strenuously
object to it.
The National Bank at Clinton, Hunter
don county, has declared seml-annual
dividend OF per cent
The temperance women at Atlantic City
have decided not to oppose Sunday SELL
ing except TO minors.
ihe Paterson Board of Health has found
a house which contains but five rooms In
which seventy-five Italian laborers cook.
eat and sleep.
The attention of Government official
has just been called to the fact that tor
some time past moonshtne whlskey has
been manufactured In a quiet spot
in the pines of Burlington county,
only few miles from Pemberton. 1t
has long been a mystery how some OF
the impeeunious pine-hawkers managed
to kt ep numb drunk all the time without
ever going TO the town for fresh supply
OF Iue ATQeuts DuL recently su6 CAt was
let out of the bag by a relative of Owley
Lemon, king of the pine-hawkers, who
followed one of the moonshiners to a de-
serted charcoal pit in Southampton town
ship, and there found "a small dIstillery IN
full blast. The liquor thus manufactured
is consumed by the home trade. as it is OF
such viIlainous character that few out
siders would care to take second drin K
of it.
A horse belonging to the Lister Works,
at Harrison, while crossing the street car
track on Tuesday ut Albert avenue Was
prostrated by an electric shock from the
overhead wires. The horse struggled Wig
orously, aud every time the animals
shoes struck the iron rails the electric
spar ks flew. Many persons were afraid
10 touch The animal, and it was about flf-
teen minutes before it was released. A
few days before one of the poles became
charged with electricity and child who
touched it was severely shocked.
The President, mt Cape May Point yes :
trrday, granted pardon to William n.
Bennett. OF New Jersey. sentenced FEB
uary II, 1891, TO six months imprisonment