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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09
Hoboken,s postmastership.

Our friends, the enemy. seem deter
mined to minimize their chances in
the State this fall. We draw this con-
clusion from the summary dismissal
of that excellent official, Postmaster
Curran, of Hoboken. Mr.. Curran
was popular and was efficient. Mr.
Kiel appears to be personally popu'
lar, too, but that circumstance will i'll
reconcile the people of these commu-
mites to the injustice does his prede-
cessor.
The appointment comes at q time
when the value of party pledges is a
matter of immediate popular concern.
The Republican party has for years
been excluded by the people of New
Jersey from the control of their affairs.
1t is now ostensibly engaged in an eff
fort to obtain that control, and to
that end is making promises and pro-
LESSONS of virtue and justice al nGU-
sedn1. Is not this latest violation of
the national pledges of the party a
trifie unfortunate just at this time?
But the appointment is made at
General Sewell's dictation, and some
way the impression has gained general
prevalence that the Camden states
ma has determined that his party
must fail this year. The fact and the
theory seem to dovetail in together in
a curious way. If, as most per-
sons believe to be the case,
the General has determined to
sacrifice the party in order that he
may a~nnihilate a rival, he could not
certainly go a better way about ac-
complishing his scheme than by trap
ping the national administration into
mistakes of the Hoboken postmaster
ship kind.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.
superintendent Chapman Says 1t Is
a Failure in This State.

Compulsory education in New Jersey
seems to be practically a failure under
the present system. In the large cities
there are hundreds of children who
never attended school and no effort is
made to force them, simply because it
would be unwise and unjust under the
circumstances. State School Superin-
tendent Chapman said to a reporter in a
recent conversation that the Department
was not doing as much with compulsory
education as they desired. He was asked
yesterday to explain the situation and he
did SO as follows:-
1.-THE Compulsory Education law is
mixed with the factory law. Now, there
are two serious defects in the law. The
first is that it provides for the appoint
ment of constables to assist in the
execution OF the law by the School Board
OF any district, and it fixes their compen-
sation, but the law utterly fails to pro-
vide for the payment of the work. The
consequence is that no officer will serve
in that capacity. The other and greater
defect is the expressed provision that the
act shall not apply to ID chool district
that has not sufficient school accommodate
lions. The great necessity for the law is
in the cities, and yet with the exception
of two or three Of the smaller cities i'll the
State there are none which have the ac-
commodations required. Therefore, just
where the law should apply it is provided
that it shall not apply.
A effort to meet the needs of cities in
this respect was made u year ago last
winter by the enactment OF a law per-
hitting cities to borrow from the Trust
ees of the School Fund such sums as they
need for the erection of school houses and
to issue school district bonds, which shall
be held as distinct from other debts of
the city and secured by mortgage on the
school property. A similar Law had been
i'll. force for q number of years, under
which school districts, instead of cities,
! could borrow for building purposes, but
this was the first law to set aside the linn
itations in city charters and to permit
them to borrow for this purpose.
"As soon as the cities provide school
room there will be no difficulty in secur-
ing the passage of a compulsory educa-
tion act which can be easily enforced, but
it is useless to talk of compelling children
to attend school until the room has been
/ provided. The necessity for an effective
compulsory school law is apparent in
every city in the State. In Trenton there
are scores, perhaps hundreds, of children
who are attending nc school at ALL"
Mr.. Chapman said thelaw was enforced
in some places by Factory Inspector Fell,
but in SO doing he was driving many into
the p%arochial and private schools.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09
THE HBATHEN cHTNEE.
He Gets Mad Because the Christian Chi
nee Won't Tall Business sundays.

He Gets Mad Because the Christian Chi
nee Won't Talk Business sundays.
Sam Lee, a Christian Chinaman, keeps
a laundry on Avenue D, near Dodge
street. Bergen Point, and John Lee, a
heather, keeps one on West Eighth street
of the anne place. 8
Early Sunday morning John Lee called
on Sam, and tried to induce him to form
a trust for the purpose of increasing the
price Tor washing and ironing. Sans
Christian scruples would not permit him
to do business on Sunday, and told John
SO. This angered the latter, and he re-
taliated by calling Sam some names OF a
very uncomplimentary character in the
tea chest language.
Sam told him to clear out, and in reply
he started to do Sam up and, incident
ally, to clean out the place. He was get
ting along finely when a policeman came
along and took him in.
In Recorder Besher's court this morn
ing Sam refused to press the charge
against him and he was discharged.
They shook hands and left the court with
their arms locked.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09

THE police made a good haul OF
toughs when they descended upon
the Warren street gang, Saturday
night. Several of the young toughs
were ''sent up for terms which
should be a lesson, by Justice
Stilsing this morning. Among those
arrested were several who appear to
be moderately respectable. 1t is a
warning to foolish young fellows who
hang ON the edges of these disorderly
gangs until they are finally Involved
in some disgraceful affair. The best
way is to give such bad crowds a wide
berth.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09
A Jealous Man Commits Murder.


