The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-24
STATE NOTES.

A FOX hunting club has been organized
at Long Branch.
Salem is to have a fine new hotel. The
site has been selected.
A sample OF Salem county soil will ba
sent to the Chicago Fair.
The dog tax in Hillsborough township,
somerset county. this year is 81. 40.
Two twenty-five pound swapping tur.
ties were recently caught near Belmar.
A Salem poultry dealer shipped 500
geese. weighing 1000 pounds, to Boston.
The first house at Edgemere, a new
suburb or Asbury Park, is in course OF
erection.
1t COST the Government $615. 40 to get
shad and shad eggs at the Gloucester
fisheries last season.
Ten thousand yards OF Christmas
greens were shipped during the past
week from P~edricktown, Salem county.
Fftty-one specimens of timber to be
exhibited at the Chicago Fair nave been
gathered by a Salem county woman.
John ID. Honce of Marlboro, according
to all reports, is slated for the position Of
Curtis.
The Perth Amboy Common Council
has agreed to furnish South Amboy with
water for public use at Z cents per 1000
gallons.
John W. Young has been appointed
Postmaster at Woodbine. and Nankie E..
Holdridge will handle the mail at Elm,
Candle county.
Charles B. Platt, recently Game
Warden OF Gloucester county, wants to
succeed Deputy Internal Revenue Col
lector Caleb c. Pancost of Woodbury.,
The Ladies' Amateur Naturalist Cluh
Of Salem county, have designed a grass
grotto" which will be tine center ornR-
ment of the Agricultural Pavilion at the
Chicago Fair.
The contest owe the postmastership at
Lumberton has already become so spirit
ed that one of the candidates has bonohf
the property where the post office is To-
Gated, with the idea that his chances for
the appointment will be thereby inn
proved.
Pennsylvania Railroad engineers ara
surveying for a branch of the West Jer-
sey line from Mays Landing to Wev.
mouth, a distance of three miles.
The Catholics of Red Bank will build a
new church and a new rectory, the whole
to cost $48. 500.
The Elizabeth City Council. by q vote
OF fourteen to six, has adopted the plan
OF City Surveyor Meyer for the depres-
sion OF Bond street and Morris avenue.
under the Jersey Central Railroad track
This was the plan approved by the citizens'
meeting last week, and ratified bv the
Central and Pennsylvania Railroad
Companies. and finally disposes OF the
vexed question or a~bolishing grade cross
80 = "a vi bAO Clly OI EllEAO6th.
The work will be finished by The Sum.
Iner.
Philiipsburg Democratic: Two gem
tlemen from Philadelphia have been in
the vicinity of Blatrstown. recently, look
ing for a suitable place to engage In the
breeding of sheep on a large scale for the
lambs aud wool. They have come to an
agreement with two farmers, ]. Clark
Lanterman and Silas Hibler. near Cedar
Lake, and no doubt one or two of the adj.
Joining farms will be added to thesa
and o sheep ranch of 500 acres started
They rent the farms for money rent. and
take possession January l. The gentle
men have had abundant experience in
Montana, q having sold out there. have
invested in 5000 sheep in Tennessee and a
flock OF 5000 in Florida. Their idea ia to
raise Winter lambs that will be ready for
market by February /. and to run on the
dorset variety. This new industry. on a
large scale, will give our farmers practi-
cal ill2stration of the value Of sheen
Or Seyented by the timely use of Dr.
bo %syrup. the mothers friend, -