The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-09-26

writing more money into checks that he
had drawn to their order than he was
willings they should have and he forth
with proceeded to draw COLUMN picture
from the recssses of his not over brilliant
imagination of the home scene that en-
sued. The young ladies are not aceus-
toned to the business view Of things, and
probably didn't know how naughty an
offsnse they were committing against mer-
cantiie laws and the probabilitySis that
after the first flush of anger had passed
pa and his girls had little crying spell to-
gether, and there was the end of it. 1t
was nobodys business but his and theirs;
little episode of home life that any de-
cent and reputable newspaper man would
have regarded as sacred from parade in
the public prints. The public newspaper
is not licensed to sneak to our fresides
and nose out all the little unpleasant
nesses Of private life, and to expose them
to the public view. The law charitably
draws the line between public and private
matters, and SO inexorably wells home Sc
crets from exposure that he who lifts the
veil runs the chance of imprisonment for
libel; and the truth of what he publishes
can be no defense if he is prosecuted. 1t
serves, in fact, only to aggravate the mean
ness of his offense We do not wonder,
then, when the ladies friends saw the
details of this little freside scene
depicted in the Journal, with such az
curacy of location and Q crlption as to
leave no doubt as to who the actors might
have been, with gratultous intlmations
about State Prison and other horrors of
punishment, they felt outraged enough to
try to even the thing up with the intruder
by giving him a well-deserved thrashing.
1t had been the design of the proprietors
of The SUNDAY TATrLER to have the paper
appear under its new name-THE SUNDAY
MORNING NEws-this morning. By the
term of Judge Knapps order, made in the
Circuit Court yesterday, the change of
name cannot be effected before October
LIST, and so the changing of the title of the
paper will necessarily be deferred till next
Sunday morning. This delay is due to the
fact that there are yet forms to be per-
fectsd which could not be perfected yestsr-
day. The order of the Court authorizing
the change must first be published before
the change can be made, and certified
copies of the order, with proof of its pub
LEGATION, must be filed with the Secretary
of State at Trenton. Observance of these
details requires time and hence the Act,
under which the change of name is to be
made, forbids that the new name shall be
assumed till five days at least sfter the order
permitting it shall have been entered Our
notion last Sunday was that imm sdiately
upon the granting of the order, we could
bloom out with the new name. The delay
the law requires affords us another oppor-
tunity to make known to the readers of the
TATTLzR the fact that the change is to be |
made. Next Sunday morning the paper
will turn up at the breakfast tables of its |
readers with the choicer name at its head.
We wish ourselves as much good fortune
with the paper under its new name as we
have had with the paper under its present |
name and we know that the thousands of !
readers who have been with US frsn the |
start wish us the same.
Porter Flanagan, is lucky man. His |
escape from the gallows is due to the chick |
en- hsartedness of Jurors who are fast |
bringing the administration of Jersey JUS
tice into d;srepute. His killing of Phal- |
quist had in it all the elements of murder |
in the first degree. He did the killing in
committing a fslonious assault, and the |
law expressly declares that the man who |
kills in the commission of another felony, |
shall be punishable with death. Porter
Flanagan should have been hung. If he darss /
to appeal tor revision of the judgment of
the Court, and to stand for another trial, |
he may yet be hung. But he probably |
went dare. He doubtless knows when he
has got good thing, and will be /
content to serve the penalty of his con-
victien rather than put up the pretty dead
certainty of losing his precious life for q
very slim chance of freedom.
That's the most unkindest cut of all, |
that old Fuss and Feathers Of the by-gone
times deals his old friend, Mullone. He !
finds the change in the Argus SO sssimply |
delightful" that, ''of late he buys it every
day and takes it home with hin, where
as before that he hadn't seen copy of it |
in two or three years" And it was only
last Fall that Mullone published the paper |
for the one and only purpose of letting the |
people of Jersey City know what great |
and good Surrogate old Fuss and Feathers |
would make. Could ever a grateless