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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
YESTERDAY was the sort OF day the
county parks would have been popu-
lous, ii they had been in existence.
Are Grand Juries Tyrranous?


The Camden Daily Telegram has
taken up an extraordinary crusade
against the Grand Jury system, which
it likens to the agencies of Russian
despotism. The thing that chiefly
worries it, apparently, is that the
jurors sit in secret and behave with a
certain autocratic air towards people
summoned before them.
But what does the Telegram pro-
pose to substitute. Can we readily
find any better plan for finding u
the truth regarding crime, preventing
collision among witnesses, and terrify-
ing those who have information into
aiding the ends of justice.
Most people regard the Grand Jury
as the best protector of law and JUS
tice, and it certainly seems to us that
the powers they exercise are safer IN
their hands than in those of a single
police magistrate or of a public prose
cutor, ,5uge d'instyuction after the
French system. At least the rights OF
accused persons are, in practice, bet
ter conserved, Notwithstanding the
secrecy and the arbitrariness of the
Grand Quests.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29

pY VIRTUE OF THE ATT
ID executed by Thomas B. Gautier, Jr, to Thomas
Gautier. dated May /, 1889, mud record ed IA the
office OF the Register Of the County Of Hudson In
mortgages for said county, on pages 30, efc- e,,d
also recorded In the Clerks ofice of the County az
Morris. New Jersey, in Book H Of chattel mortgSQes
for SAID county, on pages 95s, etc, and upon Which
defanit has been made, / will expose for sale az
public auction, on Tuesday, the second day OF univ
next, at four O'Clock in the afternoon of said div.
Jersey City, in the state of New Jersey, the prop.
erty mortBaged, consisting Of.
one one eyed bay horse, one Martin gray horse.
one newman mare, one one-eyed black horse, one
one horse, Sam; one Turner mare, one black horse
McGrath, Sri one bay horse, Frank; one horse
larry Iomi one horse, Minister; one Martin black
horse onesSallahan team, one blind gray horse, one
mare, one Phllfps gray horse. one Hogan light gray
morse, one McGee team, one Fry team, one Hogan
mare, one bermuda soFrel horse, one horse, Corkey:
one Fred team, one Ben team, one Gates team. one
Sinede team, one McGrath team, one horse. Dandy.
one gray mare, one horse, skinny; one horse. No,
Gfath,, Jr; one horse, Jerry; one horse. ikey.
one oi,sataa morse ae;r ,Joh1 one gray horse, John
harness belonging TO the said horses and trucks,
eleven double coal trucks, nine coal carts fhe
Diackslnith shop on the promises known as street
stables, one dwelling house used as a harness sb~noo
and the one-story building used as an onict, ON M
premises known as street number 6S7 Grove sfreeS
Jersey City aforesaid.
The said sale Will be for cash. and the ,oort.a..a
properly VIII be SOLD subject to a chatfei inort9soa
neiu py The Hobogen Coal COMPANY nm MY
sIefe y aye me principal sum of five thousand dol.
lars, with interest thereon from the sixteentt, d Z
OF May. in the year one Thousand eichf nn y w
and eightynine- Neuutoo
Dated Jersey city, June q. 1889.
WIN. BRINKERHoFF.
Assvsasy VI Ahomas Gautier. Mortgages.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
Hypnotism and Crime .

