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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27

SLASHED HER LEGS.
A Young Married Woman's Foolish Way
of Splitting Her Husband.

A Young Married Woman's Foolish Way
of Splitting Her Husband.
Lille Anderson. a pretty young girl of
eighteen years, residing with her husband
at No. Is Arlington avenue, is in the City
Hospital, suffering from several severe
gashes in her legs, inflicted by herself to
spite her husband.
Anderson is u carpenter and has been
married about one year For some time
past his wife has been an habitual
drunkard. Upon returning home from
o hard days toll he has invariably found
her stupid and repeatedly during the
past few weeks has found their
child hungry, crying and neglected on
the floor. Yesterday he quarrelled with
her and suggested that She change her
ways. This angeIed her, and picking up
a razor she slashed her leg frightfully
with it. The husband hurried to the
Library Hall station. stated the CASE
and then returned to his home in COM
pany with Detective Hottie. The child
wife, crazed with drink and suffering
from her self-inficted wounds, was taken
to the station house, where a charge OF
drunkenness was entered against her,
and then to the City Hospital. There
they report her to be in q critical cond1-
fion
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27
cRETAN CHRISTIANS.
They Arc Not Much Better Than the
Turks, but Politics Siay Favor Them.
Ru Crbfe IN the Unlfed Press.

Turks, but Politics May Favor Them.
BIZ Cable TO the Usited Press.
LONDON, Sept. 81, 1889. There is now
good reason to believe that one or two, If
not all of the powers, will inter
pose objections to Turkeys further OPP
preston of the Cretans and compel a
sweeping change in the administration OF
public affairs in that unhappy island
This action will be taken ostensibly be-
cause q community Of alleged Christians
are being prosecuted by the officials OF a
Mussulman government, but really
this circumstance furnishes the least
of the reasons why the Turk
is to be coerced into radically altering the
methods by which the porte has governed
the turbulent people of Crete. The Gre
tan Christian differs from his Mussulman
neighbor only in the fact that he is an adj
herent of the Greek Church and not a
follower of the prophet.
IN all other respects the two are iden-
tical. The Christian Cretan cries out
against the cruelty of the Mussulman,
but he is just as cruel, treacherous, dis
honest, crafty, brutal and savage as the
object of his aversion. He detests him
because he is his master, though ne
would be equally tyrannical were the
conditions reversed. 1t is true the people
are taxed beyond the limit of their ability
to pay, but this is also true of every
people governed by the Sultan's min
ions, as well as the inhabitants of more
than Il Christian" country.
The people of Crete would be much bet
ter off. and indeed, in no worse condition
than those of many European countries,
if they were not continually egged on to
conflicts with the public rthcials by the
authorities at AthanS.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27
GREENVILLE WANTS A BANK.
One Isn't Enough, and So a Second On,
Is Proposed.

One Isn't Enough, and So a Second One
Is Proposed.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
new Greenville Bank was held last night
in Lembeck's real estate office, Ocean and
Danforth avenues Greenville, forthe pur-
pose of electing thirteen directors. There
were twenty candidates in the field.
Fortv-fve ballots were cast, representing
311 shares. The rfoilowing are the sue
cessful candidates, and the number of
votes by which they were elected
stephen l.. Harvey, 300; Jacob j. bet
weller, 29s; Jno, Mcneil, 295; Henry Lem
beck, '294; Reuben Simpson, POI; Joseph
f. Finn. 1856; Michael Schultz, ST., POI;
George Scholze, $50; David w. Oliver,
273: Bernard Brady. 260; Richard Routh,
ST., 1872; George Vreeland, IFS, and G. A.
j.. Lignot, f62.
II was announced last night that $445, 500
worth of stock had been sold, and that
they expected to secure q charter in u
short time.
Another new bank is proposed for
Greenville. A call has been issued to the
business men of the neighborhood for %
meeting to discuss the advisability of the
scheme.
Il is proposed that the bank be started
with a capital of 100000, and Ihe shares
be sold at 81 each, in order that everyone
NAV have something to say in regard to
its management. The call has been signed
by John N. Bruins, Dr.. John e. West,
John r. Giles, William L Malloy and
Mr., O'Brien.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27
ADJUSTMENTS.
"sweet LAVENDER at the Academy.

