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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07

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odd Fellows, Recention.

Grand Master E. Frank and staff, of the
/. O. o. F., Live Oak Lodge, OF Orange,
and representatives from Elizabethport
of Newark, and South Trenton Lodge, of
Trenton, visited Jersey City Lodge No. "a
Tuesday evening. They We're met by
Representative to Supreme Lodge Grass
mann, Mayor of Hoboken, who also super
intended their entertainment. An enjoy
able time wa had and the visitors went
home fully pleased with their reception.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07

THE fact that Grubb carried Mercer
county by one majority might justify
us in resurrecting the old editorial
chestnut about the value of a vote.
But we refrain.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07
a P%hotograph did I'd.

A highly romantic incident occurred a
few days ago at Huber's, the well-knowu
Vienna photographer. An elderly gentle
man. apparently a foreigner, wentto have
his portrait taken, but as he had to wait q
few minutes for the usual preparations,
an album of specimen photographs was
handed to him. All at once the employees
in the next room heard a shrek, and hur-
rying to the saloon where the stranger
was waiting they found him lying sense
less on the floor. When he came to him
self he explained that the album at which
he had been looking contained a photo
graph which he was convinced was that
of his daughter whom he had not seen
for twenty. one years. The features
We're SO like those of his wife that
he could not be mistaken, He
said that unfortunate circumstances
had compelled him to leave her
t~wenty-one years ago, at O time when his
daughter was only three years of age. He
had made every effort to find out the
whereabouts of his family a few years
later, but had not beer able to find any
trace of them. He had long since ac-
CURED the conviction that they were both
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07

HEPPENHEIMER and Marsh will
contest for the Speakership of the
Assembly. Both are capable, either
would be acceptable; but there are
reasons why Colonel Heppenheimer
should be the man.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07
BRANCH OFFICES.

Advertisements, Subscriptions and Newsdeai-
ers' Orders received
HoBoxEN-First and Clinton Streets, j. d. Sin
clair.
UrIoN HrL1-H. Fischer, No. &c Palisade Avenue
BERGEN PoINr-T. W. Dohson, opposite Railway
Depot.
FIVE CoKsxRs-G. ". PheiTer, No. e6s Newark
Avenue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07

THERE was evidently not enough
Grubb to go around among the Re-
publicans even, Tuesday. This OBJ
servation is based on the size of
Governor Abbett's majority.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07

THE Republicans made their fight
wholly and solely on the charter ques-
ton, and they got a more decisive
knocking out eve than they received
in the spring.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07
The Postotfce Diserace.

IA OEt0AhhCC Ac o(O
If Postmaster Dickinson thinks that
the subsistence of the election excite
ment will carry out of public view his
remarkable abuse of his Office he is
very much mistaken. When he en-
tered a combine with an I'M
scrupulous newspaper to violate
the privacy of a citizens mailing
list; to accuse registration officers
of crimes on the most ridiculous of
"evidence = to annoy honest people
by putting their names in a list head
ed with a great scare about fraud-
when he did these things he laid him
self open to criticism which should
never cease so long as he is in charge
of an important department of the
public business demanding a scrupu-
lousness of which he has shown a
lamentable want.
1t is a pretty picture, this of Post
master Dickinson pleading for the
return of those letters, on the ground
that he wished to cover up the mis-
management of his Office by getting q
record which had been neglected at
the proper time, when in reality he
was planning a dirty political trick.
The improper use of the list was bad
enough, but this mixture of blunder-
ing and duplicity makes the moral
offence much worse in the eyes of
honorable men.
That postotfices are to be political
machines under this administration
is plain enough, but that even John
Wananaker proposed to do it in
Dickinson's scandalous fashion is
more than we are prepared to believe.
Mr.. Wanamaker bought his position
with money which he had made, more
or less honestly, in trade:-he didn't
beg it.
There are other complaints of failure
in the postal service here since Mr..
Dickinson took charge. We present
a letter today which tells of an annoy
ance due to Encouragement of the
office.
But the main question is on this
matter of making public a private
mailing list. The confidence of bust
ness men will be greatly weakened by
it. and that is a most deplorable re-
suit.
There is an excellent opportunity to
create a vacancy in the list of first
class postmasters, to make it in Jersey
City, and to make it at once.
WILL the Democratic majority on
joint ballot be of any service to the
party at Trenton next winter9 The
Senate is Republican, and, if there is
anything worth the having to be
given away in joint meeting, it is
doubtful il that body will consent to
sit with the Assembly.
THE new thirteen-story building of
the st. Paul Pioneer Press will be
opened On Saturday, November Q,
1889. That enterprising newspaper is
good enough to send us an invitation
to witness the formalities. We shall
not attend because we are superstiti-
Gus about the number thirteen, but
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07

