The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-12-27
RANDOK ,JOrTTNGs.
Medley Of Personal, Political and Social
Notes About People We All Know.


Mr.. Theophilus Butts is spoken of as a
candidate for the Hoboken Mayoralty.
Will New Jersey erect no monument
over the grave of General Mcclellan?
Mrs. John R. Mcpherson has recovered
fully from her recent severe indisposition.
The Disque murder trial will be begun
next Monday, and the defence will be in
sanity. fso ~ a
The court house oars from Hoboken will
hereafter be run on five instead of ten min
ute time.
sane Asylum at Snake Bill is not what it
should be. -.---- 49,. s
The people of Hoboken are promised
the new electric light before the end of the
coming week.
It now looks as if the row with Col. Hart
would result in the Acknowledgement of the
Ninth regiment.
Chief Justice Beasley will give a grand
reception at his Trenton residence some
time in January.
Senator Sewell viii be sat home" to his
friends on New Years day at his stately
Camden mansion.
Mayor Timken will receive the compli-
ments of the season at the Hoboken City
Hall next Friday.
Col. John w. Romano. of Governor Alb
belts staff. has resigned as emigrant agent
of the Erie Railway,
Cul. Barcaiow will again come to The front
and manage things as of yore in the halls Of
the next Legislature.
Governor Albeit will not engage any per-
maRent quarters at Trenton during the ses-
sion of the Legislature.
The invitations for the first reception of
the Palma Club will be ready for dlstribu-
ton within few days.
The Behrens divorce suit is furnishing
the scandal-mongers of Hoboken with
choice material for gossip.
The wife of Thomas V. Gator fell heir to
another immense fortune by the death of
her grandmother, Mrs. Post.
All the distinguished prisoners at Tren-
ton now march through the centre daily
with the rest of the convicts.
MIR. Runyon would rather be reap
pointed Chancellor than be elected Gov
ernor or United States Senator.
All the new ferry boats of th 9 Hoboken
Company will be placed on the Fourteenth
street line when put in operation.
The Grand Jury will not meet again until
Monday, January 4th, and thus far has
only found about seventy indictments.
Prosecutor Winfield expects to sail for
Cuba about the middle of next month. and
will not return before the end of March.
The Alaska Penal Colony scheme of Mr..
Mcpherson smacks too much of the Euro
pean way of disposing of poll teal prison
ers.
So great is the fame of the Hon. Chas.
ID. Winfield as an after dinner speaker that
he is invited out to dine every day IN the
year.
Governor Albeit declined the invitation
to be present at the great dinner of the
Baltimore and Ohio people at Staten Island
recently.
The only daughter of the late General
Mot had very serious and painful sur
glcal operation perforMed upon her face
recently.
1t now seems very likely that Mr.. Sam
uel Randall will find place on his Com
mlttee OF Appropriations for Congressman
McAdoo.
Ex-Mayor O'Neill, of Hoboken. the Su-
perlntendent of the Government Bureau
of Engraving, was home with his family
over Christmas
1t requires a residence in this State to
practice before the courts of the land, fact
that number of well-known lawyers seem
to have forgotten.
And now they say it is New York's favor
tie son, Mr.. Abram Hewitt, and not our
own Billy McAeIoo, who will be chairman
of the Naval Committee.
Inspector Pancoast, of the State Prison
Board, does not seem possessed of nice
sense of discrimination relative to the
duties devolving upon him.
The next reception of the Independent
Soclables will be held at the residence of
Ju go and Mrs. Marcus Beach on the
evening of the 7th of January.
The bloody lounge upon which poor
Mrs. Disque breathed her last is now in
Prosecutor Winfeld's Office, and will be put
in evidence at the trial next week.
Both Mr.. Orestes Cleveland and Mr..
Henry Lembeck are urged by host of
friends and admirers to contest for the
Mayoralty in this city next spring.
Counselor Herbert will move to set aside
the verdict in the Plume-Potter case on
the plea that verdict of only $500 was not
at all in keeping with the testimony.
There is no improvement in the condi-
Cion of Mr.. Max Chaser, of Hoboken, who
threatens to make another attempt for the
political scalp of Senator Mcpherson.
Among the many fair equestriennes at
Hexamer's riding academy Miss Annie Post,
Miss Ida Meyer, aud Miss Anna Sierck
carry off the honors for grace and dash.
Sheriff Heintze has added to Keeper
Lavertys menagerie by placing in his
keeping his well known bloodhound Lady,
the champion beef-eaterof of the county.
The handsome horse and buggy pre-
sented to Director Govern, of the Board of
Freeholders, has broadened the perpetual
smile Illuminating the face of that gentle
man.
We would wager big apple that Am
Ende, the Hoboken druggist who caused
the death of the two Miss Holtz's, will
plead guilty when it comes to the last
notch.
If the jury didn't bring in the tull amount
claimed in the Plume Potter libel suit, is
was no fault of Judge Knapp, whose
charge for the plaintiff was vigorous and to
the point.
The Hon. Gottfried Kruger proposes to
open his magnificent new public hail in
Newark in a few weeks, with appro pirate
exercises, to which the leading men of the
State will be invited.
Col. Fuller's experience as counsel to
the Board of state Prison Inspectors has
probably taught him the folly and danger
of representing in a legal capacity both
parties to a controversy.
Last Monday the New Jersey sheriffs had
meeting at Philadelphia to decide whether
or not they wanted any favors at the hands
of the next Legislature 1t was decided to
let well-enough alone.
The entire appropriation for the rebuild
ing Of the burnt portion of the State House
has been expended in the erection of the
foundation, and the building of vaults un-
derneath the old and the new structure.
There is no truth whatever in the publ
cation of some of the papers that Keeper
Laverty is at loggegheads with the Board
of State Prison Inspectors, or that he pro-
nounces the piece-price system failure.
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