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The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

Father Butler, whose portrait is given
above-and splendidly correct picture it
is of him, too-was lively, good-natured,
jolly kind of a fellow. He liked good COM
pany, could relish good story, as well as
tell one, and was fond of joke. The
young men in the church had put him
down for what they called s'a thorough
bred" long before gossip's tongue found
opportunity to wag about him. He had
been in st. Bridgets parish for about three
years. It is said that his allowance was
$50 or $50 per month. He may have saved
part of this, and as he is said to have had
considerable money with him when at
Easton, it is probable that he did save some
of it. But what he has cannot last long,
and the members of his parish are wonder
ing what he can turn his hand to for a
livelihood when that is gone. If he expects
to fall back upon Miss Bradys inheritance,
he will probably find himself mistaken.
She had an undivided interest in the estate
her father left, but it is nowhere as large as
has been represented. There is not, prob
ably, more than 1000 to be divided be-
tween herself and her five sisters and
brothers, SO that her share will not exceed
$4,000 or $4,000. The very comfortable
support her family have had since her
fathers death comes from the business her
father left, which has been shrewdly man
aged in their interest by Mr.. Hugh Coyle.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04
socIlL Festivities.

we'll furnished house is always a comfort and
pride to its owner we'll as a JOY 10 his wife and
friends. Those who desire well furnished house
should visit Frank j. Hanlyss furniture, carpet
oil cloth and bedding warehouse, 203 Newark ave-
nue., third door above Jersey avenue.
Among those present. few evenings ago, al ths
entertainment given by Airs. Joseph Taylor, at her
residence l07 ST. Pau1s avenue were Emil Hartwie
and Eta Brewer, William Bryson and sister, Robert
Taylor and Joseph g. Taylor and sisters the Misses
Ella and Martha Cannon. Frederick Balkenbury
and W. +. Holbrook. An elegant supper was served
at midnight.
very pleasant time was had at a social gather
ing held at the residence OF Miss Doherty, Mercer
street. Among those present were Arthur BleWitt
and sister, z. K. Jeems and Miss Brown, Harry
Pearce and Miss Shaw, Joseph Deering and lady
Walter OMara and lady, Z. Mccarthy and lady,
Burt Lumson and Miss Jeems, Walter Lennox and
Birdie Granger, Mr.. Granger and daughter, Angus
tus Blewitt and Miss Thornton, Osmund Digby and
sister. Flora Carroll and @. ). Case. of Boston.
The second Anniversary Of the Arion Singing
Club, OF the Heights. was celebrated last Monday
evening at Freudenberger's Dramatic Hall. on
South street. 1he hall was filed with the friends
Of the club. The gathering numbered fully two
hundred. Dancing was the feature of the occasion
but some excellent singing was thoroughly en-
joyed. The reception was in charge OF 3 reception
committe composed Of Julius AckermAn, Vim. uief-
fenbach and FIR, derrick Feibel. j. n Jeutz was the
floor manager, assisted by N. Klein and floor
committee consisting OF VIM. PfeifIer, Henry Hol-
stein and Ernst Brueck.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04
Postal Agent Holland serepad ed.

Mr.. R. III. Holland, the well known pos
ia. agent at the P. R. R. Depot,wa tender
ed serenade on last Monday evening at
the Enterprise Hotel, Thirty-second street.
New York, by the Mysterious Club, of
Philadelphia, numbering 800, headed by
the Primrose Band of forty pieces. They
were met at the ferry by the Gilmore Guard,
Colonel John Wendell, and escorted to the
hotel where Mr.. Holland was stopping.
This guard has been organized since the
war, in which many of the members took
part. Mr.. Holland has been their Chap
lain for over twenty years, and during his
speech he was frequently interrupted by
cheers. He was followed by the veteran
postal clerk, Colonel John Wendell, who
welcomed the visitors to the city. During
the evening there was grand display Of
fireworks. They left for home Wednesday
evening by a special train.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04
SOCIETIES AND LoDGEs.


