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The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28

Rev. DIR. Geo. L. Hunt, late pastor of the
First Baptist Church, of Hoboken, who re-
signed his charge some months ago, is now
in Hoboken visiting friends. just before
leaving his church he became involved in a
scandal in which the name of widow OF
his congregation was freely used. Mrs.
Hunt left him at the time and began pro-
ceedings in Connecticut, where they for
merly lived, for a divorce. DR.. Hunt went
to Dakota and after brief residence in
that Territory was admitted to the Bar and
practiced law. He began counter-suit
for divorce against his wife on the ground
of desertion. in o Territorial Court, and q
few weeks ago was granted divorce. His
plans for the future are not definitely
settled, but he has told friends in Hoboken
that he does not intend to give up the
ministry. Mrs. Hunt and young daugh-
ter are now in Hoboken, where they have
been for some months. The elder daugh-
ter clings to her fathers fortunes, and has
been with him in Dakota.
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Tea Party at westmlnster Church

Church sociables as general thing are
not the most edifying sources of amuse-
ment imaginable, but when tea party is
thrown in with 1t, 1t rises above the gen
eral order of common every day church
sociables and may pass out very enjoy
able affair. That's what was held in the
chapel of the Westminster Presbyterian
Church on Pavonia avenue last Thursday
night-a tea party and sociable; and it
proved a most interesting affair indeed
The arch smiles of the young lady attend
ants at the various tables made many
gallant youth go to the uttermost depths
of his pockets and invest in the articles
their lady friends offered for sale, even at
the expense of going without lunch for
week. The consequence was the young
ladies' tables were soon bare and their
Golfers well filed. The "tea" was well
patronized, for it was well gotten up and
bountiful. The organ, presided over by
Prof. keenan,, furnished the music. Tie
ladies In attendance were Mrs. I. w. Hath
away, MRS J. E. Banks, Mrs G. B. Frazer,
Mrs. E. Graf, Mrs. Erbe, Mrs. o. Banks,
Mrs. P. Van Alstine and Miss Haskell. -
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28

Palestine Lodge. No. 1, Knights Of the
Gross of Temperance, will hold public
installation of officers at their lodge room,
in Booraem Hall, corner of Newark avenue
and Grove street, on Wednesday evening,
March Sd, at which the Hon. Thomas v.
Gator, President of the Jersey City Reform
Club, and Most Sovereign Grand Com
mander Sir Knight Will T. Madigan will
deliver addresses, to be followed by an
entertainme nt, in which the following
named ladies and gentlemen will positively
appear : The Misses Matte and Minnie
Glennie, in vocal and instrument duets;
Miss Maggie Winsor, in Shakespearsan
readings; Miss Susie Warren, in selections
from the opera of "Mikado;" Mr.. George
Behan, Of the Jersey City Dramatic Club,
in rotations, Mr.. Joseph w. Lawson, in
his latesr comic and motto songs; Mr.. Geo.
Jennings, in humorous readings, and q host
of others equally well known.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28
Trinity,s Fair and supper.