Late Saturday evening, Sarah Wilson. a
widow with two children, who keeps a
boarding house at No. 257 North Feeder
street, Trenton, received a stab wound at
the hands of a man named Meyers, one of
her boarders, which it is feared will result
fatally.
Early in the evening, Mrs. Wilson, with
q Young woman named Totten, residing at
No. POS North Feeder street, went to Lin
coin Park to spend a few hours. After
enjoying themselves, they were about
leaving for their homes, when Meyers
stepped up to the Wilson woman and
asked her to go home with him. She re-
fused, whereupon he repeated the request.
Upon being refused the second time, he
took q step behind her and, after saying,
'sYou won't go, eh?" pulled his penknife
from his pocket and stabbed her. The
blade entered the right side, between the
right shoulder and the side, and penetrated
her lung. The wound was about two
inches in length and quite deep.
The wounded N was brought to
Trenton and taken to her home. DIR.
William Fl. Vanduyn, who was called in,
sewed up the wound and did all he could
to alleviate the woman's sufferings.
Meyers escaped in the excitement, but a
warrant has been issued for his arrest.
1t is said by those well informed that
the stabbing was caused by jealousy. At
the Wilson residence, besides Meyers,
lived a man named Frank Taylor, better
known rs Sturgeon" Mrs. Wilson, it is
said, favored the advancements Of young
Taylor, while those of Meyers were re-
pulsed, which led to the fatal result.
Late last night Mrs, Wilson was lying
in a low state. The loss of blood and the
location of the wound will, the physician
believes, prove fatal.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09

judgments for themselves, and no mis-
statement of history can mislead
them.
They will aid in the work OF the
campaign with their testimony and
their enthusiasm, firing the young
with new ardor in the defence OF pop
ular rights and democratic principles.
The result will be a glorious victory,
and New Jersey will be found the day
after election in her old place at the
head of the column of democratic
| States.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09
A Mortal injury.

there2 He is a person whom | shall never
forgive.
Bluakins-What has he done to youi
Robbed you?
Worse than that I shall never for.
give him.
"Ruined your character by slanderine
you, perhapss"
'A thousand times worse. He did me
an irreparable injury"
.'Cheated you in some way, them"
s'That would be nothing. / could for
give him for that"
s'Then what in goodness name did he
do to you that you are SO bitter against
him?n
"He is the minister who married me- -
Laurence AntcTlcqn.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09
WHY does Major Pangborn want to

WHY does Major Pangborn want to
go to Trenton so badly?
Is it to help his dear friend Sewell
to wreck the Republican party?
Oh, no, he doesn't want to help
Friend Sewell in anything; but he
would be quite content the party
should be wrecked if he could only
bury Sewell in the debris.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09

The parade of the Bayonne Fire De-
partment will take place October 3. CHEZ
Engineer J. Henry Mahnken is making
strenuous efforts towards its success.
Among those expected to participate are
the exempt members of Independence
and Franklin Engine Company, of
Easton, Pa. who will be the guests of
Hudson Engine Company. This com
pany has also extended IN invitation to
Chief Smith, of the Easton paid Fire De-
D artment, to attend.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09
lannon's Pedestrians.

1t is calculated that Wordsworth, in his
many years of sauntering, must have
travelled a distance of 1870, 600 miles. What
sights he saw during such prolonged and
delightful wanderingS only those who
have the poets mind and eyes can wen
guess.
Charles Dickens wa a confirmed tramp,
and no doubt acquired his experience Of
'life on the road" from actual acquaint-
ance with all sorts of v~agabonds and odd
characters, such as frequent town and
country lanes and highways.
One of The most remarkable of unpro-
fessional walkers was Prof. Wilson,
the christopher North" of literature.
His fine physique and great endurance
prompted him to the performance of won
derful feats, which seemed to him entirely
q matter of course. He once walked forty
miles in eight hours, and at another time
walked from Liverpool to Elleray in
twenty-four hours, q distance of eighty
miles. 1t is good to think of the long, I'M
wearied strides with which he spun along,
his blood pounding with healthy pulses
and sending invigorating waves to the
active brain.
Henry Fawcett also was a ~tireless
walker, and one who, when deprived of
sight, did not for q M think Of re-
linquishing this among many forms of
exercise. His was a familiar figure on
the roads about Cambridge, and there is
no exaggeration in saying that few men
blessed with all his senses could enjoy
nature more thoroughly than he.
Southey, worn n preyed upon by
mental application and the practical
anxieties of every day life, found his
greatest relief in tramping about the
country, listening to what nature had to
tell him and learning contentment from
her stability. John Stuart Mill delighted
in pedestrian tours, and Charles Lamb,
though he loved town better than coun-
try, was one who believed in sweeping
cobweps from the brain by brisk and con-
tinuous walking.-Youth's Companion.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09

THE Majah is said to cherish a
desire to go to the Republican State
Convention. Will blood flow from
the corpse when he stands beside it,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09
O SALE.

