The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-20
STATE NOTES.

The finding of some small particles of silver in
quartz rock at Mays Landing has again revived
the mining fever.
The third annual reunion of the Veteran Asso.
citation Of the Second Regiment, New Jersey
Cavalry, will be held in Elizabeth, on February
".
239 girls. He has the names of them all in a
book.
A white hawk was seen last week at Augusta,
Sussex County,
Eight out Of ten girls at Leeds Point get
married shortly after graduating from the pub
lie schools.
Howard Rice killed a sea dog at Townsend's
Inlet on Monday. These animals are seldom
seen south of the Labrador coast.
The Cape May County Gazette says:-There
has been a great deal of talk here lately about
cutting wood; some claiming that a cord could
be cut in less time with an axe than with a saw
Last Thursday Abe Schellenger and Jere. Nc
Knight put the matter to a test, Schellenger
taking the axe and Mcknight the saw. One
quarter OF a cord was measured off for each con-
testant, the sticks to be cut in three pieces and
split as near alike as possible. Mcknight came
out thirteen sticks ahead, and many are pleased
with his record.
A'large fish pound is to be built by fishermen
on the beach at Sea Isle City.
Elmer Godfrey, of Townsend's Inlet. one night
recently, caught eighteen rats In one trap.
Chester Vanmeter, of Cohansey, has two COWS
that gave birth lately TO four calves, weigh
ing $40 poun DIS.
Mrs. Thomas Meyers, of Campgaw, has a horse
thirty-seven years old. 1t is in a well preserved
condition The animal works on the farm daily,
and can show a gait without a skip
or jump.
Assessor Absalmon Higbee and Thomas Scott,
q young Democrat of Galloway Township, ATTAIN
tic County, are paying an election bet by walk
ing to Washington to attend the inauguration
of Grover Cleveland. They started on Friday, so
as to be there in time to attend the Inaugural
ton ceremonies.
Constant Thys, of Edgewater, Bergen County,
shot an eagle recently on his premises while it
WAS CARRYING off a net dog.
The State pension roll for veterans OF the war
of 1912 includes only four persons, as against
seven last year, three veterans having died.
The ~tentacles of the great Panama scandal
which threaten the peace of France, have
reached as tar as the forests of Morris County.
Thousands OF dollars have been squandered in
Passaic township in cutting down timber known
as ''pin oak, - which was shipped to the Isthmus
of Panama for use in the construction of the
canal. The timber is of such a nature as to be
totally unfit to Withstand the climate of the tor
rid zone. The manner In which the trees were
felled made 1t cost at least $50 apiece.
Mrs. Blanche L.. Dey of Manasquan has
brought suit for absolute divorces from Cornelius
DEFY on the ground of desertion. Ten years sgo
Blanche I. Norton was one of the prettiest
young women In that little seaside village. She
married Dey, one of the young business men of
the town, but the day after the wedding he dis
appeared and his bride has never seen him
since. She only knows now that he is still alive.
Mrs. Dey will re-marry as soon as she secures
the divorce.
Since the heavy ice has left the Great Sounds
and LudIam's Bay, oyster growers have had an
opportunity to examine their beds and find out
what damage has been done by the ice. Reports
thus far indicate that many hundreds of BUSH
els of bivalves have been carried away and the
crop this year will be a poor one. One man,
Ephraim Hildreth of Rio Grande. is said to have
lost go bushels, while many other growers have
lost from 200 to 500 bushels. The ice has left
Maurice River Cove and the hundred or more
boats that were tied up during the cold weather
are again at work dredging in Delaware Bay.