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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-02
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-02

THE Tax Appeals Board showed alto
gether too much mildness in dealing with
that rank extortionist, Alexander Schles-
singer. They should have kicked the fell
low out. He is a disgrace to the public
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-02
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-02

THE actual figures are too easily pro-
tistics to accomplish anything serious IN
the way of deceiving the public. 1t is
a mere struggle of impotent despair. The
facts about the Dingley Act, to date, are
as follows
The comparative statement of the Gov
eminent receipts and expenditures shows
that the total receipts for the month OF
November. 1897, were s4s, 1868, so5, of which
SIS, 1874, SIS was received from the Reorgan-
ization Committee of the Union Pacific
Railroad, making the ordinary receipts
for the month s25. 16S, 9S7. The total ex-
penditures for November were S7,S1o,sS
of which $4,549, 1858 was cash in the Union
Pacific sinking fund turned into the
Treasury and repaid to the appropriation
from which it lad been originally drawn
for investment. Hence the months dis
bursements include this sum. The ordi-
nary receipts for the month, therefore.
were s25, 1853, eS7, and the ordinary disburse-
ments $50, 261.47o. leaving a deficit of $685.
4S3.
The receipts from customs were $780,
025, a falling off of about $4,000 as COM
pared with November. 1896. The receipts
from internal revenue were s13, $50, 649, a
gain of about $3.50, 600 for the month.
The excess of expenditures over re-
ceipts for the five months of the pres
ent fiscal year, independent of the pro-
ceeds of the sale of the Union Pacific
Railroad, was $40, 1o1, 4s4. The Govern
ment has received another payment OF
S. 100, 900 on account of the Union Pacific
sale. which still leaves due from the
committee ss4,15S.6o5 to be paid in four
equal tnstallments, the last on January
6, 1893.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-02

A LOAD is taken off our breast by the
assurance that the Hon. Thomas Nc
EVAN is alive. We regret, however, that
his sore throat is SO bad and his writer's
cramp SO severe. His reply to the Hon.
sam Dickinson win be a daisy-wheneyer
1t appears.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-02

MAYOR Hoos is placed in a very un-
pleasant light by the Board of Finance
reply to his veto of the water specihca-
lions.
We have warned His Honor against
taking the advice of Lebbeus B. Ward or
anyone else who has an axe to grind.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-02

Nothing but a local
remedy or change of ell
mate will cure It.
, Get a we'll phar-
maceutical remedy.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

phists," quotes fragment OF the poet
Machon on the subject
They say Philoxenus, the ancient poet
of dithyrambics, was so wonderfully at
ia ched to fish that once at Syracuse he
bought polypus two cubits long then
cleaned it and then ate it up himself, all
but the head, and afterward tell sick,
seized with sharp attack of indigestion.
Then some doctor came to see him,
who saw that be was greatly out of order.
III, )" said the doctor, "you have any bus-
ness not well arranged 90 not delay 10
settle II, for you will die before six hours
are over" Philoxenus replied: ''All my
affairs, o doctor, are we'll ended and
arranged long, long ago, but now since
deadly fate calls me away who can not be
disobeyed, that may go below with all
my goods. bring me the relics OF that
polypus."
That there exist in the sea gigantic
specimens of the octopus, which have
been named indifferently squlds, cuttle-
fishes and calamarys, is not to be denied.
People have been in the habit of laughing
at De Montford' account OF one of these
which threw its arms over three masted
vessel, snapped off its masts. tore down
the yards and would have dragged il to
the bottom if the crew had not succeeded
in cutting Oft its immense limbs with cut
lasses and hatchets; also of SAX French
men, of-war which were crippled by SINH
lar monsters, and thus became
prize to the English; but there
is no doubt the French market boat
Alecton in 1861 ran across, near Ma
deira, specimen which measured
sixteen to eighteen feet in length, without
the arms nor can the reports of the dis
covery of two gigantic cuttle-fshes on the
coast o. Newfoundland in 1873 and 1874
be regarded as fables.
Portions of one of these creatures were
examined by Professor Verrill of Yale
College, and he found that the body was
10 feet long, the diameter being feet
inches, and the arms being 80 feet long.
The other octopus was feet long, the
long arms "a feet, and the shorter arms
feet long; the largesr of the latter being
10 inches in circumference at the base. 1t
need hardly be added that creatures of
such dimensions could upset boat, carry
off it's crew to the subm arine depths, and
devour them at leisure. Nor is to be
rashly asserted that cuttle-ishes of this
size do not exist in the waters which wash
the Pacific Coast.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

