The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-12-26
zEG1sLA1rYE GOSSIP.
Coming Trenton Events That Cast Their
Shadows Before.

Ex-Assemblyman John G. Caminade has
been made Deputy Collector Of Revenue.
Austin Clark, brother of Alyah Clark,
has been appointed Postmaster at German
town.
Ex-senator Nichols, of Cumberland, adj
dressed the G.. A. r. Post at Millville, last
Monday evening.
Uncle George Sykes's sister, Mrs. Ann
Curtis, died Tuesday, from cold con-
traeted while sleigh-riding.
The Salem Sunbeam says that DIR. VIM.
l.. Newell is mentioned as candidate for
the position of Clerk of Supreme Court.
Mount Holly Democrats lately held an
election for postmaster Now all the de-
feated ones swear that the winner cheated,
Judge Parker's official term will expire
this Winter, and there are some ambitious
young Democratic lawyers who would like
his place.
The latest rumor is that John P. Stock
ton is to succeed Chancellor Runyon,
while Robert Gichrist will succeed Mr..
Stockton as Attorney General.
Ex-Sen ator John B. Ayres, who died at
his home in Railway, the other day, wss
the first Senator elected from Union
comfy. That was in 1858. He was a
Democrat.
A dispatch TO the New York News from
Washington states that Mrs. Senator Nc
Pnerson and Mrs. Green, wife of the Gov
ernor elect, will assist Mrs. Cleveland at
the coming New Years reception at the
White House.
The SUNDAY MORNING NEW learns from
letter received day or two ago, that our
old friend, Mayor Lawson, of Salem, is
about to seek the Engrossing Clerkship of
the Assembly again. The Mayor was En-
crossing Clerk one session, and made a
mighty good one.
The Camden Courier says that next to
the organization. the question Of railroad
| passes is just now agitating the voluntary
| statesmen at the annual session of the
| Legislature. A recent rumor that the num-
Der of passes will be materially reduced
next year has consequent interest for
the members Of the Third House"
It is rumored that on account of the
contest of the election of Assemblyman
Peter Alderman, by his defeated oppon-
ent, John Van RusSum, the Republicans
will feel compelled to file protest
against the seating of Senator elect John
w. Bogert.
Speakers Harrigan, Hudspeth, Throck-
morton and Wolverton, in New York re-
Gently, produced their letters from Assem-
blymen at conference the other day.
Harrigan had letters from twenty-one
members who pledged themselves to vote
for him. Throckmorton. 81; Huaspeth,
IS; and Wolverton, 10. There are only 33
Democratic members to make promises.
A dispatch from Camden says that Sena-
tor Herring says that J. B. Char man, the
Clerk of Center Township, has made afi-
davit that John Goodin, colored Republi-
can, offered him money to supply him with
the tally sheets from the ballot box in
Turkeys Assembly district, and that Goodin
had told him that Senator Herring would
give 81, 800 to have the thing done.
Washington special to the Newark
Evening News saws that Mrs. Robert S.
Green and the Misses Green, wife and
daughters Of the Governor-elect of New
Jersey, will give up their house on Massa-
chusetts avenue early in January to occupy
the Governors mansion at Trenton. Gov
ernor Green will take the oath of Office on
January 10, but his family will precede
him.
The exhibit as made by the State Board
of Assessors is a gratifying one in that it
shows an increase in the taxable property
of almost all the principal railroad lines in
the State. The greatest increase is in the
case of the Msrris and Essex, where the
assessors have succeeded in unearthing
some of the property hitherto so carefully
hidden. Trenton True american.
Hosts of people all over the State will be
grieved to learn of the death at his home
in Hackensack, on Thursday, of Col Gar
ry Ackerson. He was beyond ali question
the most popular Democrat in Bergen
county, and could have had any office
within the gift of Bergen county people,
but he had heart troubles that made the
excitement of compaigns dangerous to
him, and he abstained from seeking pub
lie place.
The Legislative Committee appointed by
the Federation of Trades and Labor IN
ions of the State has added one to the bills
to be introduced before the next Legisla-
ture, which will make it incumbent upon
election officers throughout the State to
hold primaries hereafter for city, county
and state officials between the hours of 4
and o'clock p. M, so that the respect
able element of society may attend them,
thus prosecuting bulldozing and intimida-
ton by ''heelers" and others.
Mr.. Henry D. Winton, of the Sc Bergen
County Democrat will probably be the
next clerk of the House OF Assem- bly,.
Tbree years ago, when the Democrats hid
control, he filled that position so acceptably
that it was admitted by both Republicans
and Democrats that the duties of this Office
had never been better discharged. The
only thing that prevented his reelection
was the fact that the Republicans had the
House. AS ii is customary to give a
Clerk two terms there is no reason to be-
lieve that it will be departed from IN this
instance. Elgleloood Times
Governor Green will be fifty-s years of
age when he begins his official duties
older than any other New Jersey Governor
except Olden, who was sixty-one in 1880,
the time Of his Inauguration. Governor
Parker who is now three score and ten,