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

the dynamite business; when the secret OF
his false pretences was in danger of being
exploded Phelan was decoyed to O'Dono-
vans Office and there carved by assassin
Short, while all the dynamiters stood by
and applauded. But when Yseult Dud-
ley treats Jerry to little of his own
medicine. the distinguished patriot throws
up both hands in holy horror and shouts
that this sort of business must be put down.
Assassination may be good enough sauce
for the British gander but he don't want his
own goose cooked that way. And Joyce,
who always stands by to pat jerry admir-
ingIy on the shoulder, says he thinks
Yseult is British spy and if this can be
proved he further threatens to go to Lon
don himself and knock the throne from
under the British queen and pickle Glad
stone in his own gore. A great man is the
O'Donovan- in his own estimation and
Joyce is his chief gas retort
Therecent action of the Board of Finance
in increasing the assessments upon prop
erty along the water front, owned by vari-
GUS corporations, will meet the public APP
proyal. Owing to the peculiar laws of this
State corporations are very fayorably treat
ed in the mrtter of taxes as compared to
the private citizen, and under the circum-
stances it is only fair that their property
should be put up to something like its real
value. The companies will of course tell
you that theEprices fixed by the Board are
excessive, but just try to buy any one of
the lots indicated and see how speedily
they will change their tune. You will find
then that the values fixed by the Board are
only excessive IN the sense of being Excess
siyely low.
The Iribnne finds fault because South
ern negro who committed burglary was
sent to Jail for seven years while white
man who attempted to kill another was sem
fenced for one year. But it is the same
way up here. In New York, recently, two
men were sent to jail for ten years each for
a highway robbery which netted them only
twelve cents apiece, while the woman who
called man out of Bowery theatre and
killed him only got three years and half
Stokes, who killed Fisk, was only imprls-
oned four years. The rufian who killed a
bartender on an excursion boat last Sum-
mer only got about four years. Measured
by these judgments, the negro who stole a
coat-which the Tribune claims was the
only proceeds of his burglary ought to
have got about forty years, unless it was a
pretty good coat, while the man who mere
ly attempted to kill another should have
been let off with about three months. Life
is cheaper than property, all the world
over.
To make the proposed new charter eff
fectiveit must be accepted by a vote of the
people. This is the best idea in the whole
affair. Hitherto the people who are to be
governed have had no voice in the con-
struction or adoption of the fundamental
municipal law under which they lived.
Then if they don't like the work the Legis-
lature has done for them they can reject it.
1t is great pity certain of the gentlemen
who are s'peeling" for new charter now
had not thought of that very simple but
equitable provision when they foisted upon
Jersey City the infamous iniquity they
assisted to invent in 1871, under which the
people were robbed of their rights and the
city of her money, in a manner that would
scarcely have been tolerated in the Dark
Ages.
A moral which before this has probably
obtruded itself upon Premier Gladstone
ssnever send boy to do mans work. .
British soldiery may be the flower of chiy-
airy but what are a handful of Britons
against horde of Arabs? And what has
become of Chinese Gordon's boast that he
could hold his position without assistance
for two years? 1t is one of the sports of
fate that just as Christendom was assured
of the fortunate adventurer's safety be was
upon the eve of his greatest peril, if not of
humiliation.
The death of Rev. DIR. French, on We'd
nesday, removes one of the oldest Presby-
terians in the county, and man who has
rendered excellent service to the cause of
religion among us. Twenty eight years is
long pastorate and with the exception Of
the case of Rev. DR.. Imbrie. pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, and possibly
Rev. DR.. Parmly, of the tGrovs street Bap-
list Church, has probably not been exceed
ed in this city, at least not of late years,
nor in the Presbyterian Church.
Ten thousand dollars is good deal of
money for New Jersey to give to the cotton
exposition at New Orleans, particularly
when not many, if any, of the larger States
have given over SIS, 600. The exposition is,
to certain exteat, business venture of
the Crescent City, and while we should
like to see it made success, $4,000 is too
much. If it should happen to make mil
lion or so there is no proposition to divide
the profits.
Must have been some mistake about the
locality of that terrible triple lynching re-
ported as having occurred in Illinois. Such
an affair could only have happened down
South. The people of no Northern State
would ever have killed three men merely
because court had granted change of
venue in order to insure them the fair trial
they were entitled to. The telegraph wires
have been lying again.
"Honest john Sherman is at it again.
Thinks the Southern vote should not be
counted till he has had a chance to go down