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The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
W0MEN'S NEWEST PETS.
The Bugs That Long Rransh Ladies
Lead by the String.

AeAO ny the StFAnS.
LONG BRANCH, Aug. 1.-"Ah!" heard
diamond bespangled darling who stepped
out on the porch of the Rowland to greet
the morning sun the other day, say to an
other jeweled belle, "good morning, Miss
Jacobs. How's your bug to day."
son, the littlo darling" the other an
swered with ecstatic animation, she's in
good condition o-day. I've just given him
his meal, and he ate it with wonderful rel
ish. think sea air agrees with him.
cit does with my beautiful little pet.
See him. He moves around as though he
were in good health!"
/ turned to see if my ears had not de-
ceived me- Each of the women was lead
ing bug by string. Around the neck of
each of the reptiles was tiny gold collar.
One of the women sat down, and so dis
posed her skirts that the bug could crawl
upon it, and up on to her lap.
The ladies have actually taken to nursing
some loathsome reptile as pets. Three or
four ladies stopping at the Rowland are
among the known worshippers of the crea-
lures. They are about half the length of
ones hand, and are said to be of Brazilian
origin. What their names are | don't know;
or what there is about them to warm the
fashionable heart /, can't conceive But
they are here all the same as wome1's pets,
and either of the two women whom / first
saw with them can be seen airing them in
the morning on the hotel piazzas.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
The Dllke scandal and other Gossip

LONDON, August 1.-The scandal which
the gossips connected with Sir Charles
Dilke's name has blown over, and he will
appear in the House of Commons next
Monday. But undoubtedly he will be much
injured, and can hardly be SO prominent
again for some time.
There is likely to be lawsuit in the
Gordon family about the 5000 guineas paid
for his diaries Some members want it,
and others refuse to have it accepted, and
say it is blood-money the suppressed
chapter gave very funny imaginary dia-
logue between Lord Granville and his pri-
vate secretary at Walmer CASTLE, about the
Gordon statue to be ere0sed on Trafalgar
Square.
have reason to believe that the Pail Mall
Gazette business will not end without a
highly sensational prosecution in a public
court. Mr.. Stead said to me yesterday,
" You may visit us now with impunity we
have got certificate of character"
Professor Bryce has been engaged for a
long time on book dealing with the work
ings of American political institutions,
which will soon appear.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
The oragle bridge Tragedy.

Boston, August There have been one
or two new facts brought out in connection
with the second Charles River murder case.
1t appears that the horse-car which runs
between Boston and Cambridge reached
Cragie's Bridge on the night of the affair
while the man was struggling in the water,
crying for help. There was crowd on the
bridge watching him at the time, and,
according to the statement of passenger,
the car was stopped and all went to the
railing to see what was the trouble. One
man pulled off his coat, and was about to
dive into the water to rescue the drowning
man, when the driver of the car struck him,
knocking him into the street. The conduc-
tor then shouted, Gall aboard, the passen-
gers climbed upon the car, and it proceeded
on its way. Another man and a boy cor
roborate this story. There is as yet no
clue whatever to the victims assailant.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
PERSONAL.

Bishop wigger, Of Newark, will sail for Europe
September LIST.
Max Borchardt of Hoboken, has returned from
an extended Western trip.
Rev. E. L. Stoddard has been elected member
of the Jersey City Athletic Club
Mr.. David Taylor. Of Colgate's factory, was in
peril with a runaway horse last Wednesday.
George B. De Revere has become interested in
the Union Square Hotel and the Hotel Dam, New
York.
1t is said Sid Bevans has been offered, by Secre-
tary Lamar, the position Of Special Land Examiner
at 81. 400 year.
Charles L. D. Washburn, Of this city, has been
appointed law clerk in the Second Comptroller's
Office in the United States Treasury Department.
Prof. william S. Medley will go to Chicago about
September LIST to assume the position Of choir
master Of st. Jamess Episcopal Church, in that
city,
Senator Nichols says, in the Pioneer, that Robe.
son, so far from being candidate for United
States Senator against Sewell will never probably
engage again in public life in New Jersey.
Mayor Tmken gave his private note for 5000
for discount at the First National Bank Hoboken,
Thursday, to be used in the liquidation OF the city
Indebtedness and the payment of interest ON re-
gistered bonds-the Council having adjourned
without providing for the matter.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02

