The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-01

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Romeo Rutiedge. There has been
bad blood between them in conse-
quence. The other night Rutledge
met Pangboru on the street at twelve
o'clock and ordered him to go home,
saying it was too late for him to be Oh
the street. Naturally, Pangborn told
Rutledgc to mind his own business,
w%hereupon Pangborn was arrested
and looked up. In the morning, he
was arraigned before a complaisant
justice. who fined him heavily. He
appealed, and the case has now gone
to q higher court on a writ Of certior-
ari. Suit will also be brought against
the borough and the parties impIi-
Gated for false Imprisonment. This is
as it should be. =
The personal liberty of the citizen
must be maintained at all hazards.
1t is the foundation OF the Republic.
Ifex-Marshal Pangborn can be driven
to his home at any time of the day
or night then the same thing may be
done to anyone else, and Mr..
Rutledge will soon be going about
North Plainfield, and may even
wander ove into the surroun ding
country, telling people when to put
out their lights, when to go to bed
and even when to eat their meals.
There is danger, too, that this a
trap of a modern d~espotism may, IL
allowed to go unchecked, interfere
with the regular Sunday and We'd
nesday night arrangements Of North
Plainfield, to the consequent derange-
ment of the wedding service of the
district and the reduction Of the
ministerial fees.
In fact, there is no telling where
the thing might end if allowed to go
on without protest. Furniture and
and house furnishing dealers, doctors,
1.-THE butchers, the bakers, the candle-
stick makers the drygoodsmen and
the green grocers, all have a contin-
gent interest in the matter.
Let Mr.. Pansborn blow a blast loud
and long on the tocsin of liberty
that is, If tocsins are wind instru-
ments, a matter about which we are
not altogether certain. never having
listened to the music of a tocsin. At
all events, let him ring the bell, and
let all the neighbors come in with
hewgags, fish horns, cymbals and
bones-with anything that will make
a noise, in fact, even though it
Ebe the famous weapon OF Samson
when he arrayed himself against the
Philistines-and let them make a
noise that will reach the inner pre-
cincts of the higher court and pierce
the tympanums of all the lay and law
judges gathered therein.
II a man may not meander through
the streets OF North Plainfield at mid
night, the republic will no longer be
worth preserving-even with sugar at
five cents a pound.
The Major Didn't Write Soon
Enough.
Major Pangborn is one of the larg-
est hearted men in the community,
and he couldn't have shown it more
openly than he did yesterday if he
had learned to play Hearts" at the
Park House. He didn't, of course,
first, because he wouldn't go to such
a place; secondly, because he
wouldn't play card, and thirdly, be-
cause he wouldn't play cards with
the McLaughlins anyhow. But the
Major Just took his heart out of
its case and fastened it on
his sleeve for Republican constitu-
tional convention DAVIS and other
wicked birds to peck at. And then
with what charming effusion he dis
emboweled himself. He told avery
thing he knew-and, of course, when
he got through, the convention had
nothing left to learn The major had
told them what to do-all that re-
manned waste go ahead and do it.
Pity the major hadn't thought of
writing the letter a week sooner, and
of printing it as well-then there
would have been no need for a conven
ton at all.
OF course there's the chance that he
would only have printed. it i'll the
Journal, and that no real Republican
would have seen it, but that difficulty
would have been overcome by the
sample copy business the establish
ment has recently been indulging in,
and a liberal use of postal facilities-ii
the Major isn't too mad at Colonel
Dickinson to make use of the mail.
The cost of roy ally is q standing subject Of
complaint in England. But it is no circum-
stance to the coel of the ring in New Jersey
i State Gazette.
Is this an indirect attack upon the
honored and honorable estate of mat
rimony. We know the 6. 0. p. is
tinctured with almost every political
and moral heresy under the sun, but
we regret to find the State Gaze ttt
even tacitly indorsing free love.
OCTOBER knows its business. There
was a heavy frost at Harrison last
nigbt hnf as most of the gardening