The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-16
STATE NOTES.

The Asbury Park Electric Light and Power
Company has changed its name to the Neptune
Electric Company The company's profit last
was a little over 10 per cent. of the capital
stock. New machinery is being put in and the
company will then supply Belmar and Spring
Lake.
There is a family at Pleasantville, four mem
bers of which are blind in the same eye, and
three other members in the family lame in the
same leg.
Mrs. w, H. Keates of Somer's Point owns a
spinning wheel 125 years old.
Theodore Anderson, q Warren county barber,
has fallen heir to $1,000, bequeathed to him by
a relative. an ex-slave, who accum ulated that
sum in buying and selling secondhand clothes.
Philip Bindernagel, Collector of Taxes in the
township of Union, Hudson County, has fallen
heir to an estate valued at 10000. He received
a letter a few days ago informing him that a
rich aunt, who recently died in Germany, had
1t is reported at the Somerset County home of
Senator William j. Keys that the Senator will
soon dispose of all his valuable stock of horses,
in order to devote more time to his legislativ 9
duties.
At the recent meeting of the Undertakers.
Association OF Monmouth, MiddleSex and Ocean,
which was held at Matawan, the Rev. G. L..
Percy Of that town read a paper, entitled I'm
pleasant Features Connected with Funerals"
Among OF her things he spoke of the evil of con-
tracing debts and lndulging in expensive tastes.
1t is the business of the undertaken to assist dis
tressed humanity In making a proper disposition
of its dead. He cannot afford TO do this as a
work Of charity, and obligations which are made
sacred by the circumstance out OF which they
grow ought to be honorably and conscientiously
discharged. People should avoid as much as
possible expensive OUTLAWS which they know are
beyond their means; also should they avoid
tedious and meaningless funeral customs.
The blackberry canes in South Jersey have
been winter killed, and the crop will be a com
plete failure Thousands OF acres OF black
and this is one Of the chief crops OF that part OF
the State, and especially among Russian Jews
at Alliance. Many OF the small fruit farmers
have ruin staring them i'll the face in conSequ-
ence of the crops failure.
Perth Arnboy IS said to be the repository of
some very fine furniture of the Colonial style:
The town, which is one of the oldest ports OF
entry In the United states, still retains several
of its early dwellings, some of which are oc-
cupied by the descendants of those who built
the houses many generations ago.
The old Mucci Telephone Company, of which
j. R. English of Elizabeth is President, is about
to revIve its charter and begin active operations
in several towns in the State. The company
had a regular system in operation some years
ago, but had to suspend business on account or
Infringing the Bell patents, which are now ex-
piring.
Charles E. Berghoffer, an eccentric citizen of
Summit, is walking from his home to Washing
ton. D. {. He is pulling q small sled, made by
himself, on which is a box of clothing and a
package. carefully tied up, which is said to con-
tain silk flags of every nation on the earth.
The shad fishermen of Gloucester county nave
their nets and boats all in order for the opening
of the season. The season, it is thought, will be
late.
The Cape May Gazette says:-s'The number of
fowls stolen every year in Cape May county
runs into the thousand, and when the value OF
the poultry lost is considered, it Is remarkable
that greater effort is not made to eEtrap the
sneaking scoundrels who commit these tnefts. :"
The Phillipsburg Democrat says:-"Michael
Timmens, the rear brakeman on the Hacketts-
town express, was the Oldest brakeman on the
Morris and Essex Railroa !, and his CHEEKY
Right here!'' has been familiar these many
years to thousands of travellers. He entered
the service of the company about forty years
ago, and, with the exception of g brief interval,
has been brakeman on the Hackettstown ex-
press for thirty-two years. Some years ago the
company issued orders that every employe IN
the train service should be q person able to read
and write. This deprived Michael of his situa-
ton. for he had been denied the privilege OF
schools in the days Of his youth. But, although
he was more than fifty years old, he at once set
about the task Of learning, and applied hims Elf
so industriously that at the end OF two mont rs
he astouished Superintendent Reasoner by
showing him that he could read and write, and
was restored to his old place. His advancing
years, however, and the frequency of rear end
collisions on other roads made a change impera
tive. EF