"sweet L~avender'' at the Academy.
The Lyceum Theatres latest and
greatest success. 'Sweet Lavender, "
from the pen of the famous English
author, A. w. Pinero, is a delightful
domestic comedy drama with a
thoroughly interesting story well
told, through which run three dis
tinct threads of wholesome love, badly
knotted and tangled at times, but
eventually smoothed and Strengthened
satisfactorily.
The story mainly hinges on the love
of a law student who is captivated by
a sweet young girl in humble life who
proves to be the daughter of a man
who has adopted the student as his
soma wealthy banker, whose fortune
is destroyed and repaired during the
progress of the play. An aristocratic
widow and her daughter figure promi-
nently. The daughter is selected by
the old folks as the future bride of the
student, but she meets her fate
in a young American, who is
endowed with proverbial assurance,
and this incident is ingeniously made
to complicate affairs until the happy
denouement. The other characters
are skillfully drawn and being por-
trayed by capable people, set off the
main personages to advantage. There
is nothing ex%travagant, nothing over
drawn, nothing to offend critical taste
either in the construction or language
of the drama. The following is a cast
of the characters and synopsis
Horace Bream, a young American Geo. Backus
Godfrey Wedderburn, of Wedderburn,
Green & Hoskett, bankers, Barnchester.
R. f. Cotton
Clement Hale, his adopted son, studying
for the bar. cyril scott
Dick Phenyl, a b~arrister. ..,--.....A i. Burbank
DR.. Delaney, a fashionable physician;
John Findlay
Mr.. Bulger, hairdresser and wigmeker..
Foster Platt
Mr.. Nav, a solicitor ..............J John s. Hale
Minnie Gilfillian, niece of Mr.. Wedderburn,
Miss Lillian Chantore
Ruth Rolt, housekeeper and ''laundressn
at No. 8 Brain Court, Temple. Miss Kate Lester
Lavender, her daughter Miss Ethelyn Friend
Mrs. Gilfiliian, a widow, Wedderburn's
sister, mother of Minnie .......Miss Dolte Pike
ACT informing. Nobody's business.
ACT 1.-The next day, evening. Somebody's
ACT rL.-A week afterward. Everybody's
business.
Place. : Chambers of Mr.. Phenyl and Mr.. Hale,
No. 9 Brain Court, Temple.
Time.-Springtime, the present day.
The original scenery and effects
from the Lyceum Theatre will beseen
in the production here.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27
A White Sparrow.

At Twelfth and Oxford streets the
other day four groups of interested
sightseers stood upon the four sepa-
rate intently watching the
antics of q snow white English spar
row, which seemed to be a sort of king
among it's soberer coated fellows, de-
manding and receiving from them an
amount of homage that would have
done his highness the Shah OF Persia
good. A resident of the neighbour
hood said that he had noticed the al
bino for two or three years. He has
a nest in yonder church steeple," he
explained, ''and | have spent consid-
cradle time in watching him and
studying his peculiarities. He is a
male bird and a bachelor. That may
sound strange, but there are lots of
bachelor and spinster birds among the
English sparrows. Season after sea-
son they refuse to mate, and they set
up establishments of their own and
live in them, despised and quarrelled
with constantly by the married birds.
This white sparrow seems to have
some authority over the others. They
bring him food, and even build his
nest for him. Life with him is an ex-
istence of idleness and luxury. When
any bird refuses or neglects to pay
him tribute he attacks the derelict,
gives him a sound drubbing and
eventually brings him to terms."-
PbiIGde{phIG Enquirer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27
Russia's Love for Jewels.

