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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30
Entertainment in Monro Church.

In Monroe Methodist Church, on Thurs
day evening. an entertainment was given
under the auspices of the Sunday school
which proved a most gratifying success.
There were over four hundred persons
present and all enjoyed the entertain
ment. which was of a patriotic character,
most heartily. So successful was the
affair that it will be repeated this even
ing. The participants acquitted them
study and thorough training. Among
them may be mentioned Mrs. William S.
Harris, Dome Melville. Fred Collins,
George Root, George r. Shipman, j.. r.
Nanny, William J. Collins. Adelaide
Collins, Lillian Nanny, William Kerly,
w. Brown, Mrs. Edwin Allaire, Grace
Merser, Ella Osborne and others.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30
just what We reared.

A Cincinnati lady who found herself
ferty-two calls behind hand, and being in
despair of ever being able to pay them up,
took laudanum and died. We feared this
sort of thing long ago.. In this case she
should have had her husband die and in
vited all her creditors to the funeral.
That would, according to etiquette, have
squared all accounts.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30
CHERIFr,s SALEM cHANcERY on NE7

GHERIFE,s SALEM CHANcERY OF NEW
. JERSEY.
Between the Provident Institution for Savings in
Jersey City, complainant, and George w. Fergu-
son ct al. defendants.
Fl. ia. for sale OF mortgaged premises.
Returnable February Term, 1880.
Earl Inslev, Solicitor.
BY virtue of the above stated writ to me directed
and delivered l shall sell by public vendue at +. q.
Wolbert's Real Estate and Auction Rooms, No. A
Montgomery Street, Jersey City, on
THURSDAY, the Nineteenth day Of December,
A. D.. 1889.
at two O'Clock In the afternoon, all the following
described land and premises with the appurten.
ances. being the same described in said writ, that
Is to say $
All that certain piece or parcel OF land and prem
ises situate In the Fifth Ward of Jersey City, in the
County OF Hudson and State of New Jersey, and
thus described; beginning at a point on the north.
erly side of sixth date South Third street, distant
one hundred 900 feet westerly from the north
westerly corner of Erie and sixth streets; thence
running "a northe-iy parallel with Erie street enc
hundred 900 feet: thence 81 westerly parallel WITH
Sixth street twenty-five C1 feet; thence tl south
erly parallel with Erie street one humid red tlVQ feet
to the northerly side OF Sixth street; thence ~ east
erly along the northerly side OF said last named
street twenty-five C25yfeet 10 the place of beginning.
ROBERT DAVIS, sherir.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30
THE NEWS OF BAY0NNE.


A Farewell Dinner-Monroe Church En-
tertainment-Other News.
Mr.. Joseph Merwin, one of the agents
of the Metropolitan Insurance Company.
has been recently appointed to a superin-
tendency in New York city. Last night
Mr.. Merwin rendered his colleagues q
farewell supper at the Riverside Hotel,
where a season of much pleasure was en-
joyed. Mr.. Merwin was presented with a
handsome gold watch chain and charm,
the presentation being made by Superin-
tendent r. Fazakerley in a neat speech,
which was pleasantly responded to by
Mr.. Merwin. Among those participating
were Superintendent Richard Fazakerley,
Medical Examiner DR.. Robert G.. Nolan,
Messrs. c. H. E. Gardiner, William Dono-
van, Frank Tompkins, A. R. Gordon,
James Williams, Of Jersey City; B. Mar
quitz and DR.. Sutton, of New York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30
More Light Wanted.

The Fourth District Property Owners
Association want more lamps on Summit
avenue, between North and Irving
streets, and on Bower, between Central
and Summit avenues. Lamp Inspector
Conk will give the matter his %considera-
ton. Some two hundred street gas
lights are to be substituted for oil lights
in various portions of the city.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30
How She Counts Her Children.

