The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-04-25

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afraid something might be developed
to break down a fabricated case; and
finally they made UP a verdict that was
just broad enough to accomplish their
purpose of destroying and disgracing
public servant who does net belong TO
their school of politics. The very dis
elimination they made in fayor'of Minnie
Schaffer, and against the equally credible
strumpets who testified with her, showed
that they sought but one peg to hang
condemnation on. The testimony that
sustained Minnie Schaffer proved with
equal force his guilt of the charges made by
the other female convicts against him, and
there was no possibility, except by an
imperial exercise of tyrranous judgment,
of separating their stories from hers But
their object was accomplished in holding
him on one charge. They selected hers
as the justification for the lawless sacrifice
they had determined to make. 1t was
enough to cast him down. 1t was all
their purpose needed. On the equally
credible stories of The Others they could
afford to follow the dictates of their con
science The testimony that was six
times rejected as utterly unworthy of be-
lief in the vote on six other charges was
accepted as Gospel truth when it was
needed to bolster up the seventh charge.
The very means they resorted to to hide
their partisan injustice, reveals it. Mr..
Laverty can afford to hold his head up
against verdict made up. in disregard of
all the dictates of decent conscience, for
political reasons. From the disgrace of
deposition he can never escape, but the
people of the Slate will let his heartless
and constituencies pursuers know, when
the time comes. that they regard him as
an outragelously wronged man.
1.-THE course of true love never did run
smooth, said Shakespeare. and the remark
still holds good, as sad-eyed young
lover of Weehawken acknowledges as he
walks the cliffs and looks down upon
hungry fishermen gathering shad from
| poles set in the river below. The young
mans name is Tighe Just now he is a
sort of Mystic Tighe, and though perhaps
not Mason, he is certainly very odd
fellow to look at. Tighe wanted to tie
up to his landlady's niece, and for a
while it looked as if the Easter bells
might ring in his wedding But change
came Ger his dream. When he asked bis
inamorata to join him in his evening pere-
CARNATIONS along the. River road, last
Thursday, she said him nay. Not gently,
but rudely, like the neigh of mustang
pony. The echoes almost broke his heart
Sadly he asked the why and wherefore Of
her refusal, and she told him his clothes
were not good enough. Resolved that bis
suit should be pleasing in the aesthetic
damsel's eyes, he hurried away to a Union
Hill dealer in ready-made garments. He
speedily returned in store suit thai
would have brought the blush of shame to
the petals of Solomon's lilies. But still
the maid was coy. Sac no longer OBJ
jected to his clothes, but he pressed his
suit in vain. The damsel would moi
walk. She did not feel like walking. MOI
did she care TO ride. Finally wearied by
his opportunities, she told him fatty that
she loved him no longer. The announce
ment made him no longer ItArather had
a shrinking effect. When be recovered
his breath he had lost his temper. He
| said the wicked aunt was the cause of il
all, and he would get square with her.
That's where he made an error as blooming
as the flowers of spring. When the game
commenced the old lady turned club
and ordered him up. He didn't under
stand the game and went down--on bis
back. Then he was knocked out, through
the front door into The middle of the read
The young lady stood by and witnessed
his discontinue. Worse still, she laughed
at it, By way of revenge he, that night,
painted the village with Easter dyes.
Early next morn, with both eyes in
mourning, he sought out Hoboken jus
tice and had the pugnac' Gus aunt arrested.
He wanted to include the girl in the war
rant, but the justice assured him that
being of full age, and her own guardian,
she bad legal right to laugh, 50 long as
she didn't laugh loud enough to make her
liable for disorderly conduct. Under the
| circumstances he will probably content
himself with making faces at her when
they meet. He is at least capable of that,
even if he can't whip her aunt in rough
aud tumble fight. AS the case has been
sent to the Grand Jury, there will prob
ably be another act to the farce.