Were it not that the Cable never
errs we might have some doubt about
that story of hypnotic theft which
came to us from London yesterday.
AT first sight it is a hard yarn to be-
lieve; but after all, such queer things
have been told about the mesmeric
influence, that it needs only one short
step more toward the marvellous to
make this credible.
In the of public experiments
at Paris, DIR. Charcot, by telling a
hypnotized subject it was bitter cold
threw the patient into spasms of shiv-
ering, accompanied by lowering of
the superficial temperature of the
body, The opposite experiment of
producing the sensation of heat by
suggestion was also successfully tried.
People were made to rage in anger, to
laugh, to make demonstra-
tions, to show signs of acute pain-all
at the mere suggestion by word or
thought Of the controlling nervous
agent. Indeed, DIR. Charcot is only
one Of many who have done such
things, only his results have a certain
scientific authority which was lacking
in other cases.
But if such impressions can be made
upon one mind by another, there can
surely be little doubt that similar
errors can be conveyed in mere mat
ters of material observation. 1t is not
hard to realize how an accomplished
hypnotist, having nee obtained com.
mand over another mind, might
easily lead it by misleading hypnotic
suggestions to commit almost any &C
of folly or crime. In such cases thu
controlled mind borrows not only it
external impressions, but also it
originating impulses from the mind
by which it is controlled.
The matter has a serious side. /
such a power really exists in the full
degree which scientific men nov
claim, it is obvious that it might b.
exercised to the most monstrous ends
Murder and robbery are not the only
crimes for which it opens the way.
and indeed it would appear that so
ciety has no protection against such
evils save in the rarity of the perfec'
mesmeric gift. In the present state o
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
THE TIME FOR MARRIAGE.
WOMEN SHOULD BE BBTWEEN
THENTY-FOUR IND THIRTY-SIx.
Union at an Earlier Age Tends to Unhap-
piness-Young Ladyhood Is Too Val
liable to BE Lost, Since 1t Comes but
Ou.a
Nrom Me Trenton Emporium.

Physicians say that the best time
for the average woman of u civiliza-
ton to marry is between the ages OF
twenty-four and thirty-six. They
would not prohibit earlier or later
marriages, but between the two ages
mentioned a woman is at her best
mentally and physically. Very young
marriages are not apt to result hap
PLY, and for a variety of reasons, but
perhaps chief among these is the want
of patience that is so often the fault
of the very young. 1t seems cruel,
too, to deprive a girl of that happy
period of young ladyhood between
the emancipation from the routine OF
her school days and the tying of the
marriage knot. These may be called
the happiest years in a girls life.
She has the comforts and protection
of her parents home, without its
cares, and generally everything is
done for her happiness. She is seeing
the world and society to a certain eX-
tent, gaining experience from men,
women and things, and learning to
understand herself. She is learning,
too, to value things rightly, to appre-
ciate the good in men and women and
to pity the bad; to blame where blame
is due, but not too scornfully, and to
give praise where praise is deserved.
All this is but a preparation for her
future life, and she will be the better
and richer for it. She will make a
wiser wife and mother, for she will be
better fitted for the cares and response
bilities of such a life, both. mentally
and physically, than If she had taken
them upon herself as soon as
she left school. She will be
more patient with her hus-
band, more tolerant with his faults,
more anxious for his comfort than the
girl-wife of seventeen would be, she
will be better able to manage her
household and to bring up her chill
dren, for the experience of the years
between school and matrimony-if the
years are only three or four and are
rightly spent will be of vast benefit
to her.
Young ladyhood, with its balls and
amusements, its beaux and fine gowns,
its happy pleasures and absence OF
cares, is too precious to be thrown
aside entirely for matrimony. A
wofnan may be a wife and mother
more than once, but she a never be
a girl again. Let her, therefore, en-
Joy these few years out of school be-
fore settling down to the cares and re-
sponsibilities and the serious duties
of life.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29

and the owner saw her money lifted
higher than her head, quite out OF her
reach, and apparently about to be
thrown into the water.
But at the moment the roll reached
the line of the steamers rail the wind
changed its direction, and with as
gentle a motion as hat with which 1t
had lifted the bills it laid them back
in the place from which it took them.
The whole thing did not, of course,
occupy more than a brief instant. but
the spectator in telling OF the occur
said that the change OF express
sion upon the face of the owner OF the
money during that interval was re-
markable. Surprise, horror, despair,
hope, and rejoicing were in succession
swiftly painted upon her countenance,
the whole being over in what was lit
orally little more than the twinkling
of an eye.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
PERSONALS.

Andy Boyle's excursion will be a very large
one, for all the Freeholder's friends will be with
him.
Mayor Simon Kelly, of Weehawken, is spoken
of as a compromise candidate between Hoboken
and Jersey City for the nomination of Director
at-Large.
State Labor Inspector Fell has appointed Joe
Weinthal, who used to be an Assistant in the
Hoboken City Clerks Office, a Deputy Labor In
spector at $1,000 per year.
De Witt G. Coney, who died at his home in
New York yesterday, was for many years a part
ner with Senator John R. Mcpherson in the
cattle business.
STAFF Little and United States Senator Blod-
gett were in town yesterday.
Sergeants Edmonson and Rathjen are inveter-
ate fishers of both men and the finny tribe. There
are few men in Hoboken who can discount them
at either occupation.
Mrs. S. Goerig sailed this morning in the Ham
burg steamship Suevia for a years sojourn in
Germany.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
The butterfly Girl.