scented trouble, did not care 20 knock off.
The new family are named Connor or
O'Connor; which is correct does not much
matter for the purposes OF this story,
which Is one to point to moral mainly.
Billy Maroney and Jack Conarty, big
boys, made up a match after school and
arranged to abduct Hanifin's goat and the
new goat who had already got the name
of "Hanible." The bows took tops,
whistles, nickels and everything else for
the price OF admission to the match, so
that they soon had all the movable prop
erty they could stagger under and were re-
garded as topnotch monopolists and busi-
ness men by the gossoons, and were ad
mired by the colleens accordingly. Pend
ing the match they fairly lived on candy
and cakes, which they got by swapping
off their admission pledges They were
as happy as boys acquiring indigestion by
this pleasing process could possibly be.
Haniin knew nothing about the match
but his big boy Mike did, and the .tould
man" saw a queer, guilty look in Mikes
eyes one night at supper. and the bow
quaked, seeing that his dad was ION 10
him.; but il was only blind lead, and
Hanifn did not more tnan scent mischief
without being able to locate it. The match
ca me off.
When the goats were led up to engage
in fray for the Bernal Heights champion
ship they seemed in no hurry to begin.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

there seems to be no truth in the theory.
When an octopus swims, its arms drag
behind the body like tail so that the
animal resemb bles cat O. eight tails;
creatures which feed on it like the whale
and the conger eel, falling to overtake it,
content thems with biting off one or
more of the tails, which the molIusk bears
with philosophy, knowing that the loss
can be readily repaired. One of the most
curious revelations of prehistoric animal
life is the discovery of parts of the arms
of the octopus in the caprolytes of the
ichthyosaurus. In the aquarium at
Havre, in France, when business is dull,
the curator advertises duel between an
octopus, and party OF conger cells.
The octopus at first endeavors to escape
by eiecting the dark fluid, which for .
time renders 1t invisible. As the wafer
gradually clears an eel dashes upon the
foe and seizes the tiesa of limb; then,
backing away, it whirls round with
rapidity until the limb is wrenched from
the body. This performance is repeated
till every limb is torn off in turn and
nothing is left of the creature but the
round ball which contains its eyes,
mouth and internal organs, and it dies
from inability to hunt its prey.
The octopus is eaten on the shores of
the Mediterranean. and fishermen make
living by spearing it for market. Among
the old Greeks it was esteemed choice
luxury. Athenaus, in his "Deipnoso-
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
When the New Year Begins.

1t may be of interest to know that at
20 minutes TO on the morning of
December 81 the year 1897 will have COM
menced in fact. The day begins away
out in the Pacific Ocean on the 1S0th me-
ridian. At the hour named above it will
be exactly midnight at this spot. Of
course there is not pause. On rushes
the New Year over the seas ana through
Asia. conquering the earth at the rate of
every hour. BY the
time the sun is in the zenith over Pitts
burgh it will he evening of the last day of
the year in England. At 20 minutes
to that evening in Pittsburg it will be
New Years da Y in England. Ii is an in
teresting morsel for thought, and to the
strong Imagination it is not impossib Bile 10
p cture the new day of the new year as
some living thing floating around the
earth on tireless wing at the rate of a
thousand miles every time the minute
hand of the clock completes a revolution.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

