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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-11
HOUSE ROUTINE.

The following Senate bill was passed: To
authorize the merging OF the Martinsburg
and Potomac Railroad Company into the
Cumberland Valley and Martinsburg Rail
road Company. The following bills were
introduced and referred: BY Mr. wilkins
To provide for the compensation OF the trus-
tees Of the public free schools. BY Mr.
Maynard; TO amend the Code defining the
effect OF an oath taken or subscribed TO in
rendering list Of personal property for as
sessment aud taxation. BY the same; To
amend the Code in relation 10 perjury; 20
amend the Code prescribing the duties Of at
torneys Tor the Commonwealth in proceed
jngs 20 prove the genuineness Of coupons.
BY Mr.. johnson: For the relief OF sherfis
in the service Of evil process OF other coun-
ties than the one In which they reside.
BY Mr.. Coleman: To authorize the county
Of P0whatan 20 change the form OF bonds
subscribed 70 the Farmyille and Powhatanj
Railroad Company. BY MIR. Wood: TO au- |
thorize the Auditor OF Public Accounts TO |
Issue duplicate warrants; 10 amend the |
lode In relation 10 school warrants. BY |
Mr.. Ellis: TO authorize the Board OF Super
'isofs Of Nansemond county 10 increase the
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-11
AFTER RAILROADS.

General James G. Field offered the fol-
lowing. which was referred:
Resolred That in the opinion of the Farm.
ers' Assembly. every railroad incorporated
by tina state be required TO keep It's pfinripai
Office within the state. ana the tenefni
Assembly IL requested 10 enact sucn laws as
will accomplish this purpose.
MIR. Julian NJ. Rullin, of Hanover, offered
the following:
Pesolrsd. That the Farmers Assembly OF
Virginia again asks Of Congress an adJust-
ment of the present unjust. unequal. anu UNI
bearabIe tariff laws: that copy OF thi, reso-
luton be sent 20 our Representatives ana
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-11

Your attention is especially invited TO the
very low capitalization OF your properties.
The treasurer has prepared some interesting
tables on this subject. The average OF YOUR
ooNied debt and fixed charged as OF Novem-
Der 30. 1889, with all Your leases capitalized
on the basis of per cent, as you will see bv
reference TO the treasurer's report, is only
slo,6O6 per mile, and the average
STOCK capitalization outstanding. INCLUDE
ing all your own st~ck, il only
sl6.3sO per mile. Your company ALREADY
owns the greater part OF the high priced
STOCKS In your system, practically all OF the
Richmond and Danville, 4.252 sinai es OF the
firft preferred stock OF the East Tennessee
cut OF total OF 10000 shares, and 4Oool
shares OF the stock OF the Georgia Central our
OF a total Of $1,000 shares Your directors
believe that your system can be so unified
that It's capitalization will not exceed
$4,000 per mile In bonds and sl2,5OO per
mile In stock. giving total OF 1921, 500 per
mile on system lof 1920 miles, which
earned during the last fiscal year s2s 2s4, 46i: |
44-iOO gross. 30. s36, sos; 70-IO0 net, 81, 1851
ESQ. ~ 100 above all tharges.
III Is interesting ~ note here the capltaliza
tion per mile OF the different groups OF roads
IA the country taken by your treasurer from
Mr.. Poor's manual for 1890. II viii be seen
that the capitalization OF the Southeastern
group, where your system lies. Is the lowest
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-11

