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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-31

of the Committee on Finance, Coast Defences,
Naval Affairs and immigration. Senator Blodg-
EFT is a member of Committees on Census, Pen
sions, and Post Offices. aud Post Roads.
throat, owing to his dread Of going to the pool
house. After his death his house was searched
and in old tin cans in the cellar were found
$4,000 in gold and over $1,000 in bills. He was
seventy-two years of age.
A young lady danced so hard as to dislocate
her shoulder at a wedding party at Montville,
Saturday evening last. DR.. Wigg was called out
at four O'Clock in the morning to put it in place.
Jeremiah Bosworth. aged seventy, a farmer of
Norwich, N. Y, and wife visited Newark on
Christmas as the guest of his son-in-law, Josiah
Wood. A few hours after his arrival Mr.. Bos-
disappeared and nothing has been heard of him
since.
On Christmas night Mrs. Peter Ballantine, of
Newark, gave a Christmas pie party. There
were about 80 guests and every one had several
pieces of pie. The gifts that were pulled out of
this wonderful pie were of great variety and
some of them elegant, as, for instance, a re-
pousse silver hen-wiper, a gold pen, silver and
ivory paper cutters. &c. A supper of several
courses was served and after that the donkey
game was tried with its usual laughable acct
dents.
South Jersey G.. A. R. Veterans are booming
Colonel Henry W. Sawyer for Department Com
mander, to succeed DR.. w. B.. e. Miller, of Cam
den.
A possible explanation to Governor Green's
long delay IN appointing the successor to the
late Q-uartermaster General Perrine has been
offered by a prominent military man of this city,
who asserts that a bill has been prepared and
will be presented to the next Legislature, abol
ishing the Office Of Assistant Quartermaster
General and creating in its stead the Office of
Commissary General
In the State Treasurer's report there appears
an item calculated to create some mirth. l.
reads:-''To General W. j. Sewell, for per diem
and mileage for attendance as member at
meeting of State Military Board, $500 This
is alleged to be the only time on record when
when the well known State leader paid his fare
ever he Pennsylvania Railroad.
The youngest member in the new Assembly is
Mr.. Trefz, Of Essex, who is only twenty-five. He
is probably the youngest member who has ever
been elected to the New Jersey Legislature. The
oldest is Mr.. Nash, of Camden, who is within four
years of three score and ten. He is a veteran
Jeffersonian Democrat who was resurrected at
the late election, and who worships Democracy
as fervently as a heather does his idol.
Monmouth Park Racing Association purposes
to erect ten large stables, with twenty-four stalls
n ZACH; ninety-six stalls in the saddling pad
idock; the members stand is to be 400 feet long,
and the betting stand will be $50 feet long by $50
eet wide.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-31
THE ILLINOIS DIVORCE.


What Judge Lippincott Ruled in the
Bligh BigaImy Case.
Considerable doubt has arisen as to
what Judge Lippincott meant in his
charge yesterday in the Bligh case, and
many were of the opinion that he intended
to lay down the principal that a person di-
vorced in another State could not remarry
In New Jersey.
IL was with a view to ascertaining jus
what the Judge had in mind that / called
upon him at his residence last evening.
In answer to my question he said;-
1.-THE Court charged that the divorce
obtained in Illinois was a nullety so far
as the right to remarry in New Jersey
was concerned.
Illinois, which permits notice to be given
this State in the case of Doughty vs.,
Doughty, reported in 1 Stewart, held
that such q divorce was Illegal.
The court directed q verdict of guilty
to be entered in this case thinking
that it would be the easiest way
out of the difficulty, and reserved the
question of setting aside the verdict
upon hearing the argument of the vari-
GUS questions which the case ave rise to.
at might be that the mans intention
in remarrying was honest and that he
had been advised and honestly believed
that the divorce gave him permission to
remarry. These and the other nice points
of law which came up during the progress
of the trial will be argued at a future
dav
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-31
In Due Form.

A man was arraigned in an Arkan-
sas court many years ago for stealing
a yong pig out of his neighbours pen,
said pig or shoat being alleged to. be
worth a dollar and a half.
The evidence was conclusive, and
the jury, after a brief retirement,
brought in their verdict, Guilty of
hog stealing in the first degree"
The judge remarked that the find
ing was proper enough, except that it
failed to assess the value of the pig,
and further that there were no de-
grees in hog stealing. He must ask
the jury to retire again and bring in a
verdict in due form. 7lgS
The jury went out, with pen, ink
and paper, but were badly nonplussed
over that word FORM Finally one
of them, who been a jus
tice of the pease, drew up a document
to whichs the other eleven assented,
and with which all hands returded to
the court room. This was the YER
dict:- .s.t.
.sWe, the jourey, pusilanimously
find the defendant guilty in the sum
OF / dollar and a 1-2 in favor of the
hog."-Youth'S Companion.
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Valuable Testimonials.