Perhaps if the Empress of Russia
had to make her own bonnet when a
girl she got enough of the millinery
trade then and really prefers crowns.
There is no monarch in Europe who
her in magnificence of at
tire. which is semi-barbaric in its gor-
p~eousness. and at the State balls she
Is literally a walking Golconda, says a
correspondent of the Indianapolis
Neaos. The nearest approach to her
splendor that has been witnessed in
London was the attire of the Indian
princess who attended the Queens
Jubilee.
The Queen had driven through
Picadilly very pale and stern, expect
ing every moment a mine TO explode
beneath her feet, Or a bomb a la
Russo to be hurled from a roof top,
for there were whispers of socialisUic
threats: her body guard of princely
descendants looked like a river of gold
vending through the dark masses of
the densely packed crowd on either
side with their uniforms glittering in
the sun-but suddenly a great cry of
admiration arose from the crowd; it
was the carriage of the Indian prin-
cess. which had come in sight, and
now the river of gold was changed to
a river of diamonds, for she was liter
ally covered from head to foot with
Jewels.
AS you approach the state drawing
room of the Princess Dagmar, of Den
mark, Empress Of all the Russias, you
perceive that the doors, thickly over
laid with gold, are also incrusted with
Jewels, great emeralds uncut, anne
TWISTS, topaz and turquoise glitter in
the brilliantly lighted corridors.
At the door you pause, daZZled with
the CLEAN of 80, 900 candles set in
crystal, and beneath them, before the
golden throne, blazes the beautiful
woman, sister to the Princess of
Wales, who holds her own amidst all
these splendors with the simple dig
nifty of the Cinderella Princess who
made her own bonnet in the little
kingdom by the sea.
Her robes are stiff with diamonds
and the strands of priceless pearls,
and with their great pear shaped pen
dants fall like a network nearly to
her feet. Scarcely an inch of textile
fabric can be seen, for the entire train
is covered with embroidery in gold
and pearls and lined with Russian
sable.
The imperial treasures are beyond
calculation, but they are for use and
not merely kept as the curiosities of a
former age-the great antique crowns
with the finest rubies and diamonds in
the world. the sceptre with the Won
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27
Lemon Parties.


Lemon parties, which were some
what in vogue last winter in Wash
ington society, have broken out at the
watering places. One was given re-
Gently at a Lake George cottage. The
hostess hung her oolms with delicate
yellow crepe, the inexpensive Japan
csc sort, which is, however, very eff
fective. Yellow shades were on all the
lamps, and innumerable fairy lamps,
shining through yellow porcelain,
added their mite to the golden effect.
On the piazzas and grounds were
Chinese lanterns, all swinging in yell
low bags. Every guest, as is required,
gave d lemon to the servant who
opened the door. These were subse-
auently taken to the kitchen, and all
the seeds carefully taken out and col
lected in q small glass jar.
The company meanwhile We're en-
! gagged in cards andconversation in the
| parlors. At a signal from the hostess
the jar was brought in and passed in
review before every guest, who made
q mental estimate of the number of
seeds it contained, and recorded his
| opinion upon a small yellow tablet
| already furnished him endorsing his
count with his signature. The tablets
were afterwards collected and the re-
suits announced. The winner, who
was the one, of course, whose guess
came nearest the number of seeds,
received a pretty lemonade set, and
the ''booby' a lemon squeezer orna-
mented with a yellow bow, Lemon
cake, lemon jelly, lemonade and
lemon ices constituted the refresh
ments, and every guest, on leaving,
was presented with a box OF lemon
drops tied with yellow ribbon.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27
C%HAUTAUQUA'S GIRL.
sLE Is Il RARE YARTETY OF THE
SUMMER SPECIES.

A White Sparrow's Lazy Time-Jeweis
Are a Craze in Russia-An Old Coun-
try Woman's Advice to a Young
Wife-Lcmon PARTIES Are in Vogue
The summer girl is at C~hautauqua
this season in full force. She is the
same bewitching creature as ever as
she fits about the ground with loose
skirts, silken waist, rebellious bangs
and a handbag. She always is in e
hurry. Across the lake she is seen
rushing down to meet the boat, her
hair down and flying, and her escort
in nearly the same predicament. Inc
boat is delayed a moment or so, n
the captain looks stern, until she
smiles; then all is serene, and even
the piston rod rushes back and forth
more gleefully. !.
At Chautauqua it takes her just
seven minutes to find her season
tickets, but the time is spent in sass
ing" the g~atekeeper.
at the table the summer girl is the
magnet that draws all the walters.
They strive madly for her order, ana
happy is he who gets it. When 1T is
served, however, the poor youth IS so
that he brings her onions IN
stead Of orange f~ritters, spills b
green peas on her dress and drops
the butter pat on the floor.
Every time the umIner girl sees a
hotel register she puts her name down
in attractive script. In the venln
the fair faced girl with pretty freckles
is still in a hurry, and frequently she
bumps her head against the ropes,
hung low to prevent teams passing.
AT the concert in the amph1theatre
she is surrounded by six young men,
one on each side, two on the seat IN
front, and two behind. All talk to
her at once, and she is equal to a nall
of all the conversation.
The faults of the summer girl are
counted under two indictments, a de
vouring devotion to ice cream n a
too ~ponderous handbag. Mere words
cannot do justice to the ice cream IN
discretion, but there are deep Thoughts
that vainly struggle for utterance IN
the breast of every man who has con-
sidered this great and growing evil. Inc
handbag is dark-hued and is as heavy
as a sandbag. 1t contains candles,
peanuts, a ease of gum, a novel Tor
private reading and for public use, a
dainty summer book in which neat
rivulets of prose murmur through
meadows of margin, a tintype OF her.
self and best young man taken at
Point Chautauqua during a small oasis
of gravity in a wide desert of giggles,
and beyond many other things, way
down in the handbag next to the
widening rip in the seam, is a purse
containing eason tickets and small
debris.
The summer girl is witty. She is
good, generous, sensible, and pretty,
and with all her faults welove her still.
But she is never still. Buffalo
Courier.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27
PERSONALS
same way