New YORK, August Tile gypsies who
arrived here on the 23d of last month
bringing with them ten bears and about a
dozen monkeys, will, under the decision
rendered by Judge Cullen to-day in the
Supreme Court Chambers. be compelled to
return to Bordeaux, France, by the steamer
Chateau Leoville, of the Bordeaux Steam
Navigation Company's Line, which brought
them here. The Commissioners Of Emigra-
ton refused to permit them to land upon
the ground that they were likely to become
a charge upon the county, and ordered
them to be returned to Bordeaux. The
steamship company, however, by its pas
senger agent, obtained writ of habeas
corpus, they denying that the gypsies were
paupefs or likely to become public charge.
Judge Cullen to-day dismissed the writ.
nd
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
The Chosen Friends.

One of the best of the various insurance
orders of the day is the Order of Chosen
Friends, whose gain in membership during
the past eight months has averaged $50 per
month. Its death, disability and swings
bank features seem to fill a popular want
A representative meetingIof one representa-
tive from each Council in the State will be
held in Union Hall, corner of Fourth and
Grove streets, this city, on August 18th,
at 10 A. NJ. Brother Reid will be there to
welcome them. At this meeting will be
selected representative to the meeting of
the Supreme Council, which is to be held
in New York on September LIST. Jersey
City Council No. 10, O. G. f., will hold its
regular meeting in the same hall on that
evening, and we learn that many of the
representatives will remain over to attend
said meeting. A grand time is expected,
and every member Of Jersey City Council
should be on hand.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
a WoMANs DErEo11VE Skill.
A Newark Boarding Mistress Arr sts
Her Thteving BOarder IN Jersey City.


Her Thteving Boarder IN Jersey City.
NEWARK, August IA spruce looking
young fellow called at the boarding house
of Mrs. Stiles, LOG Commerce street, on
July %, and wanted dinner and room.
His manners were so engaging and his
speech was SO pleasing that Mrs. Stiles was
glad to accommodate him. He was accom-
modated with dinner at his own request,
but when the landlady went to her guests
room to inform him that dinner was ready
there was no boarder. Neither was num-
Der of valuables that belonged to some of
her other guests in their accustomed places.
She promptly notified Chief Tuite, who
sent out notice to pawnbrokers not to
Joan money on one black silk dress, one
ladies' gold watch. one diamond, ladies'
chain, gold ring, a bracelet, one pair sleeve
buttons and one suit of clothes.
Mrs. Stiles believed that her dishonest
guest was in New York. and having friend
in Special Policeman Van Houten, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, she called upon
that officer in Jersey City, and was prepar-
ing to accompany him to the metropolis.
While standing on the bridge of the ferry
she suddenly grabbed the officer by the
arm, and pointing to spruce looking
young fellow, who stood on the approach
ing boat with woman by his side, she
said
"Mr. Van Houten, that is he. That's
the man who stole my boarder's traps"
The officer quietly placed his hand on
the gentlemanly-looking individual, who,
however, at first protested that he was not
the man, but agreed to come to Newark.
He was taken before Lieutenant Bergen,
where he gave the name of Michael Roden-
berg. he pleaded not guilty, and was held
in ST 900 bail.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
They Played BAH.

The game of ball yesterday between the
professional Jerseys and the pretty
Jersey Blues, was, as far as it went, one of
the neatest exhibitions ever played on the
Oakland grounds, and the large gathering
of spectators were keenly disappointed
when it was found necessary to stop play at
the end of the fifth inning. From first to
last the boys played ball. and the one that
reached first base was cheered. Donnelly,
for the Jersey Blues, matched Seivens, for
the Jerseys, in pitching, and at the bat
neither side could claim any particular
advantage. AS the rain was coming down.
the Jerseys were at the bat. One man was
out, third base was filled, and Troy had
Just been sent to first, when the game was
called, with score of nothing to nothing.
Umpire, E. Cramer.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
A earlous Sea monster captured.