Two Hebrew gentlemen, old friends,
had gone into the patent medicine
business, each on his W account
After a year or two they met and be-
gan enquiring of one another how
things had been going.
MY friend, I've got the biggest
thing as ever vas. / tell you my
medicine vas a marvel. 1t cures
everything from corns to epidemics.
See here, my friend, here's the last re-
commentator | got, and it's a
daisy
Dear sir-My boy met with an ac-
cident, fell into a sawmill and had
two legs cut off. Took a bottle of
your medicine and now he has two
new amp splendid legs.
"'Yours grtefully, ---.'n
"Thatl That was nothin'! See here,
see here; this is last recommendation
vot | got
My DEAR SIR-My child was at
deaths door with liver complaint.
The doctors gave him up and said his
liver was all gone in. There was no
hope. Now he's got a twelve pound
liver and electric light.
"'Yours gratefully, ---.'n
San Francisco Chronicle.
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Ballot Reform BLUR.

The Paterson Press gets off a sur
felt of gall and NORWOOD in an attack
ON Allan McDermot for studying the
workings of the ballot reform law in
Massachusetts. In passing, we San
not help wondering what the Repub-
lican editors would do for topics for
vituperative rhetoric if McDermott,
Leon Albeit and Hudson County
were not at hand; but what amuses
us in particular is the wrath of the
Paterson sage because anyone should
make a study of ballot reform and at
tempt to embody the results Of expert
ence in a new Measure.
The idea Of the Press and Of the Re
publican party is to take a cranky
erochety bill, drawn by some wholly
irresponsible person, and manifestly
lmpractieable in its operations, then
beat the tom-tom and sound the loud
kazoo and Other. martial iustru-
ments so as to fill up
the gullible public with the
Idea that they + going to do
something big. The real plan, all the
while, is to get right into the way of
McDermott and Albeit and every
Dody else who is really working for
reform, and stand,there SO that moth
ng practical can be done.
The Republicans do not want ballot
reform. What would be the use Of
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Let Us Have More schools

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The school statistics published in
another column disclose a shocking
state of affairs as regards the educat-
ional facilities which this State affords
to the young. We find that
there are twenty-nine thousand
children in this city who attend
no schools as against twenty
one thousand who do; Trenton
has about half as many children on
the streets as in school; Newark has
over nineteen thousand children out
of school, and Hoboken has seven
thousand children out of school
against six thousand in school. Cam
den, Paterson, all the cities and
towns are about equally badly off.
The cause mainly is insufficient ac-
commodation. Here in Jersey City.
for instance, we have only twenty
four schools, a ridicufously small
number for our population, especially
when it appears that Newark with
about the same population has forty
two and still crowds out nearly
twenty thousand children.
All this calls for serious considera-
ton. The evil spreads yearly. Our
population has been growing faster
than our l~iberality, and the next gem
GRAFTON of voters is likely to grow up
in ignorance. The legislature should
earnestly consider the whole matter
during the coming session and take
prompt steps to abate the evil.
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How Many women Read.

I am now going to make an asser-
ton which is always loudly denied,
but which is none the less true, and
that is that women are not
readers. At the family breakfast
table the first thing that three ONE
out of four glance at is the column of
births, marriages and deaths. They
go up by train to town, and you see
a morning paper OF a sound and sensi-
bic weekly in the hands of nine-tenths
OF the masculine travellers. But if the
average woman buys a printed sheet
there is a sadly overwhelming prob
ability that it is either a senseless
noveltte or one of those terrible hotch-
potches of inane vulgarities, stale
clippings from American publications
aud wantonly inartistic and silly illus,
trations. These are strong terms, bu-
the mental mischief wrought by what
may be called an unvarying intellect
ual diet of peppermints deserves them.
Long-continued reading OF this rubbish
shapes the minds vitality, and renders
it incapable of the effort to appreciate
a good book, or even to follow the
arguments of a leading article upon
some important social problem, or to
grasp the popular description Of a
scientific development. 1t has been
said that newspapers do not cater
sufficiently for the interests of their
female readers but it may certainly
be questioned whether columns on
baby-nursing would compensate for
reviews, or cookery recipes for political
speeches. -Wom09'S World.
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mor of them just now l am afraid
shall bore MY patient readers. :
London H0usekeepeT.
The Demon Cat.

