The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-11-15


Judge Mccormack decided that the prose-
cution could not prove any habitual selling
beyond the day fixed in the Indictment
This made the conviction of the defend
ants impossible, and euchered the genial
Charley out Of about five hundred dollars.
He returned to Jersey City wiser if not
richer man.
There was quite celebration at the resi-
dence of Mr.. Chas F. Kaegebehn, in
Hoboken, last Wednesday evening, the
occasion being the birthday of the mistress
of the house. A fine collation. was served,
and dancing was kept up until the small
hours of the morning.
If our Supreme Court should decide the
railroad tax suits against the companies,
the cases will be appealed, first to our
Court of Errors, and in the event of that
body sustaining the lower Court, they will
be carried to the United Supreme Court
for final adjudication.
Mr.. Benjamin Lee and Mr.. Richard Jen-
kins, of Camden, do not deny that they
met Senators Mcpherson and Sewell in a
private room at the Continental Hotel.
Philadelphia, last September, but assert
that the meeting was of an entirely social
character, and had no political significance
whatever.
The case against druggist Am Ende will be
tried before Judges McGill, Brinkerhof
and Beach during the early days Of the
December term and the defence will be
conducted by Messrs. Hoffman and Bes-
son. Am Ende has disposed of all his in
terest in his Hoboken drugstore and chem
cal laboratory.
Mr.. G. D. w. Vroom, of Trenton, who
| delights in posing as the leader of the anti
! Albeit wing of the New Jersey Democracy
| (as he calls it), and who recently foisted
| his Assembly candidate upon the people of
the Third (Trenton) District, must feel
rather cheap since his man was defeated by
nearly 400 votes in a district that ordinarily
has Democratic majority of at least 500.
1t does disturb the even temper of Con-
gresham Pidcock to be asked fifty times a
day why the Democratic Senatorial candi-
| date was defeated in Hunterdon at the late
election instead of being victorious by
at least 800 votes, and his good nature is
not restored when told that his candidacy
for Congress last Fall is the cause of the
unheard of defeat in that Democratic
stronghold.
The recent canvass of Mr.. Wolbert for
the office of Surrogate reminds us that in
| 1868, when Mr.. Cleveland was nominated
for Congress, Wolbert was President of the
jackson Association, then a very inhuen-
tial Democratic organization in our city.
With bitterness peculiarly his own, Mr..
Wolbert denounced the nomination of Mr..
Cleveland, and when, Notwithstanding, the
organization endorsed the same, Mr. VOL
bert at once resigned and worked for the
denomination of the Republican candidate,
George A. Halsey.
| Tho ,1~o,,oea1 ,1v.oboe, ~, 4Io
Council of the old Camden and Amboy
shop for the purpose of opening River
street after our Court of Errors has decided
that the street belongs to the city, meets
with the opposition of all the taxpayers,
and is pronounced huge job for the steal.
ing of the river front by the corporations
If the people allow the Council to make
that purchase, they waive their rights tc
the foot of the street at the river front, and
abandon the suit now pending in the United
States Supreme Court.
Three hundred coDvicts now employed
on the shirt, collar and cuff contract in the
State Prison under the piece-price system
earn less than twenty-five cents a day q
pair, although they do fully one-third more
work than they did formerly at fifty cents
a day. These are the contracts that Cover.
nor Albeit and Keeper Laverty refused tc
sanction, but were nevertheless put il
operation by the Board CT Inspectors ant
Supervisors. On all the other contracts
the convicts earn as much as they die
under the contracti system, although i
must be admitted that they bave to d.
much more work than formerly for tn,
same amount of money.
The North Hudson County Railway Com
pany will again appeal from the verdict il
the May case. Thres trials have already beer
had. In the first, the jury brought in
verdict for May in the sum of $12, 900
That was set aside as being excessive and
contrary to the weight of testimony. In
the second trial, the jury found for the
Company. Then Judge Knapp granted
another new trial on the plea of plaintiff
that he had discovered an important new
witness. The result was a verdict for Sc, 900
Mr.. Bonn, the President of the Company
declares that they would willingly have
paid the first large verdict had Mr.. May
been injured by any fault of the Company's
agents, but that he has most positive proof
to the contrary. Mays spine was broken
and he is crippled for life. At all three
trials he was carried into court on
stretcher.