Many OF the roads now projected In the
south are necessarily al some point feeders
for your system, and should be encouraged
Even those which parallel part OF YOUR
lines, Will feed your system at other points
and the increase In business arising from ;he
increased prosperity OF the country your lines
Traverse, VIII more than make up for any
loss occasioned by the building Of new roads
The strength Of your system lies in the fact
that the three great properties you control
are supplantal 10 each other. that they con-
troll the best lines, through the most popu-
lous and growing sections OF the south
reathing nearly all the cities and towns of
Importance, and with privileges and teimi-
nal facillties that no new lines can now pur-
chase. The great bulk of all the business OF
the cities and OF the country reached by vour
roads must necessarily be handled by your
system, and IT must get the greater part OF an
increase OF business occasioned by the build
ing OF new lines.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06
Corporation Notice.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. - PRO.
IN posals will be received at the Office of the Board
of Street and Water commissioners on Monday,
August 5, 1889, at 10 o'clock a. mr. for the.
IMPROVEMENT OF HALLIDAY STREET,
from Communipaw avenue to Johnston avenue, IN
the Office of the Chief Engineer, corner of Jersey
avenue and Mercer street, where blank forms of bid
and agreement of sureties must be obtained.
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES..
About 1850 cubic yards of earth excavation
About $50 cubic yards of earth filling.
About 500 cubic yards of sand or gravel filling.
About $500 square yards OF stone paving.
About 1,6O0lineal feet OF curbstone.
About go squs Ne feet of bridge stone,
About 6.G0 square feet Of tagging.
About % square yards of re-paying.
About t,qA lineal feet OF reset curb stone.
About LOO square feet OF re laid tagging.
About two receiving basins to be reset.
About -four manholes to be reset.
Time allowsd for the completion Of the work, one
hundred working days.
The making of the above Improvement and award
of the contract therefor will be subject to the re-
monstranee of the owners of the property liable TO
more than one-half the assessment therefor.
opes, endorsed Proposals for Improvement of Halla-
day street." directed to az. A. Dugan, Esq. Chairman
of on Streets and Sewers, and handed to
the Clerk of the Board in open meeting when called
for in the order of business relating to sealed pro-
posals.
No city official will be accepted as surety.
The attention of bidders Is especially called to
Section 10 of the New Charter Of 1888" under the
terms, whereof no contract shall be binding upon
the city until the bondsmen offered by the CON
tractor have been approved by the Board of
Finance, the President OF said Board having power
BY order of the Board Of Street and Water Com
missioners.
EORGE t. BOUTON, Clerk.
Dated JERSEY CITY, N. j.. July 10. 1859.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06
temper.

DR.. L. Billings, formerly of the firm of Billings
& Taylor of this city, will return to Jersey City
this month to commence the practice of medi
cine, DR.. Billings has been the medical attend
ant of the employees of an English syndicate in
Costa RIGA. His many friends here will give hin
a cordial welcome.
The officers of the Second Regiment, HoboSen
will give a dinner to Colonel Stevens tonight
Governor Green and Ex-Governor Leon Albeit
are among the invited guests.
Mr.. Carsten Pope, of Hoboken, will sail tomor-
row for Germany.
One of the spectacles on the beach at Asbury
yesterday was Deacon james N. Davis bathing
in the surf with his evangelist wife.
Tailor Charles Birdsall has been away from
home for a day or two. He says that the fear
that something would go wrong in his absence
marred the pleasure of his trip.
Chief Murphy quietly celebrated yesterday the
tenth anniversary of his appointment as com
mander of the Police Department. He has been
in the service seventeen years.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06
A street Car Incident.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
She was o pretty young lady, very
charmingly dressed and personally
particularly attractive. She was out
at the park the other day and she got
on a crowded car. She had a seat and
several men were standing up. There
came ON to the car an old lady very
poorly dressed. She looked fraii and
seemed tired. She looked around.
Several very elegant dudes We're seated
around, but nobody made any move
ment to give up his place. Seeing
this, the young lady of whom / spoke
got up and gave the old lady her seat
and stooaup beside a dude decked in
the very latest fashion plate style. who
took a calm look at her and-kept his
seat. Then q man sitting beyond him
in the open car, who had Just noticed
her, got up, walked over the dudes
knees and invited the young lady to
take his seat. About all the dude ex-
pressed was annoyance at being dis
turbed. This is not very much of q
story, it is not q very dramatic stu
alton, but it somehow means a great
deal
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06
SUM ERINGS.