A Philadelphia woman who at tended a
reception given to George Macdonald, the
English novelist, when in this country,
tells of a queer fad INDUCED in by the
authors wife. The latter wore, wher-
ever she went, a belt from which dangled
what appeared to be a number of golden
balls. During a conversation with the
novelist the Philadelphian happened to
ask how many children he had.
Zone the wrong side of twelve, was his
answer
'Isuppose you mean thirteen?"
"No, madam; | have only eleven"
Then Mr.. Macdonald called his wife,
who opened the golden balls (Which
proved to be lockets) and showed the pho
tographs of all her children.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30

Day on a similar charge, but being peni-
tent he was allowed to pay for Thanks
giving turkey in freedom. He did more
than eat. Hence bis new home.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30

IT is odd that our only competitors
able editor, with his fifty years of
public life, does not know how tospell
John Wanamaker's name. Only one
I'M Major!
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30

THE new Commissioner of Pensions, General
Raum, is doing excellent w~ork.-Trenton Times.
So far, yes. That is to say, he has
busled himself undoing all that Tan
ner had done.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30

Poor old Heb" is in an awful state
of mind again because we have ex-
posed the Republican plot to kill off
ballot reform in the Senate.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30

The Presidents message will be read with
greater interest than usual this year because
botn branches of Congress are in harmony with
him. Therefore much of what he recommends
or suggests will be put into ~law.-Trenton
Times.
The public will be curious to see
how he will wiggle out of some things,
and hoy far he will dare to go in
others. We have no doubt the Re-
publican majorities in the two houses
will go as far to consolidate their grip
IN the country as they can without
provoking absolute popular revolt.
In this country, fortunately, public
opinion, heated to "a certain pitch, is
still stronger than legislative majori-
ties, and there is room to hope that it
may suffice to prevent revolutionary
laws this session.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30

about 1870, a simple apparatus was in use
consulting of two brass plates, in which
the stitches were incised, holding tightly
together the leather parts of the glove,
while the needle of the sewer followed
easily these incised stitches. 1t was an
Easy work. not atall injurious to body or
eye, and an industrious and quiet girl
could without any exertion sew two pairs
of gloves a day, for which she received
from two a halfpence to threepenee each,
equal to about fivepence to slXpence q
day. Very poor wages. But the money
was earned in a comfortable way.
Let us now compare what progress
these girls made in the golden era OIL
machinery. The poor sewers are never
in q position to acquire the requisite
sum to be owner of these machines.
The district to which | refer is u poor,
mountainous part, the men mostly
miners of an imperial silver mine, with
daily wages of sixteen pence. The requl-
site machines are owned by m1ddlemen
called factors, to whom the glove manu-
facturers from all parts of Austria SEND
their unfinished gloves for sewing. These
factors are proprietors OF a certain NUM-
Der of machineS-from twenty upward TO
a hundred-which are fitted up IN work
rooms, most of them very intlitferently
suited for the purpose. The poor girls
from the n~eighboring district have often
to walk a distance of eight miles to find
work lin such workrooms. They leave
their miserable cottages at four a. m. to
begin their days work at six a. M.
After a hard labor of twelve hours on a
most complicated machine, and after
having passed another two hours on the
way home. their whole earning consists
of seven pence. Including the hours she
loses on the road, she works n~inety-six
hours a week for three shillings and six
pence, her body continually bent over a
most complicated machine, her eyes
watching leather, thread and needle in
c~essantly, her foot moving continually,
amid the rattle of many machines, in a
most sickly atmosphere. This is how
cheap gloves are made.-PdU Maui
Gazette.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30
Garments for Lady cyclists.

Lady cyclists will be pleased to know
that a garment especially adapted to
themselves has beer invented. 1t con-
sists of q comfortably fitting waist of
jacket cut, with q divided skirt. made in
wide box pleats. 1t combines ease and
comfort, even elegance, in its effect.
Knickerbocker underskirts go with this
garment, and the costume complete is
particularly adapted to the purpose for
which it is designed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30
Election Notice

NOTICE is HEREBY W NTHATTHE ANNUAL
~ meeting OF the shareholders of the Wing Manu-,
facturning Company for the election of Directors
and such other business as may come before the
meeting will be held at the onice Of the Company,
No. i Montgomery street. Jersey City. Monday, De-
cember 9. 1859. at one o'clock p. m,
Dated November u. 1889
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30
OFFICES:

advertisements, subscriptions and Newsdeal-
ers- Orders received
RosoKES-First and Clinton Streets, J. d. Sin
clair.
UNION HnL-H. Fischer, No. 60 Pslisade Avenue
BERGEN PoIST-T. w. Dobsou, opposite Railway
Depot.
FIVE coHsERs-a. w. Pheiffer, No ses Newark
Avenue.
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rNGPoRTANT

