The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-06
STATE NOTES.

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The Warren county Republican says:-
lon the farm OF Isaac II. konkle, in
Harawick town hip, is found a mass of
white stones scattered on the summit of
a limestone cobble. A. jack Hill has ex-
amined them as Il building material for
the Marksboro bridge and says he never
saw anything like them. They are OF
pure whiteneSs. finer than N rble. uu-
furnished. n undsr the hammef dress
perfectly. He is of the opinioa TIA this
WAS II huge meteoric stone al topped from
the skies at some remote period III the
words history. and split up intb large
pieces Mr. kunkle wants $40 for the
stones and Ja,k will buy them, u says
they are entir iy too t1ne mate rial TO put
into Il bridge."
The Lowe Creek correspondent OF The
Salem Sunbeam sAys:-" For several
months past a pair OF gray squirrels nave
been making daily visits to Isaac Gross
cups resideuce, and after picking up the
crumbs about the yard and having a play
they you'd repair &c the woods again
near by. After q few visits they were not
the least disconnected by the family aud
seemed as tame as il they had always
been household pets. A few days ago
they appeared at the house with Two of
their youuE, which at first were rather
shy, but how are as Tame as the old ones. -
PuiIip Taylor is the champion C rn-cut-
ter in Somerset county. He cut 101 stacks
OF good standing coru. seven hills square,
in SIX hours, aud cut Que stack on time,
Henry Vau Derveer being the timer, in
Que minute and thirty seconds. including
the making OF the band aud tying the
stack.
Farmers near Freehold are using dyna-
mite as a stump puller.
The wreckiug schooner Lorena Reed. of
Somers Point, has been ut Barnegat Inlet
destroying W sunken wrecks, which
were hihdrances to navigation, and which
the Government Engineer Corus decided
to remove Captain Euocn lowUsend, of
Atlantic county. had the contract. 1t is
said that the dynamite explosion killed
large numbers of food fish, and that one
man picked up $50 large bIackfish after
one discharge. The craft were the tug
Starlight, sum in 1865, aud the iron
steamer G~nadaloupe, which was wrecked
in 1884.
New Jersey furnished to the Union
army during the Rebel. ion IS. 814 mel. OF
taese 3 .5SS were killed in battle and 2,176
died III the service from disease and ollier
causes, thu making n total of 5,764 lives
given by our STATE to the Union cause.
New Egg t has been alarmed for a week
over the presence OF a wild hog. 1t WAS
first seen Oh Saturday hy Farmer August
johnson, who climDed Il tree and gave the
newcomer the right of way. Early Sun
day morning Joun Headley discovered it
on the pubic road aud he also politely
declined to dispute possession OF the high
way. Then Ashton Ciift aud William
Apologize star ell out to look for him,
taking no firearms. They discovered the
creature III a swamp on George Villas
farm; but instead of capturing MIN they
sought a tree, where they could watch
bis movements to better advantage. from
an elevated point OF view. The women
and children were greatly terrified, es-
pecially In the outlayfng districts; and
the farmers and hunters were on the
lookout for the animal. John II. Horner
OF Cookstown, aided by a posse IF armed
farmers. captured the marauder. It es-
capped from HorheF's farm to The pines
two years ago and grew up wild.
A rich and extensive bed of CLAW has
been discovered at West PleasantyiIle by
pros pectors employed to investigate ard
ascertain the quantity and depth of this
deposit. 1t has been known for years
that a deposit of clay existed lear this
place, but TO what extent had never been
asceitalneh until very recently. Work
men were employed only q few weeks ago
and made a t~hourough search by boring.
They report an exclusive bed of clay from
9 TO % feet in depth. Samples of the
clay have been forwarded to the State
Geologist for inspection and analysis.
The greater portion of the peaches
grown III Huntertlon county nave been
harvested and sent to market. aud in
looking over the seasons WORK the grow
ers f1nu nat they have experienced one of
the most prospe ons summers in their rec
objection. The quality of the fiuit has
been exceedingly good. the quality has
been much above the average and Rood
prices have prevailed at all times. The
Rockaway Valley Railroad has carried
out OF the pea;h district about 75, 200
baskets OF fruit, most of which was sent
to New YORK markets.
The htteep-year-old son of John Hard
ing Of Linwood. Atlantic county. weighs
202 pounds.
The Democratic Assembly Conventions
of Camden will be held Oh October 90.
Delegntes.w will be nominated on Octouer
II and elected October 20.
A heavy frost Sunday night damaged
Atlantic county crops.
Three new Hebrew settlements will he
started in Atlantic county.
John H. Schomp of Harli,igen was
awarded the prize OF 500 offered by the
Somerset County Agricultural Society to
the farmer in that county who Kept his
fields. crops, roadsise aud Uy-lanes freest
from weeds during The season of 1892.
A wild cat la. made its appearance in
the woods that surround the old furnace
at High Bridge. Hunter Ion county. Il
was nrst seen by Daniel Merrill, while re-
turning to his home near the furnace
The shining eyes wera the first signal.
With lond CRYING it followed him to the
residence OF u. l.. Emery, where be was
obliged to stay over night.
A SIX year old Manasquan lad filed his
inner ears with beans while at scnovl.
and was sent to the Long Branch Hospi-
tel 10 haye them extracted.
Engineer Vim. r. Bennett il running
an afternoon y evening train on the
Newark and New York, and Conductor
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