The Jersey City news., 1892-02-03
STATE NOTES.

The Stars and Stripes now float over
| nearly every public school building in
Cape May county
About two thousand feet of bulkhead-
ing mas been put along the bluff at Long
Branch, to protect it from the waves.
John Perry, seventy years old, of Har-
mersville, Salem county, who had just
recovered from an attack of the grip, by
a misstep fell down stairs last Wednes-
day morning, breaking his nose and arm
and probably fracturing his skull at the
base of the brain, from which he died.
Mrs. Lydia Abbott, of Sergeaptsville,
has in her possession pair Of shoes that
were made by her grandfather, Peter
Haines. for his daughter Lydia, when
she was six months old. That was in the
year 1880, about one hundred and twelve
years ago. The shoes are still in a good
state of preservation, and are quite a
curiosity.
While Miss Susie Menshausen was
skating backward ar Hackettstown few
days ago she trlpped and fell, striking
her head SO hard on the ice as to sustain
serious injury. IL was feared that her
skull was fractured, but 1t was not, and
there are hopes that she will soon re-
cover.
Levi Challener, OF New Egypt, is an
ardent friend of James g. Blaine. and
has resolved to have his hair cut no more
until Mr.. Blaine is President.
At Newtown, Sussex county, on Tues
day morning of last week, the thermom-
eter was down to two degrees above zero.
1t had fallen thirty-seveu degrees within
twelve hours.
Captain John M. Brown and wife, of
Briele, celebrated the slXty-second ami.
versary of their wedding few days ago.
Mrs. Hester Tinsman, elghty-two years
old of Blairstown, fell about two weeks
ago and broke her hip. She died few
days later.
A scaffold broke under Tinsmith
Samuel Conver, at Ocean City, but he
hung to gutter stops, twenty-five feet
from the ground, until rescued.
The farmers of Somerset county will
hold meeting at Somerville on Satur-
day. February 20. to perfect the organi-
zation of county board of agriculture
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Somerset County Agricultural
Society will be held the same day, when
will be considered proposition to sell
some of the socety's lands.
Runyon is the name of a new station on
the Amboy Division, two miles east of
Old Bridge. The Jernee mill property
has been purchased by a land and i'm
provement company and the water from
the pond is to supply Perth Amboy. Ex-
tensiye yards and storage tracks are being
built by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
panV.
Mrs. r. A. Cartwright, of Newark. has
presente to the New Jersey Society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals a
large tract of land in the State of Me-
braska. The property embraces u mile
square in Clay county. adjacent to the
town of Edgar, and contains valuable
woodland. The only condition of the
gift is that the society shall retain possess
sion of the property until it can be sold
for enough to give the society sum
sufficient successfully to carry on its
work.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Richards, of Eliza
beth, on Saturday, turned out of doors
her husband, sixty-five years old. The
couple owned a grocery store. home
and considerable real estate, and it seems
the property is all in Mrs. Richards
name. She says her husband is no
longer able to be of assistance to her in
the business, and she does not propose to
keep him longer. The homeless old man
got SHELTER in the house of neighbor,
and is trying to secure the services of
lawyer to compel his wife to disgorge at
least his personal property.