The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-04
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.
Items Of Interest cleaned from a
Variety of Sources.

Hillside, the house Horace Greeley built
for himself at C%happaqua. N. Y, was
burned to the ground yesterday noon.
Nobody was hurt, and Mr.. Greeley's Ii
brary and works of art were saved. Miss
Cecilia Cleveland, a niece of Mr.. Greeley,
was sick in bed and the maid servant who
discovered the fire dragged her out of
bed, carried her down stairs and laid her
on the grass.
In the excitement nobody remembered
the trunks filled with letters chat were
stored In the house. These letters were
Mr.. Greeley's private correspondence,
and included all he letters he received
from his friends in and out of politics
during the war and his campaign for the
presidency. They were utterly destroyed.
The only other things of value that were
lost were articles of jewslry belonging to
Miss Cleveland.
IS NEW YoRK's SHERIFF UNDERTAKE.?
General Sickles, the new Sheriff of New
York county, has limited all fees to the
minimum amounts liked by law, and the
deputies refuse to work. He applied yes
terday for five policemen, but could not
have them, legally. He discovered, or
thinks he did, that the legal fees of the
office are only $4,000, and that the only
legitimate way to get money to run the
office is to have a new law passed.
He Is o preparing the bill, which he
will send to Governor Hill ext week.
The Sheriff will also e a copy of the
bill to President Coudert, OF the New
York Bar Association, and to the Presid-
ing Judges of all the courts, asking for
their assistance in getting 1t passed.
A SENSATIONAL PAMPHLET.
A telegram from Berlin, which was de-
layed by The press censorship, announces
the publication of a pamphlet entitled,
"He Goes-What Now?'' 1t is reported
fhat EnonnFnr William him Golf nj fha
author of the pamphlet. In any case,
1t betrayed n intimate knowledge OF
affairs.
1t says that a secret society. including
among its members the Emperor, Chan
eellor Won Caprivi and General Du Vernos,
the Minister of War, proposed to reconcile
the democratic parties alienated by Bis
marck, and that the Emperor has adopted
the social theories of Las Sale and Taine.
1t compares him to Savonarola and Con-
stantine, and says he has taken the new
social doctrine into his own hands to save
the totrering thrones of Europe. The
pamphlet has caused a sensation.
A NEW RACE WAR.
There is a split in the Republican party
in Georgia. A movement is on foot by
the negroes of the G. @. p. to Gust Colonel
A. e. Buck from the leadership at the APP
preaching State Convention. The negroes
are laying their wires quietly. They are
of the opinion that Buck is working for
them only to conciliate them. They are
dissatisfied with Buck as a leader, be-
III he and his associates, Darnell and
Loke, have said that they wish they could
turn the negroes out of the Republican
ranks. The negroes are now trying to
turn the tables and fire most of the
whites.
Pledger, Of Atlanta, is at the head of
the opposition party, and he will urge his
followers on to oppose the white faction
of the party. The negroes say that few
only because they forced Buck to make
the appointments.
There will now be a fight for suprem-
acy in Georgia between che white and
black factious of the Republican party.