The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-17
STATE NOTES.

Captain George Bender, one of the old
est ferryDoat eilployes running on the
Delaware, died on Saturday at his home
in Camden. Captain Bender was eighty
three years old. and for over twenty-five
years was a collector at the Kaighn's
Point Ferry. Forty years ago he was the
superintendent of that ferry, having been
employed when the boats between the
two cities were operated by horses.
The Rev. E j. Pierce, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at F~armingdaie, died
very suddenly on Sunday. The Rev. Mr..
Pierce WAS a native of P%hiladelphia, be-
lug a son of Captain James E. Pierce, an
old Market street merchant. who, as far
back as 1912, was in the wholesale UNI
brella business at Third aud Market
streets. The deceased had been a mis-
sionary at the Gaboon River Station,
West Africa, aud only left his post there
when i'll health compelled him to return
to Philadelphia some years ago. aud he
took O charge at the Delaware Water
Gap, and then at Farmingdale, where he
died.
James Cobele. who until a few days
since was n farm laborer near Merchant
vile. lefI there or Sunday for the West.
having fallen heir to sl25, 900 and the
wheel of Fortune" gold mine near
Cabinet, Mont. left by his brother,
Bartholomew Cobele, who died recently.
The brothers were of English birth. and
pIOSPCC1Oa buBCUJCl 1EOm lCCl W 1000,
when James returned here in disgust. 1t
is his intention TO sell the mine, his
brother having negotiated with ALI
fornia parties to that end just before his
death.
A son of James Emmons. 90 years old,
was frightened into fits on Tuesday night
near Germantown, Hunterdon county,
aud has had them almost necessarily
since. His mind has become affected, and
his recovery is doubtful. He went out
into the door yard in the evening OF
Tuesday saw a mule winch had
strayed into the yard. He thought it was
a negro who had been setting fire to build
ings In that neighborhood recently, and
became so frightened that he ran into the
house and fell in n fit on the floor.
The Coast Democrat has been sold to
w. z. Hoskins, proprietor of the Man
asquan Star, who viii! consolidate the
two under the name of the Coast Star
Democrat.
Bakoman 81 Renner Of Hackensack, filed
an order last week for ten cups OF stra W.
berries at 81 so a cup, for a dinner party
given by Cornelius Vanderbilt, at the
Murray Hill Hotel, in New York.
Ex-Congressman Isaac Wildrick, one
of the oloest Democratic politicians In
New JERSEY, is lying critically III at his
nome in Warren county. He began as a
constable in 1897. and served in Congress
with Webster aud Calhoun.
-Four nunufeu teffapln were taken from
a pond neal BordenIown. Saturday.
The bodies buried in the old St. Steph-
ems burying ground. at Florence, are to
~" rHmoved. as the township claims the
land.
lue Rev. DR.. X. P. Ketchum's congre-
cation. OF the Plaintield First Pres by
terrain Church. was Ioun when at
Sunday mornings service he formally
announced that on May next he in
tended to withdraw from his present
work. DR.. Ketchum has been pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church for over
twenty years. About five years ago Mrs.
Sarah Latimer diet. She gave a great
deal of her money TO the First Presbv-
terian Church, Of which she was u mem
Der. The Rev. DIR. Ketchum was also
remembered in her will TO the extent of
$40. COO. With the Latimer bequest of
about $50, 900 the church people tore down
h. o d house Of worship and erected a
church which is regarded as the hand
soonest i'll the city. Trouble in the church
rholr u few weeks ago resulted in a fac
tional dispute which is regarded as the
cause Of the resignation