The Phoenix Building and Loan Association sold
5000 at their meeting last Thursday evening.
The members Of Baldwin Hose Company, Of West
Hobokens viii have group picture taken Of them
selves to day.
Jersey city Lodge. IS. 1. o. o. F., received an
otaeial visit trom Hudson Lodge, Il, same order,
last Monday night.
Furnish your house comfortably for tAs winter
at Frank ]. Hanly's. 203 Newark avenue, three
doors above Jersey avenue.
At Wood Menagh's on can find any article Of
household goods you may require. Lowest prices
and best goods in the city.
The Fellowcraft degree was worked by Enter-
prise Lodge. As. +. 4 a. NJ, at their regular com
munication last Friday evening
public meeting OF the Young Mems Christian
Association was held at the associations rooms
o11 Bergen avenue, last Monday evening.
Mayor Kelly Of Weehawken, paid a visit last
week to his old friend, the next as well a. the
present. Governor Of NewYork State. David r. Hill.
The Rev. Il. Gordon. pastorSelect Of the Grove
Reformed Church. Union Hill, wall be regularly in
stalled Friday evening, the kev. Mr. Mabon having
retired from the DRRroraee.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04
FArREs BU1LER,s EsoApADR
No Tidings Yet Learned of The Runaway
Couple.

Couple.
Church circles continue to be excited
over the elopement of Rev. Father Butler
of St. Bridget's Roman Catholic parish
with Miss Mary Ellen Brady. In fact at
st. Mary's Church last Sunday reference
was made at all the masses to their dis
appearance; and the priests spoke more
in sorrow than in anger of the scandal that
Father Butler has brought upon the
church. Enquiry was made at the house
Of Miss Brady last evening upon the point
whether any tidings had been learned about
them. Mr.. Hugh Coyle said that not a line
had been received from Miss Brady. Teddy
Carroll, who has just returned from his
wedding trip to this city, says that he saw
the couple together on one of the streets
in Chicago, and he wondered what they
were doing there but as he knew nothing
of the scandal their presence in Chicago
did not excite his curiosity to any alarming
extent. This is an indication that they are
not jaunting around the country as many
people imagined they might be, but have
stopping p ace at least. The TATrLER sent
10 newspaper man in Chicago to make
INQUIRY about them, but has learned moth
ing at all of their movements SINCE they
left Easton. The wonder among the church
people is where the money with which they
are sporting around the country has come
from. Father Butler must have accumu-
lated money; for Miss Brady could not
have replenished her purse except by APP
plication to her guardian, Mr. Coyle.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

whose picture this isis % years Of age.
She is not pretty, but she has an intelligent
and attractive face. The scars, of which
SO much has been said, do not disfgure her
countenance noticeably and a casual
glance at her face would not discover them.
She has large grey eyes, and small and reg
ular features. and wears her hair in bangs
over her forehead. Her family feel keenly
the notoriety which she has brought upon
them. So much SO that it is said her
sisters refuse to go to school, and one or
more of them is said to have donned
mourning, as though she had gone to her
grave. The feeling in the parish is very
bitter against Father Butler, but only pity
is felt and expressed for the inexperienced
girl he has taken with him.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04
NOTES FROM NORTH HUDSON.

The third degree was worked last Thursday even
ing by Highland Lodge.
meeting OF Hudson Council, 81. A. L. of H.was
held in Roche's Hall last Thursday night.
VIM. L. Dickinson Council, 54S, received a fra
ternal visit from Guiding Star Council. $40.
The wedding is announced for this afternoon OF
Town Clerk Roach, Of weehaNken. to q New York
young lady.
The second degree was worked by Lodge OF the
Temple. ITO, +. b A. NJ, at their communication,
held last Wednesday night.
Now that you are about to purchase your house
furnishing goods. remember that the largest etock
aud the cheapest prices are to be found at Wood &
Menagh'H.
The eoopers In the employ OF the Standard OH
Company, at the Weehawken dock, presented Fore
man Thomas P. WaIl--who severed his connection
with the company last week-with beautiful gold
watch and cham yesterday week.
Behold the conqueror Of all kidney, liver and
urinary diseases-Hunts Remedy. Sure cure.
Speedy cure 10 all diseases Of the kidneys or
urinary organs by using Hunts Remedy.
What an appetite II gives; how reslful it makes
my sleep. By using Hunts Remedy.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

