The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-30
STATE NOTES.

Charles w. Irwin of Elizabeth has been ZAP
pointed Inspector of Rifle Prac ice for the Third
New Jersey Regiment, in place OF Captain MAN.
deville, resigned.
A company has been organized with a capital
Of $50, 900 TO build a street railway from the rail
road stat ion at Red Bank to Oceanic, a distance
OF four miles. Work Is 10 be commenced at
once. The motive power will be compressed
air.
There will be a large exhibit of Egg Harbor
wines at the Chicago Fair. p
The Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance
Of New jersey met In quarterly session In. New
Brunswick on Tuesday. Grand Worthy Patri-
Division of New Brunswick to hold a gypsy en-
cimpment, as a wheel OF fortune was a pro-
posed feature.
Camden's old Board Of Freeholders has re-
ceived an opinion from their solicitor, Mr. Harris,
that the new Freebooter law is constitutional,
and another from s samuel H.. Grey that it 10 not,
aud now they don't know what to think about II.
Chris Grimm, q German, of a misery dis
position, died on Tuesday at Seaside, near,
the Navesink Highlands, leaving an estate valued
at nearly $4,000. He was eighty years old. He
left no will, and no one knows of any heirs to
the property. If no heir is found the real es-
tate will escheat the State and the personal
property to the township. lncluds I'd in the es-
ia tie are mortgages for nearly $780, 900 on property
in this part OF the Country.
John w. Swartz, for a number Of years As
sistant Prosecutor of the Pleas for Monmouth
county. was on Tuesday taken to a private asy-
lum in New York in a critical cond ton. He
was q patient in the Kelley Institute u few
ulOntnS ago. DuI recently returned 70 LIE Ior-
mer habits.
The Second Presbyterian Church, the largest
and most fashionable congregation in Railway,
has been plugged into q war because of the EN-
ployment Of o Roman Catho ic girl as a choir
singer. The schlsm has reached such alarming
proportion that nearly every member of the
congregation is now involved. The Music Com
m tttee insists that religion has nothing to do
with the case and therefore refuses to accept
the fair altos resignation.
Judge Mccormack on Wednesday,, in the
Union County Court, instructed the county de-
tective, Keron, to take measures to procure evi
dence against such road houses or taverns as
violated the Sunday law by selling on that day
Disgraceful scenes have been enacted for the
last few Sundays in the principal county roads
leading to the city, and the residents in these
thoroughfares have been shocked by the vulgar
ity and blasphemy of many parties who drive
out 10 the road houses, and getting intoxicated
there, indulge in reckless racing on the county
reads.
Several children PLAYING near the reservoir in
West Orange on Tuesday afternoon saw some
bright spots they took for flowers. They at
tempted TO grasp them, when the heads of two
large snakes were raised from tn. grass. The
startled and frightened children ran away
scrt aiming. Their cries attracted the attention
of two nearby residents, who ran to the place
and, after a short fight, killed five of the largest
black snakes which hive been seen in the vicinity
for years. Several of them were over six feet
long.