GALVESTON. Texas, August 1-For sew
eral days past school of marine monsters
has been seen disporting in the gulf short
distance from the shore, and all efforts to
harpeon or capture them proved futile
until yesterday, when ons was caught IN
fishing seine. Ropes were thrown around
the monster, and, with horses, it was
dragged ashore, 1t proved to be speci-
men of a very rare fish, the "Cephaloptera
Vampyrus," also called devil-fish and YAM
pire of the ocean. Its weight is about two
tons, and as it lies spread out upon the
beach, dead, it has every appearance of an
enormous bat or vampire. It is fully six
teen feet wide from the extreme edges of
the pectoral fins, and fourteen feet long.
The mouth is four feet wide, and is pro-
tected on either side by formidable append
ages resembling horns, with which it scoops
in food
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
The North BaplIsi's New Church.

The North Baptist church people have
had plans drawn for new church build
ing. 1t IS to be a gothic structure, erected
on the green adjoining the present church
building. Tie front will be on Jersey
avenue, and the building will extent SO feet
along Fourth street. A tower, 16 feet
square at the base, will rise 40 feet into
the air. The building is to be of brick,
with brown stone copings and terra Gotta
window caps, and the interior is to be fin
ished in California red wood. The platform
will slide back into pocket during the
ceremony of baptism and uncover large
baptismal font. The building will have a
to have it ready for the dedication ceremon-
les some time next spring.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
The o. U. A. M. and Gen. Grant.

A large meeting of the members of the
Order of United American Mechanics was
held on Wednesday evening last at Union
Hall, corner Grove and Fourth streets for
the purpose of taking some appropriate
action in memory of their loved brother,
Ulysses s. Grant It was decided that
suitable resolutions be prepared by COM
mittee and, that papers in this county and
New York City berequested to kindly pub
lish the same, and that a suitable copy of
the resolution be sent to the bereaved fam
lily of the great General. Ex-Cr. Pset, of
Eureka No. 80, ex-Cr. Martin, CT Star No.
49, and ex-Cr Reid of Industry No. so,
were appointed as said committee. A COM
mittee YVES also appointed to arrange a
memorial meeting at some future date.
The sentiments of all was that it would be
impossible to do too much in honor and re
membrance of him who has done SO much
for his nation.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
Yesterdays SPORTS.
The Results OF the Races and Ball Games
Throughout the County.

Throughout the County.
LONG BRANCH, August 1.-The winners
at to-days races at Monmouth Park are az
as follows
First race handicap sweepstakes, for all
ages, mile and sixteenth, Panique, 1; Tolu,
g. Time, ISL.
Second race handicap sweepstakes, fol
two-year-olds, three. quarters of mile,
Precioso, 1; Longstop, g. Time, 1:164.
Third raee-Palisade stakes, for rhree-
year-olds, mile and furlong, Richmond. /:
Longview, 2. Time, 1853.
Fourth race-handicap sweepstakes, for
all ages, mile and half, Rica, 1; Ameri-
Gus, 2. Time, $40.
Fifth race-scud stakes. weller handi-
cap sweepstakes, five furloHgs, Bill Ster-
ratt, |; Tattler, 2. Time, l:3l5.
Sixth three-year-olds, mile and
half furlong, Sister, 1; Bob Cook, 2.
Time, Isl.
Seventh race-handicap steeplechase,
over full course, Gonfalon, l.; Sun Star, g.
No time taken.
BRIGHToN BEACH, Aug 1.-The winners
OF the races here to-day were as follows:
First race-Aaron, I'd, Binion; Sd,
Montauk; 4th, Shelby Barnes; 9Th, Emf
grant; 9th, Topsy.
At Saratoga the first race was won by
Jennings; the second by Butler; the third
by Briggonette; the fourth by Spaulding,
and the fifth by Marks.
Yesterdays baseball record was as fol-
lows:
At New York-New York. Z; Chicago, 6.
At Boston-Bo Boston, O; st. Louis, 0.
At Providence-Pr Providence, 3; Detroit, 1.
At Philadelphia Philadelphia, 6; Bur-
falo, 5.
At Brooklyn Nets, 6; Brooklyn, 1.
At st. Louis CINCINNATI, 4; st. Louis, O.
At Louisville Pittsburg, 5; Louisville, /.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
SOCIETIES and LODGES.

