The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-11-29


public schools.
The defeat of "Colonel p. Farmer
Wanser Is agitating Mr.. Moritz Hammer
sclag to degree that threatens injury to
his health and gives his friends cause for
serious alarm.
Mrs. e. F. C. Young is the verifcation of
the old saying that valuable goods are
done up in small parcels" and she is the
with her presence.
Prosecutor Winfield is still the possassoE
of very fine baritone voice, and his
IfsLarry McHale" never fails to be greeted
with thunders of applause when gwen at
the jolly-end. of a,banauetsAda saH sf
The many friends Of ex-senator Paxton
are jubilant because of the heavy strike in
oil their favorite scored last Tuesday. He
bought in the morning and realized hand
some profit before evening is
Only the foundation Of the newly to be
erected portion of the State House has
thus far been completed, and the Commiss-
ion is awaiting further developments that
is, an additional appropriation.
The new elevated railroad from tie Ho
boksn ferry to the bill,top viii probably
not be in operation. before the beginning VI
the new year. Attaching the grii to the
c.rs is very intricate and slow work. 81
After years of practice and study, the
genial Charley Jordan has at length reached
the high G., and when he strikes that rare
note in one of his favorite songs, bis listen
ers fairlyscream with delight. 81.
The Washington Market game dealers
are preparing for the return of Commits
sioner Reynolds, Mr. Orlando W. Taylor
and ex-Justice David w. Lawrence from
their Maryland shooting expedition. %
Ek-Sheriff Daubmann, of Camden, who
has created 80. much connection in the
politics Of that county during the last ten
years, has now retired from the political
arena and returned to glass blowing.
q The full sized arm chair of living flowers
presented, by Mcdonald, the New York
florist, through Mrs. E. F. @. YouAg to the
Palma Fair last Monday, was triumph of
the florists art, and attracted much atten-
tom ~. aus3cag8 aHsflH5 54 "a
Prosecutor Winfield has taken the "bino-
cle'f craze. and now deyotes all his idle
houfs practicing at that German game of
cards 1t is said that Counselor Max Sailing
or was the cause of Mr.. Winfeld'si afaica
tions. ali7B baa, 95baiN Bl b.
Mr.. Jack Laird, the Secretary of the
Democratic State Committee, does not
comprehend the wisdom of National
policy that has thus long kept him from
occupying a foremost seat in the councils of
the Government a92 bi ~
Jerusalem Freeze, who has been practis-
ing medicine in Philadelphia since his re-
lease from our State prison, and whose
unique and unsightly tomb mars the last
resting place of General Mcclellan. is lying
at the point of death.
Mr.. John H. Bonn will leave Hoboken
next spring and return to his first love.
Union Hill. He has purchased the Stehr
mansion, near his former home, and will
rebuild and renoyate it to meet the re-
quirements of his family.
1.-THE friends of Mr.. Ben. Edge and Mr..
William F. Albeit have nearly bankrupted
themselves at the fair of the Palmar Club,
in trying to prove Cat ten cents vote) that
their respective faverite is the most popu-
lar member of the club. 5lE
"Colonel Noonan, as the Hon. Thomas
is known throughout the State, has earned
his title on the stump in the war for the
election of Grover Cleveland last fall. He
will make gallant fight for his constitu-
ency in the legislature the coming session.
Clarence Sackett il overwhelmed with
the kindly notices given him by his breth-
eren of the press on the occasion of his
marriage, and regrets that lifetime rarely
offers more than one opportunity for such
an overflow of kind feeling and good fellow
ship.
And still they announce themselves-the
heirs presumptive of old Jacob Schweiler,
the deceased treasurer of the North Hud-
son County Railway Company, from all
parts of Germany and France. But the
estate has already been distributed and the
account with its costs closed.
Captain Gordon, the abductor of Addie
Breslin, who will now begin his term of
five years in the State Prison, after waiting
for over two years in our Jail for the Court
OF Errors to decide his appeal, is brother
of the notorious SLAYER Gordon. who was
hung in the New York tombs in 1861.
Surrogate Crater, of Monmouth. is called
the ''LittIe Napoleon" of politics of that
County. 1t was he who forced the nomlra-
ton of Staff Little for Senator last year, in
spite of great odds, and he was in anything
but pleasant frame of mind when his
nominee showed the white feather and
withdrew from the canvass.
In quibbling over the price to be paid
for the opening of River street the Hobo
ken taxpayers seem to lose sight altogether
Of the much more important question in
volyed, namely, that by making that pur-
chase they waive all their rights to the river
front, at the foot of the street, and abandon
their suit now in the o. S. Supreme Court.
Mr.. William Walter Phelps has recently
added greatly to the establishment of his
magnificent Washington residence, and will
draw to his hospitabie board during the
coming session of Congress all who are
prominent in the Republican politics of
New Jersey Both the New Jersey Sena-
torial and Gubernatorial booms will be care
fully within those gilded walls nursed.
Who would have thought that Tommy
Fitzgerald, the Trenton correspondent of
the New York Herald, would ever have
taken unto himself wifep Yet he did
pledge his VOWS to Miss Josie LLOYD last
Tuesday, and all the journalists of Mercer.
and some from afar, gathered around to see
1im make the venture ssFitz" was ALWAYS
noted for his nerve and enterprise.
The application of the Rev. Mr. Samuel
Dodd, for an increased allowance as execu-
Tor of the will of Edwin Stevens. his
law, looks as if the death of Mr..
Shippen this co-executor) has broken up
the harmony heretofore existing in the
;amily of the deceased Hoboken millionaire.
If the matter is not amicably adjusted very
developments may be expected. |
It now looks as if great railroad battle |
would enliven the next session of our Legis- |
atufe, and the boys are already happy over |
he prospects of substantial recognition. |
The Baltimore and Ohio people will use |
7ery convincing arguments for the obtain |
ng of a charter to build bridge from 1
elizabeth 10 Staten Ialand, so as to reach
heir new terminus there, while the other
runk roads will combat their efforts with
he same kind of ammunition.
1t should be. distinctly understood that
leither Comptroller Andersen nor State
Treasurer Tofey ever held any communion,
"a members of the Board of State Prison
Inspectors, with any of the noted cony:cts /
confined there, or lowered thamaelves by
eeking their advice aAd counsel as other
'ronAinent gentlemen have done. They