The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-01-24
zBKNroN NOTES.
what is Said About HEN and Things
at the state Capital.

uAS year.
The Windsor seems to be doing very
yell this Winter.
The first bill to be introduced into the
Assembly related to hay seed.
Tuesday was the only day Governor
Albeit was in Trenton last week.
There is chance of some interesting
ocal legislation at Trenton this Winter.
Have all of the members of the Legis-
ature read Governor Abbett's message yet ?
Jimmy O'Brien's familiar face is not
visible in the Assembly bilEroom this year.
The New Jersey Historical Society will
meet on Tuesday nextln the State Supreme
Court room.
-Ccrbin Is looked upon as the leader of
The House by all the members, without re-
gard to party.
"A son of the great and good Joel was
admitted Ito practice in the Federal Courts
one day last week.
-$225, 900 added to the $4,000 already
should make very handsome
front to the State House.
The bill that makes bridge at the
Gap possibility is to be given an airing
in Committee next Tuesday.
The last assault Of the Caucus on the
printers results in the cutting off the ex-
penss of two Pages in the House.
And now the local option advocates are
divided upon the question whether the
vote shall be by towns or counties.
Fifty has mingled some manual labor
with the literary exercises his active news
paper connections have exacted of hia.
Gator has invited the Assembly to visit
the Gap next Thursday and s9e for itself
whether there should be a bridge there.
-Sergeant-at-Arms Colfax should sum-
marily sit down on the fresh and particu-
larly offensive doorkeeper from Mercer.
There is a sparkle about the Newark
Advertisers Trenton letters this year that
they were never known to possess before
The boys were knocked almost out of
time by Assemblymaa Parker's bold move
against the Baltimore and Ohio bridge
scheme.
Senator Griggs lends peculiar digaity
to the President, chair, which has been
perceptibly lacking in some other presiding
officers.
Uncle s'Eph' Emson was cons picu-
Gus figure at the cranberry growers annual
convention held in Masonic Temple last
Monday.
Newark is making laughing stock OF
herself this session again by renewing her
camor for the removal Of the Capital from
Trenton.
United States District Attorney Keas-
by, of Newark, will make the argument to-
morrow afternoon in favor of the Staten
Island bridge.
-Youngblood, the Holman of the New
Jersey Senate, was showered with honors
by Senator Griggs in the appointment of
his committees.
-ssDid understand you to say that the
B. and o. has reserve fund of over $780,
600, COOP is the chorus of the Third Houses
evening refrain.
Under Condits bill fixing the allowance
OF grand jury clerks, James Manning would
receive $500 year for his services in the
grand jury room.
-'sCharley" Levy is the Evening Journals
Trenton man this year. He sings facile
pen, and is one of the brightest newspaper
writer's in the State.
Assemblyman Parker says he would not
favor the removal of the State Capital from
Trenton unless it was the will of a majority
of the citizens of the State.
Kearney township, which is the kid
gloved section of East Newark, is violently
opposed to the proposed consolidation
with short-haired Harrison.
The Baltimore and Ohio people will
advocate the passage of the Staten Island
bridge bill before the House Riparian Com
mittee tomorrow afternoon.
The Evening journals correspondent
don't wear patent leather pumps this Win
ter; or, In other words, Freddie has been
succeeded by newspaper nan.
We have no doubt that Mr.. Corbin
complimented Speaker Armstrong on the
makeup of tie House Committees. Mr..
Corbin is very polite gentlsman
flake" Christman has been made an
extra door keeper in the Assembly Chamber.
His special mission is to keep the draft off
Asse. blyman Seymour's bald spot.
Comptroller Anderson was an attentive
listener to the reading of the report of the
new Capitol Building Commission in the
Assembly Chamber last Monday night.
Colonel A. K. Mcclure, editor of the
Philadelphia Times, will lecture before the
Agricultural Society, in the Assembly
Chamber, Tuesday evening, February g.
The Dutch newspaper correspondent
from Newark, who caboaged the New York
Times correspondents desk last Winter, is
conspicuous by his absence this Winter.
The Senate exhausted itself with an
afternoon session on Tuesday, and then
for the week. The House held
on by the eye-lids till noon of the next day.
-Parker's Anti Staten Island Bridge reso-
luton has to go to the Committee, as a
matter of counsel How could memb ars
vote intelligently upon it till they knew
what was in itf
Speaker Armstrong and Sergeant-at-
Arms Colfax have joined issues and mag
unanimously provided the New York Times
Correspondent with desk and chair in the
Assembly Chamber.
The bill introduced in the Assembly
by Mr.. Seymour making the term of
office of Comptrollers of frst-class cities
for five years Is good one and should pass
withouta dissenting vote.
-Assemblyman William Pintard, who
won his seat by carrying a Republican dis
trict in Monmouth last Fall, was formerly
a resident of this city. and studied law in
Ex-Governor Bodies office.
State Treasurer TCffey's full beard is
making him one of the handsomest men in
IreLt)n. Inc treasurer and Comptroller
can divide the honor of that distinction
pretty evenly between them.
Some shopping Legislative correspond
eat has plucked new feather for Speaker
Edward Amber Armstrong; political cap.
1t parades him as the youngest man who 1
has ever been twi.e Speaker Of the House.
There were 23,S07 deaths in New Jer-
sey in 1885. The number of births. "a OF.
was tride smaller than in 1884, but an in
crease in the number of marriages will
help to even the population figures up this
year.
1t would be a good scheme if the
of the Trenton horse railroad
could keep their drivers and conductors
awake long enough to take passengers to
Ihe 1898 train to New York over the Penn
sylvania Railroad.
1T ,ods mighty mean of ChamSerlA to
write that President Griggs special affront
70 Youngblood was the failure to put him
1t the head of the Lunatic Asylum's Com
nitteel But there's no doubt the Morris
Senator will feel lonesome
Twenty years without stopping" { !,