The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-04-26
Although Mr., Conrad N. jordan Is a New


Although Mr., Conrad N. Jordan Is New
York business man, New Jersey
has family interest in his
appointment to the position of Trea-
surer of the United States. he has two or
three brothers living in this city-one of
them member of the Board of Finance,
another an Alderman and likely to be
President of the Board-and his appoint
ment arouses neighborly interest among
u.s. Some New Jersey influence doubtless
assisted Mr.. Jordan too in achieving his
position, though the decisive effort in
his behalf was doubtless made by
ex-President Samuel j. Tilden, whose
closest confidence his enjoys. When
it is said that Mr.. Jordan's selection was
the work of the Sage of Greystone, moth.
ing need be added in proof of his perfect
fitness for his new post.
Spring is to be complimented upon hav-
ing at last put an end to Winters lingering
in her lap by developing sufficient energy
TO kick him off the premises-if such a
smile be permissible under the circum-
stances. Spring is always welcome because
it is the season of lamb and peas, straw
berries and other imported luxuries, and
North River shad. The hand-springs of the
circus also add festivity to the season,
though marred by the well-seasoned jokes
of the clown. Spring poets add an occa-
sional gloom, but this year Nature has
kindly kept them under cover until it is
too ate for them to do much harm, and
this Spring has been unusually happy,
though cold. In fact, the only Spring
which is not welcome is that which is in
spired by the bent pin
Bulwer Lytton's posthumous play called
ssJunius" has scored failure-a fact which
proves the judgment of the author, who
hid the MS. among his forgotten lumber,
to have been better than that of the friends
who found it. The story of Tarquin and
Lucrece is not of the pleesantest for stage
treatment and there was little excuse for
Bulwer's play since John Howard Paynes
!, play of ssBrui us" fills the bill, and the man
who supplants it must do much better
work than any dramatist of more recent
times has done or is likely to do Still, the
discovery of .Junius" among Bulwer's
effects was literary event and it was not
likely the friends of the dead author would
rest content until the piece had been sub
mitted to the test of actual performance
The Paterson Press, which is an author
| ity, volunteers the information that
ssneither William Walter Phelps nor ex.
Senator Carrot A. Hobart has the slightest
idea of contesting for Senator Sewell's seal
in the United States Senate" They both
believe that MIR. Sewell deserves and ought
to succeed himself without contest. Thai
rather clears the track for Senator Sewell
but perhaps somebody else than Messrs
Hobart and Phelps have something to say
about the matter. Perhaps Democratic
Joint Nesting may conclude to look else
where for Senatorial timber.
Drs. Gordon and Edge, acting as Health
Commissioners, have condemned the City
Prison at the City Hall as an unfit place
for the detention of prisoners The TAT
TIER knows that the cellar in which tn,
cells are located is deaths chosen lurking
place. Within the last three years three
men have died in consequence of diseases
contracted in the villainous subterranear
jail, and the development of the diseas,
that killed them was in each case marked
by the same symptoms.
Wednesday was hot day. AS matter
of fact, the month of April has shown NJ
hotter day except on three occasions fol
sixty-three years. April, 1872, showed
day of the same temperature, but Wednes
days record has only been exceeded il
1871. 1861 and 1922, and then by but
single degree in each instance How i
was in Aprils before 1922 is not known, a
our informant thought he had gone fal
enough when he struck that year.
Senator Nichols, in his Pioneer, feels i
necessary to hasten already to the defenc,
of the Republican majority in the lat,
Legislature. It is good idea of the Sena
tor to enter with all possible speed upor
the task of convincing the people tina
the Legislature was a reputable one. Be
ginning it even as early as he has, we fea,
he won't have finished it in time for th,
Fall elections.
Decoration Day this year will fall on Sat
urday, fact which will be generally re
| gretted as it will prevent many who would
like to from participating in the observanc,
or the day. However, the day falls OF
Saturday only once in six years, SO lei
those.who are bound down by the day make
the best of it they can under the circum
stances.
Governor Abbett's signature is withheld
from the high license bill because is was
never passed by the Assembly. He has
the affidavit of one or two Assemblymen,
recorded as having voted for it, in which
they declare they never voted for it. II
became unnecessary therefore to enquire
into the merits of the measure.
How did it happen that the journal al
lowed Assemblyman Dickinson to be made
Colonel of the Fourth Regiment without
opposing him ? Has it forgotten that he
| defeated the ChartAr and d1dn,t Gonna M,