EAR PRIvILEGES.-Ban of Court Jer-
sey City, No. S,I29, A. o. F. A.. will be
Sold at Auction on Tuesday Evening,
Dec. 3, Noche's Hall, at 0 o'clock a. M.
by order of Committee.
WILLIAM LESLIE,
Secretary of Committee
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30

depress Chicago to the paltry Level o
a mere lakeside port. But until the
great Atlantic runs dry, or the riches
of the Western hemisphere are ,ex-
hausted, the power and pride of New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and Balti-
more will be great not only in this
land but among all the nations of the
earth.
To us there seems a strange indie
cency in this callow Western grasping
for the prize of ages. The world has
lifted up its voice, and the name OF
New York has been spoken as the
choice of civilized mankind. 1t is
hardly possible that in II National
councils we should disregard the voice
of history and of right, echoed as it is
by all our sister nations.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30
Ninety Days for Smith Mercedes.

Smith Mercedes will spend the winter at
Snake Hill. He was sent up by Justice
drunkenness and vagrancy. Smith was
before Justice Wanser Oh Thanksgiving
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30
The Hurning Oil Ordeal.

Recently the District Judge at Kalu-
tara, in Ceylon, had before him three
prisoners, including a village headuan,
charged with causing g~rievous hurt to
four others by requiring them to plunge
their right hands into a caldron of boiling
oil. The medical evidence described the
hands as being in "a sodden, suppurating
condition." the fingers being in some
cases deformed. In all cases the injured
persons were unable to follow their ordi-
nary avocation for about a month. The
facts of the case, as stated in the judg-
ment, were these:-
A woman in the village had some plum
bago and rice stolen from her; a headnan
made inquiry, and, failing to obtain u clue
to the theft, announced that 1t would be
necessary ON the third day to hold an
ordeal by boiling oil. This appears to be
a not uncommon custom in remote parts
of the country, and the tormalities are as
follows:-Some oil from newly-gathered
king ~cocoanuts is manufactured by one
of the compliments; this is poured into a
caldron and heated to a boiling point.
Each of the suspected parties is supposed
to dip his hand into the vessel of boiling
oil. and is at liberty to sprinkle as mucn
of the hot oil as he brings up with his
fingers on the person of the complainant,
who stands close at hand. ANY eXclama-
tion of pain on the part of the suspected
| person is construed into an admission of
guilt. If no such exclamation is made,
the innocence of the party is supposed to
be established.
In the present case the evidence estab-
lished that the pressure on the accused
was not merely moral: they were forced
to dip their hands N the boiling oil. No
force appears to have been used in bring
ing them to the scene of the ordeal; they
collected in response to the order of the
headman, who, seated on a platform op-
posite the vessel of oil, appears to have
acted as the presiding judge. Each of
the complainants deposed to the fact that
they were reluctant to submit to the or
deal, but were forcibly dragged up to the
caldron by the other two accused and
their hands plunged INTO the boiling oil.
They had sufficient s~elf-control to abstain
from calling out, except a boy of seven
teen, who cried out Justify, and was there
upon pronounced the guilty one. The
! Judge took the fact that it was a custom
into account, but refused to dismiss the
prisoners with a warning as suggested by
their counsel. He fined them 100 rupee
each, withithe alternative of rigorous i'm
prisonment for ten months. -London
Times. AJAX
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30

This paper Is Democratic In principles
and is Independent IN its vteios o" all
local questions.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30

PILES, ITcHING, BLEEDING, ULCER, ETC, CURED
without CUTTING, LOCATING or CHLoRoFoRM. Our
patients attend to business while receiving treat
ment. Illustrated papers sent free. Address
Drs. Miller and Janlison, No. Al West Twenty
sixth street, New York; 80
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30
The Meeting of Tears.

