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The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18

decent course would be a post
ponement of any sttelnpt to
take testimony until an adjudi-
cation in the Middlesex county ease
touching the constftutionsTity of the
law under which it is proposed to
bring the proceedings. There is grave
doubt as to whether the statute is
valid, and the question is now under
certification to the Supreme Court.
What is the use of wasting time and
money on proceedings which may be
void 0b i1sitio. If the contest for the
office were undertaken in good faith
this view of the case would control
the action of the petitioners, and If
they disregard it they will confirm
the general impression that the fight
in the courts is designed simply to
prolong the mud-slinging campaign
which the Senate has inaugurated.
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18

Ina8 paper Is OenlOcFuttc tft pTUtctPteS
and Is Independent in its gieacs on dtt
local questions
This is from yesterdays proceedings
in the Coykendall trial
President Hogancamp was recalled and asked
how far back Van Loans falsiications were
found to run.
He could not remember the exact date, but it
was in 1884. He said he did not search as far
back rs 1888; he had no time"
.sYou discovered this fraud two years ago, I
believer said ex-Judge Garrick.
Eyes, sir.''
s'And in all this time you have not had tim Q
enough to trace back these checks to 1882
ssYes, sir."
Gould, not your clerks do it:''
mo, SIR; they have their regular work to per-
form. was compelled to make the investiga-
ton personally, and it took me a year to get the
information have given you.''
Evidently. the Second National is a
very busy bank. But what is the
reason the United States examiners
do not take the matter up and trace
out the fraud through all its rarnifi-
cations. 1t is strange the investiga-
tion should have been left incomplete
go long
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18
M !. RovLAN,
Funeral Director,
1888 payonia ave.. Jersey City.

bett followed with an excellently rem
dered recitation.
Then Sid Jordan, twelve-year-old boy,
sang contralto solo, Loves Sorrow
with such skill as to deserve a most hearty
encore. The ever popular and beautiful
Mrs Emma Mason, of the Emma Mas.
son Opera Company. responded to a vocif-
erous encore by singing "Come back to
Erin Mr. Nat Hicks, Of Hoboken, sang,
as bass solo, "Out ON the Deep" and
Mr.. Oscar Genth cleverly rendered Isling-
ton polka as cornet solo.
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18

The friends of Edward Conod. blind
pianist of the Hill, turned out in large
numbers last night and filed the winter
garden of Kessler's Hall The occasion
was the annual concert and entertain
ment given for his benefit
John j. Kuntz, also blind musician,
aided Mr.. Conod. and the two rendered
good piano music and accompanied the
Gin
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18
Beauty neaten by Grace.
Thinking Out Loud.

A lady relates that one bitterly cold
winter day she was hurrying toward
the railway station, after days shop
ping in the city, intending to take q
certain train fo- her suburban home,
when she suddenly remembered a
very important purchase she MAD in
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18
An Editor at Ten.

Anna Katharine Green, author of
"The Leavenworth Case. X was born In
Brooklyn, but has lived most of her
life in New York city and vicinity.
At the age of ten she and her little
playmates published a pamphlet writ
ten under her direction, so she was
virtually an editress at that age. The
little book was passed from one to an
other at five cents read.n
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18

John Moran, of No $50 Henderson street,
was arraigned before Justice Stilsing
this morning charged with assault and
battery on William Kelly, an old boat
man, living at No 1853 First street. Kelly
swore that he was stopped late last night
at the corner of Bay and First streets by
several young men who demanded money
for beer. He refused to shell out, where
upon he was assaulted and struck on the
bridge of his nose by Moran. Moran
claimed he was not in the crowd that
assaulted the old man, but was on his way
to wake when he came up with the
crowd, and Kelly mistook him for one of
the gang, and making a rush for him
struck him IN the eye. Moran's eye was
blackened
The prisoner was committed in default
of $500 hail
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18

