The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-22
STATE NOTES.

rattlesnake six feet long was killed VII
Jamestown on Tuesday.
On the farm of Elias Reed, at Buena Vista,
there is a freak Of nature never known to have
occurred in that vicinity, in the shape of swe
potato patch III full bloom.
A one-year-old calf belonging to James Cotlin
fell into thirty-foot deep dry well in the Peach
Orchard, near Freehold. one day recently, and
was taken out uninjured by David Jennings.
Butcher Lorenz of Long Branch caught large
horned owl last Thursday night. The owl was
making raid on Lorenz's chickens IL had
killed two foals when Mr.. Lorenz appeared on
the scene and captured it,
The farmers of Hunterdon county say that
unless rain .comes very soon the crops will be
the lightest in years, Not over one inch of
water has fallen In nearly two months and the
farmers are becoming very anxious about their
crops. The pasture has all dried up and many
are obliged to feed their stock on hay which
should pc kept for winter use and therefore
they will be short Of winter feeding and many
of them will either have to buy hay or dispose
Of their cattle. The apple crop will also be
light.
The great wooden elephant at South Atlantic
City, which Is claimed to be the pioreer of sucn
ventures, and the offspring of the fertile brain
of James Lafferty, trs we'll known promoter of
enterprises OF Philadelphia and New York, is to
be remoxed to Pittsburg, Pa 1t was sold to e.
G. Mooney, who proposes to utilize it for exhi-
bition purposes. 1t has never been a paying
venture since it was first erected, dozen or
more years ago, an advertising scheme to
boom the town. 1t is said to have cost $4,000
when first erected.
day that Captain Katie Tiighe, in cnai ge Of the
Salvation Army barracks, was destisude and
nearly starving. Captcin Tilghe is widow
with one child, and occupies room over
grocery store. She has been in Hackensack
three or fovr months, and conducted service in
the hall In Warren street, where she was sub
young ''toughs' of the place. As Captain
Tighs did not appear in the hall during the last
three days nights, inquiry led to the dis
covery that she was i'll aud without food. Her
WI A1n n6 n a nOYl a fhpcy
learned of her condition. Captain Tighe was
too diffident to make her distress known. Her
greatest concern recently has has besn to raise
sufficient money to pay the hall rent.
A heavy frost killed some of the vegetation on
the lowlands at Oxford, Warren county, early in
the week.
W. E. Arrowsmith of Keyport harvested 1872
bushels of oats from ~ acres, 1T8 bushels Of rye
from Sl4 acres. and So bushels of wheat from 33
acres
For ten long hours Richard Moore, OF Han
cocks Bridge lay on the marsh on Wednesday
and slowly bled to death. He started out
cunning about 4 o'clock in the morning and
meeting with little success, determined to max Q
a blind. With the aid Of a large, sharp pen
knife he began to cut and arrange the bushes,
and while engaged in this work tho knife slip
ped and severed an artery In his thigh. At the
time of the accident, which occurred about 9
o'clock in the morning, no help was near and
Mr.. Moore, exhausted by the loss of blood, lay
on the marsh until nearly o'clock In the even
ing, when he was found by several men from
Quinton. He was removed to his home, but
all efforts to revive him failed and he d-d next
morning. He was ~ years old and leaves
wife and three children.
Charcoal burners arel idenuding the sides of
the Mahwah Mountain.
sea COW Weighing $50 pounds was caught
in the pound nets at Bradley Beach on Wed
nesday.
A Hacksnsack man wants to bet that the
Bergen County Court House is the homlisst
public building in thirteen States.
John w. Thorn of Clarksburg, W. Va. caught
q 200 pound devil fish off the ocean pier at At
lantic City on Wednesday.
Forty young lady clerks employed in New
York stores are spending a two weeks' vaca-
tion on farms in the neighbornood Of Flem-
| ington.
Elder R. Hyde of Delaware Township,
Hunterdon County, owns horse that Is thirty
six years old, and still is in the harness.
Florist Andrew Snyder of Ridgewood, will
force $4,000 hyacinths and rs, 900 tulips next
winter, and other bulbous stuff in proportion.
Sexton Whitehead, while digging a grave in
the Old First Churchyard at Morristown, un-
earthed New Jersey penny bearing the date
| 1857
An excited fisherman declares he saw In the
Gam at Higgins mill. near Three Bridges,
| Hunterdon County, q German carp three feet
long and as thick as cider keg