The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-20
STATE NOTES.

An ~artesian well is being bored at Pleasant
Vile to supply the town with water.
There is a demand for carpenters at Point
Pleasant.
Hammonton voted on Tuesday for a new
$50, 00U schooinouse.
Two seals were said to have been seen in thu
Raritan River on Wednesday,.
A Morris county farmer has been fined $50 AMI
costs for adulterating his milk.
The valuable collection of curioSities owned by
the late John Hoey. of Hollywood, valued
at $50, 050, has been shipped to the Chicago
Fair.
A stranger walked into the house of Mrs. John
NJ. Henderson, of Woodbury., and told her he was
her brother, George Driver, who went to Idaho
twenty five years ago.
In 1891 there were only six postofices in New
Jersey; at Railway, Newark, Eiizabethtown,
New Brunswick, Princeton and Trenton. The
total receipts of all for the year was $3.50, of
which the PostmasterS received sos. 70.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Argar recently eel
ebrated their sixtieth anniversary of married
Hunterdon county, where they moved last
spring from the farm on which they had lived
for fffty-five consecutive years. They are the
happy parents of thirteen children--Seven sons
aud six daughters-ali of whom are living, the
eldest being fifty EIGHT and the youngest thirty
four. They are also the grandparents of thirty
five grandchildren, twenty-nine Of whom are
living; and twelve great-grandchiidren, ten of
whom are living. The aged father and grand
father was stricken with paralysis last May, and
is unable to take one step without assistance. He
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has reached the age of 10 years and is quite
feeble, though able to be around.
The first marriage that ever took place at
Sandy Hook during It's ESQ years ofhistory &C.
CURED last week.
III Egg Harbor Board of Trade is trying to
establish a rubber factory there, and has raised
SIC, 90 for the purpose.
the annual conferences of the A.. NJ. E.. Zion
Church in this State will be held in Burlington
on April rs.
The Lite Silver post office has been raised to
fbn Dractdanf1a1 nfqSS and -IOhn IT T.nuorf haS
been appointed postmaster.
Over one million pounds of seq bass were
shipped over the West Jersey Railroad last sea-
son by AngIesea fishermen to the Philadelphia
market.
John I. Blair is the sole remaining original di-
rector of the Laekawanna road. Moses Taylor,
William Z. Dodge, Gardner Colby and the 9th
ers, who were active in the early days of this
road, have passed away. leaving Mr.. Blair, in
his ninery-f1rst year., the only one who In 1885
assisted in OBJ aiming the charter for the original
Morris and Essex road.
A. lot of wreckage came ashore one night last
week on Squan Beach, between Chadwicks and
Sea Side Park. 1t consisted of about O dozen
matches, a wheel some spars, and parts OF the
old, but has evidently been in the water but a
short while. Surfmen at the life-saving stations
concluded. from the style of the wreckage and
the number of matches. that one or more coal
barges had been run into or wrecked during q
gale.
The Toms River Courier knows of a letter, adj
dressed wrongly to q gentleman, whom the
writer thought lived at Bayviile, but who lives
at Forked River and who visits Bayvilie once or
twice a week, which was mailed on August Is,
1892, reached Bayville the same day. and was
forwarded to and reached its destination at
Forked River on February IA, 1893-six months
ali but q day. The ~postmarks prove that it
must have lain in the Bayville posSofice all that
while, although there was a return address on
the envelope, and postal regulations require
forwarding to the dead letter office after two
weeks advertising a. an unclaimed letter.