The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-01-24

ing match TO the ventilator. If the draft.
blows ont the fame the result Is satisfac-.
tory. IT his factotum can make piece OF
tissue paper adhere to the ventilator, he l.
satisfied.
1t is said that a bill is soon to be IN
troduced wiping out Boards of Freehold
ers and creating County Boaxds of Super
visors The Supervisors will be practically
freeholders under another mare. The
purpose of the bill is to make sure Of
wiping out the Director-at-Large of Hud-
son County.
There is a certain directness about As
semblyman Parker's method of executing
his commission to procure suitable ventila--
ton for the Assembly Chamber. No easier
way of doing it could be devised than that
OF punching a hole in the roof; and in pursu-
ance OF that policy, possibly, one of his
men let his mallet fall through the glass
sky-light that looks down upon the House.
floor.
The Essex County Trade Assembly
allege that State Labor Inspector Fell is
run too much by employers who.
keep women and children at work in vio-
lation of one law, and from twelve to four
teen hours day. in violation of another
law and they demand of Governor Albeit.
the appointment of practical mechanic in
his place.
Its likely that the mails from Trenton
will be burdened with fewer public decu--
ments to constituencies that never see O.
newspaper this year than usual Senator
So-and-So will have to supply himself with
compliment" pastors at his own expense.
The State won't pay for them this year.
Youngblood's first blood against reckless
extravaganza at the expense of the Com
monwealth
Mr. Seymour's bill, making it impos--
sible for Aldermen to accept Offices from
Boards they help to create, is intended TO.
prevent the Aldermen from voting for
statesmen aspiring to places in the Board
of Finance, on the understanding that
the aspirants, if elected, will divide the
$1,000 Assessorships among the Aldermen
who support them.
When Davis was Police Justice he had.
an act passed taking the J. P's jurisdiction
in disorderly cases away and giving it ex--
cusively 10 the P. Us Now that he has
become a ]. P, he has had Major Peloubet
introduce bill giving the jurisdiction back
| to the j. P.s. But the House wouldn't
have it that way, and the other day knock
ed the bill into smithereens. It makes ALI
the difference in the world whether one is
a ]. P. or P. j.
The Printers Unions and other indus
trial organizations of the State are agita-
ting against the cheap John policy Of hay-
ing State printing done that has been put
IN force by recent Republican Legislatures,
and urging that the contracting printer be-
allowed enough compensation for his work
to enable him to employ men at living
wages, instead of forcing him to put boys
and women at the 60 cases.
1t is stated on excellent authority that
the recent attacks upon the credit of the
cities of New Jersey were inspired by
Mckenzie. of the Singer Sewing Machine,
Company, and that they are made in pur-
suanee of his avowed determination to.
break down the credit of the State. The.
members of the Legislature should not
overlook this fact when considering legis--
lation affecting McKenzie's interests.
= Speaker Armstrong; anti-smokine
edict has given birth to a new party in the
State. He received letter the other day
from the "Anti-Tobac Club" in Newark
commencing him and formally giving him
their support for any Office he may here
after aspire to. They probably belong to-
the nameless order of cranks who don't.
swear, don't smoke, don't chew, don't
drink, and don't care TO be introduced to.
their friends daughters.
Two or three bills intended to blacken
the eye of the Washington street vacation
scheme have found their way to the Clerk
Toombs's desk in the Assembly One of
them-a very effective one in its operation
introduced by Mr.. Seymour, repeats that.
section of the city charter which permits
the Board of Works to vaeate streets. As
semblyman Noonan introduced the second,
/ 1t prevents the yaca ion of streets without
the consent Of twc-shiidi of the property
owners on the street.