William H. Parker, a highly respecta-
bic carpenter of this city, was arrested last
Monday morning, having been mistaken
for another man. He was taken befote
Justice Wanser and at once discharged
Mr.. Parker keenly felt the disgrace, and
says he shall make the officer who made
the arrest suffer for his blunder.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

The many friends of Miss II. Commerce
and Madame Louise Mauree are looking
forward to the opening of their Dancing
Academy with much pleasure, as all the
newest dances will be introduced in the
school this Winter, among which we men
ton the Ripple, Lawn Tennis, Lanciers,
Highland Schottische and tluadrille Dig
ganol. Parents will be pleased to learn
that there are to be classes for children
also. These ladies will give much atten-
lion to the department and graceful bear
ing of the children. Parents will be well
coined at the afternoon classes.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04
FACTS FOR AnYERTIsERS.

The SUNDAY TArTLER HAS A CIRCULATION
MORE THAN THREE TIMES THAT OF ALL
OTHER HUDSON COUNTY NEWSPAPERS COM
sINED.
TFts Is A FALsEHooD ON THE FACE OF IT,
BUT WE CAN SAY IT WITH AS MUCH TRUTH AS
THE Journal AND PROPOSE TO KEEp ON SAY
ING IT UNTIL IT HAULs DOWN THE FALSE
coIoRs AT THE HEAD OF ITS coLu4Ns.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

Princeton has been at it again--or,
rather, her Sophomores have. Why these
young men should seek to bring collegiate
life, and particularly the college they
attend. into disgrace. no one knows, but
they will do it-and much too often. But
the Faculty has this time very sensibly
hunted out the offenders and made an ex-
ample of them. There will probably be
peace in Princeton for awhile and Fresh
men will be allowed to play ball without
any interference from the Freshermen of
the Institution.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

the time being He is nov considesing the pro-
priety Of appointing Nonresident of Hoboken.
although he would not be adverse to the appoint-
ment Of Samuel Crissey, IL he could feel satisfied
that this would meet with the appreciation OF the
majority Of Hohnkeu Dnnlocrafa. d
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

Honest John" Sherman will soon cease
waving the ensanguined Enlargement in
Ohio-until further notice. If it is found
to have done good service he will probably
have it patched up for use in 1888, But
we don't believe "Honest John" will wave
it for himself in that campaign, and if he
don't, the query arises, will he wave it at
alla His present wave is not waiver
but bid for the nomination, but we don't
believe it will prove tidal wave to carry
him into office.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

That Hoboken man who married a
woman who had lived nine years with
another man to whom she was not married
was rightly served when his wife,tw days
after, deserted him and went back to her
lover. A deceived husband may be ex-
cused for wearing the cuckold horns he
knows not of but The man who deliberately
places those questionable ornaments upon
his head deserves to be kicked out of
court when he goes to make complaint, as
the Hoboken fellow did.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

We really intended to do our handsome
friend, the Hon. C. J. Donovan. no in
justice in stating last Sunday that he had
Withdrawn from the race for the Surro-
gacy. The information came from a
gentleman who is repository of local
political information, and we assumed
that he had written the fact. He seems to
have been mistaken: and we hasten to put
the Hon. c. j. Donovan in the race again.
We gladly welcome him back TO the fold
It's about time somebody was elected to a
county office for his beauty
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