tended making, and bad forgot while

tended making, and had forgot while
in the stores.
TO return for it would make her
miss the train, and of necessity reach
her home aIaimingIy late. She stood
on a street corner debating the q'les-
tion of returning, and had no idea she
was talking it over to herself, until
just as a tall schoolboy turned the
corner she thought and said aloud,
well, now, believe Twill.
Well now, believe | would, z
said the young man in a tone OF SYM
pathetic banter as he passed along
ut must have seemed very absurd
to him. said the lady, in telling the
story, ito see me standing on that
freezing corner talking so anliably to
myself
'sThat reminds me, said listener,
''of little incident in my own expert
enee | was waiting my turn to buy
stamps at a postoffice window, when
heard an old gentleman in front Of
me nurmuring to himself, i suppose
the folks will say she's too young, but
if she likes an old fellow like me-
g Why, she certainly ought to have
you,' said |. couldn't help it.
He looked around. blushed like a
girl, glanced at the letters he had in
his hand, and walked ON to take his
turn in buying stamps, with his ears
fairly burning. That was the last |
saw of the old gentleman and his lit
tie romance. ."-No7atreaJ Times.
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18
NORTH HUDSON NOTES.

Tonight the Union Hill Town Council
will make a searching investigation into
the recent fire at No. 10 Lewis street.
There is no doubt but what arson was
committed, and if the matter is thoroughly
probed some sensational developments
may be expected.
The concert and dramatic entertain
ment, which will be held for the benefit
of st. Joseph's Church in Gutenberg to-
night and tomorrow night promises to be
grand success.
Itxas stared authoritatively in Union
Hill last night that ex-Town Clerk Ahles
would be appointed sergeant of police
Fred would look splendid in a uni-
FORM
Asseublyman Usher has prepared bill
asking Congress for an appropriation of
$50, 600 for q new postoffice. The bill will
probably be submitted to the Town Coun-
Gil at their next meeting,
Some lively times are promised in the
Union Hill Town Council unless the
License Committee reconsider the appli-
cation Of Robert Schiemm for saloon
license.
The citizens of Weehawken will hold a
meeting some time next week to devise
upon some plan for lighting the town
properly Electricity will probably be
recommended.
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18

One remedy he tries, sir.
Its just the thing TO take in spring
The blood TO purify,
He tells his friends, and nothing elss
Is he induced to try
because, having taken DR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery TO cleanse his system,
tone it up, and enrich the blood. and find
ing that it always produces the desired
result, he considers that he would
be foolish to experiment with any
thing else. His motto is, Prove all
thugs and hold fast TO that which is
good.1 That's why he pins his faith to
the Golden Medical Discovery"
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Friend to Avoid.

&IACuA ~ <1tOAea+
A business woman, whose face is
about as well known as any in town,
but who always seeks to avoid public
recognition, was snugly ensconced be-
hind her evening paper ard quietly
perusing it. Suddenly there entered
the female bore, who speedily recog-
nized the other, and decided to let the
passengers know without further de-
lay. She sprawled over two or three
intervening sufferers and began OBJ
servations.
"Oh, how do you do, Mrs. A--f'
she asked in high pitched voice.
II want to congratulate you ON win.
ming your lawsuit
Il thank you,n said the other,
quietly.
SIS your health better, Mrs. A?'
"Yes, thank you.
Not SO stout as you used to be-
Mrs. A-.n
BY this time every man, woman
and child in that part of the car knew
who Mrs. A. was, and the lady was
pointed out, whispered about anC
rendered generally uncomfortable
while the bore smirked and beamed
with superior smile upon her neigh
bors
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18

NOTICE TO WHOM IT MAY coNcERN:-rHERE
IN viii be sold at public auction az No. SO Mont-
~ stesy @ c e.cese NJ S,,s Mpr ~ ~,
Trunks and contents. Cases and eontents Barrels
and contents. Pictures. Orxen and sundry articles
not mentloaed belonging 70 sundry persons 10 Nt;--
q q. CQooK, Mrs. Belle Kruine, Chas rpyior MIR.
Said goods and ehattels hereby advertised TO be
sold TO pay storage under and by virtue OF an act
concerning warehouse Keepers afi1rmed April d VI.
Jersey Cry April u, lssy, LEWIS y WOOD.
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18
Coykendall's Conviction.