The Young Ladies' Society of Trinity NJ
E. Church held fair and supper in the
lecture room last Thursday night. Japanese
umbrellas and Chinese lanterns adorned
the room. and had very pretty effect The
various tables and their attendants were as
follows Fancy article booth--Miss Akin
son, who was President of the lady man
ayers Miss Birdie Brown, Mrs. Van
Norman. Mrs. M. F. Brown, Miss E. Tim
mems. and Misses Smith and Hoyet. Flower
tabie--the Misses Lille Pearsall and era
mer. Ice-cream tabie-Mrs. j. P. McCor-
mack, aided by Mrs. Granger and Miss
Kessler. The supper table, which was
amply supplied with all that any person
could desire, was waited upon by Mesdames
A. Gordey, &. Backus, A. Kinsberey, with
these young ladies as walters Miss Gokey,
Oracle Wicket, Eva Cornish, Fannie Doc
ley. Mamie Bartruff, Emma Morris, Ida
Witter, lola Hyatt and Carrie Blaney. The
ladies in charge of the kitchen department
were Mesdames M. A. Searles, G. Bartruff,
yanarsdale, Atkinson, g. Gordey, Bachus,
jackson, and Misses Carrie Soney, Lottie
Morrow and - Vanarsdale. The fair was
continued on Friday night, and was a graft
flying success.
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sides. the resolution under which the Com.
mittee ware appointed does not confiue the
Investigation to one specific object. while
the testimony taken by the Inspectors GER
tainly does.
The great storm ragiog outdoors last
Thursday evening did not in the least
dampen the ardor of the festivities under
way at the residence of Counselor James
Flemmine, 81 Grand street, and seldom has
the old Ockerhausen mansion contained
such distinguished and merry company.
L was sociaule rendered by Mr. and Mrs.
James Flemming and the Misses Flem-
ming to their friends, and the great attend
ahce on such horrible night proved the
popuI lrity of the host and hostess in society
circles. The great double building, with
lts wealth OF paintings and bric-a-brac, was
entirely at the disposal of the guests, and
IN every room of the same merry parties
gathered during the evening. AS early as
nine o'clock the parquetted floor of the
west parlor was thronged with dancers.
This is superb little ballroom. divided
IN two parts by richly carved pillars from
below the capitals of which superb Oriental
curtains fail down into portierres. The
walls are adorned with masterpieces of the
painters art, and every available nook
and corner is filed with some choice orna-
ment. And the effect of this was still
more heightened by bountiful display OF
beautiful flowers and ferns. A fine orches-
ira dlscoursed sweet music, and at mid
mig bountlful collation. was served in
the spacious dining-room, on the parlor
floor. Mr.. and Mrs James Flemming and
their charming daughter did all in their
power to entertain their guests, and nothing
was omitted that could give them either
pleasure or comfort. Our space does mol
allow us to mention even the most prom.
inent ones. Indeed, 1t seemed as if all
the fashionable society of this county had
agreed TO meet on this occasion, and visit.
ors from neighboring cities helped to swell
the distinguished thropg The dresses Of
the ladies were superb, and wealth Of
jewels added to the brilliancy of the scene
1t was undoubtedly the social event of tht
| season.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28

The annual ball of the above Association
was held at the Avenue House, Monday
evening, Feb. 22l Fully 200 people were
present The Grand March was led by
Mr.. John ]. Darby and Miss Renney, fol-
lowed by Charles F. Engles and Mr.. John
Plunkett, NJ j. Earles and Mrs. and Miss
Lizzie McCue, J. F. Donohue and Miss
Maggie Dillon, M. F. Rooney and Miss
Maggie Burke, Mr.. James Graham and Miss
EMILY Wogan, j. E. Gillen and Miss Annie
Devinne, W. j. Duffy and lady, j. Daily
and lady, J. J. Mahon and lady, P. j. Sui
Ivan and lady, J. Hill and lady, W. H.
Royal and lady, P. Gildea and lady, Oliver
G. Elliot and lady, J. b. Sheridan and lady,
j. Gallagher and lady and many others.
The floor was under the management of
M. ). Tomasney, assisted by J. j. Keopfer,
and an efficient floor committee. The re
ception committee was headed by NJ. F.
Rooney, assisted by NJ. j. Reilly, A. j.
Chile, J. e. Gillea, P. ]. Mcdonald. The
music was furnished by Prof L. Dryer
During the second march every lady was
presented with handsome wax and satin
order of dancing.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28

Vanity among women as to their age
blooms out early in their youth frequently
A lady teacher in the High School, as an
instance, had occasion to poll her class of
under graduates as to their ages recently.
When she reached the end of her list, one
young lady had the temerity to tell the
truth as to her years, and the teacher COM
plimented her on her truth and frankness
AS she went on to descant on the vanity
that had prompted the rest of the class to
announce themselves year or tive
younger than they were, fifty-nine young
ladies blushed and hung their heads in
shame at the reproof. And there was no
reason, either, for them to be ashamed of
their ages. They were all sweet sixteen,
and could have proudly confessed to it,
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28
The Lafayette House Reopeped,

