The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-11-07


ton of the season will be he at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Post next
Thursday evening.
Fashionable circles in Hoboken are agi-
tated over the approaching wedding of
Miss Anna Sierck to Counsellor Fieldstein,
of Brooklyn.
Ex-Sheriff Laverty again enjoys very
good health, and has started housekeeping
with his family at 410 East Fifty-second
street. New YORK.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mathieson and their daugh-
ter Helen will leave Southampton for home
on the 24h of this month. They are now
at Rome.
The dinner rendered to Governor Albeit
by his military staff will be one of the most
elaborate affairs of the kind ever gwen in
this State.
His defeat has somewtas hurt Col. Full
ler's standing among the Trenton states
men and will necessitate the buying out of
hat store by Treasurer Toffey.
Senator Mcpherson says he will retire
from politics after the expiration of his
present term. The hard work of the cam
paign just closed has shattered his health
greatly.
1t would have loa ID dubious for Green
had it not been Tor Hudson and Essex
county, aud the prohibition plank in the
Republican platform did much toward the
reault there.
The appointment of Mr.. Paterson as
State Prison keeper was not of incalculAsle
benefit to the Democratic party of the
State and has brought decidedly psor re-
turns from Monmouth.
Peter Hauck proved to the Newark lead
ers by the triumphant election of Michael
Barrett to the Assembly that it wasn't so
easy to lay out his son-in law as they feared
it might be.
1t would have been much atter for Mr.
Besson's chances in Hoboken if COL E l.
win A. Stevens had not stamped him as the
candidate of the Hoboken Land and I'M
provement Company.
Why dent the Ho ,oken gy raise their
vo ces against gamblers, booksellers and
other criminals who have sought retreat in
that city and there carry On their nefarious
business?
Commissioner William Utz's only sister,
Selma, whs spent season here a year or
two ago. was last week Saturday marie
to Mr.. Alexander Ruthmeyer, a prominent
hop merchant of Dusseldorf, Germany.
The EUeniRg journal must have had an
uniAitiated reporter in Hoboken the other
day, judging from the fact that only one of
the esmbling-houses of that place was ex-
posed in the columns of that paper.
What fool Congressman McAdoo would
have been to withdraw from the race upon
the advice of number OF gentlemen who
thought that if another convention were
called the nomination might strike them.
The Disque case will probably not be de-
cided before the February Term of the
Supreme Court, and then an appeal can be
taken to the Court of Errors and Appeals;
so that the Hoboken murderer is not in
immediate danger of his neck.
When Mr. and Mrs. Eibe n. F. Meyer, Of
Hudson street, Hoboken, celebrate their
silver wedding, next April, the occasion
will be enlivened by the marriage of their
only daughter, Ida, to Mr.. Ernest Or, the
well known proprietor of the Union Hill
silk mill.
Among the humors of the campaign in
this county was the OBJ aiming by old Billy
Stuhr from the Democratic State Commit
tee Of 500 for, the use of Heboken or
ganization that had endorsed Kerr for
Congress and the Republican candidate for
DR.. Heller knew late in the afternoon of
election day that Kerr wss getting three
votes to one for McAdoo in Hohoken, and
was running even with that gentleman in
the Horse Shoe. I. is to be hoped that
his medical diagnoses more correct than
his political ones.
The surprisingly small vote received by
Kerr sitter his cam paIgn of bluff and blus-
Ter s explained on the theory that some of
lis loudest and most able advocates were
100 well up in politics to waste any votes
IN him in order to defeat McAioo. but
hey threw them directly to Hammerschlag.
There is some talk OF organizing Law
and Order League in Hoboken to rid the
,ity Of the gambling houses, pool-yooms
md brothels now plying their shameless
rade in open defiance of the law and with |
nut any interference on the part of the
Mayor, Chief Of Police or Police Commits
toner's.
Among the leading reforiners and advo- |
'ates of the purity of the ballot-box and |
itrictly honest conventions who run the |
Kerr campaign Con principle) were Mike |
dullone, Chief and Con. Donovan, Nike |
1oyle, Eddy Mcdonald. Jim Cannon, De-
ective Brown, Garry Hsley. Patsy Londii-
IAN and Steve Yoe.
McMshon's defeat FOR Congress can be |
explained in few words. He obta nee the |
by hoodwinking hepC wers That
)e into the belief that he was the possessor
# an immense fortune, large amount of
which he would spend to be elected, and |
Jet L Q did not or could not pat dollar Ia
he canvass. FL S district S bad oae to |
un in without either money or brains.
The members Of the Hoboken Gelmas
Club cast IS vo es for Mr.. Emil Schul u,
he well-known Heidsick agent, for gov
srnor What an exalted opinion some of
our citizens have Of the rights of suffrage, |
md how these same gentlemen would have |
quealed If these .es had elected the |
temperance candidate.
Subjoined are few of the many reasons
heard in the streets of Hoboken that