from the boston 6t06e.
A lady? She looks it. Her hands are as white
AS marble Or moonlight or milk,
Though rosy's the skin that goes wrinkling
around
Her palm. and soft as fine silk.
She ''soars''-in her mind from days end to
days end.
This dainty, delicate young girl;
And the fools whom the fool-killers missed, think
they've found
A precious, a priceless, pure pearl.
Such material things as buster and broom
Or a washtub are quite beneath her,
She's too soulful by far for q cook stove al
though
To good dinners she doesn't demur.
She talks of the 'Ssouln and 'aspiring'' until
With your patience you're ready to part,
While you think what "a mighty mean soul it
must be
That gives never the sign of a heart.
For out in the kitchen there drudges and slaves
A mother whose hands are like horn,
Red and ~roughened with toll for this daughter
who's done
Not a stroke of work since she was born.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
NEW xoRK.
SHER1Fr's sALr-HuDsoN CIRCUIT COURT

sALE-HUDsoN CIRCUIT oURT.
Henry @. Reeve ct ais, VS.. Robert McFerran.
In Case.
Alias, Fl fa., &c.
Returnable September Term, A. D., 1889.
Douglass & Kennedy, Attorneys.
By virtue of the above stated writ to me directed
ana delivered, / have levied upon and shall sell by
public vendue at +. G.. Wolbert's Real Estate and
Auction Rooms, No. AZ Montgomery Street, Jersey
City, on \.
THURSDAY, the Eleventh day of July next, at two
O'Clock in the afternoon, all the right, title and es-
tate of the above-n AIMED defendants. Robert. Me.
Ferran, in and to ell the following described land
and premises, with the appurtenances, that is to
say
All that certain lot Of land situate in Jersey
Jersey. being designated as lot numbered thirty
two (S0 in block numbered two hundred ana SIX
G0G and colored blue on a certain map on ae In the
showing the partition Of the land at l'ayonia, In the
said city OF Jersey City. among the heirs OF John
I. Coles, deceased, said lot being bounded and de.
scribed as MISUNDERSTANDING at . point on the
s~outherly side OF Tenth street distant one hundred
feet QW IT, westerly from the soQthwesteriy cor
ner Of Jersey avenue and said Tenth street twenty
hye (25l feet; thence southerly and parallel with
Jersey avenue one hundred feet Qtv IT, thence
~easterly and parallel with Tenth strcet twenty-five
c5 feet and thence northerly and parallel with Jer.
sey avenue one hundred feet N00 Witt 10 the southerly
SIDE OF Tenth street and point or piece q be
ginning. ROBERT DAVIS, Sherin.
Dated June !, 1850.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
TripIets in China.

nc NfstNNfJ0
The Chinese have q custom that
when a woman gives birth to a triplet
she must report the matter to the
authorities, and they on their part
will present her with three little
coats, n red, one yellow, and one
green. These coats she must put on
the infants in the dark, and the ones
who will get the red and yellow coats
will be exalted, while the n with
the green coat will be ignoble. such
vents are, however, of the rarest oc-
currence, and are regarded as maryels
OF nature. The other day a case still
more wonderful occurred at Pekin,
where a woman gave birth to q pair
of twins. The family lives in q village
west of Chang vi Gate, and is sur
named Yang. Yang had his son mar
ried, and to the great establishment
OF the household, the wife gave birth
to a pair of twins. The mother-in-
law, fearing deficient n~ourishment,
decided to keep the two boys and cast
away the girls, which was done, but a
neighbor, out of compassion, picked
them up and took them home. This
affair created much gossip in the
capital.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
Oddly Mated.
From the Paterson DoiIy Press.

