The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-27
STATE NOTES.

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The Republicans of Paterson have NOM
mated Thomas Beveridae for Mayor. He
is a coal dealer. Mayor Nathan Barnett
will be renominated by the Democrats.
james ". Cox of Sandy Ridge, Hunter
don county, has 140 hens that lBid $500
eggs from January l 70 March 10. Az
twenty-five cents a dozen the product
wou d be worth S15.
Annie Spittel, aged nineteen. Of Pater-
son dropped dead on the street while re-
turning home from work about six O'Clock
Monday evening. The young lady. who
was walking with two companions, was
talking and laughing, when she was at
tackled with a fit OF coughing and fell to
the sidewalk. Her companions carried
her TO her home aud physicians were
summoned. but life was extinct before
they arrived.
voted at the recent town meeting for the
10th time in Madison He Is about
~seventy-five years old, and has never
missed voting at an election since ne
came of age. His father had a record OF
never having missed voting when ne d1ed
at the age OF ninety-one. f.. T. Jackson
OF Dover began voting in 1888, and has
exercised his privilege 1871 times. never
having missed an election but once, u
That was during the blizzard three years
ago, when he was showed up and could
not get to the polls.
OuC VI AftAARnO0tS = ~
says that in 1910 a French family. who
la been but "a short time In America,
crossed the Delaware bridge between
Phillipsburg aud Easton in a body. In
cludIug the father and mother the family
numbered twenty-four. The father
walked ahead, followed by the children
in pairs (every pair was twins: The
mot Ter took up the rear. The toll taker
Of the bridge at that time was Frederick
WAGNER. aud toll for each person was
two cents. Mr.. Wagner was so pleased
with the rarenes OF such a family
that he flowed them to cross the bridge
free.
Matawan Journal says = William
Bradby,a colored TO the masons
working on the new hotel at the station,
attracts considerable attention BY his
manner of carrying brick and mortar. In
stead OF using the familiar 'hod" he
places twenty-five bricks on a board and
raises iG to the top of his head, and. when
il is balanced, walks on with 1t max
ing his way between the mortar X
aud piles Of brick without any trouble
whatever. finally emptying his ooard at
the smallest pile. In carrying mortar he
ILLS a round tub and ~eleyates it the same
way aud delivers 1t as ne does the brick.
He begins work at Z O'Clock in the morn
Ing, and at 8 O'Clock Is apparently as
fresh as if he had been doing nothing Dut
ENJOYING himself.
Freehold Transcript says: John H.. Du
Bots tells the following tale concerning
an apple tree which he cut down on the
farm of Jerry Stillwell. Inear Turkey, two
weeks ago. The tree was sawed COM
pletely through as near the ground as
possible at two o'clock on Saturday and
feft, surprising it would fall. But so well
balanced was this ancient producer OF
apple jack that it was still standing on
Monday, Notwithstanding the high wind
Of Sunday. Two-ineh wedges We're then
pounded into the SAW creyices wlthou
any effect. An iron axle was next driven
in by a sledge procured from a blacksmith
shop, but the tree still remained erect. II
was finally chopped one-third the way
through, and by the means of a block and
fall and a team Of mules this venerable
tree was brought low. 1t measured 4feet
6 inches across the stump, and contained
one cord and 113 feet of saw log. One
limo cut 10 feet aud measured "a inches.
The whole tree cut 80 blocks.