SOyACkA0au . SOhVAObAOt~
The conviction of Nelson III. Coy
kendall for participancy in scheme
to rob the Second National Bank can
surprise nobody. 1t is hard to see
how either the accused or his counsel
could have expected an acquittal on
the evidence. To say that the de-
fence was thin would not describe its
gauziness.
Here was man who knew nothing,
it would seem, about the state of his
account, and who yet wants people to
believe that he was conducting series
Of check kiting operations to keep his
balance up. Do the two stories hang
together?
Then Leeker says Coykendall was
his banker" and kept all the ac-
counts of the very complicated finan-
cial dealings between them. Coy
kendall next declares that he kept no
accounts at all, and has only general
recollections regarding the profits OF
his business and the checks he issued
SO lavishly. John" said the old
fashioned schoolmaster, 'srecollect
am licking you not for lying, but be-
cause you did not keep probability in
yiew.n
hThe effort to shift the whole blame
on Van Loan was ill-adyised. Evil
IDENTITY Mr.. Van Loan was not too
good for this wicked world; but the
attempts of partners in guilt to make
each other scapegoats always ALLEVIATE
rather than attract sympathy.
PRESIDENT JOHN p. FEENEy, of
the Police Board, requests THE JER-
sEY CITY NEWS to say that the story,
published in fake sheet this morn
ing, to the effect that he fired pistol
at some one last Monday night is alb
solutely false. He did not fire any
pistol that night or any other night
recently. He was not in the Erie
Railway restaurant that night, and
no such symposium as the article de
scribes took place. The story is 9
fabrication from beginning to end.
This manly denial confirms the i'm
preston which the story must have
made on every reader that it was ;
malignant lie. 1t is simply anothel
development of the system of persecu
tion which certain New York news
papers have adopted against the Hud
son Democratic leaders.
Mr., Feeney's enemies, even, canno
deny that he is man Of genial good
natured temperament. To those wh'
know him, the yarn is simply prepos
terons
THE application for a review Q
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18

ADvIcE 10 AioFHERs -MRs WiSsLow's SooTH-
ING SYRUP should always be ilssd when children
ars cutting teeth. 1t relieves the little sufferer
at once; il produces natural, quiet sleep BY re-
lisying the child from pain and the little cherub
pleasant to taste. II soothes the child. softens
the gums, ellsys all pain. relieves wind. regu-
for diarrlHa, whether arising from teething or
other causes Twenty flss cents bottle-.ss
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18

Walking advertisements for DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy are the thousands il has
cured.
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18

THE application for a review of
the recent election is to be made to
Judge Dixon at his house tonight.
Now. it is to be hoped the lawyers
will not adopt the tedious policy Of
the Stuhr- Nc Donald committee, and
prolong the agony through the next
year. Perhaps the wisest and most
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18
Unhealthy Parfors.


Il never call here but / feel so
stuffy."
"Stuffy! That's just the word. I
was wondering myself why it is. The
rooms are large and we'll furnished. !"
''Too well furnished for health, y
quickly chimed in the first speaker.
"The house is SO full of antiquities
and rare curios that it is never aired
for fear some dust might get in
through the open windows or doors.
| don't believe a ray of sunshine is
ever let into this house. never call
but feel like a mummy myself and
get so nervous before leave that
feel as if all the antiquities were COM
ing down in body to inhabit me.
The sunshine is shut out, the rooms
are never aired, and the antiquities
give an unpleasant odor, which OPP
presses me, especially when coming In
out of the fresh air. I don't think l
shall ever call again. - Cincinnati
IIn2es-St0T.
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18