The reopsning of the Lafayette House
last Wednesday evening was attended by
several hundred men about town, to whom
invitations had been sent. Among them
were Martin Kelly, George Young, Carl r.
Smith. Louis Kopido, Chas. 2. Friend,
Fire Commissioners Henderson and VIM
decker, Clerk John /. Van Alst, Commits
sioner Htruble, Captain q. Lowell, Captain
G. o. Bouker, Messrs. Harry Liebman,
Richard Cooper, James Lewis, Thomas
Liddel, Thomas Duncan, and A. Stelfox.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY %, 1886
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS,

All advertisers having standing adver-
tisements in thesTATTLER are requested to
furnish copy" for whatever changes they
want by Friday night, or. at latest, ten
o'clock Saturday morning. Advertisers
who send in changes later will have TO
take the chances of time being left for the
making of the changes.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28
!. THE oofty tsooft,s NIasouerade.

Tickets for the seventeenth annual mas
querade ball and carnival of the Oofty
Gooft Social Club are out and are rapidly
being disposed OF by the members. The
affairs Of this organization are among the
best Of the ball season. This year. as
usual, the event will t9ke place on the
night Of March 49, Co6pers Hall Is en-
gagged for the occasion
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28

"Brick" Pomeroy has been retained by
Mckenzie of the Singer Sewing Machine
Company. who is very angry because New
Jersey stepped in to prevent him from
putting the city of Elizabeth into his trou-
ssrs pocket, to help raise scare concerning
the integrity of the State, and attacking
her credit. His argument is that as Eliza
beth was saved by an act of the Legisla-
ture from utter humiliation at his hands.
New Jersey has committed herself to the
policy of debt reputation. Brick !"
wrote to every editor in the State asking
his views on the Reputation question;
and as fast as he receives their answers he
is publishing them in his Democrat" OF
course the TATTLER is not for reputation
in any shape, but when the question as
sumes such shape that the answer must
be, on the one hand, a surrender of NUM-
cipal functions and existence by an i'm
portant and growing city of the State. or
on the other hand delay in the payment
of her debts, we say let the creditor wait.
That's about the attitude of affairs in
Elizabeth. The Legislature found that
Mckenzie had the city by the throat, and
had determined to choke her to death. He
was made 10 take his hands off and give
her chance to pay up. The law will
scarcely justify the wiping out of exis-
tence of man merely because he can't
pay debt. 1t will even less justify the
the extinction of community because it
can mo-, upon order, meet the demands of
an importunate creditor. A city has more
important functions to perform than to
pay its debts. 1t is bound to protect and
guard and educate the people within 1t.
1t can not be be expected and should not
be asked to abdicate these great public
functions at the behest of any creditor,
small or big. 1t was in the discharge of
these higher duties that Elizabeth owed her
people that the Legislature protected her.
There is no suggestion of reputation
about it. The State would not encourage
her in a defiant refusal to pay her debts.
No one knows it better than Mckenzie.
But it suits his purpose to pretend that,
by her Elizabeth legislation, the State has
committed herself to liquidation and to
influence editors To precipitate the repudia-
ton bugaboo of his own creation upon the
people, with view of breaking down and
destroying. as he has said he would, the cred
it of the State Of New Jersey. 1t is in pur-
suance of this scheme that he has induced
probably bred" Brick Pomeroy TO
write to editors for their views about re-
pudiation, and to publish the homilies
they send him in answer, in the columns
of his weekly. We do not believe that he
will publish our response, and we take
the liberty of publishing it ourselves.
Here it is:
NJ. NJ. PoMERoy. Esq:
Dear Sir-In answer to your enquiry as to the
TArTLER's view on the question of Reputation. we
have only to say of the particular reputation
bugsboo you are trying to up that it looks to
us as though old man Mckenzie. of Elizabeth. had
been to see you with some OF his Doodle"
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28
Notice to Onr Patrons.

The SUNDAY TATTLER refuses 10 deliver
papers to newsdealer John Mersheimer;
and those residents of the Hudson City
district who desire the paper win kindly
notify other dealers to deliver it at their
houses.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28
Park Reformed church ooncer1.

