The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-13

Charles w. Champion OF Dorchester, is proud
of a Sharpless strawberry he raised which meas
ures 215 inches IN diameter
JACOB Beyer, or Bound Brook, Killed a black
snake five feet long in one Of the streets of that
town.
Mrs. John Allen, of Annandale, has an almanac
for the year 1888 and a Hebrew Blpie printed III
the year 1887.
It is said that Joseph King, of Netcong. a track
hand on the Delaware, L-ackawanna and West
ern Railroad, has recently been left a fortune of
$279,UJ0 by an uncle in Scotland.
Mrs. Lauretta Topping, wife of Rev. j. P.
Topping, of Vienna, at the annual conference of
the Christian Church of New Jersey and Penn
sylvania, held at Madisonvilie, Pa, last week,
was admitted to the ministry.
John lerwilliger, of Tuttle's Corner, Sussex
County, OWNS nine ewes that have dropped the
present spring twenty three lambs. OF this num-
her twenry-one are still living and are being
raised by Mr.. Terwilliger.
James and William Rowland, of Branchport,
Monmouth County, were vaccinated a few weeks
ago. Soon afterward they went in bathing.
Blood poisoning followed, and one of the
boys died on Saturday and the other on Mon
day. The boys were aged ten and eight years
respectively.
the marriage of Mrs. Alexander Keay and Will
liam Kent, of Summit, has caused a great deal
of gossip. The lady is sixty years old and is said
to have a fortune of 100000, whi>h was left her
by her brother, John Hisiop, for whom she acted
as housekeeper until his death about a year ago.
Kent is a beardless youth who has been in her
employ.
A Salem County farm of seventy-two acres
sold last week for 81, 300.
A farmer near Paulsboro has tomatoes as big
as dollars.
Fleas are destroying a large amount Of truck
around PaulSbOro.
The strawberry crop in Gloucester County is
unusually large this season.
Trumbull White, q Western author, will make
an ocean trip from New York to Atlantic City
in a canoe.
Three pairs of twins were born in Harmon
ton last week. and parents are getting alarmed
at the prospect.
The demands of the striking graduates of
the Atlantic City High School for forty adj
mission tickets each for the commencement
exercises have been granted. and peace reigns
again.
Three Alloway little girls, Bell aud Title
Robinson and Annie Murphy, unalded gathered
flowers and made bouquets for the thirty-two
soldiers graves, and went with the soldiers and
placed them, on Decoration Day.
Mrs. Mary Tillotson, of Vineland, surprised
her nei ghbors and friends when she started for
the Chicago Fair on Saturday, by appearing in
female attire. Mrs. TllloJson has for years
worn garments similar to those which adorned
the figure of DR.. Mary Walker. but she refused
to say whether she had discarded 'bloomers''
forever.
John C%ullington. Jr., eighteen years old. a son
of William C~uliington. and a
prominent business man of Red Bank, commit
ted suicide Sunday afternoon. Young Culling-
ton was a clerk in his fathers store. He APP
parently never wanted Tor anything, and the
cause of the suicide is a my stery. While lying
in a hammock on the porch in the Afternoon, he
suddenly arose and went to hs room. Shortly
afterwards a pistol shot was heard, land young
Cuiiington was found with a buffet in his heart.
A Coroner's jury decided at New Brunswick
hat the child OF Julia Kelly. who recently died
under mysterious circumstances, came to its
death from eltiDg dandelion. The child, while
playing in the garden, placed a dandelion flower
in its mouth, swallowing the juice from the stem.
DR.. P. A. Shannon held thar while dandelion is
not ordinarily poisonous, it becomes slch when
taken into o weak system.
The Oldest building in New Jersey is known as
the Touler House, at Oxford Furnace. Warren
County. 1t was built in I742 by William Ship
pen, Of Philadelphia. The house is built of
stone and has walls three feet thick. 1t has
seven cbimneys, which tower far above the slop-
ing roof. William Shippen's sister married Ben
edict Arnold. The house is still in a fine state of
preservation.
Tin pan music among bees is now heard in
Gloucester county.
A new town just started near Port Republic is
called Lakewood Park.
Catfish parties at night on Lake Lenape are
all the rage at Mays Landing.
Thirteen strawberries picked by William Cos
ling, OF Swedeshoro, flied a quart basket.