aIOfe0NV AANNcChCCHCG. a
The Demon Cat.
1t was with a not unnatural feeling
Of impatience that the stout boarder
in the third floor back discovered upon
rising the other morning that he had
been sleeping all night upon a half
grown cat. The animal was smashed
out as fiat as a pancake-for the gen
tleman tips the scales at some odd
pounds over 300-and it exhibited no
signs of life whatever as he lifted it by
the end OF the tail and SHE'D it out of
the window like a tin plate. 1t sailed
down into the yard and lighted with
a flop on the brick path. The fat
ledger glanced idly at the corpse now
and then as it lay there, while he went
through the operation of shaving at a
mirror neal the window.
AT first he thought it was a mere IL
fusion when it seemed thatt the outline
of the cat was slowly changing as it
lay on the bricks. But upon further
observation it became Enthusiastically
evident that Mr.. Puss was actually
swelling up. From the fiatness of the
pancake aforesaid it slowly pulled up,
as one might say, until it had attained
a normal feline rotundity. Then the
beast proceeded to get upon it's feet,
though with no little difficulty, and,
when this was finally Accomplished,
it limped away upon three legs, man
aged somehow to climb the fence, and
disappeared over it with a 'Miaouw'
of farewell. 1t had eight lives still
left and eve to spare.
To say that the stout boarder was
sfiabbergasted" is putting it mildly.
He says that since the event above de-
scribed this demon cat has become his
special attendant fend. 1t sits upon
the back fence every night and howls
horribly for hours, the very tones of
its voice giving a fairly distinct notion
of the cuss words and maledictions it
is uttering. Bootjacks and even PTS
tol shots are expended upon it in vain,
1t evidently lives for nothing else but
revenge, the fat gentleman thinks,
and some night he expects to wake up
and find the fearful animal crouched
upon his chest, with its claws about
his throat, sucking his breath away
until he dies in awful agonies. Cur
roo! Gurrooi- Washington Star.
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She Believed in Heredity.

The Rev. DR.. ChamberIin, of Brook
lyn, told o laughable story in the
course of his address before the Evan
gelical Alliance, recently. He said
that a little Brooklyn girl returned
home from Sunday school, in a state
of mind, because she had heard there
that Jesus was a jew. She appealed
to her mother for a confirmation of
the report.
Eyes, my dea.-, Jesus was a Jew"
said her mother.
We'll, mamma, lie was the Son of
God, was he not2r&
"Yes, my dear.n
well, said the little one, II don't
see how it ever happened that Jesus
was a jew, when God himself is a
Presbyterian. boston Adre2tiser.
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She Killed a Deer.