Miss Carrie Tremaine, of York street, is
spending the summer at East Durham.
Mr.. Steven Lent, of Washington street,
will travel in the West and will also visit
the Catskills, Niagara and Canada.
Miss Alice Brock, of Madison avenue, is
summering at Stony Point.
Mr.. Robert Wells, of Fifth street, is
travelling through the West and Canada
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Rinaldo are spending
the summer at Asbury Park.
Mrs. James Christian, of Belmont ave-
nue., has gone to Deal Beach to spend the
summer.
street, are summering at Glen Spa.
Captain and Mrs. A. j. NeWbury are
spending the summer at Asbury Park.
Miss Bella KingSbury, of Ocean avenue,
has gone to the White Mountains to
spend the summer
Mr.. Thomas +. Noonan is spending his
vacation at Asbury Park.
Mr.. Charles Kidd and sister are spend
ing the summer at Lake George.
Miss Jessie Keane, of York street, has
gone to Spring Lake for the month OF
August.
Miss Emma Reed is summering at As
bury Park.
Liz h0N. MI. MlbCIbLi u buG 0GplCH
Presbyterian Church, will return from
Europe in September.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Brinck, of Fourth
street, are spending the summer at Lake
Mahopac.
The Misses Cunningham have gone to
Glen Spa for the summer.
Mr.. William Kroft is spending his yaca-
ton at Asbury Park.
Mr.. William G. Cudlipp is stopping at
Asbury Park for several weeks,
Mrs. Thomas Hetherington is summer
ing at Glen Spa.
Mr.. F. ?, Benedict has been staying at
Asbury Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Carey. of Sum-
NIT avenue, are summering In Canada.
Miss Minnie Fletcher, of Montgomery
street, is spending the summer at Tarry-
town.
City Treasurer and Mrs. Charles l..
Lord, Of Lord avenue, Bergen Point, are
visiting friends in Huntington, N. Y.
Walter O'Mara. of the Revenue Collec-
tors office, Jersey City, is the guest of his
brother-in-law at Constable Hook.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06

boyish face and general appearance OF
a child make him, in connection with
this horrible crime, the attraction for
all visitors to the P~enitentiary. He
had never heard of God or had any
knowledge of the nature of his crime,
and would say in answer to the
questions as to why he killed his
sister:-"Well, my step-father told
me he'd give Inc a pair of boots # !
did it," He said in reply to further
interrogatories:-"She was walking
across the floor when we were alone
one day, and | hit her on the head
with a piece of the stove iron. She
fell in the fire and / hit her again and
threw her in the creek"
Repeated efforts to elicit the details
brought to light the ignorant limo
cence of the boy in the subsequent
discovery of finding the body. When
the mother and the neighbors found
the body in the branch, Linnville ran
to the scene and said:-''Let me fetch
her out; / threw her in there" He
brought her to the shore and ingeni-
ously related the circumstance OF the
murder, upon which he was placed
under arrest, and ON his own confess
sion given a life sentence. AS there
was 10 testimony to corroborate the
instigation Of the crime by any one, OF
course it would have been impossible
t0convict the s~tepfather. 1t is un-
fortunate, however, that such a chill
dish convict should be compelled for
want of a State reformatory institu-
ton to dwell for life among the old
and hardened criminals of the State
P%enitentiary. - Louisville Courier
,TO9I1DnJ
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06
ST. JDSEPH'S LYCEUM.
Its Initial Picnic Was q Great Success
Every Way.

