The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02

The death of John jaime, or JENNIE, at
the Peters brewery ice-houses, in Union
township, where he was employed as night
watchman, should be closely scrutinized by
the authorities. 1t is possible that jaime
may have committed suicide but the proba-
bilities are that he was murdered. More
light may be thrown on the, matter by the
time the TATTLER goes to press, but at the
time we write the matter wears very sus-
picious appearance. jaime evidently had
no intention of killing himself at the time
he visited Kaltschmidt's saloon, and the
fact that his watchman's clock, which re-
quired to be wound every hour, was last
set at IL o'clock, shows that he must have
been killed very soon after that hour, Ger
tainly before midnight, when he would
have been required to wind his clock again
and probably would have done so had he
been alive. The fact that he was in the
habit of visiting Mrs. Klotschni It during
her husbands absence supplies motive
for the murder, and the story told by Klot-
schmidt is very lame in several particulars,
while it is fatty contradicted by his bar
keeper in every essential point. Another
: singular, not to say suspicious fact, is
Klotschmidts statement that he remained
in the yard until o'clock, going into the
house just as he heard pistol shot in the
roadway. Curiosity would naturally have
prompted him to find out why and by
whom pistol was fred so near his house
at that hour of the morning, and the fact
that he did not possess this natural curl
osity is at least singular. jaime may have
committed suicide, it is true, but if there is
no reason for the belief That save the fact
that the pistol was held close enough to his
breast to burn his clothes, the theory
will scarcely hold good. Another man may
have held the pistol to his breast, and in
deed this would have been quite natural if
the men were engaged in a wordy alterca-
ton at close quarters. When James PTS
toI was found one chamber was empty.
But James friends say that he always
carried one chamber empty, with the ham
mer shut down upon the chamber for
greater safety in carrying the weapon. If
this statement is substantiated it will show
that jaime did not discharge his pistol at
all and in that case the suicide theory will
be effectually disposed of.
The distribution of federal patronage in
this State seems likely to prove bone of
contention The Jeffersonian Democratic
Association, of Newark, was the last to
enter the field as factor in this business,
and Mr. julius Emsem, the President, has
recently returned from a visit to Washing
ton, whittier he had gone on business in
that line. The association has preferred
charges of offensive partisanship against
twenty-five Republican officials who have
been active partisans ever since they were
appointed. 1t can be shown that they
were prominent members of the NewJersey
Republican Association, a political club
organized during Grants last term for
offensive and defensive purposes, design
that it carried out in every way until Mr..
Cleveland was inaugurated. Then its
members stopped over and from having
been offensive partisans are now among
the foremost civil service reformers of the
State. 1t is time such men as these were
removed but whether the Jeffersonian
Democratic Club will succeed in getting
them out remains to be seen. The charges
have been preferred but they have not yet
been acted upon and it is by no means
certain they will be. We wish Mr. Emsen
success in his undertaking but the pros
pect does not look very encouraging,
Ihs Bergen hader is struggling with the
problem "Why people don't go to church.
Because they don't, is as good reason as
any other. But this does not satisfy the
Jade1 and it falls back upon the Christian
Union, which says:
Men have to work all the week and want to re-
create on sunday.
They can not dress as well as those with whom
they must associate. and therefore stay away
They think secret societies are as good as the
church.
They are unable to pay for the privileges because
of the high prices Of things which they must have.
The large salaries of the ministers disgust some.
Some feel that minister is hireling and there
fore seeks TO upbula his church as doctor seeks
to increase his practice, not from love Of sols but
to increase his salary.
Some employers Of labor are SO bad in their
treatment Of their employees that the men do not
want to 90 whele they shall meet those in whose
Christianity they have so little faith.