1t is a bright summer day in the valley.
The stream goes dancing down, and the
merry globules huddled altogether are
laughing as they pass away to the deep
sea to mingle with the millions of others
gathered from all sorts of places. There
are happy drops, escaping from the cav
erns and the rocks, from the depths of
the darkness under the mountains; there
are unwilling drops that in the morning
lay on the rose leaves and took the hues
of dainty beauty from their tintS; I'M
happy drops that long again to be mist
and hang over the mountain drops and
creep among.th fragrant pines; gay and
laughing drops that have been tumbling
over the powders, in and out of shadow,
looking forward to the hour when they
would rush out into the valley and be free
at last. And among the Joyous group
one little drop goes silently and sadly
along, jostled by the rest, but needing not
! their merriment.
WHY are you sad?" asks one who has
but seen the glorious sunlight for a few
hours. "Are you not glad to be dane
ing and sparkling like the rest of us? Did
you love your dark chamber in the ROCKS
so muchi"
''My chamber was darker than the
rocks" answers the other. II am a tear
from n mothers heart, a mother who
wept for her child"
And a little way OIL Two oGher drops iell
together, drawn by mutual sorrow. They
wander down side by side, neither speak
ing. The CAV flood dashes ON the banks,
flashes over rocks, makes a feint of climb
ing up to seize the flowers that bloom
| above it, aud rattles ~laughingly away
Some of the drops, too venturesome,
throw themselves up at the bending
| sprays of green, and are caught and lost.
But through it all the two sad little
things. holding on to one another. float
| on toward the sea.
"And what are your" asks N at last.
s'Did you come from the mist or from the
earthl Were you a dewdrop this morn
ing, or did you fall from the cloudss"
II am none of these" it answers. 81
am from a woman's bright eye. am the
tearo of a woman for her false lover
"Grieve not. Be not so sad. ] am the
tear of the girl who got him."-San
El,.r1oioao Ch9nDicIQ
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30

THE JERSEY Cry NEws:-SingIe copies, two
cents; subscription. six dollars per year; postage
free.
THE SUNDAY MORNING NEws:--Published every
Sunday morning; single copies, three cents; SUD
p~criptfcn, one dollar and fifty cents per year,
postage free.
Entered in the post office at Jersey City as
second class mail matter,
All business communications should be ad-
dressed to TIE News PUBLISHING COMPANY; All
others to the Managing Editor.
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Cheap Glove Making.

1t may perhaps interest readers to know
some OF the secrets of cheap glove max
ing. My facts relate to Bohemia, from
which country many cheap gloves are
imported. Before the introduction of the
glove-sewing machine, which took place
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30

WILLIAM DELANEY, furnishing Undertakcr. car
riages and camp chairs TO let, S45 Grove street -er
sew City, n. J. Telephone cail. No. l&.ssr
ADvERTrsEmENrs UNDER THE HEAD os
MARRIAGES M DEATHS
VIII be inserted in the JERSEY CITY News an
the SUNDAY MoRNINo NEWS at the rate of ten
cent a line for the first insertion; Hve cents Zine
Tor each subsequent insertion
DIED
Friday, November %. 1889, Minard J.,
only son of Ninard v. H. and Mary J. Terry. IN
the seeonaeRear of his age.
Friday, November %, 1889, Catherine
Conlon, beloved mother OF the late Bernard
COnlOn.
Funeral from the residence of her son-inlaw,
Thomas Kane, No. S2 Henderson street, on sunday,
December /, at two o'clock.
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FOR SALE.

EoR SALE-CoNTRACTOR'S CARTS, SENDER
IL ling'B patent; light and easily operated; to be
seen at Contractor Henry Byrne's WAYNE street;
built to order by Ernst Schantz, No. 1855 First sheet.
EOR SALE-FIRSTCLASS CORNER SALOON
IL finely fitted up; good business; owner retiring
terms easy. Particulars of Louis Bettcner & Co,
No. II Newark avenue.
Dol ~SALE-BULL RRI DOG, THOROUGH
Il bred; dark tan, with white points; also water
spaniel puppy. Apply No. 1872 Fairview avenue,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-30
DISTRACTIONS.

Students prepared for college. professional
schools and business.
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Catalogues and further given at the
Institute.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-30
PltifuI.