E'OR SALE OR ExCHANGE-Farm of sixty acres.
4 near Saratoga, on very easy terms; suitable for
q milk and dairy farm. Enquire OF J. Dockhan.
No. 2s3 Grove street. Jersey City.
EoR SALE, CHEAP-oNE DOCTORS
4 and harness; one square piano; one marbietop
dressing case; one mirror front wardrobe, two OH
paintings, ETC.; taken for debt. Part cash and good
notes taken. Enquire Of John O'Reily, No. S29
Newark avenue.
DOR sAIE-A FANCY GOODS STORE; WILL
sell cheap for cash. Address No. All Monmouth
street, Jersey City.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09

stocks being composed Of the bases Of
powerful alkaloids of opium, datura,
plunlbago root and various m%ercurial
compounds. Through these men poisons
are easily procured, and the instances
quoted by DIR. Lyon show that poisoning
IS a very common crime in India on nc
count of cheese facilities, and that It IS
also one most difficult to discover.-Lon-
don Times.
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09
Idiots in Europe.

A story that would be ludicrous but for
the disgust that an American must feel
upon reading it. is going the rounds, OF
two young men from a Western state
who are doing Europe. Not tina they had
the remotest idea of gaining any bene1lc
from the trip, or that they really saw any
thing worth looking at the second time,
for.the paintings in the Louvre and the
galleries of the Luxembourg We're no
more to them than chromos given away
with packages of poor tea. They could
not understand even "The Last Supper. :"
An intelligent New Yorker took them
in hand Ii every morning arose early
and laid out a route for the day, out the
Exposition made them tired n they
saw in the Champs Elysees only q place in
which to sit down and talk over their
comrades at home. The New Yorker
finally lost patience and said that he was
tired of hurting the gl0ries of France
against the "jellyfish souls of these two
galvanized mummies from the West"
He said that he had asked them why they
came to Europe and they did not know.
Another story is told of q General from
Maine, who was doing Europe with his
wife and daughters a few years ago. At
the door of St. Peters, at Rome, he met
an acquaintance from his native State,
who offered him u copy Of the Bangor
Wing. st. Peters had no charm for the
American after that. He took the paper
eagerly and sat Upon the steps reading
while the wife and daughters inspected
the cathedral.-SpTt1latctd U9tton.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09

For Sale.
ITO LET-oNE APARTMENT, IN FI~RST-CLASS
4 apartment house. "GRANVILLE,' Main and
Grove streets, East Orange. Nine large, lipht rooms
ard large piazza; decorated and papered; all i'm
~provements; gas, PURE WATER, steam heat; janitor
on premises; floor space, 25xy6 feet; on Orange and
Newark street railroad, and three minutes from
Grove street station, Morris and Essex Railroad;
moderate rent; includes water, steam heat and ian
TORS services. Inquire OF Janftor or Druggist at
corner or A. d. Palmer. No. lis Broadway, New
York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09
Poisons in India.

DIR. Lyon, the analyst to the govern
ment of Bombay, in his last annual re-
port has much to say of the use of poison
in India. This seems to be on the
increase, for while he had to deal with 800
Of these cases last year he had only 2S2
the year before, and the general work OF
analysis had increased fiVefold since the
first report was issued in 1872.
Part of this enormous increase is due to
the increase in the criminal use of poisons,
and it is noticeable chat vegetable
poisons, which were mostsgenerally in use
u few years ago, are now giving way to
metallic poisons. This is attributable to
the ease with which such drugs, such as
arsenic, may now be obtained in India,
there being practically no restriction on
their sale. In e~ighty-tour undoubted
cases of human poisoning in the year,
arsenic was used in forty-one. pounded
glass in three, copper in six, mercury in
five, and red lead in three. OF the re-
naming t~wenty-seyen cases opium was
used in fifteen, datura in five, alcohol in
two, prussic acid in one, n oleander and
other plants for the remainder.
In a large number of cases the p~oisoner
is never discovered; a family sits down
to rice, which they have carefully washed;
all are taken i'll, and one dies; a~rsenious
oxide in large quantities is discovered in
the dish, but the murderer is never dis
covered. Many cases of similar character
are quoted by DR.. Lyon. Flour is found
in many cases to be adulterated with an
enormous amount of a%rsenious oxide.
Poisoning by powdered glass is compare
lively new in India; there were only three
cases during the year. In one a mar
threw a packet of pounded glass into a
rice mill; in another q woman pounded
her colored glass bangles. and mixed the
powder with the grain she was grinding
for her husbands food.
In many cases, the poisons are traced
to village sorcerers, who always appear
10 have large Quantities, their chief
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09
The Longest Hour.

