The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-14
STATE NOTES.

A movement is on foot to start another
bank at Gloucester City.
A new paper, called Home and School,
has been started at White House.
The Town Clerk Of Sparta, Sussex
county, has received the past summer
and fall 1900 ground hog scalps payiue
ten cents apiece bounty.
Ten thousand trout are to be distrihuted
in the streams below Blairstown in tne
near future.
A President and Governor will not be
voted for again in New Jersey in the same
year until 1904.
Belmar has appropriated 500 for repre-
sentlng tnac place at the Chicago Fair by
Photographic views.
SIX new cottages have been erected at
Pitman Grove. and a new station is to be
built by the West jersey Railroad.
Stanley Parsons. son-in-law OF ex-Sena-
tor Lydecker. it is said, is most likely to
be appointed Postmaster at Englewood.
The Rev. j. w: Jeffress, pastor of the
preached his farewell sermon and took
leave OF his flock last Sunday night.
Staid Cape May Court House residents
are working themselves into a state oe
excitement over the establishment of a
dancing school in the town.
The Rev. j. e. Lake of Newport has
purchased the Ep1oorth League and NeO
W. NCO toU, RuOllSaGu du camden
and is now editing tnat paper.
Local antiquarians are exercised over
the unearthing of a brick wall of peculi ~
construction at S~chellenger's Landing-
Cape May, by workmen grading a street
School children going by a vacant house
in Atlantic City looked in the window
and discovered two undertaker's ice
boxes, IN one of which, they claimed, was
the body of a colored man. A party of
man nnfarPd fhn hnT1Sn hr1t ,o.a -II-
to find any trace OF the body, though the
boxes still remained. UD to about two
months ago the house was occupied by an
undertaken, but since the time he left il
has been vacant. The %neighbors aver
that on different nights they nave noticed
lights In the house and have noticed
strange men walking about the premises.
but no one cared to Investigates. The
neighbors will make a descent upon the
house when they next see any range
about.
William Krag of Pomona. Atlantic
county. raised a 30 pound pumpkin.
Steven Reeves of Cape Nav county
killed thirty-two woodcock in one day.
Charles Seitz of Elston has offered To
donate ten acres of land as q site for tire
George l.. Squire Manufacturing Com
pany OF Buffalo. on the formers propertv.
near Phiilipsburg.
1t is stated that the Directors of the
Bloomsbury National Bank are seriously
considering moving that Institution to
Phfllipsburg, providing u proper location
can be secured,
The Union County Board of Freehold
ers mas decided to raise next year by tax
alton live per cent. OF the original cost of
che county roads for the purpose of re-
pairs. IL is estimated that SIS, 600 will be-
needed.
The State Sunday School Association
has asked the Sunday schools of New
jersey to make contributions toward the
erection OF a $4,000 building at the Chi
Cage Fair.
Cape May City will be asked to appro-
pirate $500 towards paying the cost of
properly representing Jersey coast re-
sorts at the Chicago Fair. The States
gift of money is not enough to permit
the Commission to properly do its work.
Mrs Peddie. widow of Thomas B. Ped
die has conveyed to the Board Of Trustees
of the Peddie Memorial Church, Newark.
a lot south of the church, valued at
S30.0 00. The building nov on the lot will
be torn down and a handsome parish
building will be erected. This gift makes
a total Of about SITS, 900 that Mrs. Peddie
has given to this church out OF her own
means.