The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-19
STATE NOTES.

A camp of Sons OF Veterans will be in
stituted at File lnington tonight.
Mrs. Herbert Coddlngton, nee Rillie
Pyle, who three years ago eloped with a
cowboy employed by her fathers wealthy
ranchman at Salida, Col. aud settled in
Newark. went back to her fathers home
on Tuesday owing to her husbands al
legged cruel treatment.
Ground has been broken at Orange for
one of the finest school buildings III the
country, to be erected by st. Johu's
Parochtal School, and cost in the neigh
borhood of S100, 900.
Joseph Schletz of Pavonia accidentally
raised all American flag upside down on
Monday. aud did not know it until his
.neighbors gathered in an angry crowd
and demanded that it be taken down.
The Court of Errors and Appeals has
decided that the Camden saloon Keepers
who paid $500 for license in 1891 cannot
recover the excess of 5000 from the city.
The vestry of st. Peters Church, Perth
Amboy. has called the Rev. Il. E. Magill,
of Trinity Parish, New York, to the rec
torship madev vacant by the resignation of
the Rev. E. P. Miller.
Fireman Garrity, Of the train running
between SonlerviIle aud Fieming5ou, Sc
cured a handsome English pheasant a
few days ago AS the train was passing
Woodfern the bird started to cross the
track ahead of the locomotive, but ran
into 1t and was killed.
William Barlow. James Burke, L. N.
Brokaw, Frank Morrell, Frank Flu and
Alexander Burke, Long Branch business
men n Republicans. u three and a
half cords of wood for Thomas L. Worth
ley the day after election. This was to
pay al election bet.
General E. Burd Grubb will lecture on
Spain in st. Mary's parish school,. Bur-
lington, in a few days.
Matthew Walliug, aged seventy-eight,
and Mrs. Louisa Stoney. aged seventy,
both of Keyporr, were united in mar
rage on November Z.
At Atlautic Highlands the other day at
public sale, hay sold from SIS to SOL a ton,
and apples sold from Sl.50 I 50 per bar
rel. sts
A crabapple tree on the Kline farm,
now occupied by Ridgway Taylor at
Farmingdale, bore two crops of fruit this
summer. The first crop ripened early in
the season. Soon after the tree was again
covered with a p~rofusion Of blossoms. and
last week the second crop of apples, fully
matured, was gathered.
At the meeting Of the Burlington
County Board of Freeholders on Tuesday
a delegation of citizens were present from
Mooresuown for the purpose of inducing
the Board to appoint q committee to Sc
cure a portion OF the State appropriation
for road improvement for Moorestown.
as.the taxpayers there have already spent
close vote. decided not to appoint such a
committee.
AT Freehold, Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer of
Squankum has been convicted by u jury
OF being a common scold. Neighbors
testified that Mrs. Palmer quarreled with
them and her husband. aud called them
vile names when they passed her house.
Prosecutor sIvlns said he did not think he
had succeeded In making out a case
against Mrs, Palmer. but the jury decided
otherwise. She will be sentenced on
December l.
The representatives of the various
Masonic lodges in Newark have decided
to purchase a site near the junction of
Broad and Washington streets for the
erection of a Masonic Temple. The cost
of the site Will be SIS, 900 aud the cost of
the building about $500, 0o0. More than
$500, 600 of the stock has been taken, aud
there is no doubt that the whole amount
of stock will be subscribed for. The plans
for the building include a large music
hall. and the structure Will be of Belle
vile granite, seven stories high.
The Atlantic City Democrat says:-"Of
all the gunners who went out TO the
county woods at the opening of the game
season, none perhaps was more success
full than Philip J. Leigh. the locksmith.
He went to Port Republic and made his
headquarters at the Benjamin Giberson
Swan Bay farm and bagged twenty-three
quail. thirty rabbits and upwards of one
hundred wild ducks. Live decoys were
used, q duck that has been trained to sit
with the wooden decoys and quack
whenever a flock of wild ducks approach.
and the success of gunIers who use
them, makes live decoys in great de-
mand.T