The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-04

An eleven-year-old girl at Lower Creek,
Salem county, weighs 1875 pounds.
The Camden Board OF Education talks
of establishing a High School for girls.
A new Sons Of Veterans Camp has been
organized at East Orange and named
Johu +. Pratt Camp.
Efforts are being made to establish a
Camp of the Patriotic Order of Sons Of
America in F~renchtown.
Joseph Bassett, of Burlington, while
trimming a tree on Monday. cut his foot
so badly that 1t had to be amputated.
Eleven barrels of perch were caught in
Wreck pond, near Spring Lake. on Tues
day of last week by a party OF Manasquan
fishermen.
Charles English, aged fifteen, of Boon
ton, while skating a few weeks ago,
broke through the ice aud received a wet
ting that resulted in his death.
About sixty veterans OF the Thirty
third Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers,
attended the first reunion at Newark. re-
Gently. A permanent organization was
President.
When the Ocean House fishermen went
to Long Branch to try and recover a net
which had drifted there some weeks ago.
they found the net SO full OF fish that 1t
was utterly impossible TO land it, and it
was permitted to drift away with Its
heavy and valuable cargo.
~Forty-nine descendants OF David Shrimp
! assembled at F~riesburg, Salem county.
on Friday. to celebrate his ninetieth
birthday. Among them were eight of
mis- ten children. thirty grandchildren
and twelve great-grandchildren. Two of
his children were prevented from attend
ing by sickness.
William Cookery, one of the Oldest resi-
dents of Gloucester county, died at his
home at Cross Keys on Saturday, aged
ninety-two years. He was one of the
pioneer cranberry growers in New Jer-
sey and owned large bogs in Gloucester
county, which he disposed of a few years
| ago when he retired from business.
Two boys. aged twelve and fourteen,
sons of George r.. Abbott. of Potters-
vile, while playing upon the ice on n
pond neur their fathers house, Sunday
afternoon, %ventured on a portion that had
become rotten, and, falling into the
water. were drowned. Another son of
Mr.. Abbott was drowned while swim
ming last Summer.
There is a toll gate near Culver's Gap,
in Sussex county. on the Morris turn
pike road, which was chartered in the
year 1901. The toll is very high-15 cents
for single teams and % cents for double
team, both ways. The party who keeps
the toll gate pays $500 per year to A. w.
The Morristown Savings Institution is
considering the advisibily of starting the
Afc-CcuL Soudip piONldCub Saving Sath.
| The card contains twenty squares. each
square to be covered by a five cent stamp
purchased of the ban or its authorized
agents. When the card is filed, which
represents a dollar. 1t is returned to the
bank and they furnish the depositor with
a bank boo with the moun credited in
the same.
The firtieth anniversary of the wedding
day of Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Hugg, of
Ironia. Morris county. occurred on JAN
uary "a, when the family gathered to-
getLer ono more under the old home
roof. OF their eight children six were
present, and of the thirteen grandchildren
nine were present. Mr.. Hugg is a native
of Morris county, and has spent all his
eighty-one years In Chester and Randolph
townships. He is in feeble health.
The Hunterdon Democrat says: The fox
four Mount Pleasant sportsmen dug out
of a hole in the ground the other day
proved to be q polecat-one OF the long
tailed, sure aim kind. He was loaded for
Just such fellows. even as a street sprink-
Ter is loaded for business in the sweet but
dusty summer time, and he seemed to be
Just as liberal and impartial in bestowing
| his load, too. Each fox hunter received
a supply tha Will sicken him with even
the suggestion of ''perfumery" for the re-
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