WHAT is the matter among the
Newark churches? Three of the MN
listers have resigned within the last
month; and this evening we have a
story about Centenary Church in
that city which reflects no credit upon
those whose names appear in it,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07

DIR. Lancaster writes:-"There is moth
ing SO bad rs a dark sick room; it is as If
the attendants were anticipating the
death of the patient; and, If the reason
for 1t be asked. the answer is as ~inconsist-
emit as the act. The reason usually offered
is that the patient cannot bear the light,
as though the light could not be cut off
from the patient by a curtain or screen,
and as though to darker one part of the
room it were necessary to darken the
whole of it. The real reason is an old
superstitious practice, which once pre-
vailed so intensely that the sick, suffer
ing from the most terrible diseases, small
pox for instance, were shut up in dark
ness, their bed surrounded with red cur
tains, during the whole of their illness.
A more injurious practice really could
lot be maintained than that of darkness
in the sick room. 1t is not only that dirt
and disorder are results of darkness, a
great remedy is lost. Sunlight is the
remedy lost, and the loss is momentous."
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07

YESTERDAY was the season of poll
tics; today is the season Of church
fairs. THE JERSEY CRY NEWS will
be as pre-eminent in its handling of
the new topic of popular interest as it
is conceded to have been in the hand
ling of the other.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07

we extend congratulations and will
return the courtesy when our own
building is ready for occupancy, We
shall not stop at thirteen stories.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07
widows and wIdowers.

The Westminster ReUieto shows that
the widows greatly exceed the widowers
in number, the proportion in England
being as 1,410. 6s4 to $50, e44-a proportion
which is not very greatly varied from
through all the marriageahle ages. The
difference being hardly accounted for by
the superior longevity of women, or the
greater exposure to danger incurred by
men, the ReUtcly finds a more efficient
cause in martial disparity. Women pre-
fer husbands who have made their for
tunes and can give them ease and display
to young men who have their fortunes to
make, with privations that must be
shared. Thus taking com panions con-
siderahly older than themselves they nat
urally outliVe them. 1t might be a more
philosophical proceeding for the woman to
marry a mar younger than herself, that
she may have his society through life, and
d support when she will most need him.
The results of this course to the cause of
purity and to the health of the human
race are to be deplored. Disparate unions
have been shown to be fertile sources of
the failure of marriage. A young woman
marrying a man of like age is the right
person in the right place, On the con-
trary, in marrying a ma at the end of
his manhood, she often drags him down.
Gross disparity was FORBIDDEN by jew
ish lawgiyers, and also by the most emf
nent pagan lawgiyers, and should be pro-
bite noW,u
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07
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TEE JERSEY CRY ~NEws;-Single copies. two
cents; subscription, six dollars per year; postage
free.
The sunday MORNING NEws:--Published every
Sunday morning; single copies, three centsi sub
s~cfipticn, one dollar and fifty cents per year;
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Entered in ths post Office at Jersey City as
second class mail matter.
All business communications should be ad.
dressed to THE NKws PUBLISHING CoMPANYi all
others TO the Managing Editor.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07

