davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-01
CHAPTER ccLx.

An act establishing legal holidays. and regulating
the maturity OF commercial paper with respect
thereto
/. Be it enacted by the Senate and General AS
sembly of the State of New Jersey, That the first
day of January, the twenty-second day of Febru-
ary thirtieth day of May, fourth day of July,
thanksgiving day, twentysfifth dayo December,
and any day upon which a general election shall
be held for members of assembly in each year.
and also any day set apart by proclamation of the
governor of this state, or by the president of the
United States, for the purpose of public obser-
vance shall be legal holiday. and no court shall
be held upon said days except in the cases where
said court would now sit upon Sunday and no
person shall be compelled 10 labor upon any of
said days by any person or corporation.
2. And be it enacted. That when any Of the
days named in the first section shall occur on a
Sunday. the Monday next following shall be OBJ
served as legal holiday and all notes OF bills Of
exchange or drafts becoming due and payable on
such Sunday or Monday, shall be due and pay
able on the Tuesday next following
8. And be It enacted, That all notes and bills of
exchange or drafts becoming due and payable
upon any of the days named III the first section,
shall be due and payable upon the first legal bust
ness day following such holiday.
L. And be it enacted, That all notes and bills of
exchange or drafts becoming due and payable
upon any Sunday, shall be due and payable on
the next legal business day following such Sun
day.
of any note or bill Of exchange or DRAFT becoming
due and payable upon any Of the days named in
the first, second and fourth sections, twentyfour
hours shall be allowed in addition to the time at
which such note OF bill of exchange or draft is
due and payable urder this act in which to give
notice of such dishOnor. and every such notice so
given as aforesaid shall be valid to all intents and
purposes.
6. And be it enacted. That all checks which are
ontheir face payable on any specified day or in
any number Of days after the date thereof, falling
due on any Of the days named in the first, second
and fourth sections, shall be due and payable as
hereinbefore provided for notes and bills of ex-
that the same time shall be allowed for giving
notice of dshonor as is hereinbefore provided for
notes and bills of exchange or drafts.
4. And be it enacted That this act shall take
effect upon the first day OF May, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-six.
8. And be it enacted, That all laws or parts Of
laws contrary to this act be and are hereby re-
pealed provided nevertheless that promissory
notes. checks, bills of exchange and drafts shall
be entitled to grace as heretofore.
Passed June /, 1886.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-01
CHAPTER ccLxxI.

An Act 10 amend an act entitled IAN act to estab-
lsh an excise Departmental cities of this state -
passed April eighth, one thousand eight hun
dred and eighty-four.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and General As
sembly of the State of New Jersey That section
one OF the act to which this IS an amendment be
and the same is hereby amended 50 as to read as
follows:
l. BE it enacted by the Senate and General AS
sembly of the State Of New Jersey, That in all
cities of this state it shall and may be lawful for
the common council or other governing board of
said city 10 pass, enforce alter and repeal oFCii-
nances to take effect within said city for the fol-
lowing purposes to wit: to provide for the estab-
1ishment of a board of excise commissioners to
consist of five members, to serve for the term of
three years, no more than three of whom shall
belong to the same political party, which board
shall be elected on general ticket at the charter
election in such city next after the passage of
such ordinance, in the same manner Other
officers in said city are elected provided how.
eser thak no voter shall votezat such election fos
more than three of said commissioner and the
five persons receiving the highest number of votes
for such office shall be declared duly elected that
The salary Of said commissioners shall be fixed by
ordinance, but shall not exceed the sum Of three
hundred dollars each per year, and the said
salary shall be paid out Of the license fees; that
such board OF excise commissioners shall have
the sole power within such city to make estab-
Hsh, amend or repeal ordinances and bylaws to
license and regulat, or prohibit inns and taverns
restaurants and beer saloons, and when licensed
to revoke or transfer such license and to prohibit
all traffic in or sale OF intoxicating drink OF drinks
to license, regulate or prohibit billiard saloons
and bowling alleys, and to prescribe and enforce
penalty or penalties either by fine or imprison-
ment, for the violation of such ordinances or by
laws, which said penalties shall be enforced and
collected by said board of excise commissioners
in the Same manner as any other penalties are
enforced and collected in any such city. and that
every ordinance or bylaw of such board Of excise
commissioners shall, after its Introduction and
before its final passage be published for four inser
tons in two newspapers, If SO many there be,
published and circulating in such city, and be
concurred in by at least three members of such
board o< excise commissioners as may be present
at it's final passage; and other license for such
purposes within said city granted by any other
authority, shall be lawful that all fees for licenses
granted by said commissioners shall be paid to
the city clerk who shall, in addition to his other
duties. act as the clerk of said commissioner and
BY him be paid over to the city treasurer.
Passed June /, 1856.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-01
cHApTER cCLxlx

