The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-28
STATE NOTES.

Joseph c. Steelman of Cape May, has re-
cefyed q patent for q device for "iicking'' post
age stamps
A SUSSEX county sportsman shot two wildcats
in the Warwick mountains during the past two
weeks.
ocsan City residents are interested in the
lover like actions of q cat and q chicken. They
are ~inseparable.
A dinner will be given to Congressman-elect
John T. Dunn, Of Elizabeth, by bis friends on
Twenty-slx barrels Of Goldfish were shipped
from Anglesea, the result Of three days' fishing
Atlantic City public schools are to be connected
by telephone.
Two enterprising Mullica Hill butchers are
taking lectures on butchering in Philadelphia.
A horse died at Hancock's Bridge last week at
the advanced age of thirtv-six years.
Elmer Danzenbaker, q well known citizen of
Bridgeton drove q Stage to Salem On Saturday in
Bridgeton that night he was noticed leaning
over on the seat with tho lines dropped from his
hands. The horses were stopped, and he was
taken home, where he expired In a few moments
from heart disease.
J. J sipley has gone to Canada in the interest
Of Rutherford Stuyvesant. He will return
with eight or ten Galloway Pollen cattle for the
Tranquility Stock Farms, Warren county. This
imported stock will be turned loose In the deer
park of the estate, and an effort will be made to
cross them with the buffalo. Where the cross
has been made the skin makes q very handsome
robe, and In some Instances. 1t is said, have sold
for $3.50 a piece.
Point Peasant mas purchased q tract of gravel
land. and will use the gravel for improving the
streets of the borough.
Reed Lloyd and w. @. Shreve Of Gloucester
county killed 129 rabbits during the season with
out losing @ days work.
Frank Hand Of Green Creek, Cape May
county, while longing. for CLANS recently, cap
tured 9two-pound eel in his tongs.
The Belyidere National Bank on Tuesday re-
ceived a fifty dollar bank bill for REDEMPTION.
issued by the bank In 1860. 1t had been all
these years In the possession OF an old mtser.
who recently died In Turnbull county, Ohio,
and was sent on for redemption by his execu-
tors.
The Werts Guards of Morristown will 90 to
Trenton to attend the Inauguration of Governor
elect Werts, after whom the social Organization
Is named. They will bs headed by Voss' band
Of Newark, and will take 1850 men.
Councilman Stevens has a plan for O bouIe-
ward at Cape May City. The scheme Is to con-
meet Beach Avenue with Cape May Point, raise
Madison Avenue, and utilize the Cape island
turnpike. This will make a drive seven miles ia
length. and the cost viii be but ST., 900.
A tree at Ocean City, the religious seaside
resort under which the first prayer was offered
over thirteen years ago. has bsen removed to
the auditorium ground for preservation.
A lod ge of the Royal Arch Masons has been
started at Cape May City, with Councilman
Joseph z. Henly as High Priest.
Under orders from the Treasury Department.
all lfe-saving men along the New Jersey coast
patrol the beaches night and day.
A wide spreading red cedar tree at Sea Isle
City which Charles K. Lands. the founder Of
that place. claims Is over 500 years old. was cut
down to make place for the residence being
erected for Morris Boney.