Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-09-01
OUR TRENTON LETTER.

MIR. EDITOR Al some future time,
when fortune, bad luck to the jade, re-
leases my nose from tie grind-stone, /
intend to visit your beautiful and enter
prising city, to see the various improve
ments, the beautiful residences. and take
wink at the pretty girls, for which it
is famous, but more especially to get
acquainted with the compositors and
proof-reader of the gay little well-armed
MONITOR. The way they butcher my
sentences, and pervert their meaning
would rouse the ire of middle aged
lobster, and even make tax collectors
weep. Do you know that [ think you
people Of Elizabeth presume somewhat
on your better and more enterprising
class of citizens, and take every oppor-
&unity to revile our little village, and
poke fun at our old fogy ideas, &c.
Nov, | know it's true we have no park,
and no decent market, but then we can
2offset your park by our Swamp"
within whose classic precincts Turks the
back ground of the Chicago Conven-
4tion, aud, when you yell market, we
answer you with our Common Council,
1the assembled wisdom of the city,
whose motto is thousands for the cor
5poration dinner, but not one cent for
Improvements !" and then we have the
( bell on the German Catholic Church,
(which is bound to ring three times q
day a. M, IL M, and 6 p. m.-and
(which occasionally forgets to ring at 6
|p. M, and makes up the deficiency by
Rpeaing sforth its dlscordant notes at
half-past 6. It's true we have no Mon
rToR, and that is the where we envy
you.
We had comet here last week, or,
ht least, the tail of one, which created
E buch excitement among the verdant
nd superstitious, who thought its
hastily appearance predicted the total
isruption of all things earthly. A
buntry justice of the peace happened
o be in town, slightly elevated, as re-
cards the mind, and slightly depressed,
S regards the body corporate, thought
was the moon on spread" and
6 las heard expressing his maudlin won
aerment as to where it got it's liquor
from, and wishing he could be thar,
br thar abouts.
Last Monday was the closing day for
he reception of taxes, and the scenes
bround the door of the tax receivers
Sbffice, in the City Hall, were infinitely
amusing. The crowd who had put off
This disagreeable duty of paying taxes
Until the eleventh hour, were mainly
Irish and German, and many were the
Eries for Bill Crassley" and "Pill
H1raussley," but that grand moloch per
Horned his task of receiving their
money and signing their bills with
refreshing deliberateness, and a nom
ehaIance perfectly sublime. Bill is a
character in his way, and those who
take him for fiat" had better sell
jout before they are sold. Cloke, of the
Gazette, in an absurd attempt to be
witty, compared the crowd to the luck
less virgins mentioned in one of the
Bible parallels. rather. an inaps~ com
parison, as I doubt whether there was
a virgin among them if there was,
they smelled confoundedly of bad rum
and worse onions.
Tuesday night, as some gentlemen
we're swimming in the Feeder, they
were startled by loud cries for help,
and saw two men running full speed
down the bank. Proceeding to the
spot from whence the cries appeared to
come, they found nude woman, who
stated that she had been brutally gag
ged, outraged, and her clothes taken
from her. There was quite an excite
ment in the city over this dastardly
act, but as the woman is of very re-
spectful parentage, no name was given
and the affair was hushed No clue
has been found to the villains, as they
were perfect strangers to the victim.
Mr. Emerson, the great saw inventor,
of this city, who lately returned from
an extensive tour through Europe,
brought with him II most remarkable
piece of mechanism, which was made in
Brussels, for the Paris Exposition. 1t
is complete shotgun, which can be
loaded and discharged, and yet weighs
less than half an ounce. After the Elk
position it was sold again and again,
and at last it turns up in the hands of a
Trentonian.
Tomorrow there is to be n gay time
at Quintin's track. A trot between
George Shreve's Maggie Biles and
Dave Trout's bay horse Bully King,
Bully is the favorite, but it will no
doubt be closely contested race.
According to an ordinance enacted
by Common Council, and voted upon
by our-citizens at the last spring cleo