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TRENTON G0ssIP.



We don't hear SO much about Senator
Griggs now.
Private Secretary Fisk is a very enter
tanning host.
The House held its first Thursday SEES
sion last week.
The files are full of new schemes for
needed Judicial reform.
General Bird W. Spencer was in
Trenton on Wednesday.
Current Printer Patterson struck a big
ger job tnan he wanted.
Jimmie O'Brien is only an assistant in
the bill room this session.
Quite number of the Hudson men,
bers stop at the Windsor"
-Assemblymen Clarke and Kelley are
the two Dromios of the House.
The new Masonic temple at State and
Warren streets is almost complete.
The merits of the Toms River Murder
are frequently discussed in Trenton.
The House galleries were crowded al
most to suffocation last Monday night,
Governor Albeit was recently made
an honorary member of the Eight O'Clock
Club.
Wonder did the ladies send Fred Fish
the flowers on his desk last Wednesday
morningl
The Senate appears to have nothing to
do but meet and adjourn, and yet they are
not happy.
We desire to reiterate what we said
last week about Janitor Brown. Hes
NO GOOD.
MIR. Frambach probably introduced his
bill to repeal the newspaper act of March
10, 1884, by request.
-Assemblyman Carsons little desk re-
solution created quite. breeze in the
House on Wednesday.
The Newark Sunday Call is authority
for the statement that Chief Justice Beas-
ley will be reappointed.
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| The Republicans have made few
Democratic policemen IN Newark the vic.
Tins of Joint Caucus.
Clerk Van Cleef. of the State Board Of
Assessors, is worth $4,000 a year to the
State if he 81 worth a cent
Does the Republican majority knew
how many notaries of their same politica
faith there are in the State?
| Governor Albeit and State Treasurer
Toffey attended the meeting of the Grand
Lodge together on Wednesday.
| Governor Albeit is announced to ssopen'
the new Public Hall at Jamesburg mex
Wednesday evening with an address.
The colored walters at the American
frequently ask Hudson members after
Aleck Jacobuss son, Duncan's health.
The American House could not &C
commodate ell who sought the hospitality
of its proprietors on Wednesday night.
-AssemblymanC orbin seems determined
to take the railroad bull by the horns, ans
make him answer at the Captains Office.
| Senator Livingston, of Union, achieves
new distinction by the attempted suicide
in New York of young SandfOrd, who is
his step-son.
| Somebody raises the point that, aftel
all, Senator Doughty can fill only IAlval
Clark's unexpired term as Sinking Fund
Commissioner.
The Newark Journal says that the bill
directing or enabling railroad corporation
to pay their taxes quarterly is apt to raise
row in the House.
-s'Cul" Barcalow thinks, for tam,
affair, that the present Legislature is doing
nobly. He says about thirty ssstrike" bill
have been introduced.
| Chapman says there was nothing a
all political in his joint resolution on pen.
sions it was introduced at the request of
one of his constituents.
The employees in the State House say
this is the longest month they have evel
remembered. They drew their last pay
several days before Christmas.
Senator Vanderbilt fiocked all alone BY
himself in the vote on the confirmation OF
ex-senator Dougherty, of Somerset, as q
Commissioner of the Sinking Fund.
Why don't somebody introduce bill
in the present legislature vesting the par
doning power solely in the Governor ?
Maybe the present Legislature would pass
it, too!
-Ex-Judge Hoffman is mentioned in Mr..
Dickinson's bill as one of the Commission
ers to see that the State acquires perfect
title to the property it proposes to purchase
for military use.
Somebody proposes to make laborer's
wages payable daily with penalty of five
per cent. per week on all wages unpaid for
three weeks. ALI the shylocks will want to
be laborers after that bill passes.
There seems to be some flaw in the
title of the site the State proposes to pur-
chase for the use Of the militia, and Assem-
blyman Dickinson's bill is designed to en-
able the State to acquire perfect fee.
The State Board of Statistics, in their
annual report, just made out, give the
number of marriages in the State for the
year ending October 31st last as S,968. The