tftC - 1VttV = 'N' M
Peter the Great married a peasant,
who was his best counsellor and truest
friend.
N. de Lesseps married at the age OF
sixty-two Mile. de Braga, who was not
quite nineteen years of age.
The Countess of WaldegroSs has
been married four times. Her present
husband is the famous Lord Ceilings
ford.
Shakespeare's marriage to Annie
Hathaway was an example of in
equality, both in age and in intellect.
He was eighteen and she was twenty
five when they were married.
Milton married unfortunately. and
his wife's temper was not unlike that
of Mrs. Wesley's, the wife of John
Wesley, the founder of Methodism.
John Howard, the philanthropist,
married out of gratitude a lady
twenty years his senior. She died in
a few years, and he married again,
this time for love.
Lady Beaconsfield was thirty years
older than Disraeli, but the great
Premier did not realize any difference
in age, so remarkably suited We're
they to each other.
The poet Browning has recently
stated the fact that Elizabeth Barret
was six years older than himself at the
time of their marriage, ..she being forty,
he thirty-four years.
Samuel johnson at twenty-oue mar
ried a woman of forty-eight. They
lived together twenty-five years, and
when she died johnson refused to be
consoled. He never married again.
George Eliot married Mr.. Lewis, al
though his first wife was living, and
he had but a limited divorce from her.
Soon after Lewis died she married
John Walter Cross, who was much
younger than she was.
Baroness Burdett Coutts forfeited
her interest in Coutts' Bank by mar
rving William Ashmead-B Bartlett. He
is an American by birth, and at the
time of his marriage was thirty-one
years of age and his bride was sixty
seven. She is said to be the richest
woman in the world.
a most unequal marriage, which
turned out happily, was that of
Charles, second Duke of Richmond,
and Sarah Cadogan, which was a bar
gain to cancel a gambling debt be-
UWGClI blAOAl PolSAitoJ 4IlQy 0ceIdAA W
ing a co-heiress. The Duke was
eighteen, the bride was thirteen.
A marriage that was unequal as to
years was that of Mohammed and his
wife. The latter was twenty years
older than the former, but the union
was a %congenial one, as the prophet
had predicted it would be. He out
lived his wife and mourned her loss
until he died.
The present Bonaparte family have
made some strange matches. Prince
Pierre married Mile. Riffln, a poor
sewing Three times the mar
riage ceremony was performed, and
each time at a different place, so as to
battle Napoleon H., who had it twice
annulled.
The beautiful widow, Fitzherbert,
who became the wife of George W.,
when Prince of Wales, was thirty-two
years of age when she was secretly
married to him. The inequality OF
this marriage was in the difference OF
a station, and not of ages, the hus-
band being a prince OF the blood and
the wife a subject.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
R COUNTY WAR.
The Republicans All Split UP Over the
Oxford Postmastership.
From the Husdinnfoq1 Sfr-

The Republicans All Split Up Over the
Oxford Postmastership.
From the Washington Star.
A council of war was held in the
office of Chairman Roseberry, at Bel
videre, on Monday afternoon. OF
course it was a private affair, with
closed doors, and only the upper-ten
were admitted. Those in attendance
were Third Assistant Postmaster
General Hazen, ex-Congressman
Howey, Editor Ketcham, ex-Postmas-
ter Fulper and Chairman Roseberry.
The Republicans of the county failed
to receive their invitations in time to
be present, but these chosen guard
ians Of the county's patronage ar
ranged matters satisfactorily, espec-
tally to themselves. The political
scythe will be sharpened at once, and
the Big Chiefs will go forth through
out the county gathering in the har-
vest.
Since this supposed secret session
has become, public talk, it has brought
forth considerable comment in Repub-
lican circles, and those who have done
the party work in years passed are
wondering WIdU VIII NC tIlS ilildl re-
suit of casting aside the veterans OF
the party to make room for young and
ambitious politicians.
The fact that John Shipman was
ignored by the young leader, in call
ing together the chosen few, needs
some explanation. Because the Judge
favors the appointments OF the young
republican as Postmaster at Oxford,
against the wishes OF the
young leader, at Belvidere, is GER
tainly no reason why this party vet
eran, who has grown up in the Repub-
lican camp, should now be excluded
from the secret sessions Of the new
leaders. Scattered throughout the
county, in every township, are to bt
foundthose:whoha have beenlooked upoI
as wise ~counsellors in times passed
but in this advanced era of politics
when it's not the good of the party O
the people, but personal c~onsidera
tions and advantages that control, thu
wise c~ounsellors Of other days are cas'
aside, and the machine is run by AZ
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29

our law it is hardly possible that h
controlled agent could plead the mes
merle direction of the controlling mind
as a defence for an act of which ne
was physically guilty. Neither could
law be formed to punish the person
really committing the crime, seeing
that it was apparently the act ana
volition of another.
Altogether the development OF
hypnotic crime, which is pretty sure
to follow this young E~nglishman's
beginning, will make a very interest
ing state of things indeed for prosecu-
tors, juries, judges, and experts on
mental disease TO deal with
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
Are Grand JurIes Barbarousq
From the Camden Daily Telegram.

