The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-02
STATE NOTES.

The Senate has confirmed the nomina-
ton of c. F. Hopkins as Postmaster at
Boontou.
The Asbury Park fire plugs have been
painted red. with black trimmings.
A rock fish, two feet i've Inches In
length, was found on the beach at West
Cape May.
A plckerel weighing 81 pounds was
taken from Budd's Lake last week, and
one from the Stunhope reservoir that
weighed 81 pounds.
John E. Wagner. of Matawan, through
the death of an uncle In Pennsylvania,
falls heir to ope-third interest In real
estate valued at $3.50, 600.
Within three miles of Madison there
are no less than 10000 RAINING feet
about eight miles-of greenhouses in
active operation. II mainly devoted to
rose culture.
The Rev. Charles J. Young, pastor of
the Taylor Memorial Presbyterian
Church at Elberon, has been made a
Doctor of Divinity by Lafayette College,
at Easton, Pa.
George La Monte. who was the Prohibi-
ton candidate for Governor of New Jer-
sey in 1889, has been nominated for
M ayor of Bound Brook by the Citizens
party.
A new company is to be mustered into
the National Guard at Bridgeton.
Colonel d. B. Murphy, Inspector on Gen
eral Sewell's staff, will examine the re-
cruits.
G, A. Vandorn. q wealthy farmer Of
Bound Brook, Is securing South Jersey
own in search of his seventeen-year-old
son Euoch, who left his home nearly Two
weeks G without apparent cause.
1t is said that Conductor Morgan OF the
Dover accommodation recently took up u
ticket good for passage betwee Hack
etsstown and Newark) that had been
issued In 1856, and had lain unused for
more than t~hlrty-ive years.
Ex-Assemblyman Cole of Cape May
county has gone TO an hospital. where an
operation will be performed to relieve
him of an abscess of the throat.
The Atlantic County Brick and Til e
Manufacturing Company, which.has a
large plant at Bakersville. has failed, and
will be sold out by the Sheriff On March
%.
The Hoagland foundry at Rockaway
has made three chilled rolls, each weigh
ing $500 pounds. for export to England.
There is SO much work at the foundry
that q dny n night force of workmen is
necessary.
Twelve wagon loads of old tin cans
were taken from Wesley Lake the past
week. Before the lake is allowed to Ill
much of the deposit that has accum ulated
on the bottom will be carted out by Ocean
Grove and Asbury Park teams.
A curious stone, used as a house yard
ornament by Mrs. Godfrey. a Townsend
Inlet lady, has been pronounced a fallen
meteorite. IL weighs about one hundred
pounds, aud resembles a huge cannon
ball in shape. 1t is supposed to have
fallen in the early part of 1900.
The Prudential Insurance Company of
Newark has purchased the library of the
late Justice Joseph P. Bradley at Wash
ington. d. c. 1t will form the nucleus VI
a large library which the company III.
tends providing for its tenants in the new
building on Broad street.
Salem SunbeGm:-Thomas D. Baker
owns the best trained dog. perhaps, in
the State. Last Friday Mr.. Baker caused
the dog to lie down In some grass on Hope
Greek marsh while he tended his muskrat
traps. On completing his rounds the
dog slipped his memory and he went
home. leaving 1t in the marsh Next
morning. the dog not having put in an
appearance, Mr.. Baker vent to look him
up. He found the faithful animal where
he had left him the day previous, cold
and hungry and awaiting his masters
coming.