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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate OF Frederick W. Mass, deceased. Ano,s.a
Mass, executrix Of Frederick W. Mass, decsas al
by order OF the Deputy Surrogate OF Rudson Conn
". dated october 1891, hereby gtves notice 10 ths
creditors of said deceaent to bring in their dehfs
demands and claims against the estate OF said de.
cedent under oath or affirmation, wlrhin nine
months from the dare OF said order, or they viii "a
execntrtz, ~A
AUGUSTA MAAsR
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
TO CREDITORS.

Estate OF Samuel w. Stilsing, deceased; Patrick
H. Nugent, administrator with will annexed of
samuel w: Stilsing, deceased. by order OF tho
lsal, HEREBY gives nouce TO the creditors OF said
dc cedent 70 bring In their debts, dem ands and
oath Or affirmation within nine months from the
date OF said order. or they will pe forever barred
OF any action therefor against said administrators.
PATRlCK ~ NIIGENT
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.

Notice Is hereby given that the several accounts
or the subscribers. u rviving executors and trus-
tees under the VIII OF Charles @. Sisson. de-
ceased, viii be audited and stated by the Surro-
gate OF the county OF hudson. ana reported for
settlement on FRIDAY. the 9th dag OF November
next
Dated september2. A. D. 1891.
j. RULL BROWNING
LANSING ZABRISETE
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11

CAPE May county Republicans say
'the Democrats spent nine thousand
dollars to elect Lemuel G. Miller SEN
ator." This is truly terrible. Not as bad
however, as the case of the Cape May
county Republicans, who spent ten
Thousand dollars-and didn't elect
their man.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11

THE attempt is being made to get up a Presi-
dental boom for Boies, of Iowa. The Netos
suspects, however, that it's merely Boies play.
-Bridoeton Ne,os.
Well, he's carried Iowa twice in
Boies' play-what will be do when he
settles down to work?
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the final accounr NJ
the subscriber, surviving executor and trustee mn.
der the viii OF John McDougal deceased, will be
audited and Stated by the Surrogate OF The Couutv
of Hudson, aud reported for settlement ON FrIda ~
the 18th day OF December next.
Dated c,ober 16, A. D., 1891.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11

SOME folks want intermediate peni-
tentiaries-others don't want any
jails at all. 1t all depends on which
way one looks through the bars.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Linn, executrix of Edward Linn. deceased. by
order Of the surrogate Of Hudson county, dated
itors Of saia deceaent TO bring in their aebts. de-
cedent. under oath or afirma ton within nine
mouths from the d ate OF said order, or they Will
be forever barred OF any action therefor against
said cxecutrix.
MINNIE H.. LINN.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
NOTICE OF SUPPLEMENT-.

Notice is hereby given that the account ~
the subscriber: axecutrlx OF Richard Gormley.
deceased. will be audited ana stated by the surro-
tata or the County or Hudson, and reported for set
next.
Darsd October %. A. D., 1891.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Esta to Of Margaret Hennemeier. deceased. Louis
Aennemeier. u, Joseph \; Abel. executors Of Mar
surrogate OF hudson County. GATED August ls. 1881.
dent TO bring in their debts, demands and claims
against the estate Of said decedent, under oath or
affirmation within nine months from the date Of
said order, or they will be forever barrel Of any
action therefor agains, said executors.
LOUIS HENNEMEIER. JR.
JOSEPH A. ABEL.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate Of Kate Wandell, deceased. Peter Ruffer,
executor of Kate Wandcll. deceased. by order OF
the Deputy Surrogate Of Hudson County, dated
October |, 1891. hereby gives notice to the creditors
OF said decedent to bring in their debts, demands
and claims against he estate OF saiu. decedent.
under oath or affirmation within nine months
from the date OF said order, or they will be for
ever barrel OF amy action therefor against said
executor.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of David T. Bumsread, deceased. Della
Anna Bumstead, executrix OF David T. bumstead,
deceased, by order of the Surrogate OF Hudson
nosice TO The creditors OF said d~ecedent e bring
estate of said decedent, under oath or affirmation
within nine months from the late of said order.
or they will be forever barred for any action
DELLA ANNA BUMsTEAD.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER II. 1891.

This paper Is democratic In principles
and Is Independent in its vteWs on all
ocdl questions.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
A Marvel of I~niouity.

