The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-19
STATE NOTES.

A Quinton man trapped 1872 opossums
in u month.
Mrs. Arthur Howell, of Swedesboro, is
proud of a rug she has completed, con-
tanning 1000 pieces.
A 0 weighing 73S pounds, recently
killed at AllOway, was the champion Of
South Jersey in weight.
Miss Catharine Tindall, fifty years old,
of RinRoes, died suddenly on Thursday,
while Deeling potatoes for dinner.
The Tomlins, OF Cape May county, are
interested over a notice that they are the
heirs to an estate in England valued at
81, 1000, 600.
A bold thief threw.a can of baking
powder into the eyes of Mrs. Green, OF
Bridgeton, and escaped with her pocket
book containing considerable money.
A New York syndicate has leased tn
large glass houses recently operated b
the Warwick Glass Company, TIT CLASSY
boro. and will soon opera
tionS.
A member of a theatrical company
playing in Bridgeton last week, admired
the pretty red hair of u female resident
and finally induced her to part with 1t for
cash.
A party of three sportsmen from Pauls-
boro; Gloucester county, recently went
to Salem county, where they heard the
terrapin family thrived. After a few hours
work in the Huntington canal they
SeCuEGu dpDuO 1OuE uuuuDci b6EEtplu.
The pupils of the West Cape May pub
lie school know how many feet there are
in Il mile. Their teacher, in order to inn
press it on their memory, directed them
to chalk it upon the fences and other
exposed places on their way to and from
school, and the neighborhood was soon
we'll decorated with the figures $3.50.
Then they we're made to lake cloths and
water aud erase the figures.
Miss Laura B%oorinan of North Plain
field, has been elected Treasurer OF the
New York committee who are engaged in
raising funds tor the Gould Memorial
Home. in Rome, Italy. The Home was
ported by Americans. II has for its
object the instruction of Italian orphan
children under Protestant direction, and
is the only similar charity in Rome.
Cape May County Gazette says:-Joseph
Robinson of Green Creek has a shoat
that with a litrlo training would equal
the many tricks Of wicked Ben" which
was on ex ibition at the county fair sew
eral years ago.. He tries to initiate what
ever he sees his master do, II follows
HIM to and from his work the saine as Il
dog, will go in the woods with Mr.. Rob-
inson TO stay all day. and if left behind
will take the trail until he catches his
master.
Certain clergymeu of Keyport lave de-
cided to prevent the sale of ewspape
on Sunday, to stop the delivery of milk
aud meat, to shut the barber shops and
cigar stores n to lay an embargo upon
the running OF street cars on that day.
Further than this they have decided to
compel all the people OF Keyport to attend
church every Sunday upon pain of i'm
~prisonment in their own homes, under an
old provision OF law which forpids persons
to leave their houses on Sunday except to
at end church or u funeral
Charles Stratton, one of the pioneers of
Lakewood. died at his home. Tuesday
morning, aged seventy six. For over
fifty years he was an employe of the Ber-
gen Iron Works. His proves as a hunter
and trapper and his swarJhy complexion
aud long black hair reaching far down
on his shoulders made him known as
1.-THE Chief" He knew every track and
path of the twenty or thirty miles of for
est in hat vicinity. was an unerring shot
with q gun or rifle and was an expert MS
II trapper of offers and mink. Over fifty
years ago he killed the last bear seen in
that vicinity. Four generations of his
family were at his bedside when he died .
Captain and Mrs Joseph Carton cele-
brated on Monday the fiftieth anniver-
sary of their wedding by u dinner at their
home in Bridgeton, The table cloth used
on the occasion vas fifty years old, the