Next Tuesday evening at the Park Re-
formed Church concert Mr. ]. W. Macy
will take leading part in the exercises of
the evening. MIR. Macy is we'll known as
member of the Weber Quartette, and
was for time the leading basso at this
church.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28

The TATTLER would not be surprised it
the event proved that the three men who
are under suspicion Of having stFangled
old Mrs. Clarity in her sbanty on the East
Newark meadows on the day before New
Years, are rightfulty in custody for muir
der; but the probability Of their convic-
ton seems just now to be very remote.
The identi6cations are not sufficiently
satisfactory. and the failure Of the East
Newark saloon keeper, who saw the
strangers suspected Of having done the
horrible deed, to identity the prisoners
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28
CLUB GOSSIP.

The Jersey City Athletic Club will b1ild its new
club house on the corner Of Ores en- and Clinton
avenues.
The Young Mems Democratic Club of Hudson
County will hold a regular me sting tomorrow
evening at the club rooms, 1913 he lderson street.
For every variety of housefurnishing goods go to
Wood & Menagh.
The Greenville Club for the determination Of
Cats, oticered by precocious youth Of twelve
Summers, would be all right if less brutal means
DETERMINATION were adopted.
The match between ]. H. Outwater, of the ]. O.
A. G. c., and Michael Cahill. of the Staten Island
Gun Club, which was to have been shot in this
city last Wednesday, has been declared of.
In the decisive game between the Palma Club
Bowling Team and the Our Team" Of New York
at the neutral alley, 1884 Third avenue. last Thurs
day Fight, the home team was beaten The score
was: Palma. .4S5 points; "0urs, l. 4S3. The home
team will send the trophy to "ours" next week.
Examine that handsome Weber piano at Van
Syekle's auction rooms, So Montgomery street.
The Rosedale Boat Club, of Hoboken, has elected
new officers as follows. President, Johu H. Brun-
ing Vice President, Herman Wilkens Secretary,
William Entrup; Treasurer, John Wilkens Captain
George Rosenbaum; LiRutenant @. f. Rabold;
Sergeantat Arms Mark Besson.
The following the scores of the matches
fnl..k,
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28

The reelection of Messrs. Jordan, DATE
and Hardenbergh to the Board of Finance
is directly in the line of what the SUNDAY
TATTLER has recommended from the
start. We had no sympathy with the
movement that sought political advantage
in the reconstruction of the Board. We
could see no politics in the question. The
successful management of the city's
financial affairs is of much more moment
than that the little offices within the gift
of the Board should go the right way
politically. The one point that presented
itself to our gumption was that the city
needs careful and capable men at the
helm OF financial affairs, and that the
three gentlemen whose terms are about to
expire, had, in their years of service,
proven their efficiency and capacity.
Messrs. DATE and Jordan and Hardenbergh
had taken hold of the city purse strings
when the question was not merely how to
keep in what was in the purse, but how to
get more ia. They had helped to carry
the city through dangerous financial straits.
They had shown their worth at crisis
that demanded such skill and capacity as
are seldom demanded of financial msnag-
ers. They had proven themselves to be
prudent and safe and reliable custodians
Of the public credit, when the public
credit was very fragile and egg-like kind
of . thing for anybody to handle. We
had no doubt thati the question of their
retention in their places could have been
submitted to popular vote, all, save few
who hoped to reap personal profit from q
change, would, without regard to party,
have cast their ballots for it; and in the
belief that we reflected the popular senti-
ment upon the subject, we urged their re-
election. We have no doubt that, what
ever the considerations by which the
Aldermen may have been led to their con-
clusion, the reflections will be approved
by the mass Of the people.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28

The Burlington County authorities pay
the Justices of the Peace for gathering in
tramps, and they have got the Jail over
full of the migratory specimens of worth
lessness. The Justices hunt up tramps
with very much the same spirit as that
which prompts the midsummer small boy
to gather in rabid dogs for the pound.
They tempt them to their doors with offers
of food, and then seize them by the collar
unawares, and send them off to the County
jail on commitments. 1t is not unlikely
that they have their runners out upon the
highways and by-ways leading into the
towns to turn the footsteps of the weary
traveller to the right Justice shop. 1t is
even intimated that some of the Justices
are preparing to bill the fences that line
the approaches to their respective towns
with poster advertisements of their judi
cial functions, and of their willingness to
divide the commitment fees with tramps
that will allow them to provide them with
comfortable Winter quarters The tramps
and the Justices, between them, cost the
county something like $4,000 last year,
and the people don't seom TO know enough
to put an end to the imposition by driving
out both the nuisances-the Justices as
well as the tramps. They are equally
worthless members of the community,
with che odds little in favor OF the
tramps.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28