This paper IS Democratic In principles
and Is Independent in its gieaos on dtt
local questions.
The Jersey City news., 1890-04-18

c. SUSSEX pLAGE-PLEASANT FURNISHED
L Q room TO let; terms moderate.
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practical application Of gas was effected
in 1892 by William Murdoch, who used
it for lighting his workshop, at Redruth,
in Cornwall. In 1902 it was introduced
in Soho foundry, near Birmingham, and
in 1913 London Bridge was lighted by
the then mysterious fluid. About this
time, Sir Walter Scott wrote from Lon
don: "There is mailman proposing to
light the town with-what do you think?
why with smoke" The next year it's
use became general in London, and in
1922 it was introduced into the United
States at Boston. Natural gas, now ex-
tensively employed in this country, has
been used in China from remote ages,
being conveyed through bamboo pipes
from salt mines from 1000 to 1000 feet
in depth.
The next era in the history of illumina-
ton begins with the invention and general
introduction of kerosene oil. At first it
was extracted from bituminOuS coal;
but, since the general discovery of petro-
leum, has been manufactured from it.
Though not the equal of gas, kerosene
has furnished farmers and the residents
of villages and small towns with better
and cheaper light than was before known
in the world, and has proved an almost
inestimable blessing to mankind Glass
chimneyS, by the aid of which kerosene
is burned without emitting smoke, were
invented as an adjunct of the argand
lamp, by Anne Argand, in the latter part
of the eighteenth century.
Lights to warn vessels off rocky and
otherwise dangerous coasts have been
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out limit thousands OF practical machines
constantly attest. Such machines
amount, in practice, to the CONVEX
sion of so much coal, used for
generating steam into a current Of
electricity of a certain power Almost
century has been employed in develop
ing this system, which is still far from
perfect. In 1910 Sir Humphrey Davy,
The inventor of the safety lamp, eX-
hibited in Paris an elaborate light pro-
duced by two pcices of carbon and
powerful galvanic battery
The system described is called the arc
system; strips of metal are used in place
of carbon, and are kept from melting or
burning by inclosing them in glass globes
from which the air has been removed,
producing a vacuum. This system is
used principally in public and private
residences, but is not we'll adapted for
rutdoor lighting.
The city of Chicago is engaged in con-
Structing gigantic system tor lighting
it's streets by means of electricity. The
work has been three years in progress,
and the results so far accomplished are
Of the most gratifying nature. Three
power houses are already in operation,
and others are fast nearing completion.
About $500, 900 a year is being expended,
and before the beginning of the Column
bus Fair the thiclIly populated portions
of the city, embracing about fifty square
miles, will have been reclaimed from the
domain of the "gas syndicate" and
brilliantly Illuminated by means
of the subtle and mysterious
electric current. The comparison
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between the two may we'll be likened to
the light of the stars and that supplied
by the moon when at the full, on clear
night. Not only is Chicago the first
large city in America to build an electric
plant for itself, but it has solved the
problem of placing conducting wires
under ground, thus avoiding all the nu-
merOus accidents and great loss of life
which have rendered electric lighting a
nuisance in New York.
The wires, which are of copper, are
covered with paraffine, then with rubber,
and, lastly, encased in lead pipes. The
lead pipes are inclosed in others of iron,
where only ore line is laid in a street,
and in large ones of cement, with various
separate passages, where a number are
run down street to supply a
distant district. About one horsepower
is required for lamp, which is of 1000
candle power, thirty-fye being in cir
cult. One lamp is placed at each street
intersection, and one in the center of
long blocks.
In the sand-fy season the electric
lamps attract the insects in vast num-
berS, to the intense annoyance of pass
ars by and the amusement of onlookers.
Second in nothing, the Garden City
will soon be the best and cheapest-lighted
city in the world, optic-dazzling Paris
not being excepted. DWIGHT BALDWIN.
CHICAGO, Ill.
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The Late Justice Miller.