There seems to be no end to the
achievements of the forger known as
Woods, Wolf and Stoddard. He is,
indeed, a marvel of iniquity--one who
seems to.have been educated under
the special care of Satan and to have
graduated with all the honors posi-
BILE.
Aman who car successfully engineer
a forgery from within the walls of the
Hudson County Jail-for the affair
was a success in all that actually de-
pended upon Stoddard-is certainly
entitled to be considered the most
brilliant forger of the day. Even
the late but not particularly lamented
Monroe Edwards might well take off
his hat, if he were here to do it,
in respect to this mans au-
dacity if not to the extent
of his operations. The only miscal-
culation in this latest affair of Stod-
dard's was as to the credulity of the
victims selected. II they had swal-
lowed the bait-if they had believed
that Mrs. Davis was in need of money
the letters that purported to come
from the Daughter of the Confeder-
acy would probably have trapped
them. But one of them, unfortun-
ately for Stoddard, happened to know
a little more about the affairs of Mrs.
Davis than did the forger, and he
wrote to Mrs. Davis direct, instead of
to Miss Winnie Davis. Perhaps he
did not believe that Miss Davis
was residing at No. 81 Ash
street while her mother was living
in New York. One very singular
feature of the case is that no one at
No. 81 Ash street has any idea as to
who Stoddard's confederate may be,
yet there must be some reason why
Stoddard selected that street and
number, even granting that he as
sumed that a letter so directed would
not be delivered there and might be
claimed by the confederate at the
general city post office. A man en-
gagged in such a risky business as
Stoddard's does not usually take adj
dresses at haphazard, for he
might happen to hit upon a
vacant lot and SO elicit inquiries
that he would not care to
invoke. 1t is not necessary that any
one residing at No. 81 Ash street
should know the forger or be impli-
Gated in his scheme, but there must
have been some reason for the selec-
ton. 1t may be that Stoddard at
some time lived in that neighborhood
and simply considered one street and
one number as good as another,
it not being likely that a
lady of the standing of Miss
Winnie Davis would be in Jersey City
without an established habitation of
some sort. The only chance for the
police seems to be to ask Stoddard
why he selected No. 81 Ash street as
the ostensible basis of operations.
He may not tell them, but if he
doesn't it isn't likely that they will
ever know.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
NOTICE OF

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.
Notice is hereby given that the final account OF
the subscriber, admin strator of DiederIch B. Kauf-
man, deceased. will be audited and stated by the
Surrogate or the County of Hudson, and reported
next.
Dated August %. 4. D. 1891.
EDGAR A. KAUFMAN.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
o TO CREDITORS.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate OF Michael Dinan, deceased. Honora
Oman, administrator of Michael Oman, deceased,
by order OF the Surrogate of Hudson Coun-
ty, dated August Is, 1891, hereby gives notice 60
the creditors Of said decedent to bring in their
debts. demands and claims against the estate Of
said decedent, under oath or animation within
nine months from tine GATE of said order, or they
will be forever barred OF any action therefor
HONORA OMAN.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11

is extreme, then she must apply to her
physician, who will give her a soda
tive and a proper diet. She may eat
freely of green salads, put upon them
as much oil as she likes, but give up
the vinegar. = HATS Journal OF
The Pray err should Have Been Answered
A member of a certain Massachu
sets parish, prominent for his thrift
and personal consequence, was also
notorious for his overbearing as
sumption and pompous airs. Under
the distress and fright of a dangerous
illness he ''put up notes. on several
successive Sundays, and after his re-
covery, according to usage, he offered
q note, to be read by the minister,
expressive of his thanks.
The minister was somewhat large
in this part Of his prayer, recalling
the danger and the previous petitions
of the squire and returning his
grateful Acknowledgements with the
prayer that the experience might be
blessed to the spiritual welfare of the
restored man. He closed with these
Words
And we pray, 0 Lord, that thy
servant may be cured of that ungodly
strut. so offensive in the sanctuary
Atlantic MOnthIu.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
DIED.
NOTICES
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.

Jas. H o'Neil. Surrogate. office hours. y u. In
p. m, Saturdays to Il.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-11
Mourning Orders from Russia.

The Princess of Wales Dearest Relic.
Any M who cherishes the honor of
being informally received in the bou-
doir Of the Princess of Wales may no.
Stice, nestled in the corner of her jewel
casket, a little bijou, which is seldom
worn by its royal owner, owing to its
sacred preservation as m of the dear
est relics of her happy youth, 1t Is in
the shape of a colored gold bracelet,
richly set with diamonds and compris-
ing eight compartments. each having
q miniature of one of her bridesmaids,
with their initials in diamonds on
enameled blue lids, which can be
closed to conceal their faces from view.
This trinket was presented to the
beautiful Alexandria by the eight
daughters of peers who had the honor
of waiting upon her at the time of her
marriage, in 1868. -ChicGgo Herald.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
A HoMILY ON CLOTHES.