The North Baptist Church people laid
corner stone the other day, and ia the
stone they laid away, according to the
Journal report, copies of the Evening
journal and the Argus, but meier copy of
The SUNDAY TATTLER. We are not bit
offended at this slight, and we shall treat
the North Baptist Church people as gener-
ously as though they had put the TATTLER
with the other local prints in their sarco-
phagus. But the North Baptist Church
should have some respect for the facts of
history. The Journal and the Argus are
not the only local prints in the town at
this time of their corner stone laying. The
chief of the local papers is in fact the
SUNDAY TATTLER. II it had been placed
In that stone, it would have reflected the
civilization of the age in which the stone
was laid to the generation way off in the
future that is 10 open the stone to see
what is in it. These inquisitive heirs of
the time to come would have concluded,
If they could have been treated to well
preserved copy of the SUNDAY TATTLER,
that the founders of the North Baptist
Church must have been a mighty culti-
waited and civilized community to have
read and patrouized such a paper. They
will never suspect it when they
unfold the musty copies of the
Journal and the To have placed
the SUNDAY TATTLER in that stone
would, too, have informed the future gen.
Grafton of the liberal spirit of the age in
which the stone was buried. The Sunday
newspaper, apart from its merits as pub
LEGATION, is an evidence of enlightened
progress. In justice to the year of our
Lord, 1885, as well as to themselves, they
should have sealed copy of the SUNDAY
TATTLER into the stone. The people of a
hundred or two hundred years from now,
who will be liberal patrons of good news
papers, and of Sunday newspapers. will
wonder first whether the Journal and the
Argus are the best samples of journalism
the city could afford in this year of grace,
and secondly whether the people were so
benighted as not to support Sunday
newspaper. If the North Baptist Church
people left us out because our last issue
had ministerial scandal in it. we would
gladly have supplied them with an older
issue full of nice Sunday school stories.
But perhaps they realize that the TAT
TIERS mission is out among the people,
informing and enlightening them, and not
to be boxed up for eternity. even under q
church pillarl
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

The SUNDAY TATTLER invariably sup
plies the journal with material for two or
three days publications each week. Two
weeks ago we gave it Father Buffers
escapade to follow up. Last Sunday we
put it on the Van Wrinkle case. The
journal is very complete record of the
daily police returns. II spends whole half
columns In telling how Mary jane O'Brien
got drunk, and of her travel to the pene-
Tertiary, and gives the fullest possible de-
tails of saloon rows. But for the live news
of the town-the news that is of real
public interest--it always has to wait for
the TATTLER to give it the cue. The
TATTLER pays no attention whatever to
police news. We do not believe there is
anything SO drearily uninteresting to the
general reader as stories of police court
drunks and The ordinary run of assault
and battery cases. We have no room for
such rot in the paper, and surrender
none of our room 10 it.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

The Newark Common Council has the
corporation tax question before it in
an unpalatable shape. The Council has
been trying for weeks to bring the horse
railroads to terms. The other evening the
companies walked into the chamber and
thrust legal cap document under the
noses of the members. When it had been
opened, it was found TO be a contract"
with the railroad companies for special
method of taxation. A contract seems 10
be The favorite weapon railroads choose to
keep the tax gatherer away; and when it
comes to be enforced. if it is accepted. it
is found, as a rule, TO have hidden mean
ing that leaves the community accepting
ii very much short of what was expected
of it. Contracts with railroads on the
subject of taxation have been the economic
bane of the State from the time railroads
first made their appearance. The people
have SO invariably been duped and fooled
and swindled by them that the Newark
Council may be pardoned for standing
aghast at the mere suggestion of another,
however fair it may seem to be. The
proper thing to do with the railroads, as
with other taxpayers. is to say: There's
the value of your property; there's tie
rate of taxation. Whatever common
process in decimals shows you owe the
city, that payl We want no more. We
will take no lessl"
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

The seaboard papers are exercised over
a proposition to allow nonresident prop
erty owners to vote at the local elections
At Cape May nine-tenths of the property
is owned by non-residenis. The same is
probably true of Asbury Park and of Long
Branch. But they have not word to say
about the management of local affairs.
The rural Town Committeeman, repres-
enting tenth of the property in the
several places. have full power of raising
money, imposing taxes and giving tax
rates. 1t is all wrong. The taxpayers
should have some voice in these questions.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

