The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-06-13
ORE LOCAL CHARACTERS
fSs aM4Y b., DISCOVERS A Lot OF
OTHER QUEER PEOPLE

Rsan,s Dream Of Coda Man Who
Erfxhtens People with shnkesrcare-
Ashcroft ard His wicked Dellar.
Nm. ED1roR Last week, at the risk of
g a little presumptucus, took the
ty Of calling your attention to the Acid
interesting special articles about the
Iliar people we meet in the city, and of
ting ont specimen or two with whom
might begin.
10 or three more have since come to
nind, and at the risk of more presump
I eead you letter about them. One
|them think you must have met.
he is the first volunteer contributor to
|ery new newspaper.
be can't get in on the old newspapers.
1 has been rebuffed SO often at the desks
their editors that he probably knows
|ere is no use of trying.
land he Just lays in wait for every new
|ntuxe into the field of journalism.
HE probably dropped IN on yeu when
ID frst sent out TArrLER to win the
lvor of the public.
iHeis gone on poetry.
lKou may identify him whom you meet
b by the length of his muse. 1t win be
kognized at once by the number of eject"
t-not that, exactly, either; say by the
kbeSQf feet it spreads itself over.
never been in to see you--a short,
Irishman, who sets your head
the rattle of his brogue-laden
I'D touches on every topic under
Ia single breath?
-and-hy he draws from his pocket
of paper, and, unfurling it, oommends
par attention
POEM BY JOHN P. DAILY,
solunteers, if that doesn't ill the
er, TO give you as much moro, as good
I. as would cover the Hudson River
the Adircndacks to the ocean assur-
you. in the meanwhile, thst he got that
u half an hour when the spell was on
and very bad spell it is SOP etimes,
you will see if you win examine his
uscript.
anebern knows him, if you don't!
e brought himself into violent conflict
Pangborn's self-conscieusasss some
rs ago, and got into State Prison for it,
4 fellow. HIS kind-hearted wife SYM
Saizes with him, and lets HIM 90 about
rming the great evils of the Universe,
le she earns his bread and butter and
b at the wash-tub.
ben there's Mary Ryan, harmless Wis
kry of the Hudson City district She.
Famed she fell heir to two-thirds of Jer-
I Citysome years ago. Her lively imagina-
b summoned a court and a jury to try her
to it. Her claim was prosecuted by
ke great legal lights Of the age, and the
as it was bound to do, rendered
hent in her favor for many millions of
RS, and issued an execution upon the
Eff for the amount of the award.
yhe has haunted the Sheriff's Office for
Rny years in vain efforts to have the
ecution from her imaginary court realized
Nom. Every three or four days she wraps
+ shawl around her shoulders, puts on
ANTICIPATED bennett, and with simple
lib trndges off to the Sheriff's Office to
what he is doing to bring her real estate
her.
he is picture of confiding simplicity as
stands at the railing, and quietly pro-
IS against the inaction of the officers of
law.
pnce or twice she was turned off with
|cks for fabulous amounts upon fabulous
Snks-t Sand Bank is most in favor
hong her tormentors; but she lost faith in
|at method of payment when she found
LAT her check brought her no money; and
n she will consent to accept nothing but
h from his hands.
No one knows how she lives; but friends
Eo take care of her let her loose once in a
bile to humor her whims.
But she does not always confine herself
the Sheriff; sometimes it is the County
Hwhom she calls upon to learn
her judgment is carefully decketed,
en, after q rebuff from the Sheriff,
4 Judge McGill whom she seeks to COM
the Sheriff to do his duty in the
6mises.
rhe trouble is that her Judgment is bad
kerry bad.
was walking up Montgomery street the
er day when well dressed gentleman,
p wild eye and strained theatrical air
sed me.
lila Most noble Festus p / heard him
lain; and second later he had stunned
slegmatic old codger who was passing
lily along wrapped In thought. by
Rsting his hand with tragic fervor under
nose. As the old codger looked up, the
er struck an attitude, and fred volIey
shakespeare at him. They had evidently
LEI met before, but learn that it is no
sual thing for the ShakSp earian en-
Hiast to stop stranger in the street,
e an attitude, and hurl Shakespeare at
with terrific energy. They say he has
Old Master by heart, and that he en-
d 50 thoroughly into the reading of his
5 that he believes himself to be a
ard the Third or Richelieu or Lear,
riding as his passing fancy may suggest
bis over-wrought imagination. My
hers have both been stopped by him to
PISS q rehearsal, and they declare that
the town knows him.
Khat's his name Ashcroft, that's it!
blendid specimen for racy sketch.
pld perhaps 70 big and fat and
nted Indifferent as to the cut of
and wears diee1, with straight,
5rim, and yellow with the dust of
Sometimes he carries basket on
He goes along with pre-occupied
frequently mumbles to himself as
ks AS soon as'he strikes seat in the
boat, he plunges into his capacious
ers pocket for silver dollar, and
a. Is, - ~, No bovx5 All {bo bo..t be<,svxe