A meeting of Excelsior Lodge was held Friday
night
The Grand Division. Uniformed K. OF p. OF New
York. will parade at the funeral of General Grant
next Saturday, August 9Th.
Jersey City Temple, No. 80. 7. Of H. and t. re-
Hope Temple, of Brooklyn, and Valley Forge
Temple, of New York, of the same order.
The Samuel Thomas Division, No. 3, NJ. A. A. OF
the P. R. R.. will hold their regular meeting on,
Monday August 8, 1885, at their rooms, 16 Exchange
place, at p m. full attendance is required.
Palestine Division, No. l, Uniformed Rank
Knights Of Pythias, will ettend the funeral oftaeis
late Sir Knight and Brother. August Ulrieh frolls
the Church of the Good Shepherd, Summit avenue.
this afternoon, at clock.
j. G. Reed, who is well versed in secret society
news, said to the writer ''the TArTLRR is read by
members Of all the societies. and il the interest $
kept up the circulation of the paper twill increase
largely in that direction.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
CLUB GOSSIP.

Don't fail to purchase your summer housekeep-
ing goods from Wood & Menagh.
The annual election Of the officers Of the Entire
Nous Social Club was held last Wednesday night
and the following were elected John T. NJ Kayfar,
President; Charles Van Benschoten Vice President;
Robert Layton, Recording Secretary; James Car
diff Financial Secretarys Fred. Walters Treasurer
The affairs of the club are in very satisfactory
condition.
The ninth performance of the Ariel Dramatic AS
ISOLATION was held in the Newark Bay Boat Club
House, Bayonne, last Thursday Night. The
Chimney Corner was presented Among those
present were Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Amerman, Mr.
and Mrs. j, II. Snyder, Mr.. a Mrs. II. A. Bridg-
man, Nat A. Hilbron and Miss d. Ward Mr. and
Mrs. ]. e. Smith. Air. and Mrs. A. D. Fulton, Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Carragan, Misses Florence Smith.
Annie Swift I. A. Snyder, H. Wright. Nellie Rem
SEN NJ. Phillips A. e. Austin and Annie Townsend
Mr.. and Mrs. e. Mcdonald, Mr. and Mrs. W. A,
Holmes. Mrs. r. Swift, Messrs. r. v. vienot, I. r
swift W. r. Westcott, e. w. Snyder, II. NJ Ball. G.
@. Jewett. A. G. Webb. D. D. Otis, H. j. Tyndale. l.
A. Gard and H. Ct. Stevens.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
THE BOARD OF WORKS.
What President Datx Has TO Say About
Their Appropriation.


The appropriations made last Thursday
night, by the Board of Finance. to the sew
eral municipal boards approached closely
to the amounts for which the Boards asked.
This is not true, however, of the Board Of
Works. That branch of the local govern
ment asked for over 800, 000 The Board
of Finance cut them down to $76, 600.
The discrepancy was go noticeable that q
representative of this paper sought Presi-
dent DATE and asked him the reason of it.
"The extravaganza and waste OF the
Board of Works is notorious" the Com
missioner said. s.They spent 81, 800 for the
distribution of the water tax bills. They
could have been sent to every tax
payer by mail for $500. The
Committee on Extensions and Distri-
buttons last year found 16 linen sufti-
cient to attend the business in charge of
that committee. In April of this year
they had 189 men on their pay-rolls. They
have pay-rolls amounting to $1,000 now
awaiting the approval of the Board of
Finance. They will never be approved
with my consent. The Committee can
show no more work done by the l89 men
this year than was done last year.
l. A6 dllOWdACo VIC udFc-llooC Luz thOm 40
enough to meet all honest demands. II is
q disgrace that in city like this, even the
water service cannot be made self-sustain-
ing. It is not self-sustaining this year.
The water moneys form revenue over
which we have no control. We cannot
apportion that, as we do the rest of the
city money. The Board of Works has full
control over it, and is using it for all it is
worth. They have to send their bills to
the Board of Finance for approval, and we
can withhold approval from every pay
ment they order out of the water moneys
that we do not think proper. The waste
of public moneys by that Board is astound-
ing. know of water hydrants that have
been painted eight times only to offer a
pretext for keeping men on the city pay
rolls. Cut Them down? Why, it was the
only thing we could do am only sorry
that we can't abolish the Board
Another gentleman said that one of the
Board of Works men, sent to put water
into house, had actually connected the
gas main with the water works in the
house.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
De Revere's New Enterprise.