The Newark Nesos says that both the
competitors for the Presidency Of the
Senate last year are having high time of
it politically in their respective counties
Griggs wants to go back from Passac,
and Schenck is anxious to be returned
from Middlesex. Schenck's detection last
year will probably be enough to beat him,
and Griggs's personal unpopularity is so
great that it is doubtful if even the Hon.
G. A. Hobart can pull his chestnut out of
the fire for him again. sea4
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

What is the ''Piece Price System" under
which the convicts in our State will here
after be required to work? is the question
now being very frequently used. To the
initiated the answer is very plain. 1t is q
system devised by some cunning mind to
satisfy the demands of the labor agita-
tors against contract labor, but under
which the convicts are required TO do
much more labor than they did formerly,
while the receipts will be reduced instead
of increased When men were contracted
out at fifty cents d day it was to the in-
terest of every officer of the institution to
see that these men were not overworked
by the contractors and their task was gen.
orally completed before five in the after
noon. Under the Piece Price System,
that is, a contracted price for each article
manufactured, the management will get
all the work out of tire convicts possible,
and it is already apparent that with longer
hours and greater pressure the men will
hardly earn what they did under the con-
tract system. Thus the very evil COM
planned of by The laboring men has been
increased, and that too by their own
thoughtless agitation. or more correctly,
by their so-called leaders. Under the pre-
sent system there will be more goods
manufactured in the State prison at less
cost to the contractors or manufacturers
than ever has been done in the past.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

Our anonymous correspondent, who
says he is an ''old Journalist" is gently in
formed that he is not the only reader the
TATTLER has, 1t has at least two other
readers. One is firemen, who takes it
for its fire notes, and the other is the lady
whom he contemptuously refers to as
Biddy Mccarthy, who takes it for its
society notes. The fireman pays two cents
for the TATTLER and SO does Miss Biddy
Mccarthy, and the TATTLER prizes their
pennies as highly as it does Old Journal
lists pennies. If '.Old Journalist doesn't
like the fire alarms or the society news,
why, all he has to do is to skip them and
read the rest of the paper, which is made
up exclusively for his benefit.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04
Profess,.r nTiIIer,s Openinn.

Professor j. K Mliisr opened his dancing
school Thursday evening, at st. Johns
Hall, with reception, which was largels
attended. The entertainment was ably
conducted by Directors S. s. 10 and
Oscar Fielding. Among ii ninent
ones were e. Randall and :. Har-
mon and lady. Mr.. J.Crav sister,
Mr. S. Price and wife, n and
wife, Miss Maggie Lane Miss
Falkner, Mr.. Robert Rick
man, ]. Hood and la others
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

"How soon are we forgottenr Already
Minister Phelps has driven the magnificent
Mr.. Lowell out of the British Lions head.
Now it will be in order for Mr.. Lowell to
satirize the ungrateful animal in some
Hosea Bigelow Papers" If he does we
will forgive him. fer then we shall once
more have something worth reading
from his pen.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

When the non-paying corporations of
the State found that Governor Albeit was
in earnest about making them pay up,
very many of them concluded to settle.
There's nothing like little solid determin-
alton in these matters. When fellow
finds another fellow with backbone q
trifle sitter than his own he collapses,
Corporations are built on the same prin-
ciple.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04
The iurY thal conyicted west Of bigamy

The jury that convicted West Of bigamy
did their duty promptly, which all juries
do not The evidence. His effort to
weaken the testimony given by bis son by
swearing that the boy was Legitimate,
shows him to be an unmitigated scQundrel.
The Court sentenced West to six years
imprisonment. This is we'll, though ten
years would have been better.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

The Sheriff of Monmouth was unkind
enough to place the names of the news
paper men of the country in the box when
he selected his last jury, and the result
was that five editors were drawn. Luckily
they have only weekly papers down that
way or the unfortunates would be put to
still greater trouble. 1t is perhaps lucky
for the Sheriff that be can't run again, or
the editors might combine to write him
up or down to the utmost of their ability.