The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-01
STAT T. NOTES.

A curiosity in the shape OF a live clam and a
| live oyster grown together is on exhibition IL
Bridgeton.
State.
Ciarksboro on Tuesday.
The Gdzctte, CT Hackettstown, wants the name
| of the place changed TO Rackett or Warren.
Henry Hilton. Jr., of Pleasantville, the nine
! teen-year-old captain Of the sloop John Wesley.
rescued nine people from drowning in Hampton
Dr. Peter IT. Austen, formerly In charge of
the chemistry department a iRutgers College,
has been appointed instructor OF that science at
the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
The tenant of a cottage at Atlantic City. being
| out Of fuel, burnt the Bible, curtains, drapery
| aud bric-a-brac. When the owner visited the
house she thought it had been burglarized.
Fruit growers in South Jersey report the pros
| poets hattering for heavy crops this season. All
vines and trees are laden with buds, and few, if
| any, have been injured by the weather.
Among the recent catches at the Fishing
| Creek sturgeon fisheries of the buy side. is a 40J-
| pound sturgeon. The fish was so large it could
not be hauled into the boat and had to be lowed
| to the shore.
remarkable instance of canine sagacity was
| witnessed at the Gsorge street station of the
| Pennsylvania Railroad, ct New Brunswick,
| owned by Major K. j. Duncan, attempted to
\ cross the tracks in front of au express train.
One crossed in safety, while the second was
| struck and thrown almost under the wheels.
Quick as a flash the first animal turned, seized
his companion by the neck and dragged him out
| of danger.
for Walker Clement. of Oceanviiie, to appear
4 before Justice Breeder, of Egg harbor City.
\ and show cause why he should not pay So for
damages to her wheelbarrow, Mr.. Clement, who
is q ba chelor, has been paying attention to Mrs.
Lang for q year or more, but foI some unknown
reason Tilted her, and about a week ago drove
past her place i'll q carriage with another lady.
The vehicle ran against Mrs. Lang's wheeloar-
row and demolished it. for which she now wants
Sc, Mrs. Lang is a buxom widow and owns the
farm at Germania, where she lives.
William Loder, or Bridgeton, who drives a
coal cart, became suspicious of his wife, and his
jealousy nearly resulted in three suicides in the
family. He attempted suicide first by putting
| his head in q bucket OF water. His VIE, be-
coming mortified at his suicidal actions. sprang
to the cupboard seized a bottle of laudanum
and took a big dose. She went to sleep, and
/ il was with great difficulty that the physician
who was called in aroused her. She was not de-
| clared out OF danger until several hours later
An adopted daughter who witnessed these dem.
onstrations, became SO excited that she followed
The two other examples of emp self des-
\ tructiop by taking a uoSe of Paris green.
A Jury in the Warren County Court has de-
cided that a horse and wagon mas the rigns Of
| Seifert, a bicycler, was run down by Farmer
/ Carl Snyder, and Seifert's wheel was broken.
He brought suit for damages. The Jury, AFTER
OF mo cause for action, : and ordered Seifert to
pay the costs, amounting to $40. Afterwards
several of the jurymen said q horse and wagon
had the best right on the public road.
Newark will shortly contain the third estab,
lishment in this country for the extraction OF
animal vaccine lymph. The institution for the
extraction OF the virus from calves Is being fit
ted up and will contain all the modern improve
ments. IL is to be modelled after the European
| es. Adjustments.
The Cape May County Gazette says:-"A Jer-
sey Shore dog, which has been trained to carry
baskets, WIS given q satchel containing 1--we
pounds of iimburger cheese. After leaving the
market house he ran into the middle OF the
street and dropped the satchel into q mud
puddle. Beng punished for this and again
piven the salchrl, ne made q bee line for the
river. wherein he incontinently dumped The
l satchel and its unsayory load.