A Supplement to an act entitled "An act for the
formation of borough governments in seaside
resorts" approved March twenty NINTH one
thousand eight hundred and seventy eight.
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General AS
sembly of the State of New Jersey, That the Dor
ough councils of all boroughs Incorporated, or
hereafter TO be Incorporated under the provisions
of the act to which this is supplement, shall
and enforce the observance of building lines in
their respective boroughs providing said act shall
in nowise interfere with such building lines as
may have heretofore been established.
:. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect Immediately.
Passed June L, 1886.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-01
CHAPTER CCLxv.

An Act concerning suits for violation of ordi-
nances in cities, boroughs and incorporated
towns.
/. Be it enacted by the Senate and General As
sembly of the State of New Jersey, That when any
suit shall be brought in any city, borough or in
or ordinances it shall only be necessary to state
in the complaint the number of the section VIC
lated briefly setting forth enough of the language
of the section to apprize the defendant Of the
charge.
2. And be it enacted, That no state of demand
shall be required 10 be filed other than the COM
plant.
3. And be it enacted That all acts and parts of
acts, whether special or public Inconsistent hero
with be repealed.
q And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect Immediately.
Passed June l, 1856.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-01
CHAPTER ccLxI.
An Act relative to assignments for the benefit O
creditors

An Act relative TO assignments for the benefit q
creditors
l. Be itenacted by the Senate and General As
sembly of the State OF New Jersey, That in any
assignment for the benefit of creditors heretofore
made or hereafter to be made, the final account
of the assignee shall be made within one year
after the final dividend shall have been made of
the assets of such estate or within such further
the proceedings have been had shall grant
q And be 1t enacted, That all acts and parts of
acts inconsistent with this act be and the same
hereby arc, to the extent of such Inconsistency.
repealed.
Passed June !, 1886.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-01

arrested shall be taken, as soon Us conveniently
may be, before some justice OF the peace or the
said county. there to Be dealt with according to
law.
1. And be it enacted. That this act shall take
effect Immediately.
Passed June /, 1886.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-01

of the laws and to limit the cost thereof TO ffty
thousand dollars year.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-01

20. And be II enacted, That the said board ana
the county collector shall keep the accounts and
expenditures on account OF said road separate
and apart from the accounts Of the other expendi
lures OF sucn county when account snail De
called the puDhc road account and the clerk
Of said board shall, on the first days Of May and
December IN each year nie VITA the county clerk,
there to be ana remain as 3 public record, . DE.
tailed ffemized account OF the expenditures Of
such board in relation to such road, which said
account shall have been submitted to said board,
approved o. Dy sald BOARD ana ordered TO be nled
as aforesaid ana that the county collector shall
also N NE manner e. the times Aforesaid make
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-08-28
A LONDON TYPE.

