The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-15
STATE NOTES.

The Baptist Church at Lambartville is
to be heated by steam.
Albert Davis. while fishing in Alloway
creek a few days ago, saw three young
muSkratS come out or a hole into q creek.
These were followed by more. when he
counted fourteen, all about twO-lhlrds
grown, who playfully swan rou his
Loaf fUr fully ten minutes, not seeming
to be the least scared at him or his boat,
although he made some unusual noises
TO Tighten them.
Mrs. Emma Morris, of p r5h Amboy.
will soon sail for II foreign field of LABOR,
having decided to spend her life in
missionary WORK.
The Town Committee of Freliughuysen,
Warren county, has only received 1900
ground hog scaips this year. Last year
the committee received 1900 scalps.
Sixty-eight mem b-rs OF the Third Re-
formed Church at Hackensack presented
a petition to the Bergen Chassis of the Re-
iormed Church. asking the dismissal of
their pastor, the Rev. job BombIn.
They asserted that he made insulting and
uncailed for remarks to members of the
congregation and others and had done
mahy things to displease them. The
Chassis refused to make a change. it en-
joined the pastor and the petitioners 10
use Christian charity 10 the matter and
to refrain from saying u%nseemly things
about one another.
Grorge o. Wllievar of Phillipsburg. and
DR.. G. Young CT Washington. Warren
county. have secured q joint patent for a
new railro d block signal. A company
is 10 be formed and the signal manufac-
tured and put upon the market in Il few
months. A charter has been applied for
under the laws of Illinois. The capital
stock of the concern is to be $500, 900.
Philadelphia capitalists have promised to
take all the stock put on the market.
Their Invention is a mechanical auto
matte safety railroad block signal
with positive advantages over any other
system yet invented.
Bruno Mantny, a dull-faced boy of sew
enteen, was arralgned at Newark on
Thursday for resolving to commit sui
eide. he HAD been III of employment,
quarreled with his father and with SO
stolen from his mother had purchased Il
revolver aud cartridges. With the re-
mainder ne hired a carriage to take Il
drive. II wanted to have au hours fun
before killed myself" he said to Justice
Priessel. After the ride he changed his
mind. A note found On him declared
that he had resolved to commit suicide
because his father intended to send him
to the Reform School. He was ined $40
for carrying concealed weapons.
There is danger of o~vercrowding the
New Jersey Reform School at James
burg. The capacity Of the institution is
$50 inmates, which is the exact number it
now contains. With a view TO decreasing
the number of commitments TO the re-
formatory, Superintendent Ira Otterson,
some time ago, sent y circular letter to
the Stale Courts. calling the Judges at
Lention TO the situation. and asking the
most rigid investigation into every case
before sending the boy to the school,.
Many applications hava been refused, as
it has been discovered that parents are
glad to have mischievous children pro-
vlded for by the State, thus relieving
them of responsibility.
George Daily. of Belvidere, holds the
cham pions hip as q pepper grower. The
largest among q number OF big ones he
raised, measured fourteen inches in the
round n way; ten inches in circum-
ference and seven inches long.
A number of rattiesnakes have been
killed this fall in the woods aud roads
back of Goshen, Cape May county. A
resident killed one q few days ago on the
highway leading from Cape May Court
House TO Bayslde with a small, brittle
stick, thinking the reptile an overgrown
brown adder. When he discov cred his
mistake he turned pale with fright. The
dry weather has driven the rattlesnakes
toward civilization in search of water.
Richard ID. Conover, a Lay Judge of
Ocean county, died at his residence near
New Egypt on Tuesday. .aked "a years.
He Was APPOINTED Judge in 1873, and
served continuously until mis- death.
Ex-Judge and Mrs. Josephus Sham
celebrated the fifth anniversary of their
wedding on Tuesday evening at their
home in New Brunswick.
Edward Dalbow, of Huntington, Salem
county, raised ten sweet potatoes that
filed a basket. The smallest weighed
two ana thre e-quarter pounds.
The New Jersey Agricultural Expert
meut Station is experimenting on the
farm of Theodore Brown. near Swedes-
boro, with phosphoric acid and potash AS
fertilizers for sweet potatoes,
The New BrunswicH Times. the Demo-
cratic organ of Mlddlesex county, was
sold by the Sheriff GU Wednesday to
James Deshler for S.. 500 and the amount
of the first mortgage. Tue paper will be
run by a stock company.