The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-08
STATE NOTES.

A Roman Catholic Church is to be built
at Ocean City.
Joseph Thompson. of Salem, car
ries a cane which his grandfather used
in 1174.
Charles II. Reed, of Middletown. while
cunning a few days ago, shot a large
gray o.
A Sea Isle City lady mourns the loss OF
a $50 set of a false teeth, which she
dropped iD the fire.
The Rev. f. A. Russell of Atlantic City
has been called as rector of st. Marks
Church, Ham monton,
American flags for Millville's public
schools have been presented by the
American Mechanics.
Trains on the new Alloway and Qain-
ton Branch Railroad Will ruu-
ming on December 26.
James Malcolm of Matawan, has been
arrested for trying to shoot his wife and
five children while he was drunk.
A vineland farmer offers ten acres of
land, a mule and $500 in cash to the man
who will marry his daugher.
The Montefiori Hebrew settlers have
found valuable deposits of clay on their
laud. and will erect brick kilns,
Seven Mile Beach contains several
thousand dollars worth of red cedars
There ARE many trees several b undred
years old.
A six-year old boy was found lying in a
street at Long Branch one day recent ~,
dead drunk. His life was saved with
d ifficulty.
Ex-County Clerk Edward Burroughs,
of Camden, has been served with a sum
mons in a suit for the recovery of $4,000
fees by the Board of Freeholders.
1t is claimed that the south channel at
Little Egg Harbor Inlet has changed so
that a vessel running from the sea buoy
to The bar buoy would ground on that
point of the shoals.
A Woodstown mans horse broke its
leg several miles away from home. He
bundled the animal into a wagon, hauled
it nome. set the leg in splints and the
animal is rapidly recovering.
A new route proposed for the ship
canal across New Jersey is from the Del
aware river at Bordentown diagonally
across to Shark river near Ocean Grove.
The canal would be forty-ive miles long.
The Spring Lake Beach Seaside
c Gasetts nn sa !, or t6 senne MsDasa aea6
river on Monday night, and
after a chase OF four hours and a half
succeeded in capturing a very large one.
The animal is believed to be very old. and
has but three feet. Several years g
Joseph Shibla set a trap i'll the same
leg of u coon in one of them, and the
animal caught by Dory is believed to be
1.-THE same old COON"
James A. bradley, the founder of
Asbury Park, has renewed his offer to
sell to the borough the board walk along
the beach, the riparian rights to the ocean
front the sewer plant, aud Sunset Lake.
The price asked for this valuable property
is only $3.50, 600. Last Summer a syndi-
cate of foreign capitalists offered Mr.,
Bradley $3.50, 600 for board walk alone.
He refused to. sell, because he believes
that the town should own the property
aud rights. A majority of the taxpay-
ers favor the scheme.
A prisoner in the Mount Holly Jail Civ
ing the name of John Anthony Barnes.
who was arrested with his wife for rob-
bling the boat house of Assemblymau
Parker ut Burlington, claims to be heir
to a fortune of S100. 900. He says he was
adopted by his uncle, Augustus b. San
ford, of New York, but ran away from
home in 1866. After travelling all through
the West he returned to learn that his
uncle was dead and he was his sole heir,
hut interested pa ties refused TO turn over
the property unless they received one
half. A lawyer is investigating the story.
A seven year-old daughter of Thomas
Moran, a baker. held an infant sister IN
her arms in the doorway of her home at
Beileville, Saturday, when the wind blew
Il heavy door that WAS loose In the hinges
over upon her. Both she and the infant
child are so badly injured that it is doubt
full If either can recover.
The Commissioners OF Appeals OF Egg
Hnrbor City nave lowered the taxes of
the German farmers who appealed from
the increased valuations. The assess
ments remain unchanged in other parts
of the county. General Elias Wright, who
owns $500 acres of land in Galloway
township. will carry his appeal to tie
Supreme Court as q test case.
Louis Heiser. 81 years old. a well known
business man Of Matawan, died Saturday