Definition of the Typical Modern Conf
Dental Agent.
The confidential agent is Leporello
in nineteenth century dress; he il
Figaro with horseshoe pin and Mas
carille in PAPER collar. In century
in which, half way through his career.
Gil Bias would have figured at the Old
Bailey, the Chevalier des Grieux before
Mr.. Paget at Hammersmith, and Gel
LIMA danced his last dance upon
nothing one fine Monday morning at
Wandsworth; in century that at any
rate admits to so few weaknesses, the
confidential agent is all that is left to
US of those old rascally, laughing. w.
ing Wallets of the old comedies Of in
trigue, those shameless Toms of Eth
erege and the restoration, those active
Arlequins of Italy and lissom, bright
eyed Graciosos of Spain. If, then,
you can conceive Mascarille without
his ribbons, his ruff, his roll his wig and
his high heels; Mascarille in q
frayed frock coat, vaccinated and with
cork soles to his boots; q Mascarille
whose gay smile has yielded to fog and
business troubles, whose hearing is not
very good now for intervals ON the
guitar, who is dull, decorous and at
tentive to your story as the commonest
OF all common-law Judges; il in your
imagination you can build up such a.
figure you will have some idea of the
confidential agent Of to-day rs he
moves along the Strand and backward
and forward through the law courts. =
CornhiH Magazine.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-08-28

The celebration of the one hundred
and seventeenth birthdayof Mrs. Mary
Benneman, of Russiaville, Ind. re-
Gently, was unique affair. 1t was
likewise the birthday Of her oldest son,
Peter, with whom she lives, and who
is eighty-four years old. Three hum
dred citizens Of the village marched to
the house, headed by a brass band.
and the old lady asked the band to
come in that she might see the instru-
ments. She was particularly pleased
with the snare drum, and asked that it
be played. The drummer played, and
Mrs. Benneman laughed with delight,
for she is very deaf, and rarely hears
such music. When her son, sOld
Uncle Peter" asked her if she wasn't
getting tired, she scorned the insinua-
ton, saying that she could s.look at
'em a week without getting tired"
The celebration ended with q banquet
for the old folks in their house, and
picnic for the villagers on q neighbor-
ing green.-N Y. Sun.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-08-28
FOB OUR YOUNG FOLKS
JIMMY's PLEA.

= did not rise at the breakfast bell,
But was SO sleepy, can't tell
meant to-"
"The wood not carried in, know,
But there's the schoolbell must go
meant to-
" Ny lesson forgot to write,
But nuts and apples were so nice
ftf meant to-"
forgot to walk in on tiptoe:
Oh, how the baby cries, Oh OIL
meant to-
There. / forgot to shut the gate
And put away my book and slate
meant to-"
The cattle trampled down the corn;
My slate is broken, book is torn
Imeant to-"
Thus drawls poor idle Jimmy Hite
From morn till noon, from noon till night
Il meant to-"
And when he grows to be man,
He'll heedlessly mar every plan
With that poor plea, II meant to-"
Chicago Sun.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-08-28
PuNeENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A man is obliged to die before his
will amounts to anything. but that of
woman is always in force.-C Chicago
Ledger. u
Hard cider is New England rem
edy for rheumatism. If man drinks
enough of it he does not feel it-feel
the rheumatism.
An exchange has an article headed,
Every Woman Should Wear Smile"
But there is no use talking, they won't
do it unless fashion says SO.
1T is said that the dressmakers of
Buffalo complain bitterly because Miss
Folsom had her wedding dress made in
Paris. They wanted her to be married
in Buffalo robe.-Milsoaukee Sentinel.
The difference between self
made man and a self made woman is
ten old papers, four hair plaits, ninety
eight hairpins and pretty little box
labelled face powder.-N y Tele-
gram.
in the opinion of naturalist, the
lion will be extinct in one hundred
years. 1t would be better for the morals
of the country if the tiger were to be-
come extinct in that -Norristo,cn
Herald.
Two fashionably- dressed young
ladies were walking down street, one
on either side of young gentleman.
extremely swell in attire and equally
meagre in prop ,-tions. A street gamin
grinned at them. tnen remarked dryly,
much to the discontinue of the ''dude:"
"Ain't much ham in that sandwichr'-
Boston Budget.
"A weIl-known author in the street
car, rising and giving his seat to stout
woman, who does not acknowledge the
civility-'Pm obliged to you madam"
Stout woman Gushing angrily)-"For
what. sirP" Gentleman (courteously)
For taking my seat" Hilarity
among the other passengers.-Chscogo
Ledger.
How in the world can you content
yourself to live in this dead-and-alive
placer" asked the city visitor of her
country cousin. II know should die
If / had to stay here" WELL" re-
piled the rustic relative, II suppose /
should too, but then the city folks amt
here only few days in the year, you
KNOWN y Herald.
AND what are you going to be,
my little man." asked the minister as
he patted the boy on the head. what
are you going to be when you grow
upP" I'm going to be waiter, sir"
"a waiterp Well, that is not very
lofty ambition. Let me ask you, my
little man, why you are going to be a
waiter2'' Because, sir, I've heard
papa say that all things come to him
who ts!''-DctroI Free Press.
-.Ah, me-" she said, after arriving
at home, "T'm afraid most of the
women at church this morning heard
but little of the sermon" "Why notp"
inquired her husband. Because most
Of them spent the entire time looking
at the clothes worn by other women.
"How do you know they did thatP"
why, l kept my eyes on them all
through the services" She wondered
why her husband laughed. Il CHICAGO
Tribune,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-08-28
LAUGHTER A MEDICINE.
How . Sorrowful Monkey Saved the Life
of q Dying Man.

