The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-01-31
RANDoAr JorzTnGs.
A Medley of Personal, Political and Social
Notes About People we All Know.

Why does tho Hoboken Council license
bawdy houses
Mr.. Simeon Smith has been seriously i'll I
at the residence OF his married daughter.
It would be well to send some of our
anti-monopolists to Pasteur for incubation.
Which is it Jimmy Curran wants, the
Hoboken postmastership or the mayor
atty?
The term of Mr.. Asa w. Dickinson as
Deputy Collector Of the port expires next
June.
II is said that the Hon. Thomas YER
bose Gator is now practising what he Is
preaching.
The Cateret Club, Of Bergen Square,
seems destined to become very influential
organization.
Judge and Mrs. Beach are very fire.
quently central figures in New York fash
ionabls circles.
Senator Sewell is content to let his col
league, Mcpherson, do both the talking
and the writing.
Judge Knapp has taken quite fancy to
Merritt, the colored barber on the present
panel Of jurors.
Mayor Timken says it was an intimate
friend Of defaulter Mcmahon who betrayed
his Whereabouts.
The bagging of ex-Collector Mcmahon
makes some of his Hoboken cronies feel
very uncomfortable.
A little gubernatoriaI boomlet has been
started In the interest Of Justice Scudder,
OF the Supreme Court.
1.-The sweet warbling of ssKleinerv Charley
Jourdan once more breaks upon the still
ness Of the Trenton air.
Mayor Haynes, of Newark, is now being
mentioned as an available Democratic
Gubernatorial candidate.
When Miles Ross is asked If he is looking
for Gubernatorial honors, he replies ssnot
1.-THE court knows itself.
Miss Mamie Albeit, the Governors only
daughter, will celebrate her sixteenth birth
day on the 18th of February.
| Mr.. Christian Coll, Of Hoboken, will
shortly celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
| his becoming merchant tailor.
A new sensation is promised in the old
Vreeland- Harrison case. The Madame is
still troubling the heirs-at-law.
Col. John Romaine, of Governor Abbett,s
staff, will sever his connection with the
Erie road on the fist of the month.
Mr.. Andrew Post is very i'll with infam-
matory rheumatism which even the baImy
breezes of the South could not arrest.
Mrs. E. F. G. Young contemplates giving
an entertainment shortly that promises to
be both unique and highly enjoyable.
The New Jersey Press Club will meet
next Saturday evening and make arrange
ments for procuring suitable club rooms.
| Everybody who is anybody in Jersey
| City society was present at the reception of
the Palma Club last Wednesday evening.
| The Trenton correspondent of the argus
puts his favorites neither delicately nor
judo ously, just smothers them with his
taffy.
Tho fourth reception of the Independ-
ent's will be held at the resid snce of Miss
Underwood on Sipp avenue, next Thursday
evening.
Passenger accommodations do not seem
10 be considered in the building of the new
Hoboken ferry-boats. Horses and wagons
pay best.
| The Palma Club will retain the services
of an expert humorist to interpret the joke
os the Argus about the s'cold wave" strik-
ing them.
The brewers of this State are opposed to
high license, and will do all in their power
to prevent the passage by the Legislature
of such an act.
There are many aspirants for the men,
bership of the State Board of Railroad Tax
Commissioners, one of which becomes
vacant each year.
If the city fathers would watch the pro-
ceedings in our criminal courts they would
hesitate before granting icence to females
to keep public house.
Assemblyman Seymour has number of
important bills looking towards very de-
sirable reconstruction of the Supreme Court
and the Court Of Errors.
Mr.. Ed. Young, jr, has returned from
his western trip and is almost killing him.
self to catch up with the accumulation of
social engagements that awaited him.
It is denied authoritatively that Mr..
James Curran is looking for the Hoboken
postmastership, but that he is seeking for
some other Government appointment
The Hon. Staff Little thinks that the
B. & 0. did well in seeking a terminus in
/ New York to escape the wofully high
taxes of the Jersey City municipality
Keeper Laverty has requested the Board
of State Prison Inspectors to make an
investigation of the charges preferred
against him by discharged female convict.
DR.. Heller says he can name the next
Mayer of Hoboken, and he will wager his
ducats that it will be Tangemann. It isn't
the first time the genial doctor was politi-
cally off.
Mrs. Martha Stevens aud Professor and
| Mrs. Alexander, her daughter and son-in-
law, all of Castle Point, Hoboken, will sail
for Europe next month, to be gone until
next fall.
The Legislative Committee that visited
the. Washington street Gap last Thursday
would have been more refreshed" had a
newer and less biased Citizens Delegation
met them.
When Senator Paxton again attacks the
Methodists in summing up to the jury for
the State, he will be careful to ascertain
i first If there is not Methodist exhorter on
the panel.
Sheriff Heintze will not appoint his fif-
teen deputies and the five representatives
of the press to witness the execution of
Disque until about two weeks before the
date March 26th) fixed for that event.
Mr.. Joseph Dear, of the Journal, is
unconsolable over the loss of his will. and
thinks it by far the most valuable thing
carried away by the burglars from the Office.
1t was intended as a revelation in the sci
| ence OF Wlu-maklng.
In the event of the Hon. William Walter
Phelps becoming the Republican guberna-
toriai candidate it will only be necessary
TO distribute his pictures in the Horseshoe
to insure his Democratic competitor an I'M
usually large majority.
| Some trusted agents Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company are quietly engaged in
| purchasing large tract of land at the foot
of the Hill, to the north of their track.
Great secrecy is observed, and the object
has not yet transpired.
No, Disque, you needn't worry no one
/ will think you capable of committing sal
eide The wretch who can cut the throat
Of the mother Of his children from ear to
ear is BIZ far too cowardly to end his miser-
able life with his own hands.
/ William WaIter Phelps seems to have
opened press bureau at Trenton, where
every day truly goody-goody story about
| himself is given to the world Willie Wal