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TRENTON GOSSIP.


Five per cent. is good enough, If fell
low can'tget any more.
For freshness. new milk is nowhere
when some Of the pages are around.
-Kirckner, of Union, is gaining the repu-
tation Of being the s'cranks of the House.
The Legislature will observe Washing
toms Birthday by honoring his example in
attending to its business.
Senator Herring wants to reduce the
number of coroners in each county from
three to one. Ones enough
Senator Youngblood surprises us !
Who'd ever have suspected him of voting
for temperance resolution?
There isn't man in the Assembly who
has SO elegant ''pull' with his fellow legis-
lators as 'sSam' Dickinson has.
Andrew Kirkpatrick, the newly ap-
pointed Judge of the Essex Common Pleas,
is son of former Chief Justice of the
State.
Governor Albeit will not attend the
annual dinner of the Board of Trade at the
Hotel Brunswick, New York, tomorrow
night.
Frank Huber, the Senate bill clerk,
awaited himself of a golden opportunity
last Wednesday night and painted the town
carmine.
Attorney General Stockton's chance of
a Cabinet position would have been much
better than it is if the argus had not adyo-
Gated him.
Senator Griggs was at the Alumni din
ner of Lafayette College, of which he is a
graduate, at the Brunswick Hotel last Fri
day night
The House held its first all Thursday
session last week. The Senate adheres to
its custom of going home on Wednesday
afternoon.
Nothing in the world can ever give Q
tone of Judicial dignity to the sharp, shrill
rasping, piping voice of Essex County's new
law judge.
The House was a little previous even
if it was year behindhand in denouDcing
the acrobatic pulpit orator of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle.
The Attorney General sits down with
all his weight on the bold scheme to legis
late the official and bank rascals out o.
State prison.
|
The Governor has received an invita-
ton to attend the ceremony of the laying Of
the corner stone of the new capitol building
at Austi2, Texas.
Judge Westcott, the newly-appointed
President Of the Camden County Courts,
was reared in the office of Judge Reed
whom he succeeds.
Its wonder that SO handsome bache.
Tor as Sam Dickinson hadn't got bouquet
before. But then you ought to see his col
lection of valentines
| Ex-senator Merritt, of Camden, who
failed in business for large amount in
Philadelphia last year, has connected him
self with New York house.
Washington B. Williams was one Of
lawyers who argued the question of judicial
reform before the House Committee on
Judiciary last Tuesday evening.
-Assemblyman Heck made an argument
before the Municipals Corporations Com
mittee last Tuesday evening in behalf Of
the Washington street bridge bill
-Bayard Stockton, son of the Attorney
General, has gone to the New Orleans Elk
position on an appointment y Governor
Albeit as Alternate Commissioner.
-Senator Brinkerhof made a gallant
little fight the other evening against the
irrepealable contract infamy proposed BY
Senate bill No. 28, but it was Intellectual.
The Republican members of the House
| commend Assemblyman Besson's speech on
Corbin's bill for the new State Bureau OF
Labor, Charities and Correction very highly.
| Somebody tells US that DIR. D. G. Sal
tonstall, of the very useless County Board
| of Health, has had the superb cheek to ask
to be appointed State School Superintend-
ent.
From his description of the '1ong- haired
anti-monopolists of Jersey City, it is in
ferable that Senator Griggs thinks that DIR.
Quimby is the only anti-railroad crank in
this locality.
We learn from the Trenton Times that
Assemblyman Braker is the correspondent
at Trenton of the Camden Daily Post. We
concluded he was bright enough to be a
newspaper man.
The death of ex-Congressman Brigham
takes from life one OF the brightest men
| that ever sat in the State Legislature. He
was one of the most finished orators the
TATr1ER ever heard.
Mr. Harrigan's introduction of the
wandering Italian ACCORDION player to fhe
Clerks desk during Thursdays session Of
the Assembly, was funny or not, ACCORDION
to the way you look at it.
The House Municipal Corporations
Committee (Assemblyman Dickinson, Chair
man, will give hearing, in the Assembly
Chamber, next Tuesday evening, on Senate
Dill No. %. A full house is expected.
-Assemblyman Chapman would like to
be made State Superintendent of Schools.
Apgar, it is said, can't possibly score a re-
appointment. Senator Chattle has rela-
tive named Greene who is also anxious for