The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-08
STATE NOTES.

Township elections will be held this
year Tuesday, March 8.
South Jersey canning factories are
making heavy shipments of canned
goods packed the past season.
Maggie Bozarth, a sixteen-year-old
Mays Landing girl, is missing with a
team she hired from n local liveryman.
Ex-senator Joseph b.. Roe has been
appointed Postmaster at Woodbury., and
William II. Thompson at Somerville.
Senator John j.. Gardner will be the
orator at the banquet of the young Re-
publicans or Camden, on the anniversary
of Lincoln's birthday.
Horace Engle, a coachman employed by
Miss Bancroft, Of Haddonfield. Is re-
ported to have fallen heir to sec, 900 by
death of an uncle In Salem.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas J.. Smith, of
the fiftieth Anniversary of their mar
rage, have thirteen grandchildren.
George Davis, a travelling shoe sales
man, who has a wife n child at Wash
ington, has eloped with a girl employed
In a shoe factory at Mount Holly.
The Dover plasterers and masons have
formed a union, and demand nine hours
for a days work except Saturday, whe1
eight hours will be a days work.
The Yellow Frame congregation, in
warren county, have extended a call, and
the Rev. Mr.. Todd. of Saddle River, has
accepted, and will take charge of the
church about the first of April.
The sixty thirty acre homesteads at
Woodbine, Cape May county, are nearly
ready for the balance OF the Hebrew
colonists. The preparation of the soil for
planting is being pushed forward rapidly
and Il 5000 fruit trees will be set out as
soon as the weather permits. A large
acreage of berries will also be planted.
The colonists now have a ~postofice of
their own. with Wilbur Young in charge.
Twenty acres have been reserved in the
centre of the tract for a public park. "A
public school and hotel will
90 up on it's boundaries. MIR. Sabsovitch.
the superintendent, fixes the population
at 400 by searly spring. Amicable rela-
tiops have been reestablished with Den
nisyille since the recent boycott. A pri-
yate school for the children will be opened
in a few days. Secretary George Nelson
has already established one for the
adults.
Mrs. Eliza Townsend died recently at
her home, near Townsend Inlet, of physi-
cal exhaustion, The result of q tumor.
Recently a large swelling developed on
the woman's face. Local physicians
were bafied in their attempts to find a
cure, and rs alast resource she was TAX
en- to Dir. Agnew, Of Philadelphia. He
diagnosed the case and pronounced it a
tumor, the result of a diseased root of a
tooth. A surgical operation being inn
practicable, Mrs. Townsend was taken
home to die.
When Spider Anderson was first
arrested for shooting William Robinson,
OF Gloucester City, it was popularly. sup
nosed he was worth 500, 900, which was
invested in race horses in various parts Of
The country. The day he was acquitted,
however. found him Il Door man, and 1t is
announced ne will begin riding again at
the opening of the racing season.
Ii is reported that the school directors
of Columbia, Warren county, are going
to make war on the cigarette. SO great
has the nuisance become among school
children there that the attention OF the
School Board was called TO u, ana u was
determined to prosecute every dealer
fcnud selling cigarettes TO boys under a
certain z u,
The standard Silk Mill Company OF
Phillipsburg has purchased several acres
of LAM adjoining he mill property with
the view OF enlarging the plant at an
early day. TO Phillipsbnrg, this Is the