The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-11-22

transpired as recorded, as owing to his abb
sence from them he is not in a position to
contradict what is alleged to have taken
place there.
AL Hoffman says he thinks seriously of
suing the World for libel for having adver-
tised him as married man, and thus
narrowing his already limited chance Of
securing life partner.
Mr. Conrad Jourdan, the U. s. Treasurer,
and Mr.. John A. O'Neill, the chief of the
Governments Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, will return to their Jersey homes
to spend the Christmas holidays.
Lawyer James Flemming is quite a col
lector of books, pictures and bric-a-brac,
and his spacious mansion on Grand street
contains many rare books, superb paint
ings and quaint articles of vertu.
Mr.. Louis Nagel, the well-known Hobo
ken photographer, has lost fortune 10
trying to procure acceptable pictures of the
members of the German Riding Club
mounted on Hexamer's patent safety
horses .e
Mr.. William Heppenheimer, having been
appointed committee of one to select the
handsomest lady at the opening last We'd
nesday of the fair of the Palma Gu =, has
become hopelessly insane trying to solve
the problem. 30
Judge Brinkerhoff doesn't believe in new
tangled notions, and lives and dresses as in
the days of yore, when old Bergen was n
post village, and bright calico gown
answered the ladies of the period for church
and party service.
Mr.. Corbin, who has written to the
recently elected Republican members of
the Legislature relative to his candidacy
for the Speakership, has made the aston
ishing discovery that each and every one of
them thinks the honor may be conferred
upon himself.
What is the use of combining witnesses
in our County jail, where interested per-
sons are allowed to see them at will and
fix up matters with them? This is a very
pertinent question that forced itself to the
| surface during the trial of the Mickens
case last Wednesday.
/ And now even the learned and erudite
| Thomas McCarter, of Newark, had to go
and make fun of Mr.. Quimby's raven locks
| in the argument for the Lehigh Valley Rail
road in the State tax suits. 1t drives the
railroad men to desperation when the
doctor shakes those glossy locks at them.
How silly to talk about the candidacy of
Garry Hobart, George Halsey or William
Walter Phelps for United States Senator to
succeed Mr.. Sewen in the event of q
Republican majority on joint ballot next
year. The only dangerous competitor tc
General Sewell is Mr.. Phelps and he will
be handicapped by the Gubernatorial nom
nation next Fall.
Among the well-known people who viii
give receptions to the Sind pendent So
CABLES during the season, are Judge anc
Mrs. Marcus Beach, Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. G
Young. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Steele, An
drew and Mrs Post, Mr.. Thomas Negui
and daughter, Counselor and Mrs. james
Fleming, and Mr.. and Mrs. Condit.
Ex-Attorney-General Robert Gilchris
will be the leading counsel for the defens
in the trial of Disque, the Hoboken mai
who cut his wifes throat This will be tn,
first time since the trial of ex-Mayor Chas
O'Niell, charging him with technica
violation of law, and from which charge h
was SO triumphantly acquitted, that Mr.
Gilchrist has appeared In criminal cause
The State Board of Education has sen
Colonel Chas Fuller to Ohio, to ascertain
at furniture factory there why it is tina
John Mullins can afford to sell furnitur
| so cheap. The Board wants about $50 bed
room sets for the State Normal School, an
l Mullins bid was so cheap that the Colone
/ and two others were appointed a committe
to proceed to Ohio at the States expens
to learn how John could do it. A move
, procedure, to say the least.
Sippel, the operator, who SO ingeniousl
, | some years ago attempted to rob Mr.. Peal
! son of the Erie Railroad Company, b
means of bogus dispatches. and who is no.
serving term of five years in the Stat
| prison, will be married to the young lady t
whom he was engaged before his trial an
conviction. Immediately upon his release
| She has not doubted him for moment
and comes to Trenton as often as permitte,
to see him. His father was well-knowl
} and highly respected resident of thi
r county.
. The spring crop of Hoboken Democrat
9 mayoralty candidates includes Martin Ste
. les, John G. Besson, James Curran, Cour
| cilmen Kenney, Grassman, Fitzsimmon
and Londrigan, Police Commissioner KaUi
mann and Mr.. Timken, the present IL
), cumbent. The wisdom of the nominatio
of ex-senator Rabe is also strongly urge
, in some quarters, although that gentlema
does not banker after political honors jus
now. The Republican list of candidates
headed by the everything" E. V.
r Besson, with Mr.. John r. Virgins a ivel
! second Mr.. William Macy, Col. Benjami
Q P. Hart, Councilman Miller and John Rel
are also named in that connection.
: "Bankers Row" is no longer featur
f of the State prison The place so name
r was tier of cells in the old South Hall i
which were confined Oscar Baldwin, job
. Hedden, Senator Jarrard, Boice Palmer
, Marshbank, and several others of ik
calibre. These convicts enjoyed some pr
vileges not accorded to all the inmates {
that institution, because in the kindness {
his heart Keeper Laverty thought it woul
! be an act of mercy towards the men VIII
were reared in afauence and refnemen
not to subject them to unusual hardshipi
I But this kindness was not appreciated b
some of them and they prostituted tn
privileges to a degree that threat
ened serious interference with the disclI
f line of the prison. When the matter wa
r brought to the notice of Mr.. Layerty he 9
once determined to make a change, an
last Monday these men were removed froI
their old quarters and distributed anon
J the various wings, where they cannot hol
! daily communion and brood mischief 70
the management of the institution.
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