NJ
~ Of DYING w.n '' '
a SNORT Iime since TWO inaividua's
were lying in one room very sick, one
with brain fever and the other with an
aggravated case of the mumps. They
were 40 low that watchers were needed
N.-I. 49, :. a. - -.
eVe.y nisn'' anu IL was 'nouSi. ooup'-
iui II the one SICK OF Iever couio recov-
er. A gentleman was engaged TO
watch overnight. his duty being to
wake the nurse whenever 1t became
necessary TO administer medicine. In
the course OF the night both watcher
ana nurse Tell asleep, The man with
the mumps was watcning the CLOCK
ana saw that it was time to give the
fever patient his potion. de was I'M
able TO speak aloud or to move any
portion OF his body except his arms;
but selzlng pillow he managed to
strike the watcher on the face with 1t.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-08-28

Short basques with full effects in
front are shown on new dresses Of all
materials, whether wool, silk, cot
ton or lace. The lining seams remain
the same, with short shoulders, high
darts. and gracefully-curved back
forms, but the outside fabric is put on
in most varied ways. The surplice
front is in great favor, with two pieats
or else gathers high on the shoulders,
with stirring holding this fullness near
the waist line. while the space between
ut the top is filled in with . v plastron
OF velvet, or folds of white silk muslin
or OF Grape. or else with q gathered
plastron Of beaded net -Hosper's
Raxar.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-08-28
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

