The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-11
STATE NOTES.

Lindley Murray is q cottager at Point Pleasant
Keyport is preparing for a patriotic and popu-
lar celebration of the Fourth of July.
A Leida, a poultry faucier in Warren county,
will ship a pen OF Plymouth Rock fowls to Bris-
bane, Australia, soon.
The Bridgeton Chronicle names Joseph A.
Woodruff as its candidate for the democratic
Senatorial nomin alton In Cumberland.
An old copper mine al Bloomfield has been re-
opened after years of abandonment. Several
hundred tons have been taken out. The mine Is
i iaER5. 10 nave O'eA 0''u'' W 'H9 Du''H I'll
The citizens of Bridgeton will hold a mass
meeting in Moore's Opera House on Monday
evening to protest against the excise law and
the licensed saloons.
Kinney, the millionaire tobacconist, who WINS
q valuable estate in Pequannock township, Nor
riS county, pays 81, 900 monthly for labor in the
improvement of bis place.
The owners of the standard Silk Mill, of Phil
lipsburg, have purchased four and one-half
acres OF ground adjoining their mill and extend
ing TO the Morris ana Essex Railroad tracks, and
Will commence at once the erection of an id
diuion 100x3OO feet and four stories high. 1t
will be somewhat larger than the present struc-
ture, as it will contain about l. 900 more square
feet. -.
The Italian summer population of Harmon
ton has commenced to pour in, and so great has
been the rush during the past week that the
railroad was compelled TO run twos special tr aims.
From the first OF June until the middle OF Sep
tember the Italian population is nearly three
thousand They begin to arrive when straw
berries first commences to ripen and stay until
1lOSt KILLS tll6 lust IltI Ntnl III kuC lulli. lue IlE-
mers who enrloy these people are in waiting
when the trains arrive an pick out the number
they want like SO many cattle. They are paid
by the quart for picking berries, and as they
WORK from early morning until late at night,
they make from 81 25 to 81 per day. Many of
them are brought direct from Ellis Island New
York.
Senator Brown, of Monmouth county, was
buried on Tuesday. bnt already two candidates
are in the field for the nomination. Henry s,
Ternune, of Long Branch, has been brought for
ward by the Diodgett faction, while some of the
ALBEIT Democrats are booming eX-Assembly-
man and Assistant Prosecutor Aaron L. John
ston.
There is great Indignation among the church
people in the Third ward of BLyonne over the
Odc.ls application 10 transfer his liquor shop to
IL place only seventy-three feet from Monroe
Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church.
Miss Mary Clark, of Beividere, mas been ap-
Fourth Congressional district US Lady Manager
of the Worlds Fair. She is a niece of ex-Sec-
rotary of the Navy George NJ. Robson.
Captain Weller, Assessor at Washington.
Warren county, had the mumpI on one side of
his face fifty years ago, and is now taking a dosa
on the other side. He was fifty-eight years old
when ne hal his attack of whooping cough.
The complicated series of fish ladders built at
considerable expense in the Raritan river. near
somerville, last year are not a success. The
patentees Of the ladder guaranteed that the
shad and other tish would go up the river to
spawn If the so-callel Improvement was intro.
duced, and a test OF the efficacy of the ladder
was ordered to he made by Fish Warden Honey
man before the first payne 1t of ST. 6N was al
lowed. The river was accordingly netted from
the leed2ates above Raritiu to Fteiinghu yseu's
docks, but not u shad was found. In fact, not O
salt water fish wa; found to1have climbed the
tortIous passa yeway. L. is said that the ladders
will lie abandoned and payment for them re-
fnsnd