George B. De Revere, the popular pro-
prietor of Taylor's Hotel, has purchased a
half interest in the Hotel Dam, and the
Union Square Hotel. The Hotel Dam is
one of the most aristocratic hostelries in
New York, and adjoins the Union Square
on Fifteenth street. Mr.. De Revere is to
have full management of the two hotels,
and will divide his time between them and
daylor ;, hotel S george pe revere o., ms US
Taylor's Hotel.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
WEDDING BELLS.

Mrs Henry F Yates was married recently to Miss
Mary Hunt at the residence of the brides parents
on Glendenny avenue, by the Rev. r. Van Horne.
The wedding of Albert E. Trotter of this city, to
Miss Elizabeth Booth Kellett, Of Shekomeko N. Y,
is announced. ev. Cornelius Brett performed
the ceremony.
Why do you drink impure water? Why do you
save dollar or two and then pay physician fifty
dollars to cure you of the diseases caused by drink
ing such water II you find 1t more profitable to
ruin your health and save your pocketbook don't
go to Wood l. Me~agh's and purchase Globe or .
Kedzie Water Filter.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
AN ITALIANS YILLAINY.
Mining a Tenement with Powder
Trains and Alcohol at the Peril Of
Fifty Lives.

1 ~~--N- ~@-~>S-@o@ - 49, - -
Fifty Lives.
New YORK, Aug. Information of an
elaborate incendiary plot was sent to
Police Headquarters to-day by Chief Kehoe
of the Tenth Fire Battalion, and Captain
Holden, of the Seventh Precinct. The five
story tenement, No. 26 Canal street, was
found to be mined and prepared in the
most thorough manner with powder trains,
fuse. and shavings, soaked in alcohol for
nocturnal blaze which would have imperil-
ed half hundred lives. The plot mis-
carried by accident. The proprietor of
BARRIERS saloon on the first floor, an italian
named Frank Sciacca, has fed, and is
hunted by the police as the protector of
the crime. It was noticed that the barber
stayed later than usual in his shop last
night. This morning when a bootblack
who works in the shop went there at day
light, he saw smoke coming through the
cracks of the shop DOORS Officer Smith,
who was called. broke in the door. Sheets
and towels saturated with alcohol were
suspended all over the room. The towels
had been soaked in alcohol; it had been
poured over everything. An unused demi-
john of kerosene stood on the floor. If the
place had been saturated with that oil
nothing could have saved the lives of the
sleepers overhead. The evaporation of
the alcohol before the flames reached it
was their safety. When the officer ex-
amined the cellar, he found more elaborate
preparations. just inside the door boards
had been laid across some watts from one
wall to the other, and upon them was
train of fash powder, such as is used by
powder manufacturers. 1t led to q gas
meter directly over which hole had been
bored in the leader pipe with corkscrew
The gas poured out all night, and the Gel
lar Was full. Any fire in the stove in the
room above would have caused sparks from
the loose shayings to drop through the
floor and fastened the destruction of the
house by an explosion that would have
shiyered the barber shop to atoms, and
destroyed every vestise of the crime.
The barber is missing. He had his
place heavily insured
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-02
AMONG THE cHURcH

Grace N. &. Church went on an excursion to
Glen Island last Thursday.
If your desire cheap water filter select the
Globe Filter. All sizes, all prices. They are per-
feet waters cleaners. Wood Il Mensgh.
The Free Reformed Church and Sunday School
took the children of the Home for the Homeless
under their wing last Monday and went on an ex-
cursion to Iona Island.
The annual picnic Of St. Boniface's r. c. Church
was held at Caledonia Park last Monday. The fol-
lowing gentlemen had charge of the affair Mr. A.
Walter Mr., Anton Sieverding Charles Schaffer.
and f. Kuntz. The affair was grand success.