The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-15

over TO johnson with the exception OF the
twenty-four cents, which has caused his
arrest.
The Passaic City Medical Society,
which embraces all the allopathic phys
icians in the city, has opened n free dis
pensary for the poor. 1t will be support
ed partly by the members u partly by
subscription. At the same time, the socl-
ETY. has adopted a schedule of prices, just
published, which raises the standard OF
ices Tor all services from 200 TO 800 per
cent. This action is causing some COM
ment, but the doctors say that the scale Is
equitable.
Thomas Harold, over eighty years OF
age, who lived alone in a little cabin at
Eammonton, was suffocated about mid
night on Monday night. His nous was
found in flames, which were quickly SUP,
dued by the fire company, but not until
the old man had sustained fatal injuries
1t is supposed u half-burned coal fell out
OF the stove, as he burned wood, and In
trying to extiuguish it he was overcome
by the smoke. He was some Ill. but
would not listen to friends remaining
with him over night.
Samuel Robinson. colored, of Hacken-
sack. who died Monday night ut the age
| of 1O7 was the Oldest resident of Bergen
county. He was born a slave and was
raised by the old Westsrvelt family OF
| Teaneck. He recalled the time when he
uSSlSL6A Ills AidotC1 liz otCNtth6 VI
| Sandy Hook during the war with the
British in 1912. For IN years he
worked for the late Peter A IL. Voorhis.
to whom he told his age. He had then
reached the century marx, and that was
nearly seven years ago. His wife survives
him, and is eighty-1ve years old
Joseph w. Robinson of Plaintield has
recovered q verdict for 5000 damages
from the Pond Machine Tool Company OF
that city for the loss of an eye while at
work in the shops last summer.
Proposals are out for the opening and
grading Of Lands avenue. Sea Isle City,
from the University Biological buildings
to Townsend's Inlet, a distance OF three
and q half miles. II is intended to make
this thoroughfare one of the finest drive
WAYS III South Jersey.
Some mtscreants have been discovered
in an organized attempt TO ruin the East
! Orange sewerage system. The township
uses the mall pipe SYSTEM, none OF the
lateral pipes being over eight inches in
diameter. About a week ago w men
were discovered at midnight tampering
with one of the mauholes. When a
watchmah ran toward them, they took to
their heels. Investigation showed that a
sackful of san had been stuffed into a
sewer pipe to clog it up. Other attempts
nave been brought to light. In one case
AN iron rod with a large billet of wood
had been forced into the pipes. In
another, one of the iron buckets beneath
the manholes had been wrenched of aud
damned into the main pipe In such a way
as completely to close it. AT the time
the sewers were ptt in there was a great
deal of opposition to the plan, and it is
thought that the present trouble is the
outcome of that opposition. The Sewer
Committee has offered a large reward for
the arrest and conviction of the rascals.
AT Atlantic Highlands recently the
Rev. Thomas T. Everett, DID, of the First
Lutheran Church of Brooklyn. formerly
private secretary of Governor PattisoD. OF
Pennsylvania, lectured to aid in the cree
ton of a monument to mark the locality
where the first Legislature assembled IN
New Jersey, under Governor Nichols. in
1867. 1t ha been claimed for years that
the first Legislature met at Amboy un1er
Governor Carteret. but the Atlantic
Highlands people have found the minutes
of the Legislature held three years before
Carteret. The place was then called
Portland Point. 1t was settled by
party emigrating from Gravesend. l. l.
1t is proposed hat the cornerstone or the
monument be laid neXt fall, and also that
of a monument to HendricK Hudson, who
first Landed in that region. where now
stands the town of Atlantic Highlands
September 9. 1909, being driven ashore il
his ship, the Half Moon, the first nigh
after he entered the lower bay Il before
he discovered the Hudson River.