Ex-Governor Leon Albeit was a visitor at
Flemington's County Fair yesterday.
Sheriff Davis is back in town from "doing s.
Niagara and Canadian cities.
Ex-Judge Hoffman has been retained by frat
ricide O'Brien to defend him at his trial for the
murder of his brother.
Louis valtee, of the Euening Journal, has not
been married yet, but he is going to be.
Commodore John G. Kastendieck is to have a
water parade in his honor on Monday next.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27

prompted by a bashful dissemination
to plump a proposition for a loan
uddenly upon a benevolent faced
gentleman. The ends of justice
would have been amply answered by
warning the young girl away from
the scene OF her operations.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27

GREENvILLE wants q bank. Well,
let her have one by all can The
thirteen directors chosen IRE good,
conservative men, and under their
management the bank will doubtless
be a valuable agency in developing
that portion of the city.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27
The French Home.

Max O'Rell, in CGSseUs Magazine,
says:-'The French home is so
precious q possession that the outsider
is often jealousy excluded from it. 1t
is a sanctum into which none but the
nearest and dearest are allowed to
freely penetrate. A Frenchman's
home is so dear to him that he rarely
signs for travel. Take even the world
famed giddy Partisan, fond OF novelty
and movement. How he loves his
Paris! He is the most philosophical
and easily amused man on earth. You
may spend a week in seasickness on
the Atlantic to get a sight OF Niagara
Falls. 1t amt worth it, he says, and
he prefers his dear little cascade in the
Bots de Boulogne, surrounded by the
pleasant associations of his youth; and
though his home may be a little flat
on the fifth floor of a Partisan house,
it is just as dear to him as IN ancestral
mansion is to an Englishman.
1.-The verynarrowness of the French
is the result of their contentment with
home; for they are marrow, it must
be admitted, provincial to the highest
degree. They cannot understand that,
outside France, life a be worth liv-
ing"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27
Electric Light and Power.

The Daft Electric Company made a
renewed application to the Board OF
Aldermen at it's last meeting for per
mission to introduce its lines into the
city for the purpose of supplying
light and power to persons
who might need them. This
is one of the healthy signs of pro-
gress in Jersey City which we perceive
on all sides, and which we like to call
the general attention to. The intro
duction of such a system promises far
reaching results, all favorable to our
comfort and the development of our
Industries.
The present monopolistic system is
expensive, unreliable and absurdly in
adequate. The Daft people guarantee
satisfactory service. They are pre-
pared, they say, to introduce their
lines into all parts of the city, to pro-
vide efficient currents for lighting
and to furnish motive power, and in
all other respects to study the
interests of the citizens collater-
ally with their own The
fact that they are a Jersey
City Company, well established on
the spot, they argue very fairly, will
enable them to give their service to
at a much cheaper figure
than a foreign corporation can.
1t is to be hoped that the Aldermen
will act on the application as rapidly
as prudence will allow, and if the rep
reservations of the company are found
bona tide will act favorably. The
company already pays heavy taxes in
this city. The proposed work will give
employment to hundreds Of men,
both in the construction and
operation of the lines. The value OF
property, too, ought to be handsomely
increased by the superior lighting of
the streets and buildings, and by the
opportunity for power, In fact the
plan tends to the development of the
city both as a seat Of industry and as
q place of residence.
WARNING from Mr.. Weller to the
workingmen: = Beware Of political
vidders."
If the New York Times had known
Judge Wankin as We know him here,
it would not have spent a column of
its valuable space in airing his griev-
ances against the powers that be. Wan
kin's story might have been given out
on respectable authority, and greeted
with respectful consideration by the
Times readers. To let Wankin tell it
is to destroy its value, and make it
ridiculous. 1t is the fact that such
men as Wankin and Kern and Noelke
have assumed the leading roles in the
New Committee movement, that is
fast knocking the bottom out of it.
THE arrest of a seventeen-year-old
girl in Bayonne for taking a little
story about the loss of her pocket
book to smooth the way to
a request for aid is mighty
small potatoes. It is probable
that the girls pocketbook story was
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27