ADvERrIsrMENrs UNDER THE HAD OF
MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
VIII be inserted in the JEasEY CITY NEWS an
the SUNDAY MORNING NEWS at the rate OF ten
cents a line forthe first insertion; Hve cents a line
FOR each subsequent Insertion
DIED
Bo~OKSLAIN-On November 5, 1889. John II. Book
slain. aged eighty years, eleven months ana hve
DAYS.
Funeral services to be hell at Waverly Congrega-
tiocal Church, BoOraem avenue. Heights, on Fhurs..
day. November Z. at eight D. IN. helat1Yes ann
friends arc respectfully invited to attend.
Kindly omit flowers,
HIS late residence, No. $50 Johnson av-
enne, Martin, beloved husband of Mary Kelly,
aged thirty-Ifne years
Notice OF funeral hereafter.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07
ADvrnrsarnEsrs UNDnn THE az

WILLIAM pErAsxy, FURNISHING. gndsrtsEer: car
rfages and camp chairs to lot SO Grove street. ser
sey City. MI. Telephons call No. tS.".'
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07

This paper is Democratic tn principles
and Is Independent IN its vte,os ON all
local questions.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07

dead. The photographer told him that
the portrait in question was that of a
teacher of the pianoforte residing in
Vienna, giving her name and address. 1t
was arranged that the stranger, Herr NJ,
of New York, should call on her the next
day, and that in the meantime she should
be warned of his intended visit. The lady
tusued out to be his daughter, and has
alreAdy left Vienna with her father for
the United States. He is a wealthy specu-
lator, and the poor music mistress has
suddenly found herself heiress to Il for
tune of several millions of dollars. Herr
NJ, prior to his departure. presented Herr
Huber with Il splendid diamond breast
pin.-LoRdoR Daily Telegraph.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-10
BOGUS TEA.
Tons of Celestial Dried Hay Unloadcd
on the United States.

New YoRH, May 9.-[Special Telegram to
THE BEE. The Herald says; The note of
warning to American tea drinkers sounded
by United States Consul Crowell, who is sta
toned at Annoy, China, has caused consider
able excitement among the trade in this city.
Yesterday number OF dealers and import
ers said that the very poorest tea raised IN
China is foisted upon the American public
Tons of tea leaves are consumed inlthiS couu-
try that are no better than hay, and fire.
quently not as good, and an immense guam
tity of the stuff that is used for tea is posi-
lively injurious on account of the poisonous
materials used in coloring il.
Russell 81 Co., who are perhaps the largest
purchasers of tea in China, and who have an
Office III Wall street. in u circular recently
sent out from their Annoy house to their cor
respondents, confirm fully what the consul
says The total production Of this grade of
tea this year was something like three mil
lion pounds, every ounce of which finds its
way into the teapots of the people of the
United States and q large quantity OF the
crop spoken Of BY Consul Crowell was dis
posed OF by auction yesterday at from 1917
to 10 cents pounds. Representatives of the
largest importing house IN the trade which
handles fully one-seventh OF the entire tea
that comes to the country said that a lot of
Annoy Oolong bought IN Annoy for their &C
count was declared by experts to be too poor
to pass custom house inspection, and was re-
sold The purchasers took chances, shipped
to the United States, and it was admitted
and is now on the market, and is worthless
trash
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-10
THE INDUSTRIAL FiEL ID.