The Aroostook (Me.) girls are always
equal to an emergency. A young lady
living in the vicinity of Masardis,
quite near. the woods, where wild ami
mails abound, was alone in the house
one afternoon, when, CHANGING to
glence from the window, she saw a
large deer lying i'll the yard, appar-
emily exhausted. Selling a large knife,
her only weapon, she started for the
yard, but being rather doubtful as to
the strength of this weapon, she ex-
changed it for the ak, with which she
killed the animal. With the help of a
neighbor it was dressed, and when the
men caIne for their supper she had
some steak prepared for them.
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NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT TIE COM.
OF Jersey City, appointed by the Circuit Court of The
Visions Visions Of Of Chapter < / Of the Il laws Of 1850. e. entitled
AN act concerning the settlement and collection
menrs and water rates or Water rents
ment thereof and to provide for the sale OF lands
passed March So 1856. have made. certified and
affecting delinquent land. described as follows. to
Block s4s, lot %. Beach street.
FLOCK 75S, lots 4B to fB, Central avenue
Block ri Plot 10 Van Reypen avenue
FLOCK 1888. lot l6, steyman avenue
Block 34l, lot %, Golden street
BLOCK 4, lot IS, west side avenue
Block 81, lots u and IS, Fox Place
Block 9S$, lots 2s 10 u, Tonnele avenue
Block as, lots s and !. Grand street
Block 2s. lot ls, Montgomery street
Block 2s6. lot +, Jersey avenue
Block 215, lots 2 10 182, Montgomery street
Sea View Terrace, Wayne street and Cornelison
BOOK sg7, lots II and 10, cornelison avenue
Block 81, lots | to and &c to SO. Railroad avenue,
Monmouth street and Wayne street
B BIock s sssI9 l lot z Z o sn1 g e sgenoe avsrua
Block 52s&, lot X Clinton avenue
Block 52g!S lots i and NJ, Clinton avenue
Block 52Sk, lot n, Clinton avenue
Point avenue
Block ash, lots s4,. IS. Sc, Arlington avenue
Block 218, lots IL, IL Linden avenue
Block SIS, lot 70. Madison avenue
Block 749. lot y, Palisade avenue
Block 74a, lot %, Palisade avenue
Block 7l9. lot "a. Palisade Avenue
Block 16i, lots IL to II. New York avenue
Blocks 20 and 23l, lot :, Bergen avenue
Block 14C3, lot d, AvenueE
Blocks l4O3 and 1A5, plot B. Avenue E
Block 1405, lots / to 4. Garfield avenue
Block 1905. lots 5 to 10. Custer avenue
Block 14G5, lots IL to II, Custer avenue
Block 14U5, parts OF lots y, % Avenue E
Block l405, lots % to "a Avenue
Block 5l2, lots E and II, Is Communipaw and Mad
ison auenues.
And the said Court mas hxed Saturday. the 18th
day of January, 1890, at the Court House. in the
city of Jersey City, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon,
as the time and place for hearing any objections
liens dxed and certified by the Commissioner of
Adjustment in said report, when and where all
parties in terested therein NAV be heard.
DENNIS MCLAUGHLIN
Clerk OF the Circuit Court or the County OF Hudson.
Dated Jersey City. N. j.. December =. 1885.
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SPECIAL MASTERS SALEM OF
. New Jersey. 3etwt en- Mary McFerran. com
plainant, and Margaret Hughes OF. ais, defendants.
ON bill for partition and decree of sale.
Collins q Corbiu. solicitors
BY virtue of a decree OF the Court OF Ch9ncery of
New Jersey, made in the above cause on the twenty
third day of November, A. D., Eighteen Hundred
and Eighty-nine, directing a sale of all and singu-
bill OF compliant and said decree for sale, l. Edward
y. Gilmore, special master in Chancery of New
Jersey, shall sell at public yendue, to the highest
bidder, on Friday, the third day OF January, a. D.,
1890. at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the Office OF
collins q Corbin, No. PSI Washington street, Jersey
city, all the following described land and premises,
being the same described in said decree, TO wit:
All that, certain lot, piece or parcel of land
in the County of Hudson and State Of
New Jersey, being designated as lot No. Thirty
two (S2l in block No. two hundred and six t2U6) and
Of the Register Of the County Of HUDSON showing
the Partition gof the land at PavOnia in the said
Jersey City among the heirs of John B. Coles. de-
ceased, said lot being bounded and described as
Beginning at a poIntMon the southerly side o
Tenth street. distant onehundred 400 feet westerly
from the onth-westerly corner of Jersey avenue
along the southerly side Of Tenth street twenty-five
25 feet; thence southerly and parallel with Jersey
avenue one hundred COO) feet thence easterly and
parallel with Tenth street twenty-five CD feet;
one hundred QGll feet to the southerly side OF Tenth
street and point or place of BEGINNING. including
the estate and interest in dover of the defendant,
Elizabeth Hughes, widow OF Thomas Hughes, de-
singular amp hereditaments and appurtenances to
the said premises belonging or in anywise apper-
EDWARD D GILMORE,
Special Master In Chnncery
OF New Jersey.
AAk1A & q -
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This paper is Democratic in principles
and Is Independent in its pietOs on all
local questions.
A Little


