The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-01-03
Retrospect and Prospect.

not only OF keeping Itself up 10 the stand
ard of what it has been in The past. but Of
Improving itself in every field 1t sees open.
AS we look at it now we do not see much
If any room for improvement. but larger
experience and growing Acquaintance
with the demands of the times may bring
new suggestions of advantage; and those
who have studied our course in the past
will easily believe us when we say that no
such suggestion viii be without its proper
fruit. The SUNDAY TATTLER is now con-
ceded, by the press ali over the State to be
the foremost local newspaper in New Jer-
sey. Its enterprise has been shown 10
every direction. 1t has stopped at no ex-
pcnse to make itself all tina: it aimed 10 be
at the start aud more 1t is the only paper
in the State that illustrates. 1t has its
corps of fully equipped local reporters
rummaging every nook and hole of the
County till midnight for the latest local
information. lis Associated Press dis
patches rut it ss fully in possession of the
very latest news from all parts of the
world, as any of the metropolitan Sunday
newspaper. II is as fully equipped Sun
day morning newspaper as any of its New
York contemporaries. Its local columns
are the source from which their Monday
morning news is taken. It has led in all
tile more important stories that have af-
fotded the daily local and New York
papers for days, food for column after
column of agreeable local reading; while
an the minor local matters it has furnished
everything accessible up to O'Clock each
Sunday morning. Its record in enterprise
record for exclusive stories for the past year
mas beenan especially proud one. Wemay
DE pardoned for the self Pride which leads
nus 10 60 over it. 1t was in these columns
that the story of tom, Potter's villain
Gus pursuit of Mrs Plume was first made
public; and here too the story of Father
Buffers flight thMissB Brady was first pub
aished The story Of Lewis Jones's search
for the daughter whom he had not seen
for twenty-eight years was copied from
ahe columns of our issue one Sunday in
February last, into the New York papers
of the following Monday. and for week
afterwards the wires were busy flashing
the story Of the reunion all over the
country. The story of Mrs Behrens's di-
sorce proceedings lay under the noses of
nhe local daily newspaper men for weeks
untouched. till the TATTLER told it, and
started them after it. We do not mention
these things for the mere purpose of boast
ing about them, but oily to show the
superior excellence Of our local news SER
vice. Among our fifty two issues during
1885. twenty -fiye contained notable news
paper .beats." The story of Mrs. Eng
s1ish's contest for-the estate of husband
who was not good enough for her in life;
of tie contest for the County School
SUPPLEMENTARY; Of. the little Misses
Mann's fight for an estate of 100000. 900
ia England; of Mrs. Linden's sea lion
baby; of Prof. Gaskell's death; OF the at
tempt to poison young woman in Hobo.
ken with poisoned cake; of the quarrel
between the heirs to the Van Wrinkle
estate; were all exclusively in the TAT.
TIER of various issues. We have present
ed at the same. time exclusively, intelligent
summaries of The testimony in the great