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Jottings.

• The May term : of the Union county curtwOl b-ii.one wek from Tuesday, ' Tramps are numerous at Westfield this apriur, t "are caoslnt; much aanoyanoe, especially to farmers. At a pond near the Terrell road there were about twenty tramps yesterday engaged ia washing their shirts. ; There will be a shooting match at Camp- belFa dub house tomorrow between two wellknown fUiaflsld spoVumen. The reports are not yet all In. but the indieatiosa are that tim Plalanekl Saenger- bund fair of last week wiu net folly $800
• The Somerset County Historical Society will meet at the Reform Club Rooms at Somerville, next Monday afternoon at 3:30.
• We notice in an exchange that Dorie Bush of Pottersvillle recently set 65 horse shoes in one day. Can Plainfield shoers do beUerl , ,-, '- i The Be. J. Beers, of New Market, has resigned the charge of the Episcopal church there. : His farewell sermon will be delivered oa Sunday. ." Surrey have been made for a projected railroad from Kingston, In Somerset county, to Trenton. The line is mapped out to run just this side of Princeton. - - -Next Monday will be Gen. Grant's sixty-third birthday, and in some portions of the country preparations are being made to observe it in a becoming manner. -
• The Elisabeth Athletic Club will proably run a ball nine this season after all, as the opposition among the members to its discontinuance has been Tory strong. The Elisabeth saloon keepers, who hays TJorsisteiL la jwlUsyr. liauor on Sunday , now wish they hadn't. The Law and Order Society has been making a hard fight against them, and many licenses have been refused. The Pennsylvania Railroad company have- commenced the work of enlarging their tracks at Elisabeth station. As soon as sufficient property can be secured along the line of Railroad avenue, four tracks will belaid. The Board of Health of Elisabeth have determined that no hogs will be allowed to he kept within the city limits. Several have already been found, and the Board has ordered that they be taken away and the bog pens cleaned up.
• Officer Lynch arrested Theodore Dunlap yesterday afternoon on East Second street near Park avenue for being drunk and using profane language. Dunlap also wanted to throw a brick at a man. He was discharged this morning to appear before Judge Good on Monday morning at ton o'clock. An exchange says that from Chimney Rock on clear mornings every town and village between New Market and Clinton can be distinctly seen with the naked eye, also trains on the Philadelphia and Reading, Lehigh Valley. Millstone and New Brunswick railroads, and the Raritan and Mill stone rivers and the Raritan canal as far as East Millstone. The Albany Argus very appropriately remarks: Tbe merchant who refuses to ad vertise because he thinks everybody knows where' his store is and the kind of articles he sells, will find out sooner or later that be has made a mistake. The most successful merchant in Albany are those who are the heaviest advertisers." The same may be said of Plainfield merchants. John Ulrich, reported yesterday having stated in court, as counsel, that a church meeting . held in Warren township. bad approved of the granting of a license to Ferdinand Glaentier to keep an Inn and tavern at Mt, Bethel, appears.to have been misunderstood.. He should have been re ported as having stated to the court that residents of the township held a meeting in the church for the purpose, not that it was the church people. Mr. Ulrich does not wish his temperance friends to be misled as to his action in such matters. Last, week a few trifling errors crept into our -columns. n a personal about the re turn of the wife of Fire Commissioner Frederick Knowland, from Florida, whither she bad gone to benefit her health, we referred to him as "F. W. Knowland. In another item we referred to the return of the martens, but the name was spelled erroneous ly "martins." We are amused from week to week, as we witness how faithfully our weekly neighbors copy The News' items, errors and au. ; vvitn a wnoie weeK to rehash our items and "with the editors residents more than a qoarter of a century, our weekly scribes ought to know at least so popular a citizen as Mr. Knowland . and such old visiators as the martens, and no doubt do, if they stopped to think, and did not follow us so blindly, although it shows their confidence in our accuracy generally.

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