The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-04
STATE NOTES.

Local capitalists will endeavor to establish
electric light and water companies at Ham
monitor.
The roller skating fever has just struck Mays
Landing, and a big rink building is being
erected.
Heavy shipments of Strawberries are being
made from Hainmonton.
The Monmouth Park grounds have been
adorned with $50 worth of flowers.
A Westfield girl has curly hair on one side oil
her head and straight on the other side.
Sweet potatoes in Gloucester county are
suffering severely from attacks of the flea
beetle.
Sportsman Mark Doughty, of somers Point, in
a few days bagged over one hundred and fifty
bay birds.
The proposed street railway at Red Bank is
dead. The interested parties could not secure
the right of way.
A COMMITTEES Is at work at Freehold getting up
a troupe of one hundred horsemen to take part
in the 18th OF July parade.
The Asbury Park water works are now self
sustaining, it being unnecessary to raise any
money by tax for that purpose.
Isaiah Rolfe was buried at New Brunswick on
Monday. While the relatives and friends were
on their way TO the cemetery, the death of his
wife, Mrs. Charlotte w. Rolfe, occurred. AT
the time of her husbands death her condition
was critical.
The oldest mail carrier in Warren county is
Martin Freeman, colored, who carries the mail
between Finesville and Riegelsville. He is
seventy-six years of age. Before the late war
he was a slave. He makes two trips between
the two towns each day. for which he receives
SlOO q year.
A Newark banana dealer was swindled with a
$40 bill which mad been raised from a one by
pasting the figures 10, cut from a reveaue stamp
over the one in the bill.
Elrton-in-the- Pines is the name of the new
resort now laid out at adjacent to the famous,
Browns Mills iu-the- Pines, in the very heart of
the health giving pine belt of Jersey. Nearly
5000 building lots are now In the market.
Asbury Park is in the lead this year Oh Fourth
of July celebrations. Cappa's Band of forty
pieces has been engaged for the day; there will
be a grand parade of the volunteer firemen of
New Jersey III the afternoon and in the evening
will be shown the most extensive and expensive
display of fireworks ever exhibited on the coast
Three prizes of 500. SIS and $50 will be awarded
10 The best appearing and best equipped visiting
companies-the Asbury Park fremen not COM
peting.
Saturday q gang of men employed by the
Belvidere Delaware Railroad, while engaged in
digging post holes tor the 81 ection OF q fence at
the base of Marble Hill. Philipsburg. unearthed
part of a skeleton, which, it is believed. is that
of a Revolutionary soldier. The skull was
fairly well preserved. A number OF brass but
tods and old English coins were also found.
Some of the coins were ll9 years old, and others
bore the date of l733. The bones were relnterred
near the spot where they were found.
DR.. w. S. Eversole, formerly superintendent
of Public Schools at Wooster, ONO, has been
elected principal for FIVE years of the Blair Pres
byterian Academy, at Blairstown.
The salvation Army has secured the Madison
avenue market building, at Asbury Park, and
will hold evening and Sunday meetings there
this summer.