Firemen on the Philadelphia g. Reading
railroad will not be allowed to run engines
and will be examined at the end of six
months for promotion to engineers. If the
fireman shall succeed in his examinations he
will receive a certificate, and if he does not
he must fire eighteen months more before he
can take another examination.
Twenty-seven iron furnaces in the Mahon-
ing valley have reduced the wages of their
employees 10 per cent. Reductions in wages,
dscharging of employees and shut-downs are
common throughout Pennsylvania.
The boss masous and iourneymen brick
layers Of New York city, at recent con-
ference, fixed the scale of wages for the en-
suing year at S405 day. The limits of
work are nine hours for five days of the
week and eight on Saturday.
Carpenters employed by the 'citysgovern.
ment of Chicago, now get the union rate of
wages, 35 cents per hour for working day
of eight hours.
The London Ironmonger reports prefer
ence for American tools in the English Aus
tralian and New Zealand markets.
Thousands of laborersat Panama are idle
on account of the suspension of work on the
canal, and business IS paralyzed.
The employees Of the New York Stats
| Zeitung have received a dividend of 10 per
| cent on their earnings tor the year 1885,
Some women in England make good salaries
by manufacturing the dainty silk and lace
lamp shades now so popular. A dealer in
London who Rlories in the royal patronage
| pays one woman 500 month for the shade:
| she makes.
A labor movement Is spreading rapidly
| throughout Germany.
| In Great Britain there are 203 tin plate
mills, employing 10000.
| Englands 1000 Hour mills can make 81,
600. 900 barrels per year. The country con
sumes 80 per cent of this amount, grea
deal of which comes from America and Hun
| gary. r-,t
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-10
a DIsCoURA0ING REsULr.

The advocates of commercial union
with Canada were not given any en-
couragement by the parliament which
adjourned last week. Early in the ses-
sion the leader of the opposition to the
protective. system made q vigorous as
sault upon the policy, but all efforts to
secure any modification of it ended in a
complete failure. The fact was clearly
disclosed that the Canadian manufac-
turers fear even mild form of reciproc-
ity, and that they are always ready to
obey note of alarm sounded by Pre-
mier Macdonald. The opposition to the
government is strong. and its leaders
are able and aggressive. The minis
terial party lost some of its strength,
its majority in parliament having been
reduced. But it was still ample to
carry through every measure it desired
and to keep intact the policy that stands
as barrier against commercial union
or any form OF trade reciprocity with
the United States.
How long tho now dominant party
can retain power may de-
pond somewhat upon the lifeCime
OF Sir John A. Macdonald, who
appears to be q strong and capable
leader. Mr.. Erastus Wiman, who is
| one of the most ardent and hopeful ad-
vocates OF commercial union, said be-
J fore the senate committee in New York
| that Canada cannot stay as she is, that
| she must either become an independ-
ent republic or join with the United
States. the hopes Of great party"
said Mr.. Winan, ''rest entirely upon
| one old man. After the death Of Sir
John Macdonald will come deiuge." But
this view may be too optimistic. Doubt
very materially weaken the party in
power, but it must be granted that that
party rests upon principles and senti'
mcnts which appeal powerfully to the
majority OF the Canadian people, and
which would continue in force without
the championship Of Sir John Mac
donald. There is feeling of national
pride and Independence among the
Canadian people which was notinspired
wholly by that veteran statesman
though he has perhaps done more than
any other to stimulate and strengthen
it. The idea of commercial union will
the United States is repugnant to mos
of the people of Canada because it woult
necessitate surrender, in some de
gree, of the commercial independence
OF the Dominion, aud because il i
thought TO involve the possibility, how
ever remote, OF political union and tn
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-10

REGARDING the statement that the
chief obstacle in the way of manufac-
turing tin plate in this country is the
difficulty of separating the tin from the
mica, which has not yet been over
come, the Rapid City Journal says it is
erroneous. 1T states that the school OF
mines at that place has practically and
successfully demonstrated that the sep
aration may not only be made, but that
it may be made by n comparatively sim
pie aud comparatively Inexpensive pro-
cess. 1t is partly to determine the
practicability of separating the tin and
mica that the Chicago capitalists who
contemplate establishing the tin plate
manufacture are going to tho Black
Hills, and if they find this difficulty al
ready solved it may be only a very
short time until the manufacture of tin
plate in this country is started on a
large scale.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-10