Now the clergymen of Elizabeth are
denouncing horse racing. Let us see.
At various times the pulpit has de-
nounced dancing, the theatre, drink
ing, dress, light literature, and all the
other fashions and frivolities hat
make life pleasant. Now what is the
use of such condemnation? These
things go on all the same, and will go
on as long as men are men and women
women.
And it is right that they should.
This was not intended by Providence
to be a world of gloom. Various WAYS
are given us to tighten the cares of our
pathway of life. 1t seems to us to
be a wilful neglect of the benefits be1,
slowed upon rs to eschew the moder-
ate use of any form of recreation. We
serious side of life, and the duty of
preparing for a higher life to come.
The argument that liquor, racing,
literature are sometimes abused and
p0TN6TG6Q rs Vi no IlOT0 cleCU dSullSG
the general use of these things than is
the butchery of his children by an in
sane fanatic a valid argument against
religion. The abuse of a thing is no
argument against its natural and
proper use. There is not one gift,
material or spiritual, which nature
has bestowed upon man, that man has
not ungratefully prevented, and still
most of us think it good to eat,
drink and be merry, doing all that is
in us to avoid excess.
Why do not the ministers concen-
trate their attention on some of the
real abuses and evils of life, and let
the comparatively harmless things
alone?
DISTRICT ATTORNEY WINFIELD has
been known to inveigh against the
imaginative powers which reporters
display in dressing up their stories.
Since his great interview appeared in
THE SUNDAY MORNING NEWS, the
boys think they have the laugh on
him.
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bulldozing mill bosses, and railway
corruption funds if the votes were eff
f~ectually protected. The party wants
to prevent all real reform by pretend
ing to want impossible things.
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Fair and Cold.

WASHINGTON, December 81, l8s9:-The
weather indications for Eastern New
York, New Jersey and Eastern Pennsyl-
vania are cold and fair today. warmer
and fair tomorrow, with northeasterly
winds
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MASTERS SALEM |cHANcERY Of NEw

MASTERS SALE IL %CHANCERY or NEW
James Mackin, complainant, and Mary Mackin.
On bill for partition, etc. YAa
BY virtue OF a decree made In the ahay,e c,,aa AZ
the thirteenth day OF November, 1883, / shan exnose
to sale, at plyIblic yendne. TO the highest bidder. al
tnursaay. ~ sixteenth day OF January next, at
I'VE O'Clock "a the afternoon, az r. al. Wolherf,s
real estate and suction rooms. No. Il MontSomery
Al maj certain tract Or parcel OF land and prsm.
49, s.uatS ~ Jersey City, in the County OF Hfid-
scribed as Follows S NV Ne
Besinning az point in the south line of Seventh
formerly south Second) street. distant ore bnn
Srs1 anI nasy ieettl5O IT, westerly from the south.
street andt % henderson formerly rrospectl
S ~esfsri and said Seventh street; thence runnning
90 ftl thfAce southerly. parallel with safaa uusnSnd eet
sou Snrset2ne hundred eet dMI ft.l; thence easterlv
rs III !. tb 4, ! sara Seventh street twenty Ave feet
son sr snea & hortherly parallel with said Hender..
beginnfSe Wiz hhunareo Ieet OuO IT. to the place Of
thereon cummings "hu appurtenanceS
DateA December Is. 1854
WASHINGTON B. WILLIAMS
Master IN Chancery.
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Tbe Arbitrator Has tn, Grlppe.

The argument in the case of the State
against the Morris & Essex Railroad
this morning to Thursday. Judge Stew
ems has the grip, and is unable to be in
con rt.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-31

FOR upwards of fifty years MRS. wrssLow's
mothers for their children while teething with
never-faillng safety and success, II soothes, the
child, softens the gums. allays all pain. regulates
the bowels. cures wind collie and is the best remedy
for diarrhoea. mrs. WISsLow's SOOTHING SHRuP"
Is for sale by druggists in every part OF the world
Price twenty i've cents . e0ttle.tst
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BRANCH

Advertisements, Subscriptions and Newsdeal-
ers' Orders received
HoBoKEN-First and Clinton Streets, ]. D. Sin
clair.
UNION Huh. Fischer, No. 62 Palisade Avenue.
BERGEN PoiNr--T. w. Dobson, opposite Railway
Depot.
FIVE coRNERs--G. ". Pfeifer, No. 1858 Newark
Avenue.
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Never.

The Young Man (b~itterly)--If that
is your final answer, Miss Cabiff, be it
so. There is one refuge for the des-
perate soul-one last resting place for
the broken heart.! Farewell
The Young Woman (alarmed)-In
mercy's name, Mr.. Kedioe, what are
you about to do?
II am going to offer myself to
Victoria Polhemus y
with a scream) What Throw
yourself away on that vinegar faced
old-stay, Charles I-l-Chi-
caQo tribune.
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WE are told that the anti-saloon
crusade has petered out in Newark
because ''public opinion does not
sustain the Law and Order League"
Well if it does not, does not that
settle the whole business For good
ness sake. let us have no of it.
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THE BLIND SEE,
Public Notice.

REPORT No. As OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF
ADJUSTMENT.