4GB 1nAtlhl XICniC WH%s " GIcdu oucCeBS
Every Way.
The dancing platform at Pohlmann's
was occupied last night by a large and
merry party, 1t was the initial picnic of
St. Joseph's Lyceum of Hoboken. The
Lyceum was organized scarcely three
months ago. 1t is composed of the young
men belonging to st, JOseph's church and
takes an active interest in church work.
The society, desiring to properly furnish
the rooms. n equip a, gymnasium, de-
cided to give the festival and devote the
proceeds to rendering their quarters at
tractive.
They worked ~zealopsly and were well
repaid, as 800 tickets were disposed of II
q handsome sum realized, and the af-
fair was q success sociably. A gold medal
was presented Mr.. John Powers, as a re-
ward for his energy and perseverance He
sold the greatest number OF tickets. The
presentation speech wa made by Presi-
dent James Harmon.
Among those present We're Mr.. w.
H%effernan and Miss NJ. Tostain, who led
the march; MI. Harmon and Miss Stack,
Mr.. Ludwig. Miss Kryner, Mr.. Thomas
Hanley and sisters, Mr.. James Scott and
Miss Britt, of New York; Mr.. j. McClos-
key and Miss Riedon, Mr.. Feather
stone and Miss MoGuire, NJ;
GGr nsaI MA M .1d l, bA1HEdiesgFm nrma Miss Miss
hullOy An1. OOoCRA ctA III
Miss N. Hansberry, Mr., John Hildermann
and Miss M. Egan, Mr.. c. Hoffman, and
Miss NJ. Hildermann, MI. w. Scott and
Miss N. Maggie, Mr., A. Mack and Miss
Barrett, Mr., p. Scott, Mr.. j, Wilson and
Miss Ritz, Mr.. Il, Short and Miss NJ. Sulii-
van. Mr.. p. Malley and Miss A. Egan,
Mr.. Thomas Haverty and Miss Haverty,
Mr.. and Mrs f. Duffy, Mr.: Hammil, Police
Commissioner John p. Feeney, Assistant
City Clerk Charles v, Darcy, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Kennedy, Mr.. and Mrs. f. Hat
field, Miss q, Stack, Mr.. r. Ward Miss
M, Dongherty, Mr.. r. Jones, Mr..
f. Golden, Mr.. r. Quinn, Mr.
Il. Devanney, Mr.. and Mrs, j. Curry, Al
derman Harvey Snyder, Mr.. ". Condor,
Mr.. and Mrs. Sohl, Mr.. T. Ghilanda, Mr..
and Mrs. II. Hartwig, Mr.. w. jaeger, Mr..
Aspell, Mr.. William MeAyoy, Mr.. d.
Hurley. Nh. r. Powers, Mr.. j. Moran.
| Mr.. J.. Jefferson and Miss O'Tooie, Mr..
w. E. Sullivan, Mr.. Griffin, Mr.. r.. Ryan
Mr.. P. Burke, Mr.. j. Finley, Mr.. White,
| lock, Mr.. j. Murphy and Mr.. II. Sullivan
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06
A Ten-Year-ofa Life Convict.

The most youthful life convict ever
confined in the Kentucky Peniten-
tiary is Linnville Combs. He came
here a little over a year ago from
Breathitt county, on the charge OF
numbering his little sister, an infant
of about two years old, When he
first entered the Penitentiary he was
more childish and ignorant than he is
at present, being then not quite eleven
years old, and smaller and less COM
pactly built.
His years confinement has made an
improvement in him. both In his
physique and mind, but his frank,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06

The record that he has made as chairman of a
committee that had $50, 900 worth of acquisitions,
with S12, 900 worth not paid for, is enough to de-
feat any man, / doubt il he could be elected to
the Assembly even.
Thus speaks Mr.. Freebooter Fierney
of his dear friend, Freeholder Boyle.
1t Is very unkind of him, 1t is not
only unkind to Mr.. Boyle, but posi-
lively harsh towards the Assembly,
which Mr.. Tierney plainly considers a
degree worse in character than even
the Hudson County Board Of Free
holders.
We are sorry that conference has
been indefinitely postponed. 1t
would have been edifying to see these
two good men dividing up and aliot-
ting the offices which are enormously
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06
Chinese Superstition.