HfOBt tH0 ~ - 00ttY 1NtSyfQUta E
The Grand Jury system should at
once be abolished. 1t Is unjust and,
besides. it is a relic of the Dark Ages
and a lineal descendant of the Span
ish Inquisition. 1t is a Juggernaut
that corrupt men, in brief authority,
use to Cypress their personal OF politi-
cal foes. The injustice of the system
was acknowledged when the Legis-
lature of New Jersey took the power
of naming Grand Jurors from Sheriifs
and placed it in the hands of a COM
mission. But even this proved unsat-
isfactory and the law was repealed
and the old syetem restored. More
than a half century ago eminent jur-
lists condemned the system, and the
"Star Chamber privileges were long
since abolished in several States, In
New Jersey, however, the oppressive
measures of the system are still
in full operation. Grand Jurors,
as a rule, are selected for special pur-
poses, either personal or political, and
without regard to the welfare of the
community. Sheriffs, who have Sc
cured their positions through open
bribery, summon men as Grand Jurors
who are themselves violators of law
and who exercise the brief authority
reposed in them to Cypress or incon-
v%enience those against whom they
have a spite. Women, with crying
babes i'll their arms, are kept waiting
for hours and finally told to leave,
without appearing before the inquisi-
ton, but with q positive command
to appear promptly at a certain time.
Calmly reviewing the scene, one is
forcibIy reminded of the almost in
credible stories of Russian oppression.
The scene, at the meeting of the re.
cent term, suggested that civilization
should assert itself and abolish the
barbara system.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
Anecdote with a Moral.

As a oma was walking, a man
looked at her and followed her.
why do you follow me?o asked the
woman.
Because I have fallen in love with
your was the reply.
why are you in love with me?"
said the woman. MY sister is much
handsomer, she is coming after me; go
and make love to herr
The man turned back and saw a
woman with an ugly face; being
greatly displeased, he turned to the
first woman and said:-'Why did you
tell me a falsehood?"
Neither did you speak the truth, I"
replied the woman, ''for if you were
really in love with me, why did you
leave me to look upon my sister,
ECchQp0e.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
Greenviile Gossip.

Members Of the Greenville Turn Verein
met at the B%elvedere House last evening
for gymnastic practice in view of the
annual games to be held in Schuetzen
Park, Fourth of July.
The G~reenville Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION No. 3 viii meet at Turner's Hall,
Rose avenue, this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Schultz are visiting at
Orange, N. Y.
Mr.. L. Petit, of Danforth, is rusticating
in Richmond. N. Y.
Miss Mary Saybolt, of Avenue e, is at
Philadelphia. Q
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
A sIisdirected Bonnet.

IFVW TIC DUDutV
A lady of fashion who sits on the
right side of a certain church, close to
the wall, recently sent an order to her
milliner i'll New York for a new bon
net. The milliner is an artist in her
work, and her customers usuallyleave
all matters of design entirely to her.
Yesterday the bonnet came, and what
was the lady's chagrin to perceive that
the most gorgeous of the plumes and
bows were on the right side of the
bonnet, where the congregation at
church would never be able to see
them. AT a late hour yesterday she
was trying to decide whether to send
the bonnet back or to change her sit
ting in the sanctuary.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
A Kindly Wind.
From the Bayonne Times.


A gentleman recently related in the
hearing of an editor a curious Incl
dent which took place on IA Of the
harbor boats a few summers since.
Two ladies were sitting together on
the after deck, when the officer who
was collecting fares came along. The
ladies had neglected to provide them
selves with tickets, and one of them
took from her pocket a roll Of bills
from which to pay for both. The roll
was a goodly N in size, and evidently
contained no inconsiderable sum.
Selecting a bill, the lady laid the
others loosely on her lap, and waited
for the officer to make change.
While he was doing so there came a
gentle puff of wind and lifted the
whole roll. As it huttered onward it
few toward the rail OF the steamer,