The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-09-14

The Condensed Pirate Does
Up His Fellow Citizens
in Rainbow Co1ors.
PAULus HOOK souEALs.


Peter Seaman exhibited on Friday.
down town, one of the fiye-dollar bits or
certificates of the S57, 900 fake money re-
Gently unearthed by one Of Contractor
Mullery's men while at work with gang
on the Paterson plank road The bill is
Of tough white paper, printed on one side
only, and bears the imprint OF Danforth,
Spencer 81 Hufty, New York, in one cor
ner near the top, and that of Spencer,
Hufty & Danforth. Philadelphia, in the
opposite corner. The only coloring is the
capital letters FIVE" in about four
line plea antique letters, ornamented,
crossing the face just below the centre.
These are printed in light blue ink. The
name of the Fairfield Bank . is printed
plainly across the upper half q Con-
necticut" appears as q short line near the
top. 81. Pay to order OF VIM. IL James or
bearer il printed in large script. Mr..
Seaman treasures the bill as a curiosity
Some one remarked few days ago
while watching the stream of Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad employees fling in and out
of Alber's saloon in the Weldon Building
that it was the first time Proprietor AL
bers was known to smile. That is not
true. Mr.. Aibers, though of serious
turn of mind, is one of the most affable of
men. Business is business with him. And
he mas never been know to violate the
Sunday liquor law.
The interest in the sale of tickets for
In Prescott place, which the Catholic
Benevolent Legion has arranged in order
to raise fund to pay off the indebted
ness of the sisters on the new st. Alloy
sius Academy, is becoming quite intense
Whoever sells the largest number Of
tickets win be presented with hand
some 500 crayon portrait of himself
This has aroused the energy Of Ex-Poiice
Commissioner Buckley, who it is said has
slept in his hustling shoes every night
since he took a book of the tickets II is
said Tommy Lennahan is going it alone.
but it is claimed by his friends he will
prove himself too much for both the Ex-
Police Commissioners and the great Hiber-
MAN Chief
Anything newf" asked JERSEY CITY
NEWS reporter of Justice Weed tne other
day during dull shower of rain. Yes
replied the usually busy bat genial JUS
tice, with a twinkle in his eye. i've got
nothing to do The Judge has always
an eye to business.
There Is report going the rounds hat
some of the prominent Hudson cou nty
liquor dealers while attending the rec ent
convention at Orange kidnapped q dog
up in the mountains The party in pos
session was offered SIS for the dog, and
some OF the other dealers are now jok-
ingly blackmailing the said party in pos
session by threatening to peach II not
handsomely paid to keep quiet
1t is a common sight 10 see O canine
carcass in the yard in the rear of Police
Headquarters. Every one of them tells q
story of some child bitten. Complaints
of this kind are becoming numerous. 1t
is question in many instances as to who
was to blame--the bitten child or thedog.
Still there is no doubt that many Of these
were the carcasses of mean ours that had
no right to exist in q civilized city.
Everyone in Jersey City knows Martin
Ward and the fact that Martin is very
comfortably situated as to terrestrial
affairs. It is also we'll known that Mar
tin has acquired this eHyiable situation
by a degree of thrift which is worehy of
admiration If not Of commentator, and
many are the tales of that thrift which
are told. Among these it is related tina
once on a time Martin was in the City
| Clerks Office obtaining some warrants,
| of which, in pursuance of his policy of
] thrift, he had obtained possession While
there, gentleman bustled in and asked
/ II warrant was ready for him. The
clerk at the desk looked through the
warrant book and replied that it was not
| there. The stranger left, but had hardly
1 closed the door after him when
the clerk discovered the warrant.
The clerk communicated the fact to Mar
tin and Martin was full of sympathy.
My, my, that's too bad,'' he said in his
most compassionate tone. What might
that poor mans name be-. Johnnv?n
| ger came from certain street and num-
Der in New York and had claim against
the city for a good round sum. Martin
quietly made q note Of theSman's address
and, after expressing his sympathy for
him again, left the Office. He quickly
went to New York, found the stranger,
and, telling him tale of the financial
condition of the city, said that he was
In the business of buying claims
against the municipality. and if the
stranger was in a hurry for his
money Martin would purchase the
claim, provided hes could get a discount
large enough to pay him for waiting for
the money. The stranger was impressed
with Martins tale of the city's financial
woe and parted with his claim cheaply.
Martin hurried back to Jersey City, pro-
cured the warrant and mad il cashed
without waiting a single day for his
money. Verify, Martin is thrifty.
Those who have occasion to visit the
High School Building don't want to
shout Mary any where near the Boards
room on the first floor unless they want
to become the subject of Corners in
quest.
There Is much complaint amoug the
patrons of the Pennsylvania Railroad
over the arrangements for securing psr-
Tor car seats and sleeping car accomino-
dalton. On all its Long Bran.h aud
Philadelphia express trans the company
Southern and Western trains it runs
Pullman cars. The tickets for It's own
cars are to be purchased only on the
cars, while the tickets for the Pullman's
can be secured only at the PulIma
ticket Office in the station. The
annoyance which this contradictory rule
gives rise to especially when the train is
about to start, and the supply of seats is
not equal to the demand is greater than
the company realizes or it would GER
tainlY have some uniform system of pro-
curing the tickets.
Workmen have been engaged during
the past week in cutting down the trees
around the four small parks at Washing
ton and Grand streets. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that this had to be done as the
trees were among the largest and finest
in the city, and have shaded that section
of the city for several years.
HAMILTON PARK WHOOPS.
John Robbins, of the Third district. is
to take an active part in the coming cam
paign.
John Cowles, of Eighth street, is to
form literary society in October.
Dudley Holcomb has lately Joined the
Third District Republican Club.
Eddie Farrier will move prominently in
the social whirl of the coming season.
The friends of Martin Haley have been
busy congratulating him these last two
or three days