The Longest Hour.
A party Of young men who were given
to discussion of deep philosophic questions
met in the lobby ofsa theatre up town a
few nights ago., and drifted off into the
DISCUSSION of the perplexing question,
What is the longest hour in a mans
lltef' There was an interesting diversity
OF opinion. The hour which was occupied
IN waiting for ones best girl, the nour pc
lore aus time to get paid when you nave
not had anything to eat that day, the hour
spent IN waiting for a belated Train an9
other hours that seem to have several
times sixty minutes in them were given as
examples, but they did not seem to MI the
Dill; Finally, Comedian james Powers,
OF the Casino, who was one OF the party,
sald;-"The longest hour in u mans IRE,
II he is an actor, is the hour before tne
curtain goes up on the first nlghes per
ormance OF a new piece.
e.No matter how familiar with the stage
some men are, they are always awIully
nervous before the show begins. Iney
worry the life out of themselves Irettlng
over their part. 1t is so with me, ana the
funny part of it is that the fear begins TO
leave me just as soon as the curtain goes
up. Another time actors and actresses
become very nervous no matter how ex-
perlenced they may be, is when tney arc
called to take part in impromptu concerts
and recitations. say a good instance OF
this coming over on the City Of Paris a lew
weeks ago. Among my fellow passengers
were Miss Marie wainwright and Tony
Pastor. Some of the passengers got up q
concert in the cabin, and Miss wainwright
and Tony Pastor were among those called
upon to take part. Miss wainwright was
asked for q recitation. She agreed, but
before her turn came l noticed that she
grew pale and trembled so that b could
scarcely stand up. Of course this all left
her as SOC as she began TO r~ecite, but 1t
goes to show how new surroundings Will
effect even the most experienced actors
II actresses. "-Wdshington Star.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-09
The sohuetxen GeselIschaft.

WILLIAM DELANEY, Furnishing Undertaken, car
riages and camp chairs TO let, S5 Grove street. Jer-
sey City, h. j. Telephone call. No. 1881
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-12-30

BOSTON Dec. % l8S9.-The following are TO-
days quotations OF Provisions &c.:
Pork Long cuts IL 5o@13 90; short cuts IL so
G13 90; backs IL 50913 90; lean ends at 10 %
@13 30: pork tongues at 10 90; mess at IL co;
prime mess IL so; extra IL 80.
Lard-Choice ga 97c pfb in ties and tubs 10Th
pals in cases at 71sc; BIB pals at 7s4c; BIB, at
Hams at 10a1l c; small at liz pressed hams
11@c.
country do st &c.
Butter Western extra crmy at 25@26c; fancy
well known marks higher frsts and extra
f1rsts20023 extra init crm at 16@18c; firsts ga
IA ;choice factory 12@12hac T; New York and Yer
mont extra crm 25@26 do ext firsts 22G23c New
low grades 1oG14c; Eastern crm GOOD to choice
at 15G25c. The above quotations are receivers
prices for strictly wholesale lots. Jobbing prices
1G2c higher.
10A@10Nc; lower grades as tolquality sage at
11Hc. Jobbing prices lac higher
Eggs-Eastern choice 26@27c; extras 23@24c;
frStS 81 922c; extra VT and N III choice at 26@
27c fresh Western at 24l25c: Michigan choice
at 26@2sc; Canadas at 2Sc; lined 17@1sc. Job
Beans-Choice small hand-plcked PEA at
picked do .0a2 10 " bush; choice New York
large hand-picked at 2 90: small Vermont hard
picked at 0a2 80; choice Yellow Eyes at 8 90.
Jobbing prices DC higher.
Pouliry-Fresh killed spring Chickens, Northern
and Eastern choice 15916c; common co good U
@l2c; TURKEYS l6G Sc, common TO good IL al5
fowls. choice at-i1G13c.
Potatoes We quote Houlton Hebrons at -G
CSC " bush: Houlton Rose at -@65c: Aroostook
Hay-Choice prime hay SIT 001S18 90; fair to
good at GIG COG SIG 81; Eastern fine S110 81
poor to ordinary s9dS11: Eastiswale at 8aS 10;
Rye straw, choice, $16 o09l7 90; Dat straw ss@