The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-14
TRENTON NOTES.
What is said About Men and Thfngs
1T the state Capital.

TRENTON NOTES.
What fs said About Mem and Thfnes
1t the state Capital.
Willard Fisk does not stop at the State
Street House this Winter.
General B. W. Spencer says that Pas
sale is one Of the rising cities Of the State.
Won't the Legislature please pay some
attention to DR.. Gosson's sanitary sugges-
tions2
Colonel Charles w. Fuller is to give
readings in Model Chapel next Tuesday
evening.
Senator Fish didn't lecture on 'sWhat /
know about mustache growing, at Newark
the ether evening.
1T would be great joke. wouldn't it.
II the Baltimore and Ohio bridge scheme
were only scare, after all
-Ex- Assemblyman William Prall, of
Passaic, will soon bloom out as a full
hedged Episcopalian divine.
Senator Livingston solved his local
option vote middle by keeping out of the
way when the vote was taken.
The Democratic party to George Dur
yea Ia, ia 1! George we shall probably
never have use for you again !"
And now speculation is rife as to who
shall fill Judge MeDermott's unexpired
term in the State Board of Assessors.
Local option went through the Senate
last Tuesday with flying colors. Its fBte
should be as speedily doomed in the House.
Senator Gardeners amendments to the
Police and Fire life tenure bill will pro-
baby have the effect of destroying its con-
stitutionality.
Attorney General Stockton saws that
the New Jersey Central is preparing to
eerfsorari the taxes of 1885, as are q great
many other roads.
-wns wouio s s;rss hsye suspected that
Chase's anti B. & o. r. 3. bridge eni
would go through second reading without a
word of opposition
As the Judge himself says, the Senate
showed it's good sense by unanimously con-
frming the nomination of Allan L. McDer-
mott as Clerk in Chancery.
Mr.. John Hood ia one of the most
familiar figures. and at the same time one
of the most quiet, unassuming gentlemen
around the legislative halls.
When an individual of the monumental
magnitude, physically and intellectually,
of Spencer Weart says, a bridge at the Gap
would be draw back, it must be so
Sheriff Reynolds's term as member
of the State Board of Assessors expires
with this Legislature. 1t is currently
reported that he will succeed himself
The death of Alderman George Smith,
of Newark, last Tuesday, caused shock
among the Legislators, where he was famil-
iarly known as the most genial of nen.
-Assemblyman Parker almost lost his
head with anger the other evening at the
opposition of the Joint Rebuilding Com
mission to the Newark Capital scheme.
Senators Vanderbilt and Livingston
were absent from the afternoon session of
the Senate last Tuesday, to be present at
the trial for perjury of Minnie Schaffer.
They have not been Assemblymen in
vain Major Peloubet's son gets a Com
missioner of Deeds parchment; and q
brother of "Tommy" Noonan's figures as
Page.
The Jamas Buchanan who defended
the woman in the Laverty case, is not an
ex-President of the United States nor Con-
gresham from the Second New Jersey Die.
triet.
The young Mercer Bessssiey of TO-DAY
is an entirely differss1n man from the Young
Mercer BeaslcySy of year ago. He is said
not to nlsssye touched drop Of liquor in the
LAST six months.
"A body of Protestant dominies have
complained against the larger privileges
enjoyed by Catholic priests at the James
burg Reform School, and an investigation
may be the result.
If Seymour's bill for the appointment
of Building Inspectors passes, and those to
be appointed do their duty faithfully, there
won't be much of the city left standing
after they get through.
John w. Herbert, ex-Assemblyman See
and Assemblyman Seymour, as well as
AssembIyman Alfred B. Dayton. are aspir-
ants to the vacant Judgeship caused by the
resignation of Judge McDermott.
Larry Mott has it in for you" said an
| attache of the Senate to the TATTLER the
other day. "What for 2" asked the ether.
''0h, merely" was the reply, "because you
told the truth about him last Sunday"
There was bit of humor in Assembly
man Seymolr's suggestion that, if there
was anything the matter with the bill ex-
tending "Sammy" Dickinson's term as
comptroller, the Senate might amend it.
Sissy Gummere, with his banged hair
and generally "too-too" appearance, was
almost as conspicuous q figure at the trial
of Minnie Schaffer last Tuesday as he was
at the Inauguration of Governor Albeit.
1t is said that the patent clap-trap
smoke funnel that Assemblyman Parker
has spoiled the skylight of the Assembly
Chamber with, had been tried in Philadel-
phia and Camden and pronounced dead
failure.
according to the State Assessorss
report there are 1908 miles of railroad in
this State. The increase over last year is
only 81 miles. The railroads carry q, $685.
DAT passengers, and 1908, IA tons of
freight last year.
How striking the contrast between the
handsome presiding Judge of the Mercer
Circuit-Judge Stewart-and the two old
country cronies who sat on either side of
him at the trial of Minnie Schaffer for per-
| jury last week.
General Bird Spencer, ex-Treasurer of
| the Erie, is still a railroad man. He is
President of and one of the most largely
interested parties in the new Passaic and
New York Railroad, which will be thrown
open to the public tomorrow.
i Auo NEWARK 1TeSS Is more partisan
than reliable. The print in which it franti-
cally announced that the Senate would
never neuerii NEVER!!l confirm Nc
Dermott for Clerk in Chancery had scarcely
dried before the confirmation was effected.
DIR. Quimby pays Hoa. Thomas F.
Noonan the doubtful compliment of thank
ing him for one of his bills. The bill,
which centemplates equal taxation for rail-
| roads is so good an one that even the praise
of DIR. Quimby and the Citizens Committee
cannot hurt it.
There's war in the Rebuilding Com
mittee. Parker threatens to resign because
he can't have every thing his own way, and
Jewett says he can do SO as quickly as he
pleases. At last advices Mr. Parker had
not ayailed hiniss Ksof Mr.eJ SHettazvexy
generous permission. g
Mr.. Seymour's bill authorize the ex-
penditure of 500, 900 for a Iunatic asylum,
by the Board of Freeholders contemplates
the creation of a nev aavlurn at Snake fill