The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-04

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Mccarthy, and the TATTLER prizes their
pennies as highly as it does Old Journal
lists pennies. If '.Old Journalist" doesn't
like the fire alarms or the society news,
why, all he has to do is to skip them and
read the rest of the paper, which is made
up exclusively for his benefit.
The seaboard papers are exercised over
proposition to allow nonresident prop
erty owners to vote at the local elections.
At Cape May nine-tenths of the property
is owned by non-residenis. The same is
probably true of Asbury Park and of Long
Branch. But they have not word to say
about the management of local affairs.
The rural Town Committeeman, repres-
enting tenth of the property in the
several places, have full power of raising
money, imposing taxes and giving tax
rates. 1t is all wrong. The taxpayers
should have some voice in these questions.
We really intended to do our handsome
friend, the Hon. C. J. Donovan. no in
justice in stating last Sunday that he had
withdrawn from the race for the Surro-
gacy The information came from
gentleman who is repository of local
political information. and we assumed
that he had written the fact. He seems to
have been mistaken; and we hasten to put
the Hon. G. j. Donovan in the race again.
We gladly welcome him back TO the fold.
It's about time somebody was elected to
county Office for his beauty
"Honest John" Sherman will soon cease
waving the ensanguined Enlargement in
Ohio-until further notice. If it is found
to have done good service he will probably
have it patched up for use in 1888. But
we don't believe Honest John" will wave
it for himself in that campaign, and if he
don't, the query arises, will he wave it at
all2 His present wave is not waiver,
but bid for the nomination, but we don't
believe it will prove tidal wave to carry
him into office.
Princeton has been at it again--or.
rather, her Sophomores have. Why these
young men should seek to bring collegiate
life, and particularly the college thsy
attend into disgrace. no one knows, but
they will do it-and much too often. But
the Faculty has this time very sensibly
hunted out the offenders and made an ex-
ample of them. There will probably be
peace in Princeton for awhile and Fresh
men will be allowed to play ball without
any interference from the Freshermen of
the Institution.
That Hoboken man who married
woman who had lived nine years with
anotheE man to whom she was not married
was rightly served when his wife, two days
after, deserted him and went back to her
lover. A deceived husband may be ex-
cused for wearing the cuckold horns he
knows not of but The man who deliberately
places those questionable ornaments upon
his head deserves to be kicked out of
court when he goes to make complaint, as
the Hoboken fellow did.
The Newark Neaos says that both the
competitors for the Presidency Of the
Senate last year are having high time of
it politically in their respective counties.
Griggs wants to go back from Passaic,
and Schenck is anxious to be returned
from Middlesex. Schenck's detection last
year will probably be enough to beat him,
and Griggs's personal unpopularity is so
great that it is doubtful if even the Hon.
G. A. Hobart can pull his chestnut out of
the fire for him again.
The Sheriff of Monmouth was unkind
enough to place the names of the news
paper men of the country in the box when
he selected his last jury, and the result
was that five editors were drawn. Luckily
they have only weekly papers down that
way or the unfortunates would be put to
still greater trouble. 1t is perhaps lucky
for the Sheriff that he can't run again, or
the editors might combine to write him
up or down to the utmost of their ability.
The firemen of Bayonne offered an ex-
cellent argument in favor of paid depart
ment last Sunday. when they let house
burn down while they fought out an o
dispute. Firemen should never fight
among themselves, but if they must fight
they should extinguish the fire first and
fight afterwards. At least that's the way
the old volunteers Of Jersey City used to
do, but even that didn't give satisfaction.
When the non-paying corporations of
the State found that Governor Albeit was
in earnest about making them pay up,
very many of them concluded to settle.
There's nothing like little solid determin-
alton in these matters When fellow
finds another fellow with a backbone
trifle sitter than his own he collapses.
Corporations are built on the same prin-
ciple.
sHow soon are we forgotten Already
Minister Phelps has driven the magnificent
Mr.. Lowell out of the British Lions head.
Now it will be in order for Mr.. Lowell to
satirize the ungrateful animal in some
Hosea Bigelow Papers" If he does we
will forgive him. fer then we shall once
more have something worth reading
from his pen.
The jury that convicted West of bigamy
did their duty promptly, which all juries
do not. The evidence. His effort to
weaken the testimony given by bis son by
swearing that the boy was Legitimate,
shows him to be an unmitigated scoundrel.
The Court sentenced West to six years
imprisonment. This is we'll, though ten
years would have been better. /