General Grubb has resigned from the com
membership of the Philadelphia City Troop in
consequence of his nomination for Governor Of
this State.-Many Republican Newspapers.
Wbr9
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27
REGULAR DEMOCRATIC NoMlN ATIoNs
For Governor,
LEON ALBEIT,

REPUBLICAN candidate for Governor in 1892
John Kean, Jr.-Nelc Brunswick Fredonian.
Springs to catch woodcock:-H0np-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27
The Comtnc Inter-state rair.

The Interstate Fair, at Trenton, occurs
on September 80, October l, 2, 3 and 4. In
addition to the immense exhibition of
agricultural, industrial and art products,
the speed events and amusement attrac-
tions are so numerous MS to keep Ii con-
stantly interested and to thoroughly sat
isty everybody. The management of the
Interstate Fair are making an honest
endeavor to make this exhibition achieve
the same prominence in the East that the
st. Louis Fair has in the West. and it
looks as though they would succeed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-27
RRANCH

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clair.
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Depot.
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Avenue.
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PILES, lTcHlNG' PLlEpiNa, uLokR, ETC, CuSED
patients attend to business while receiving treat.
inent. Illustrated papers sent free. Address
Drs. Miller and JaInison, No. Al West Twenty
sixth street. New York.#s*
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I'has paper Is Democratic IN principles
end is Independent in its pteWs ON 01
local questions.
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Do Not Nag at a Man.

Do Not Nag MT a Man.
'tHester!n exclaimed Aunt Susan
ceasing her rocking and knitting. and
sitting upright, "do you know what
your husband will do when you are
dead?'
What do you mean2' was the
startled reply.
He will marry the sweetest tenn
pered girl he can find"
80, auntlel" Hester began.
Don't interrupt me until l have
finished said Aunt Susan, leaning
back and taking up her knitting.
''She may not be as good q house
keeper as you are; in fact, l think not,
but she will be good natured."
why, auntie-"
''That isn't ail,n composedly con-
tinued Aunt Susan. To-day your
husband was half way across the
kitchen floor, bringing you the first
ripe peaches, and all you did was to
look up and say, There, Will, just
see your tracks on my clean floor! L
won't have my floor all tracked up
Some men would have thrown the
peaches out of the window. Today
yon screwed up your face when he
kissed you, because his mustache
was damp, and said, 'Inever want you
to kiss me again When he empties
anything you tell him not to spill it,;
when he lifts anything you tell him
not to break it. From morning until
night you sharp voice is heard COM
planning and fault-tinding. And last
winter, when you were sick, you
scolded him about allowing the pump
to freeze, and took no notice when he
said, j was SO anxious about you that
l did not think of the pump"
"3ut, auntie-n
"Harken, child. The strongest and
most intelligent of them all care
more for a woman's tenderness
than for anything else in the
world, and without this the clever
est and most perfect housekeeper
is sure to lose her husbands affection
in time. There may be a few more
men like villas gentle, as loving, as
chiyalrous, as forgetful of self, and SO
satified with loving that their affec-
tions will die a long. struggling death.
But in most cases it takes but a few
years of fretfulness and fault finding
to turn a husbands love into irritated
Indifference"
But, auntie-n
Yes; well, you are not dead yet,
and that sweet natured woman has
not been found, SO you have time to
become so serene and sweet that your
husband can never imagine that there
is a better tempered woma in exist
ence.n-Mt. Holly M59207.