A certain Mrs. Pau, a resident OF
Canton, was last year suddenly taken
possession of by a demon. Her
speech was most strange and incoher-
ent, and the mention of devils and
spirits was constantly on her lips.
Left to herself, however, her strange
behavior began to amend, and finally
she seemed to return to her sound
mind again. This year the demon
has returned to her, and she is prac-
tising all name of queer antics;
though illiterate she reads with the
greatest facility, and though ignorant
of the first rudiments of music, she
handles the lutte with perfect har-
mony.
Aside from her miraculous behav-
ior, however, she did not appear to be
much the worse for being inhabited
by a demon, though her features pre-
sent a pallid and emaciated appear
ance. With a view to restoring her
to her sanity, her people engaged the
services OF an aged and famous priest,
who possessed the art of exercising
spirits.
When the ~demoniacal woman saw
the priest, she exelaimed:-''What
have l to do with thee2 Art thou
come to destroy me with thy art p
The priest then wrote three charms,
and having reduced them to ashes put
them in a bowl of water and gave it
to the woman to drink. Having
drank this draught, the woman soon
began to exclaim necessarily, Il am
now in the power of the priest What
am | to do ?" Seeing her pitiful con
dition, her people again sought the
services of the priest to liberate her
from the power; but he with a mean,
avaricious heart, demanded an exor-
bitant sum, which being beyond the
e of her kindred, hor malady is
still MISUNDERSTANDING PaO.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06

the Persian Minister. The Queen
stood for a moment admiring the
large emerald and diamond buckles
the Shah wore on his waistband and
coat, and having sat down she mo-
toned him to a seat beside her, which
he accepted, looking around for the
Princess of Wales, who was immedl-
ately behind him, and whom he made
sit on a chair on the other side OF him,
The pantomime which expressed his
wishes was irresistibly funny and
taxed the Princess greatly, for she bit
her lips hard to keep from laughing.
However, she must have got accus-
toned to it, for during the Shah's
stay here it was evident on several oc-
sions that she could hardly keep and
look serious.n
Buy a Young Wifei
The most observed guests at the
hotels are those married couples in
which the man is old and the woman
is young. There are always many OF
them in Saratoga. They are always
the same combinations rich widower
who marries a poor and pretty girl.
Money will buy nearly everything on
earth, and a handsome wife is not one
of the exceptions. A married pair sit
on the veranda in sight from my win
dow as l write. He is sixty, and there
isn't a romantic hair among the gray
of his head or whiskers, He has a
capacious paunch. He can see his
legs now, for they are laid comfort
ably out in a chair, but he couldn't
get q full view of them standing. He
has to use spectacles in reading his
newspaper. His entire aspect is one
Of plethoric old age. She is twenty,
and she is an embodiment of youthful
freshness. She was a working girl in
a millinery store, at So a week, until
two years ago. Then the portly old
s-exagenarian offered marriage to e
and SO she is now a Saratoga belle.
why shouldn't she be satisfied?"
he said yesterday to a crony OF his
own age. "She has luxury in the
place of poverty. Does she love me?
No; or at least not in a romantic way.
! don't expect her to. She respects
me, she respects herself, and she won't
get into any scandal. Now, John,
you're a rich widower, and ] sincerely
advise you to buy a young, handsome
wife. Be careful to pick out a sensible
girl, who has had to work hard for a
living. ana II therefore, VIII appre-
ciate good fortune. Don't make love
to her. There's a girl who might do"
1t was in the Indian Grove, where
children and nursemaids abounded.
A particularly pretty maid, In a white
cap and apron, was taking a five cent
ride on n of the donkeys kept for
rent to the children. She was as
pretty as a picture, and her position
made her piquante.
'"That nurse girl is a sort of gov
erness for some children for a friend
of mine, =" the matter of fact man con
tinued. 'She has enough education
to be very intelligent, she has acquired
nice by service in a cultured
family and she only lacks the clothes
to be a lady. Marry her, old fellow,
and life will be worth living again.
NeD York Star.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06
CORPORATION Notice.