The Newark Sunday CALI says rightly
that only one argument made against
the railroad tax law is sustained by the
Supreme Court. That is the argument of
Mayor Collins, made on behalf of the city.
1t was a contention that the tax law made
distinctions in the taxation of property
that were not.consonant with the Consti
tuition. 1t was practically plea for the
act that Governor Albeit drew and had
introduced into the House of Assembly
when the question of railroad taxation
was being discussed in the Legislature
last year. Equal taxation was the essen
tial feature of that act 1t was so simple
in its provisions that it was even denounc-
ed as crude by the railroad lawyers in the
House and Senate. If that act had been
adopted, it would have met all the require
ments laid down in the Chief Justices
decision. But railroad influences in the
Legislature finally led to the discarding of
the principles laid down In the act, and to
the final adoption of the very much more
elaborate" act that was finally passed.
Its very ''elaberateness" destroyed it,
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28

Some of the papers IN the State are con-
graduating the people on the defeat Of the
tax act. 1t will lead, they declare, to the
adoption of an equal taxation law. These
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28

The measure of sympathy TO which the
old dentist who tried to kill the seducer of
his daughter, in Newark, the other day, is
entitled, depends upon the inspiration
which led him to the commission of the
crime. If it sprang.from a singing sense
of the disgrace the boot-making Lothario
had brought upon his household. it will
only be regretted that the old mans aim
was not surer than it seems to have been;
but if it came from whiskey insanity
that impelled the old man 10 seize his gun
and 60 on shooting expedition as often
as the rum and the mania controlled him,
that's another thing. And this last seems
not unlikely! The old man had been
known to indulge in reckless shooting
from his bedroom window at knot holes In
his back fence, after dark, on one occa-
sion before; and it IS not impossible that
his sortie upon the despoiler of his house
hold was made in something of the same
spirit.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28

The movement for shorter hours of labor
grows apace. The Newark carpenters are
on hand with demand that the laboring
day of ten hours be shortened into labor
ing day of nine. They did hope to induce
the bosses to consent to reduction to
eight, but will be content to put in nine
solid hours with rule and hammer. The
Newark car drivers and conductors, too,
have put in request that their day of
labor be of twelve hours duration. The
managers of the roads met them with the
announcement that they had been consid-
ering that very question themselves. and
that in few days a new time table, based,
not quite on the twelve hours basis but as
near to it as the exigencies of the case will
admit, would be put in effect. The new
time table is not forthcoming yet, but it
probably will beat least the road bosses
say that it will be-in few days. If there
is any class of workers whose hours should
be reduced, it sthe drivers and conductors
of horse cars.
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oversanguine Il aders of public sentiment
do not see the difficulties that embarras
the question of equal taxation. The
supremacy of the railroads in affairs of
State is factor that can not be left out of
view in any discussion OF the tax question.
Those of them whose voice is potential in
shaping legislation accepted the tax act as
it was finally adopted; and the law that
has just been set aside represented the
best terms the people were able to make
with them on the question. 1t was not
and is not equal taxation; but it was and
is large Improvement upon any law that
it has been possible heretofore to induce
the. Legislature to sanction. 1t remains
to be seen whether, even under the inn
pulse of the popular agitation the decision
is sure to arouse. more can be wrung from
them. If not, the defeat of the law is not
blessing in disguise, as these hot-hcaded
enthusiasts seem TO. think, but down
right calamity. 1t may be found in the
end that the Supreme Court has drawn
the model for an acceptable tax act so
high that the people may never be able to
build up to it.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28

Armstrong; Washington party dwin-
died down to thirty of the eighty members
OF the Legislature when it was time to