The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-02-09
HUDSON CITY HAPs.

The condition OF Oakland avenue
norti1ward from Hoboken avenue is q
disgrace. One Of the most extensively
] travelled thoroughfares OF the Hill,
and traversed by an important branch
Of the North Hudson County Railroad,
| it is reeking with filth, and the mud
everywhere, save at the crossings. is
over shoe top. The drivers and con
| ductors receive many curses from pas
sengers who don't happen to strike a
| crosswaik in alighting from a car. No
street on the Hill requires paving
more than Oakland avenue.
John Wright was seen wearing an
overcoat one day this week. He APP
! peared to be cold at that.
Residents OF Central avenue are
anxious 70 know the policeman who
on Monday night crested party on
! the avenue, and on the corner tried
and convicted him, compelling him to
pay to another party certain money
! in dispute
Judge DerrIclxson is deserving of
better treatment than he has received
/ III his old age from the Board of Free
holders He was a Democrat before
any of the officials who turned him
] out were porn.
The Willow court Improvement is
being pushed right along by O'Don
nell & Ormsby The Improvement
will make the short cut" an import
ant Jhoroughfare.
Who is the party looking for John
! L. McArthur's place ON the Joint
Sewer Commissions
Hudson Grove will turn out in force
tomorrow night at the annual ball of
| the Hudson Pleasure Club.
The Arions, collectively and indi-
vidually, are making big calculations
and arrangements for the society's an
nual masquerade. They say it will
be the best affair of the kind ever
| given in this county.
Court Crier IVES Welsh has a
patent on neckties. When he needs
one he buys material for calico dress
for his wife for a present, and then
cuts off q quarter of yard OF it for
neckties. IVES disdains the ac-
cepted theory as to how this item
in his dress should be arranged, and
simply tucks one end beNeath the
collar and allows the other to cover
his shirt bosom. He says it is a con-
| venient plan for one who has been to
1 the club
Some years ago Prosecutor Winfield
sold 50 worth of pigeons on Sunday
to Court Crier ssWes.a Welsh. The
purchaser had longed for those
pigeons for months and it was a
happy Sunday for him when he took
them home. The next day they re-
turned to the Prosecutors home and
"Wes.n was in trouble and tribula
ton. He called on the Prosecutor
and stated his grievance:-"I cannot
help you, Welsh, y said the Prosecutor,
''for you see these pigeons realized the
fact that all contracts entered into on
Sunday are by law void, and as they
had perfect right to do they re-
turned to their legal residence The
Court Crier cried louder than was his
custom when court convened that
day
Supreme Court Commissioner John
Nugent has OF late been much
troubled. 1t is owing TO his resem-
not regret looking like so handsome a
man as the Governor bat he does
take exception to being stopped daily
by people and asked for political POI
sitions, and when he explains that he
is not Governor Albeit, have the
applicant leave him with the re-
mark:-"Afl right, Governor. do you
suppose Counsellor Albeit could do
anything for me?p Recently land this
is but repetition of many like in
stances) Mr. Nugent went to
Trenton. He was with a
party of friends. The con
ductor when collecting tickets noticed
Mr. Nugent place his hand in his coat
pocket for his wallet and remarked,
with a polite bow:-'All right Gov
ernor.n and passed by. Mr.. Nugent
called him back, showed his ticket and
said he was not the Governor. The
conductor looked incredulous and the
friends of the Commissioner had a
cocktail at his expense when they
reached the Trenton House.
When Assistant Prosecutor Joseph
M. Noonaii was asked 4 few days ago
how lie liked Aiken, S. c., he replied:
Oh Aiken. I've been achin ever
since / went there
The st. Bernard dog fever mas
struck the Hill. Everybody who can
is securing a pup OF that breed, with
q view of some day competing with
DR.. Stout's kennel. knoblauch has
two, and there q dozen more in the
neighborhood. Herman Rode, the
diamond setter. can be seen leading
his pup every evening on Central
| avenue.
| Poor old Pop Cook, the genial door
keeper at the Court House looked
very sad all day Tuesday. The day
previous he had attended the funeral
of the sou OF an old friend who was
accidentally killed by the fall of a
derrick. a couple of years ago the old
friend attended the funeral OF Pops
son. 4 stalwart fellow, who was killed
in n like manner
Owing to the disgracefu manner in
which the contractor at work on Will
low Court, by the consent of the
Street and Water Commissioners, has
blocked up the sidewalk with paving
stones it is nearly impossible. Ladies
have much difficulty IN picking their
way.
There is space fifty feet long
marked on the side of the Court House
which is visited weekly by architects
to test their steel tapes and learn il
the weather has contracted them.
When John Boyd has nothing else
to do he invites members OF the Board
OF Freeholders to go to Colonel
Browns and bowl for champagne.
John will not bowl for cheaper
drink, because he claims that Il clerk
OF the Board OF Freeholders who can