The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-26
STATE NOTES.

1t is stated that a young man in Asbury
Park has been discharged by his employer
because he danced.
Rev. John b. Church, of Rochester,
Ulster county, N. y, has accepted a call
to the Riverside Reformed Church, of
Paterson.
A factory has been started ut Asbury
Park for the manufacture Of al improved
corset clasp.
William Pedrick, who died at Wood
bury recently at the age of seventy-seven
years, has been keeper of the tollgate for
over thirty years.
Captain John Wilson, of Cramer Hill,
is dying from the effects OF a wound he
received in the civil war twenty-seven
years ago.
The citizens of Port Monmouth are in
censed over the removal of their post
Office from the place where 1t has been
for thirty years. They are preparing u
petitiensto the Department at Washing
ton asking the renlova Of tue Office back
again.
Daniel Frost died of pneumonia at his
home in New Monmouth in his eightieth
year. He was born and died in the quaint
old house which has been occupied by his
family 200 years. The family bought the
land from the Navesink Indians.
William V. Reid Of Villa Park has a
pair of guinea hens which Go police duty
in his chicken yard. Whenever they see
roosters fighting and trying TO pick each
others eyes out. they go for them ana
take them by the ears and lead them to u
quiet place in the barnyard. If the first
trial is not successful. the hens repeat the
separating process. Mr.. Reid has never
before Seen this trait exhibited in guinea
hens, nor has he ever heard of such a re-
markable performance.
Bergen ounty has a horse sausage fac
tory u by Il Pole named Shafer. The
nGfu hliSh mont iC in tho tunAda hntyuant,
Palisade Park and Fort Lee. Shafer
kept his business secret until recently,
when he met Paul kunZ, of Palisade
PARK, and made IL bargain for an old
crippled horse which was about to be
turned out to die. Shafer, it is alleged,
took the beast to his place, killed the
animal and cut the carcass up for food.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Butter worth, who
belong to IL we'll known Quaker family,
celebrated their golden wedding in the
same house, at Vincentown. in which
they began their married lite half a CEN
fury Ago.. and where they have ived ever
since. The Butterworth family were well
represented at the celebration, there be-
ing sixteen couples OF that natne present.
Tine table spread for the occasion, besides
its weight OF delicacies, bore the same
china set that was used fifty years ago at
the wedding. The silver service used
was $50 years old and belonged to the
hostess Observation-Disclosures. A huge
wedding cake bore the sugared inscrip-
ton. 'lS42-1S92."
A Vineland man has a colt that chews
tobacco. He is looking for a COW that
can smoke a pipe.
The house of Baseball Manager Coding.
at Westield. caught fire. As there was
no other water handy the firemen found
IL necessary to draw water from two cess.
pools. The house wnS flooded with
sewage. Mr.. Cooling says he has used
pounds upon pounds of fumigators and
barrels of disinfecJants, but the house
GEMS to be permanently affected. The
insurance companies are willing TO make
a settlement for the fire damage, but this
does not satisfy Mr.. Cooling. The case
will be taken into the courts. Mr.. Cod
ing values the house at $40, 00O.