Samuel Freeman Miller, the subject
Of this sketch, was born in Richmond,
Ky, April 5, 1916, and died in the city
of Washington, Oct. ID, 1890 His
early years were spent upon farm,
but the drudgery of agriculture was a
source of discomfort to him. and en-
ployment in drug store gave him the
opportunity for reading medicine. He
graduated in the medical department
of Pennsylvania University when %
year Of age, a@d entered upon the prac-
tice Of medicine in Knox County, Ky.
He had been married in the r,eantime
and had begun the study of law, and
was admitted to the bar in 1847. JUS
tice Miller was feet tall, weighed at
least 22O pounds, and every molecule
of his anatomy was packed with good
sense, good nature and Judicial ability.
He was appointed to the Supreme
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most important of all good gifts, without
which vegetable and animal life would
never have had an existence.
What light is we can judge only from
it's effects, its real essence remaining an
impenetrable mystery. But this is like
wise true of many other things, includ-
ing life itself. Light is an incident OF
fire, and from the most remote ages the
two have been principal among the con-
Germs of mankind.
Fire, and with it artificial light, was
obtained by the savage ancients from
the effects of lightning, volcanic erup-
tiOns and spontaneous combustion.
When observation and thought had de-
veloped something Of the inventive tai
ent inherent in man, he discovered that
fire can be obtained as the result of fric-
ton, the principle upon which we still
rely when "stricking match" and had
acquired the power Of producing light
without the intercession of the gods.
The history of artificial illumination
is, in a certain sense, the history of the
worlds progress. In the rudeSt times
light was obtained by burning wood or
other vegetable substances. After a
time these gave place to oils, animal and
vegetable. AS light was regarded as the
special gift of the divinitieS, lamps
became early works of art, upon
which great ingenuity, both as
to shape and OrnamentatiOn, was eX-
pended; indeed, external form was more
regarded than powers of illumination.
Lamps, as devised by the ancient He
brpWs, have continued in use down to
our century and may still be encOun-
tered in the French portions of Canada.
These are oval metallic vessels with a
handle at one end and q beak at the
other, through hole in which, a wick
conducts oil or grease from below, emit
ting a smoky light.
1t is difficult for us to conceive of an
age in which "tallOw dips" were not en-
plOyed for household illumination; in
deed, it would seem that their use ought
to have antedatcd the lamp. AS a mat
ter of fact candles are a comparatively
modern invention, having been first in
PRODUCED in the latter part Of the thir-
teenth century. Originally they were
made by the process of dipping" with
which most middle-aged country readers
are familiar. Later they were cast in
mOlds. Candles were carly made Of
wax, and latterly of sperm oil and the
products of petroleum. Candles are
spoken of in the English translation of
Gn6 blDIC: DuG Tue WOIu SnOuIu nave
been rendered clamp" Candles were a
vast improvement over their immediate
predecessor, the lamp, and mark the
third era of illumination.
The fourth period dates from the in
vention of gas. The honor of this lies
between DR.. Hales and the Rev. John
CLAYTON, of Wakefield, England. In 1927
the former described a process of evOlv-
ing Illuminating gas from coal. while the
latter acco1 ished it in 1889. The first
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negative, repeIiing such objects and
pointing toward the south. These are
spoken of as the "poles" of the magnet.
Similar poles repel each other and dis
similar poles attract each other The
carbon into which the current flows from
the battery is positive and its cOmpan-
ion negative.
There have been almost no end of elec-
trio lamps invented and no less number
of machines for supplying the necessary
electric current. None of these ma
chimes can readily be described in detail,
but the principle of most of them may
be briefly stated. If lar of soft iron
is subjected to a current of electricity it
becomes, and remains while the current
continues, magnet. In most machines,
these electromagnetic as they are termed,
are employed in place OF the natural
magnets formerly used, These masses
of soft iron, through which current
is kept passing while in use, are
made in such shapes that complete
circuit is established by means Of re-
vOlving coil of wire located between
their poles, which is called an armature.
1t is to revolve this armature at high
rate of speed that the power for running
the generator is required The attract
i've power of the magnet tends to hold
the armature in one position, and great
force is necessary to revolye it. AS it
turns, the current is momentarily made
and broken, and the electricity so gener-
ated carried off by means of brushes
which rub against the armature, thus
supplying the current to maintain the
lights in the circuit.
The current which renders the masses
of soft iron magnets is supplied from the
revolving armature, and is in turn drawn
from them, together with all that is used
to maintain the lamps in the circuit.
Whence this electricity comes no one can
say, but that it can be so generated with