The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-04-06
ROUND THE COUNTY.
Personal Points on the Tire
Of the Revolving Wheels
of Time.
HOBOKEN HITS.

day night crowd of very happy and in
telligent looking men was seen in Will
low avenue. The spokesman Of the party
would call forth in jubilans voice what
/ 10 the matter with the Modocssp and the
refrain, They're all right which was
waited in the air. WAS sweet music to
pi1eir ears. Alas, the days Of 1ammany
gre past. Ihe Modocs are the people.
Long may they reignl
District Court Clerk Johnny Lewis has
heeis dubbed Johnny O'Brien by his asso-
clates. johnny was ut Trenton last
Week ana did some tall hnstiing for
Jimmy Mpore in securing the position
o. larpog Master Jimmy says the office
Is only IN honorary one Well, its nice
to be honored
VIII Councilman Kelly beat the reeu-
lar nominee III the Third wards'' This is
a eonnndrunl which IS hard 10 crack. IL
he does succeed in doing it he will surely
be at the top OF the heap.
Bill" Wright, the special officer at
Jacobs heatre, is one OF the most genial
| Fellows in town. His handsome bearing
/ and pleasant tone nave endeared him to
the patrons of the house.
just think of it, judge Wilbur in the
Second ward. Ii Mr.. Wilbur is addressed
as Judge" now he bushes deeply and
can not conceal his pride He thinks
about hiring the entire first floor in the
new Second National Bank building,
4 1bpOSito tilb sLdtiOu mouse, and says
Judge Seymour cannot hold a candle to
| him stying the nuptial knott or settling
'clothes line dispuses''
Alderman Boncelet, Of the First ward.
+ busy studying "Cushing''s Manual and
the Rules OF Order of the Counciln The
ssThunderer from the THIRD will have d
First"
just after the Council meeting on Tues
DAY night young man with a heavy
reddish nustache stopped in front of the
City Hall ana shouted at the top of his
voice IL bet 500 that Kelly will be the
| Alderman from the Third ward.'' The
young man With the red mrstachs struck
the wrong crowd. Committeeman Jahen
instantly produced the money but the
young man with the red mustache
WEIGHED" He was very near getting
licked" for refusing to back his bluff y
Thomas Lyons is the nominee for Justice
of the Pence in the Third ward. The
question is what will he do with the
Office when electedfn 1t Is said the COM
nlittee madea mistake in giving him the
| nomination.
Piled two high in little row of eight
the election boxes lay in the city clerk 8
office all last week after passing through
the terrible ordeal at Trenton. They
werc objects of much curiosity On Wed
nesday morning d farmer from Hacken-
sack having some business in the office
CHANGED to look at the pile. Examining
them eurieusly he asked City Clerk Nc
Derm0tt:-"Be them bird cages?n ssNo.
sir, they are the election boxes Just come
from Trenton answered Marty. Great
Scott, is that so. Wall, Pm going to get
right out of hyar Them al things be
possessed of the DEVIL The last seen of
him he was going up Washington street
at mile minute gait.
Tommy McAleer plays the races.
He does not plunge. Oh, no, Tommy is
too clever for that. A 81 mutuel ticket
strikes him as being all right. The other
afternoon Tommy was seen in Hoboken.
This is strange. In The afternoon Tommy
is generally at Gutenberg or Clifton.
Being asked for an explanation, Tommy
said" w heneyer you see me in Hobo
ken on any afternoon you can put me
down as being brokeo Tommy has been
seen III Hoboken several afternoons of
4 late.
EX-Postmaster jimmy Curran visited
Clifton on Wednesday, He did not bet,
but merely watched the sport.
Lewis r. McCulloch is making an active
canvass for School Trustee in the First
ward 1t will be pretty hard matter to
beat Charley Hicks, who has the regular
nomination of both parties
Assessor Dollard need not worry his
head about the election. He has been
endorsed by both parties, as he has per-
formed his duties in d faithful and CON
scientious manner.
u.
studying the laws He thinks he can
perform a marriage as expeditiously as
any of the judges. He has no compunc-
tions about kissing the bride, providing
sne is under forty. Johnny draws the line
at forty.
4 Recorder McDonough is certainly the
youngest old man in the county The
other day to demonstrate this he cleared
nine feet in Standing jump
Anthony McHale. the present leader of
NT<N.f< L. ~ a 1T
and since he hus been identified with this
popular party has been growing in popu-
larity
The Fourth ward Democratic party is
said TO be organized better than any
other ward in the city. This is due to
| Councilman Stanton. Whatever he says
TO use Il popular expression, goes =
There are no independent candidates II
any body was foolish enough to run indie
pendent he would be showed under
Councilman Bewig does not care for
race prejudices, and Is one of the liberal
! minded Germans of the city. His vote on
| any matter in the Council is always
| guided by a sense OF justice.
j VIII School Trustee Lawson's piccolo
voice be heard in the Council Chamber
after q ection!" II looks that way.
Emil Burfeipd, the prominent young
| member of the Nonparen Social Club, is Il
candidate for School Trustee in the
Second ward. Emil has pretty strong
opposition hut expects to win.
Patseyn Londrigan ought to patent
that expression OF his according TO
law He nearly scared the wits out of a
worthy citizen from the Third ward on
Thursday morning at the City Hall by
his profound legal knowledge. The wor-
thy citizen threatens to get square with
| PATSY"
"Jinirny" Ryan's eulogy of the late
Freeholder kenneY at the celebration of
the Jeffersonian Club was a mastery
effort. lis vivid recital of the many
virtues of the deceased forced a tear from
more than one eye.
For some time past the Police Commits
| sioDers have been considering the advfs-
ability OF appointing two mounted police
officers, aud there has been much specu-
lation rs to who the lncky coppers would
be- In some way Daniel O'Connen
Enimet Eenton learned that he was
slated for appointment, and one day last
week lie hired Il spirited horse fro.ii
Hexamer's Riding Academy, and
dressed in his best suit OF clothes. with
q cigar poised at 4 beautiful angle, he
drove the animal up Hudson street to
Fourteenth street, creating futtcr in
the hearts Of The young ladies' Al -Four
I teenth and Washington streets Dan stop
ped his horse and pulling out his watch
waited until the secontih and had reached