The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-07
STATE NOTES.

A farmer ut Chester, Morris County,
has a flock of forty-nine hens, but has
been gathering fifty eggs a day. He has
tiled iu vain to discover whence comes
the extra egg, and does not know whether
to credit double work to one of the hens
or place 1t 10 the account of u rooster.
A guest at the Hotel Brighton, Atlantic
City, While driving on the beach III We'd
nesday with his wife, got caught in u
q%uicksand. The couple were thoroughly
drenchsd before they escaped and the
team was recovered with difficulty.
The County Jail ut Newton has a young
boy prisoner. aged eight years., charged
with breaking the windows of a church
at S%tanhope.
A special election will be held at Allan
tic City on June 18th to decide whether
The municipality shall exDend $500, 900 to
acquire water works to be operated by the
city,
The Blairstown Press says:-While go
ing to the mountain back of Walnut Val
ley to chop wood u few days ago Uriah
Hardick saw two large hawks circling
j the air above him, one of them having
a pale blue pigeon in its ,aions. The
other bird tried to steal it away. and in
Hardick's feet. He picked it up and
found fastened about lis right leg Il lead
tag with the number 100. and on a white
feather Oh the right wing was stamped.
Thomas Mulkeen, Wohurn, Mass"
While the Barnnm's Circus procession
was passing along Broad street, Newark,
On Wednesday. a painter at work on n
window still on the third story of the
| State Bank building, dropped his pail OF
cream colored paint, deluEing about nifty
| people crowded on the sidewalk, and
| running many dresses of women II
An election was held ut Long Branch
on Tuesday to decide whether or not the
| street improvements. by putting down
asphalt pavement. should be continued.
The result of the election was III favor Of
the Improvement by a majority of COG
votes, only 81 votes being cast against 1t.
Owing to it being near the opening OF The
summer season, 1t has been decided moi
| to put down any mole asphalt until after
| the season Is ended, RS 1t will conflict
with the business interests of the place.
Mrs. Franklin Leonard Pope. wife of Il
well known electrician Of Elmira, sur
prised III Union County Court at Eliza
| beth by appearing aud making q vigor-
Gus speech against the granting of licen.
| seq to certain road houses which she de-
| clared were disorderly and sold liquor
| openly Sunday. She said she had been
| warned not to appear against the road
houses If she did not want them to retail
| late. The places were denied renewals
| until the o could investigate the
charges.
The residents of Mount Holly ARE
| agitated over the sudden spread of scar
| let fever. which has claimed many vic
| Tins during the last three weeks, though
the average number OF fatalities has been
| small. Since the funeral of Joseph o.
| Phares, which was held from the Meth
| odist Church where ihe cofiu was opeued
| the disease has been spreading, but the
efforts OF the Board of Health have been
somewhat successful in checking the pro-
| gress of the disease, which has broker out
In nearly every section OF the town. So
far there have been ten deaths, while the
number OF cases has been rs high AZ six
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