The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-02-22

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specimens of manhood than he they must
be good mission field. Bat there must be
more civilization there than he represents.
Mr. Braker's refusal to serve as alp.
because he didn't want to lie in bad CON-
pany, reflects credit upon his judgment.
Keep up the agitation It will end in good.
The Dogberries must go--n not this year
some other year.
-Partisanship has descended to con
temptibley low level when House Com
mittee refus es to take steps 10 secure to the
New York TSnes's Trenton correspondent
his right to his desk because he represents
mugwump paper.
| Eddie Fox's brother is bewildered to
know just who is responsible for the debt
contracted by Superintendent of Public In
struetion, Apgar, with him for printing con-
nected with New Jerseys exhibit at the
New Orleans Exposition.
Senator Ezra Miller, of Bergen. takes
the bun for drawing his salary and staying
in Trenton just long enough every winter
to do SO. 1t is to be hoped that Bergen
County will have a man who Will represent
her in the Senate next term.
The bill for boulevard in Hudson
County ought to pass. So much of Jersey
City as the railroads do not wans is admira-s
bly, adapted to become place of residence,
and she hasn't an attraction now to offer
those who would like to make their homes
within her limits
Senator W. B. Miller was called from
his seat in the Senate last Tuesday by a
telegram announcing the sudden death of
his sister, and later in the day Senator
Cochran received a despatch summoning
him home at once on account of the death
of his sister-in-law.
We neglected to say it last week, and
we shall not probably take the trouble to
say it next week, but we want it known and
understood now and for all time that it Is
the opinion of the TArrLER that brown, the
the chief of the scrub women and spittoon
cleaners at the State House, is NO GOODf
Attorney General Stockton has decided
that the Legislature has no power, under
the constitution, to pass laws RENTING for
good behavior the terms of convicts in the
State prison, consequently the bill intro
duced recently taking off two-thirds of
convicts term for good behavior can not
become law.
Governor Abbetts first veto gave the
Republican majority an elegant rap on the
knuckles. 1t was an amendment to law
that never had an existence. The same
carelessness in the passage of acts almost
wiped out the State militia the other day,
by amending the wrong section of the law
rec ulating that branch of the service.
1t is to be hoped that, the citizens who
are to appear in Trenton this week to OPP
pose Senate Bill No. %, will cut their hair
short before starting, SO as to look as
much like State-prison:c onvicts and Senator
Griggs as possible. Under no circumstances
should DR.. Quimby be allowed to go unless
he consents to disguise himself by having
his head shingled.
--Ex-Senator Jarrard's ingenuity is said
to have conceived and formulated the time
Communication bill for the benefit of conviets
that Attorney General Stockton sat down
so hard on, one day last week. The idea
of an English Subject attempting to run
the Legislature of the State from q dun
geon in the States prison has the merit of
novelty, at least.
Senator Nichols says in the Bridgeton
Pioneer the bill authorizing the Boards of
Freeholders to appoint County Superinten-
dents of Public Schools where there has
been vacancy for six months, originated
in the dispute between the Passaic Free
holders and the State Board of Education
when the latter appointed an Objectionable
Democrat, whom the FreehoIders refused
to confirm. When the bill came up in the
Senate some time ago, President Schenck
did not vote; but on learning that it was
Republican caucus measure, he consented
to support it, and finally voted in its favor
SO that it secured majority.
The Newark Advertiser says that the
special significance of the Senate bill re-
pealing the act requiring bell cord to be
placed in every passenger train is that
former employee of the Camden and Allan
tic Railroad (now controlled by the Penn
sylvania) recently brought suit under the
bill for several thousand dollars for repeat
ed violation of the act, as the law gave the
informer half the fine. The passage of the
bill will probably enable the company to
throw the case out of the court. The vio-
lations complained of were on freight trains
to which caboose-car was attached, for
the accommodation of stock men and
freighters.
The discussion of Frambach's bill, re-
curing the burial of bodies four feet under
ground, was accompanied by the distribu-
ton of pamphlet giving the result of the
investigation by the North Bergen Town
ship Committee into the manner of making
interments in the cemeteries located in that
township. In the Wehawken cemetery one
coffin was found to be only twenty-one
inches and another only twenty-five inches
below the surface. Another coffin, in the
Palisade cemetery, was only eleven inches
down; and there were several there less
than three feet under ground In the
county burying ground there was a grave