Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-27
NAMES IN JERSEY.
SOME of THE TOWNS THAT MAY ss
 FOUND IN EVERY ATLAS.

fieturesque Nomenclature That Is Orig
 inal and Fresh From the soil-A Native
 Jerseymaas Explanation. of sonrs of
 the Appellatlons
 Other states may tn bigger and richer and turn in q heavier vote. said the man with the woodbine whiskefs twining gently ahout his face, hut for pictnresqueness of nomenclature New Jersey takes the gold medal. "
 You're from Jersey, sir. I suppose. ;, said the man who had just come in from the smoking car
 am, sir, and m proud of it. I como in on this train every day to hagi. ness in the city, and in my leisure mo- ments l make study of the geography of my native state. may say, sir--I think l may say with eontidence--that few men arc sovell informed as 1 npon this interesting subject of New Jcrsey's geographical nomenclature. You ob serve, sir. that I say New Jersey, not Jersey, which Is m undignifed behead. ing of a noble title. ,"
 Possibly it is because I'm q New Yorker, said the man across the aisle, but l have always thought New York to be pretty strong on interesting names.
 i great error, sir, declared he ot the whiskers "A very great error. Your names mn mainly corrupted h. dian titles CT direct cribs from ancient days-lthaea, Marathon, Utica, Homer, Virgil Syracuse, Sempronius. Mo1avia. Rome, Cato, Palmyra aud score Of others. You have borrowed the glolies that should have been buried with Greece and Rome. Onr titles, sir, are dug up from tho soil and replete with meaning. Let me cite some
 Here he pulled small notebook from his pocket, and tfe other nan, with regretful politenesss said he would hs glad to leam something on the subject
 Consider. sir. continued the Jersey. ire, 4the appropriateness of such names ss RagtoWn. Breaklast Point. Camp Claw, Polifly, Eadix, pluckemin. Pock. town, Tlilicta5elnm and Sueeasuna.
 Some of them sound familiar, sai6 tho New Yo1key, but arc all of those real names:'
 Every enc of em Ga the map, sir, :" replied the other warmly. sl'Il give you Sl00 fer any one ct these that isn t q real place. and they fairly reek of the soil. Now. here's another hatch- Bone Hill, Wickatunk. Bamber, Atco, Wollyfeld. Blue Anchor. Blazing Star, Hockamick, Jahokeyvifle. 0ney's Hat, Kalarama, Flyat, Fliekervillo, Zings. em, Wakeake and Batsto. ''
 "They sound as if they were taken from .labberwecky, remarked tie New Yorker. They re utter nonsense.
 Taken straight from the country. side ? ave1red the geGgfapher .4They may not ho very strong on sense Those names l cite merely as instances of pure beauty of sound. If you Ire looking for meaning, l can give that to you For instance. there are Barley Sheaf and Wheat Sheaf, poeticaily suggestive of the agricultural riches of our beautifnl state Our domestic animals arc com. memorated in such fttir2 titles az GoosetoWu, HenSfoot. 1fc1f90 |, Mon keytown, Horseneek and Peaeoektown, while for other animals there are Skunk town, Pole Tavern, which used 10 be Polecat Tavern; PoSteftown If poster ain wild animal l don't know what isl, Snake Hill, pHrtletown, Frogtown, and l don't know hut what Batsto ought to come in there. Tho frogs get another show Tt Manunka Chunk, which is tho name they gave 1t them selves. singing of nights cut in the swamps.
 Now, for the temperance folk there arc blazing signs of warning il such names as Whisky Lane, Gin Point, Jug town and Bnm Tavern, There used to be an innkeeper ill the latter place, by the way, who sued the authorities once q year for maintaining such title and always compromised for cents. with which he bought himself a drink and was well satisfied. One year the authori- ties started in to fight he cnse and the innkeeper i'll disgust quit tho business and Bum Tavern simultaneously. A place with a suggestive title is Naugh. right, which got it's namo from large farm owners sign. nailed on tree at the roadside. No right of way here. They got calling him Old No Right, and when the village sprung up they called it after him. but man who had spelling reform the wrong way n.cde 1t as it now stands. Speaking of spelling, there g one village you can spell either Pacl1nack, Paoquanac, Pequanac o, Peqpannock, bnt you can't pronounce it as the natives do. no matter vANh way you choose.
 "Fhero are some names moro sug- gestive than eautifnl-Serabblet Scrapetown, Slabtown. Samptovn md Solitude, for instance Some belle theiI names, like RecklesstoNn. which is IS peaceful as Il graveyard and ill the same general line of business, keeping it's inhabitants buried far from the cares of this busy world Then there's Round abont, which is 6 plain fonr corners nrOocinu aNd CV.o,t ,at, x7;, L natl;x5,