The love of money, greed, and
dishonesty are som etimes thought.
lessly Taught children by those who
have their highest welfare at heart.
A postage stsmp used on a letter,
but by carelessness uncanceIled by a
post. master, and then reused by a
mother or father; keeping over.
change through anOther's mistake /;
riding second time on a horse. car
ticket, if the conductor fails to take
it up, may he trfles in themselves,
but they may be the foundation in
children for crime and shame in after
life. Men rarely 60 from perfect
honesty to criminal dishonesty, but
little by little the bulWarks of honor
and truth are broken down, and
when temptation offers, yielding is
easv. Let the following incident
serve as an illustration of one of these
pitiful first lessons:
Little Robbie writes a letter to
Uncle Robert. and in it, boylike.
states that he has saved a dollar, and
is going to put it into the savings
bank. Now Robbie made figures to
represent the money. ana Uncle
Robert read it ten dollars, instead of
one.
"Well. WE'LL" he remarked, "the
boy is doing well to save so much"
Now the uncle is of thrifty dis.
position, and approves of a boys saw
ing their pennies and dimes. So he
writes to Robbie's mother that if her
little son has ten collars to put into
the bank, he will send another ten
soon to add to the sum for small
nest-egg.
but l didn't write ten dollprs,"
said Robbie. when he read the letter.
"Uncle made mistake in my fig
ures."
"Well, never mind now" replied
the mother. "Uncle Robert can
spare ten dollars as we'll as not, so
we need not say anything about the
mistake when we write to him."
Thus the child's better and more
honorable impulses are checked, and
a lesson is early learned in greed and
actual dishonesty. Does this mother,
anxious for the moral and religious
welfare of her children, consider
what tares she herself is sowing in
the young mind ?-ConqregationdliSt.
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Seaman as a Ketormer.

w. III. Seaman, the Irish comedian,
t1nconsoiously acted the part of tenn.
perance advocate out in Louisville
last winter. and he is rather proud OIL
the result. II was busy at rehearsal
one day." said Mr.. Seaman, yester'
day, in telling the story, "when q
man and woman, plainly dressed,
entered by the stage door of the the
atre and inquired for me. I intro.
duced myself to them, and to my
surprise. the woman began to invoke
blessings On my head, and tell me
that / had brought great happiness
to her family and herself. OF course
/ was very much interested at once,
and inquired how it was that 1 had
been Of service to them.
Last winter my husband lost his
situation,' said the woman, and be-
coming discouraged, began to drink
to excess. He had signed a pledge
of total abstinence a year before, and
had Kept it until then. We had
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In Justice to the Ex-Emperor.

Rejoicings over the downfall of the
last monarchy on the American con-
tinents. and the spread of the vine of
liberty to the soil of Brazil, may
justly be tempered with regret that
it should involve so wise, humane
and progressive ruler as Emperor
Dom Pedro. He was a real king, a
king among men. His reign has
been one long progression toward
the freedom and other great blessings
of a republican form of government.
The abolition of slavery, the gradual
enlightenment of the people. the in
PRODUCTION of modern arts, science
and invention, the steady lifting up
of his people to a plane of civiliza.
ton where they could rule them
selves under constitutional forms,
have been the aims, and, in a large
measure, the accomplished features
If his career. He is altogether a
unique and picturesque figure in
American history. Dom Pedro, En-
peror of Brazil that was, has earned
the good wishes and sympathy of
lovers of freedom everywhere, for
being the forerunner of liberty in
Brazil. He was a monarch whose
like we may not see again, a man
entitled to royalty by the royalty of
his nature. -Ne,o York Press.
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saved little money, but he soon
spent it at the saloon. He used to
come home drunk every night, or,
rather every morning, for l often
sat up for him until nearly daylight.
Last New YEARS. night I heard his
step outside the door at about IL
o'clock, and wondered how it was
that he had come home so early but
when he came into the room he
threw his arms around my neck and
kissed me. He was perfectly sober,
the first time in many weeks
YES said the husband. For
the first time in three months I reach :
ed home thoroughly sober. I had
been to the theatre where you were
playing, and when l heard you sing
the peek "a Boo" song I began to
think of my wife and little ones.
haven't drank any liquor since then.
I took the pledge. and am going to
keep it. 1 found employment short.
ly afterward' and have been prosper
Gus ever since.'
ITS very pleasant thing" con.
tinued Mr.. Seaman, ito find that
some one thinks so we'll of you, and
is ready to bless you, even before you
know it. 1 visited these people
while 1 was in Louisville and dined
with them, and assure you I never
enjoyed dinner so thoroughly in
my life before"