But we ought not to judge people by their
clothes. We do it, of course, unconsciously.
Clothes do not make the man, but they fin
ish him up somehow. There was Western
Judge once who reprimanded the defendant
in court for wearing such ragged and rep
rehensible pair of trousers.
Judge" said the prisoner, "you must
not judge me by these poor old worn trou.
sers. 1t is unjust to me, Judge. 1t is not
fair or generous. My pantaloons may be
poor, Judge, but they cover a warm heart. y
This is often the case.
I have just received here, since 1 came
to New York, Mr.. Robert P. Porter's little
brochure containing some of the most thrill
ing statistics that 1 have ever read. 1 am
delighted with the work, though panied to
read that during the past year death has
robbed us of 765, ,211 horses and asses. II
should be lesson to those of us who are
still spared as monuments of mercy, and
we should SO live that we may be always
ready when our own summons comes to
meet our fate with a glad and resonant
bray. Do you not think so, Brother
Porter
ONE OF HIS YOUTHFUL EXPERIENCES.
Yesterday 1 visited the wonders of the
museums. They are delightful All dime
spect-they smell the same. Why should
art suffer so? 1 am greatly interested in
every little te1c de spirit of nature, such as
the two-headed girl, the boy with various
limbs and only one head, etc. As a boy 1
walked u miles to see the Siamese twins.
remember it because it was the first time 1
ever ordered dinner from printed menaG
at high place reSterdlC, as we called it. /
look back on that dinner with horror Pre-
serves and terrapin, think, constituted
one course. The waiter early began to read
me, as did the young man who waited on
David Copperfeld when he was on his way
to school.
He helped me order things People
came from distance to see the goods L
had ordered. The order was kept for years,
till the restaurant burned down. If it
had not been destroyed 1 would not have
had the courage to rise and win deathless
name.
At one of the museums a group of wax
figures has breathing apparatus connected
with it, A man with spear in his watch
pocket and gaping wound with roof paint
oozing out of it is breathing his life away
by means of nice new rubber lungs, the
only kind that can stand the sitting and
poorly ventilated air of the place.
One man said to the keeper, " Sir, the air
here in this museum seems fixed, does it
not?"
"Yes," said the museum lecturer, who is
is a great wag; SIT was fixed by Soodoo, the
six-legged calf that died Thursday and is
being embalmed to-day. We should have
done it sooner. This figure, ladies and
gents, is that of Eva Hamilton, the actress,
who rose to sudden histrionic prominence
by means of her fraud in babies. She did
not receive that recognition by the profess
sion which she thought she deserved, and
the press was real mean to her. She looks
a little bilious in this figure as you see her
here, thus showing that her liver did not
act any better than she did.
''The figure was formerly that of Mary,
Queen of Scots. The artist who done it
over regards it as his great chief do over"
BILL, NYE
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18

senatorship and mas declined the request of
his name put before its national convention
as its candidate for the presidency.
Chauncey Depew has all his life been
associated with monopolists and capitalists,
still the masses and the laboring men look
upon him as their friend, and though he
is a strict Republican, the Democrats de-
light to listen to his speeches. He is one of
the busiest men in the United States and
apparently one of our greatest business men
having the most leisure. He attends more
dinners perhaps than any other great rail-
road president in the country, and makes
more speeches than any professional lecturer
or noted statesman. In these speeches Mr..
Depew never repeats himself. The only ex-
PLANTATION of it is that he is genius and
he knows how to work his genius so that it
will produce the greatest results.
DEPEw AT HIS DESK.
called this morning at the New York
Central offices. Nh. Depew's room is sim
ply furnished. He sits at rolling top
desk in the center and at some distance
away are tables occupied by his two stenog-
raphers. Mr.. Depew's desk is Uttered with
papers, and you note by the postage stamps
on his letters that his mail comes from all
parts of the world. Here are cables from
England and France, there is package of
social letters and before him lies atabulated
statement showing the working and progress
of some of his latest railroad manipula-
tions
"He receives" said Mr.. Duval, his pri-
vate secretary, 'tan average of so personal
letters day, and his business mail runs up
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
AN ARTIST AT BUNKO.
The Reputation That Bill Nye Got on
His Return to New York.
OLD ACQUAINTANCES GET CHILLY.
Break Of Prisoner Who Objected to q
Judges Talk on Clothes.
THE FREAKS OF A DIME MUSEUM
rcoRRrsPoNDENcz OF THE D1srArcH.l


NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-After an entire
summer in the pine clad hills and fir-trim-
med valleys of North Carolina, New York
seems to me more vociferous than ever. To
a pastoral person like myself, interested in
the growth of plant life, the mean annual
artificial rainfall and the growth of glanders
in equestrian circles, the exposed bowels OF
Broadway-asI I may be pardoned for saying,
I trust, since that street so forcibly reminds
me, with its open expression and exposed
pipes, conduits and canals, of the man on
the title page of the zodiac-Broadway,
with Its hurry and rush and business
and omitted dividends; it's torn and dis
figured surface; its crowds of young
men who brag about being such rooeys, as
the French say, when in fact they are not or
they would not blow so much about it; its
flocks of beautiful girls with bright, new,
becoming frocks; its gangs of patient
toilers, who are putting in the new cable at
rate which makes the old moss covered
street opener of New York crazy; its re-
turning troops of brown and beautiful chill
dren, fresh from the fields where the black
eyed Susans and the bluebells grow, all, all
bewilder rustic from the woods of Bun
combe county, N. c., and cause him to buy
new clothes for himself so that he will not
so readily attract the green goods man.
MEETS AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
This time, somehow, when 1 am buster
than ever, think am more than usually
annoyed by these people. A very disagree
able thing occurred to me not loug ago. 1t
was different from anything had ever be-
fore experienced. 1 was in the well-known
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18

came anxious to know what the Presidents
policy was Ganson was among them, and
lie called at the White House. Now, Ganson
was peculiar, in tina he had not hair on
his head, and his face, whether from shaving
or from nature, showed not a bristle. After
of the Republican party and for PRESIDENT
Lincoln, he continued: Now, Mr. President,
YOU know what I've done for you and for
the Union don't want you to do anything
for me- but do want you to take me into
your confidence. You're lawyer and I'm d
lawyer, and you know you can trust any
secret to me. Now, won't you tell me your
plans?
became more sober than evera and the serious
look in his eyes seemed to crawl up over the
forehead until his old bald cranlum became
the personification of anxious inquiry. Inc
President looked at him half q minute ana
then mis- homely mouth tw1tcneu, a Laughing
look crept into his eye and he leaned oVer,
and putting his hand on Gansons knee, sald
in the most quizzical tones, these words;
Cans, why don't you shaver
''This was all Ganson could get out OF MIN,
and there was in fact no more cautious Pres
ident in our history than Abraham Lincoln.
By this time the train had reached raw
ling As Mr. Depew stepped across the
street to the hotel Mrs. Depew, couple of
bright-looking little girls and young Chaun-
cey Mitchell Depew were on the steps to
meet him. As stood on the steps OF the
car going back to New York, saw MIN kiss
me away, his hearty laugh mingled with
that of his children rang out, and ne seemed
as far away from capitalists, ralroads' poll
tics and society as though these tnlngS were
not in existence and his only Wofld was
nome. FRANK &. CARPENTER.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
GRAVE TELLING IN CHINA.
Ceremonies With Which the Celestial
Selects His Final Resting Place,

Selects His Final Resting Place.
The queerest industry in the ghostly linz
in China is "grave telling" writes William
E. S. Fales. the Chinese expert now in the
Orient When the average Mongolian
reaches manhood's estate one of his first
ambitions is to have a nice and comfortable
grave. The moment he has the requisite
cash, he consults one or more "grave-tell-
ers." These are old scholars. whose scholar
ship has not been appreciated by the public
at large, or who have fallen from grace by
gambling, opium smoking or other vices and
who earn precarious living from astrology,
clairvoyance and similar supernatural
sciences. The philosopher, after receiving
fee whose amount is proportional to the
wealth of his client, consults his mystic
books, draws an incomprehensible diagram
with points and straight lines and an
nounces the day on which it will be fung-
suey (good luck) to visit certain cemeteries
and burial sites.
The day arrived, the parties are on hand
no matter what tricks the weather NAV
play. I have seen them in rocky pass
where the thermometer was 1850 and in
marsh knee deep in mud when the rain was
an ice-cold deluge. They come dressed in
their best clothes, newly washed and shayen.
The grave tellers are equipped with books,
diagrams, paper and a forked rod, strangely
resembling the divining rod with which
our ancestors sought springs and veins
of ore. The search begins with
prayer and then comes a weary walk and
talk. sometimes lasting hours The site is
finally picked out Often two or three sites
are selected, so that in case the use of one is
prevented by unforeseen circumstances an
other one will be ready. The client arranges
with the owner of the land and the author
tiles, and is then prepared to die in peace.
The practice is universal and as old as Chi
nese civilization. Its influence upon the
peopleis something tremendous.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18

pairing his snuf-colored derby of the newest
block with nv hat, which was of course
clean and decent, but it4NSas a soft and
shapeless little thing with no selfassertion
about it. 1 knew that, but still 1 did not
think he would freeze me for that.
1t got colder and colder, though. 1 told
him who was as I rubbed my ehilblains
and felt his icy manner calling forth the
goose eruptions on my peachy surface. He
said he had never seen me-neVer. l finally
asked him if his name were not Mr.. -.
He said it was not. He lied.
went to his hotel 1t gave me something
to do. was glad of it. L discovered that
1 was right. There was only one way to ac-
count for it. He thought very likely
that I wanted to borrow money or 1
would not have given hlm Western well