The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-05-23

Of this city was used TO help Republicans
TO Office But the Prohibitionists demand
their pound of aesh' In advance. ii the
shape Of temperance plank Ia the plat
form Of the next Gubernatorial convention
aud. falling in that, they will run a ticket
Of their own.
Editor Wall, OF the Hoboken Democrat
the newly appointed Quartermaster Of the
Second" now practices at carrying a
sword at bis side every spare hour, SO as to
escape the horror of falling over the mar
tial toy at the Decoration Day parade Of
the regiment.
If the Morris Plains authorities would
exclude foreign pay patients from the
asylum, fand there are great many of
them there occupying whole suites of rooms)
the State would have no need of building,
at great expense, an additional institution
for the insane.
BY an enactment Of the present LegisIa-
ture (passed for the benefit Of the county
judges) the salary of the presiding Judges
of the Common Pleas is fixed by popula-
ton. Under that act Judge McGlll's salary
is raised from tifty-fye to fifty-nine
hundred dollars per annum.
And yet Ex-Governor Bedle persists in
saying that under no circumstances will he
accept the Gubernatorial nomination. It
is said that the net income of the firm last
year was over $50, 1000. and that probably
| explains Mr.. BedIe's reluctance to again
serve the people in that capacity.
Here it is in nutshell William Walter
Phelps will not take the Republican Gaber-
Material nomination unless he he's reason
able chance Of success. He will not tap
his barrel nor resort to his influence against
such men as Hardenbergh. Stockton, Ack-
erson or Bedle, even to oblige General
| Sewell.
The Court of Errors and Appeals met,at
the State House last Monday and tooK
vote on the railroad tax cases. TIE decision
| will be made public next Thursday. The
| opinion of the lower court will be set aside
and the tax law declared constitutional;
thus the Legislators will have nothing to
do when they reconvene week from next
Tuesday.
Poor Senator Vanderbilt has now taken
refuge beneath the protecting wing of his
Old Alma Mater. Thatreverend gentleman
has eased Georges mind by writing bin
that he approved of his conduct in the i'm
| parchment verdict, whereupon George
wrote him whining letter, which the State
Gazette gave TO the World last week.
SAOcl tu0 pTUNlSlOUS OF = Dill approved
BY Governor Albeit, on the 18th of this
month, all Mayors of cities will hereafter
be elected for two years, and the members
of the Council or Board of Aldermen for
| three years, notwithstanding any provisions
to the contrary in the city charters. The
Board of Education is to be appointed by
the Council or Board of Aldermen. But
the bill goes into effect only in those cities
where, at the next charter election, the
majority of the voters declare in favor of its
| adoption. The bill was introduced pg Mr..
beckwlth, and Is known as Assembly 235.
TIE statement the other day by the Hon.
A. A. II lrdenbergh, at the meeting of the
Board of Finance, that our municipality
only owes the county fraction over six
thousand dollars, has almost thrown Mr..
/ Job Lippincott, the counsel of the Boarl
of Freebolders, into fit of apcp exy. and
he at once took legal steps for the collec-
| ton of the vast sum declared by him to be
the real arrearages. MIR. Lippincott claims
that II may be true that out Of the taxes
thus far collected duriag the last year, our
city only owes the county the above sum.
But from the statement of Mr.. Harden
bergh the public were led to believe that
that was the sum total of all our indebted
ness to the county, while, in reality, we
have been largely in arrears since 1872, and
now owe the county over 500, 000, to say
nothing of the vast sum of interest collect
ed by the city on county arrearages during
the last fourteen years, said, by Mr.. Lip
| plncott, to amount to over half million OF
dollars additional