AS WAS to be expected the report OF
the intpector appointed to examine into
the agricultural departments of the
schools and colleges receiving govern
ment aid is far from being encouraging.
With few exceptions the colleges of the
various states to which the government
has contributed valuable land grants for
the purpose Of teaching farmers sons
the principles of agriculture, have fallen
far short OF their duties. They have
drifted away from their original design.
They fail to educate for the farms, and
their tendency is to discourage young
men from the pursuit Of agriculture, by
their meagre facilities and lack OF IN
terest in the study of agriculture. The
attention of Secretary Rusk has been
attracted to this abuse of the bounty Of
the government. 1t is more than likely
that the new secretary of agriculture will
force these institutions to comply more
strictly with their obligations TO the
government, and make the agricultural
colleges something better than sof
berth for superanuated politicians.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-10
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings.

Rushville is giving prohibition a trial
The village blacksmith of Wilber mourns
the loss of 500 worth of tools.
Hastings sghs for union depot to match
the complexion of tho new court house.
Wednesdays rain was worth thousands of
dollars TO farmers hereabouts Every drop
washed away affown from agricultural
brows "a
During the wind storm few days ago q
Juniata lady became so frightened that she
died in a fit. 1t was sad blow to the
family.
The engineers annual report Of public i'm
provements in Nebraska City shows total
of 100000 expended in fostering solid
growth last year.
The April report of postofice business IN
Nebraska City shows an increase of 26 per
cent in the number OF pieces handled the
previous month.
Kearney is beginning TO howl for a new
depot Every day the town discovers some
thing lacking to complete her happiness, and
she is not at all backward about asking
for it.
Six windmills were blown down In the vi
cinity of Harvard, Monday. This same gale
trihed with the Lincoln city council for a
moment, and passed away, screaming and
mutlated.
The Ulysses Dispatch says that DIR. Hall,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-10

complete domination OF the weaker by
the stronger power. These and other
objections to any such radical change
in the relations OF Canada with the
United States, as has been proposed,
have boon repeatedly and vigorously
urged by Canadian statesmen, and 1t Is
not to be doubted that they are so firm
ly rooted in the popular mind as not to
be easily or speedily removed. A fair
and equitable arrangement for trade
reciprocity between the two countries
would, IN all probability, be to the ad-
vantage OF both, but the outlook for ef-
fecting such an arrangement can not at
present be regarded as nattering.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-10

THE rains that have prevailed during
the past few days throughout the north
west removed the dangers that werc
threatening growing crops from the
prolonged absence of rain, and reports
from Minnesota and Dakota represent a
great Improvement in the conditions
and prospect. Nebraska was also suffer-
ing from want of moisture, but there is
no further cause of complaint, the rain
fall OF the past forty-eight hours having
extended throughout the state and been
sufficient to supply all the moisture inn
mediately required.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-10
Is TO THE CITY HALL.

We do not propose to take part in the
controversy over the city hall plans,
which is mainly carried on by parties
who made the fight on the Myers plans
and delayed the construction OF the city
hall three years. The Myers plans
were good enough, and IL the building
had been erected with reasonable dill
gence in compliance herewith, Omaha
would now have all her city officials
located in substantial and fire proof
building.
Now that the Myers plans have been
abandoned, we want to see the new
plans adopted with the least
possible jangle, and we hope
to see work on the building begun
within the next sixty days. The short
est cut with this end in view will com
mend itself to all citizens not directly
interested in the competition between
architects ana builders.
There is nothing to be gained by a
perpetual wrangle over plans. What
the mayor and council should do is to
adopt plan which majority of the
council deem the most excellent. This
choice should be made impartially with
the sole purpose of giving Omaha a
public buildingin harmony with the sur
roundings, commodious and thoroughly
| fireproof No time should be lost by
the council in ratifying its choice and
inviting bids from competent and re-
sponsible bidders. The location of the
| city hall has been settled, the people
| have given the council authority to
construct an elegant building, and have
voted them authority to issue the bonds
necessary for its erection. The man
date of the people should be carried out
without needless delay. There has been
time enough wasted already, and our
citizens have right to expect that all
| further filibustering shall cease.