The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-24
STATE NOTES.

The Freehold postoffice has been raised
to the grade OF tue second class.
Long Branch has Il @ 'lored Republican
club with twenty memb-r. .
A man in Pennsgrove slaughtered
eighty-eight rats about his harm at enc
killing.
4. r. Hodge of South Bound Brook
raised q strawberry that measured eight
inches in circumference.
The big n~ierry-go-round which has
been located near the iron pier at Long
Branch is to bs moved to Highland
Beach.
Miss Athalyn Atwater, formerly of Ger
mautown, has given her cottage at Sea
Isle City to the Philadelphia Country
Week Association for the exclusive use
of the poor children Of that city.
A man who disturbed the Salvation
Army meeting at Little Ferry, Bergen
county. ON Sunday, was desired to leave.
This he refused to do unless his contribu-
ton, six cents. WIS returned. The money
was refunded, and he went his way;
Twenty-Five years ago Isaiah Salderltn,
while residing oil the Shedrick Norris
place, at Lower Creek, Salem county,
caught a pHtriarchal looking land terra
min aud cut his Initials on its lower shell.
Que day last week George Schrier. while
working OH The place. came across the
terrapin and was greatly surprised at It's
still spry appearance.
Alden Freeman OF East Orange has in
his stable curiosities in The shApe OF twin
colts. They were toaled last Wednesday,
One is a f1lly M the other q colt, the
former being bay and the other black.
The fly weighs only twenty-one pou nus
and is so small that it cannot nurse b a
will have to be brought up on the bottle.
Both are well formed, healthy and ltve'y.
Several families at Mount Holly haa a
narrow escape from death within the past
few days iu consequence Of having eaten
cheese purchased at one OF the stores 10
the town. The victims were suddenly
suized Nth severe pains in the stomach,
accompanied by nausea. The symptoms
Increased in severity until the afflicted
ones were almost in a state or collapse,
and the physicians were kept busy. In
The family of Hiram e. Hinkle, eight
persons were Ill at the same time, and a
fatal termination was feared Ior a tinne.
Six or seven other families who partook
Of the cheese were likewise affected, but
nearly all are now considered u OF
danger.a 4a
The Slate camp grounds at Seagirt will
be occupied after the encampmeut or the
Second New Jersey Brigade by a detach-
uient of 900 cavalry from The United
states army. They will arrive on July 10
and remain two months The cavalry is
con- posed of details fro IN the First,
Second, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth troops,
which are stationed at Fort Meyer, near
washington, -. y. Iue CFoops WIFI ndrCu
from Washington under tue command of
Major Louis II. Carpenter, coming
through Philadelphia aud Camden.
They will bring their own tents. During
the encampment n National Guard officer
will be in command of the post. Differ
ent officers of the Guard will be desig-
mated to this honor in all PROBABILITY by
Governor Albeit.
Witnesses testified in Vice Chancellor
Pitpey's Court. in Camden, On Tuesday,
that Arthur II. Rottenberg had been
drunk for eight years. To keep up this
jovous Jag he Is snid to have absorbed
three pinls of whiskey a day. The testt-
money came ont iu the suIS OF Rottenberg
| against Amanda and Henry Fowi. The
defendants kept = fishing cabin at Penns-
grove. RotteDberg S aged at their cabin
for some time during. his very greatly
prolonged debaucu, and o his prop
erty to the Fowls. he sues TO recover IL
on the ground that the Fowls filled him
up with rum until he was tn u mandlin
CONDITION aud didn't know what he WAS
doing when he sigued the deed,
The ieunion OF the Tnirty-seyenth New
Jersey Vcluntee: s, General Gtubb's regi-
pient, vii, sake place AT EdgewatAr Park
next Thursday.
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Ne 1h Tilsrs OF tho Soil.