The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-01-07

which is as foll0ws:-She says her rea-
SON for going away so mysteriolsly
was to break a spell which a certain
colored woman had put upon her,
through which she had been forced to
borrow sums of money, which the
black siren had appropriated.
Miss Longbrake protests that the
colored woman had completely be-
witched her, exercising her magic over
her ia such a name that she was
powerless to resist and was compelled
to do whatever was demanded. This
enchantress would command her to
go to certain business men and ask
for a loan of money or their endorse
ment on a note and she would be so
worked upon by the colored .hoodoo'
that she was as clay IN the hands OF
the potter.
The money thus procured was all
taken by the colored woinan and APP
propriated. Some of Miss Long
brakes clothing is now in her pos
session, and before the dressInaker
broke the spell that had been woven
about her she worked thirteen days
making dresses for the r'black art"
professor.
This, in short, is Miss Longbrake's
remarkable story and her reason for
borrowing the money, and her sudden
disappearance, and her friends are
now taking steps to make the colored
woman disgorge. More Sensational de-
tails are promised, not the least OF
which is q story told in connection
with Miss Longbrake's disclosures, 10
the effect that a number of business
men in this city have also been vic
tins of this same woman, who by the
same arts has extored from them large
sums of money.-Cincinnaa CONNER
c6d5.
Women's Ways.
One hears much now OF the need of
etiquette in the Boston schools. By
all means don't confine it to those
quarters. Spare a little for everyday
affairs. For instance - The other
night an empty car reached Winter
street, bound south. A young woman
entered by the front door, marched to
the other end of the car and sat down.
She left the door open, sat there and
Shivered. The conductor was busy at
end, the driver was buster at the
other.
A young man entered by the real
door, closed the front one, returned to
the rear, and sat down in the second
corner. In cane another wo1nan by
the front door, marched to the rear,
sat down, leaving the door open, and
slivered. A man sprang on the NOV
ing car, entered the open door, closed
it after him, and sat down. The car
stopped to avoid running down a
dray. A third oma of uncertain
age entered by that front door, walked
to the other end of the car, sat down
and shivered.
She, too, had left the door open.
Further, by actual count, within that
half mile, nine women entered that
door and left it open, exposing the
passengers to the full force of the
wintry air. Eleven men entered the
same door, each shutting it behind
him. Are we to infer that these nine
women were brought up in saw mills?
Doubtless they could bring up sins
without number against the men, too.
But 'tu quoqaen simply doubles the
argument with which we Begin
Boston Post.
The First English Woman Journalist.
1t is interesting to know that Mrs.
E. Lynn Linton was the first Eng
lish woman journalist. Many years
ago she made up her mind that wo-
men had as good a chance in Journal
ism as men, and she put her theories
to the test with a rapidity and success
which caused the sterncr sex to first
surrender and subsequently admire.
She has gone on writing special ar
ticles ever since in spite OF the fact
that she has turned out a large num-
Der of novels, for so marvellous is her
facility that she is never at a loss for
material. She lives in a fiat high up
in Queen AIMS mansions, and has a
wide and varied view of London
house tops. She is an old woman
now, and her autobiography would be
an interesting one, for she has known
many celebrated men.
Robert Soathey was her earliest
neighbor, Walter Savage Lander, her
literary foster father, and Charles
Dickens, her first editor. He had the
highest opinion of her abilities-and
her reliability, by the way-and pre-
dicted her future. Subsequently she
spent many years in the house at
Gads Hill, famous in connection with
the great novelist .-Cn39ea1t L6te1'a-
t1t7e.
A Roll OF HONOR.