NOTICE rs HEREB GIVEN THAT ON THE
IN eighteenth day Of July, 1889, the Commissioners
OF Assessment fled In the ofiice OF the Clerk OF the
BOARD OF street and VA Wst rano G9m I'm isl their
IMPROVEMENT OF MORRIS TIRE
street toWashingt0n stfeet,by repRving
with belgian block pavement, and the same Is now
open to public inspection In the Office Of the Clerg of
said Board.
And notice is also given that the following streets
or avenues or particular sections thereof are IN
Guided In said assessment
STREET,
from Greene street TO Washington street;
And that the ninth day of september, 1889, at
10 O'Clock q, M. and the meeting room OF the Board
OF Street aud Water Commissioners are hereby
Board of Street and Water Commissioners VIII meet
10 hear. consider and adjudicate upon all objections
to said assessment and report.
All objections thereto must be presented in writ
ing.
mlssionefs,
Jersey City. July Is, 1862.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06

An exchange says:-'Venus had
beauty, that key to everything
1t isapresumed then that she has no
difficulty in getting into Apollo's head,
for it was guarded only by ambrosial
locks. -Spogting life,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06

New YORK has put her shoulder to
the wheel to start the machinery Of
the great International Exposition of
1892. Now let all the other cities in
the country start in to give her their
most cordial help.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06
The BETTER Horse.

Boston Sutherland now mayI ask
your father for your hand in marriage,
dear?
Chicago Bud-Better ask ma
what she says goes.-Ihe Epoch.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06
supposed by some uncultured persons
to be lin the gift of the people"
A New Use for the Cow.

Since modern cities introduced
abundant water supplies within their
precincts, the ordinary COW OF com
merce has been steadily declining in
practical utility. Like manual labor,
her natural method of milk produc'
ton has gradually succumbed to the
progress of modern improvements,
and it needed only a patent for the
production of cheese from sawdust'
and a slight relaxation in the oles
margarine laws to consign the COW to
the same realms of i%nnocuous desue-
tude into which the dodo and the
plesiosaurus have long since passed.
But it remained for a modern in
ventor, Mr.. j. L. Brown, to find a new
use for the COW. By an ingenious link
ing together ,of circumstances, he has
applied the COW to an altogether new
form of usefulness, and it is as a patent
horse car brake that she will flourish
in the glorious centuries of the future.
The first experiment with the de-
vice was tried in this city on Satur-
day. Save in the tritling detail of
serious injuries to several well-known
citizens, it was q remarkable success.
1t stopped the car, a feat which the
brakes of the past can ley be relied
upon to accomplish-especially if a
fat woman with nineteen bundles Is
anxious to share the rear platform
with twenty-three tired men.
We have no doubt but the COW
brake, properly applied, will always
work, and in fact, we would not be
surprised to see the principle extended
to steam railways, where hippopotami
or rhinosceroses-animals of no very
obvious utility in the present stage of
the worlds development-may prof fit
ably be imported from Africa for the
purpose. Among other results, we
may note, will be the provision of
light and agreeable employment for
MI. Stanley, Mr.. Ridder Haggard, Mr.,
"Billn Kern and other gentlemen of
African proclivities, who can well be
spared from our midst. We commend
the idea to MI. Roberts, Mr.. Cassatt,
and the other mugwumps of the P.
r. r. as our little contribution
towards surprises for the foreign
element which will flock to our shores
in 1892.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06

WHY does not the ex-Rev. Benson
stir up his colleagues to suppress the
dive of "Jacky" Lynch. He is by
profession a teacher of morality, and
this good work ought to be c~ongenial
to him.