DIR. Newman Halls church, in
London. operates nineteen Sunday
schools. in which are enrolled five
thousand six hundred children.
"A school teacher of Charlestown,
Mass, spanks unruly boys in the good
old-fashioned way, with slipper
Boston Journal.
The largest theological college, it
is said, is Moslem college, which is
located near Cairo in Egypt. 1t has
ten thousand students all the time.
The Presbyterian Theological Sem
mary at San Francisco has received
from Mr.. w. S. Ladd, of Portland,
Ore, fifty thousand dollars for the
foundation of a new professorship.
Bishop Littlejohn has resigned the
care of the European churches belong
ing to the American Episcopal body,
and the Bishop of North Carolina has
taken his place.
One Of the peculiar institutions
for which New York is exclusively
noted is school where young ladies
are taught the art of entering and
alighting from carriage. The school
has many pupils.--N r Sun.
Work is to be begun at once on
the building of the Baptist Theological
School at Louisville. KY. 1t is to be
the largest Baptist school in the world,
and one of the largest in any denomi-
nation.
Nearly every evening IN the Allah
abad bazaar may be seen two blind
Christians reading from Hindostanee
New Testament, printed in raised let
tiers, to large audiences of Hindoos and
Mohammedans, who marvel at the
strange sight.
The Children's Scripture Union,
which celebrated its seventh anniver-
sary recently, has over three hundred
thousand members in all parts of the
world who daily read the Bible to-
gether, though in twenty-eight differ
emit languages.
One of the German papers states
that s'at Vienna last year no less than
three hundred and sixty-three Jews be-
came Christians;" and another paper
tells us that lat no period since the fist
century have conversions from Juda-
ism to Christianity been so frequent as
they are at present"
The alumni of Kimball Union Acad-
envy at Meriden, N. H., in Boston and
vicinity. have formed an association
with Rev. F. E. Clark as President, and
all former students and friends are in
vited to become members. The fee is
one dollar.
The statement, which has been
somewhat widely made, that the First
Presbyterian Church of New York was
the oldest organization of that denomi-
nation in this State. is quite incorrect.
The church in Jamaica, L. l., is be-
lieved to be the Oldest, not only in the
State, but in America, having been or
ganized in 1662.-M Y. Times.
AT the last meeting of the Connec-
ticut Valley Congregational Club the
subject of short pastorates was dis
cussed. A plan was proposed by which
a minister should be settled for term
of six years, at the end of which he
should be allowed rest of year for
special study, his relation to the church
to be resumed at the end of the year if
mutually agreeable. This, it was said,
would give both church and pastor a
chance to take fresh start once in six
wears.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-08-28

The interior decorations of ]. c.
Floods new house in San Francisco.
furnished by q New York firm, are said
to have cost over $500, 900.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-08-28

"A resident of Eastman, Ca, has .
twenty-five-cent piece which has just
returned to him after an absence of
seven years.
The Washington critic., 1886-01-26
WASHINGTON. JAN. 90, 1886.
STANLEY -TISDEL.

The official report of Mr.. Tisdcl, who
was sent out to the Congo country as
commcrcialrcpresentativc of the United
States, is savagcly attacked by Mr..
Henry VI. Stanley as series Of such
wide departures from the truth that it
would be charity to call them misrcp-
reservations. II is not here and there
that an alleged error has crcpt into the
report, but Mr.. Stanley points out not
less than fifty statements which he as
serts to be untrue, and which either
betray n set purpose to deceive the
Government or the most inexcusable
ignorance on Mr.. Tisdcl's part.
If Mr.. Stanley Is correct in his allie.
cations, or even half correct, then of
course the value of the report as an
authority is hopclessly impaired {; but
may we not hope that Mr.. Tisdcl, who
was well-known to the Government rs
n man of extended business experience
and familiar at least with our South
American trade relations, will be able
to vindicate himself against the very
direct and sweeping charges of the
African explorer.
Or may 1t not be that between the
acknowledged enthusiasm, if not large
pecuniary interest, of Mr.. Stanley in
the cause of the Congo States and the
possible prejudice of Mr. Tisdel in the
other direction, an intermediary line of
explanation can be traced which shall
set the matter right before the public?
1t is quite natural that Mr.. Stanley,
from his long residence in Africa
should have more intimate knowledge
Of the topography of the Congo region
and of the habits and characteristics of
its inhabitants than any transient Wis
itor, however observing or intelligent,
and still be mistaken in his Judgment
of its commercial importance TO the
rest Of the world
Mr.. Tisdel, on the other hand, whil3
lacking familiarity with geographical
details and other points of minor con-
cern to which Stanley takes exceptions,
may be altogether correct in his gen.
eral conclusions.
1t should be borne in mind all the
while that the service for which Mr..
Stanley is paid is quite different from
that TO which Mr. Tisdel was commits.
stoned; and of course the latter owes il
TO himself and the Government to ex,
plain the apparent inveracitics OF his
report, if any there be-