The Haniin goat leaped IN the air, recol-
lecting his recent experience, and made for
Hanifin like runaway railway train, and
carrying his load of dynamite with him.
"WEoo-pee" yelled Hanifn.
"Geep' yelled all the boys in chorus.
The goat ran awhile after every one in
sight. Tnen he stood on his hind legs and
performed little fancy drill" dancing
and carac oling and prancing, watched by
fascinated and terrified spectators who
expected to see a great explosion any time.
Probably the layers of ham sandwich
which the goat found in the pail were
between the dynamite missiles and pre-
vented concussion, but if ever any animal
has tempted fate since Noah's menagerie
came ashore, it was Hanifin's goat. He
butted fences. He courted conflicts with
other goats. Some strange and perverse
influence caused him to lie down and roll.
In every way he tried to touch off the
dynamite and to commit suicide, going
out to the unknown with boom.
Mems hairs turned gray that day.
Women forgot to get dinners and their
customary tasks went undone. The girls
we're frightened. The boys well, the
no explosion occurred, desire to ''let 'er
GO" This grew in intensity and they
reveled in imagination of grim and
CHASTITY things and happenings-Bernal
Heights rolling down in one grand land
slide; Hanifn flying skyward at 2:11
gait; then the horror at the police station |
How "de cops" would come! And Hani-
fins goat? Well, he would be out of
sight.
But the goat did not go off. He disap-
peared that night. Some bad boy ab
Quoted him to have celebration of his
own. He may yet have it. Some fond
mother may hear of him when he has
achieved fame. as surely as the youth
who fred the Ephesian DOME" But the
present whereabouts of the Hanifn goat
is unknown SLIM TIM
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
The Last Flight Of
the Carrier Pigeon.

A little carrier pigeon met death in a
curious way the other morning while at
tempting to cross the bay from this city to
his home IN the loft of George H. Croley
in Alameda. Mr.. Croley keeps poultry
supply store in this city. and being an
ardent fancier of the gentle homers fire.
quently brings some of his feathered pets
to this side to give them a fly home Tor
practice. Among recent lot of homers
raised in the Croley loft was a yellow
checker designated as E 110S which was
thought from his short early flights to be
an unusually promising bird. Desiring TO
see how quickly he could make the flight
home Mr.. Croley brought him over as he
came to business and liberated him at 8 80
in the morning.
When he returned home that night he
was surprised TO find that the checker had
not turned up, and concluded that he
must have become the prey of hawk. A
day or two later T. G. Leydecker, another
Alameda fancier, brought Mr.. Cro!ey the
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
Art Comes to Aid
the Blind Marriott

Chris Jorgensen sends woodland road
that has some work in it.
c. ]. Hittel sends small landscape.
R. G. Curtis contributes small water
color representing one of the many
wharves to be found around San Francisco.
Chapel Judson is represented by one of
his characteristic landscapes of good size.
There is some good study in it.
w. Hubacek and A. ]. Briggs are repre-
sented by creditable sketches of out-of-
door studies.
Miss Withrow, Miss Chittenden and
Miss Bender are represented by flower
studies that are highly credtable pieces of
work.
There are few contributors of very
good sketches who failed to sign their
work, so their names cannot be given.
II is the intention OF the art association
to dispose of these pictures some night
during the coming week. They will be
distributed by lot to subscribers 10 the re-
lief fund of Emil Marriott. Several hun
dred dollars have already been subscribed
and every cent obtained will be given to
the sick artist.
Since Emil Marriott lost the use of his eyes
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

as a result of doing the decoration of the
Stanford tomb at Palo Alto he has slowly
grown worse, so that now he is absolutely
destitute. For time be seemed to be on
the road to recovery from his eye trouble,
but in some way paralysis set in and his
case became hopeless. His faithful wife
has done what she could for the last four
years, but at last has been taken sick her
SELF Friends have helped the family in
different ways. but more money is needed,
and is sure to come in few days.
Emil Marriott is one of the best-known
artists in California. He came here in the
early days, and the future will have to de-
pend on his work for pictures of life dur
ing the exciting times of the gold fever.
His work is of a high order, particularly
when it is considered that he had very lit
tie of an art education.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
Makart Made Them FAMOUS.

In many of the famous Hans Makart's
greatest paintings occur again and again
two exquisite examples of beautiful
womanhood. In his Diana" and Charles
v Entering Antwerp" they are the most
CO nsplcuous figures, and Immediately at
ira ct the observers attention. The models
of these figures were the two daughters of
Herr Klinkosch. leading gold and silver
smith of Vienna. Makart made the girls
famous, and they became the rage of the
Viennese court, and until recent years
and may yet, TOR all We know-moved in
the very best society.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

omy, the goat had eaten up all the dinner
pals contents.
"Jumpin' beeswaxi'' said Hanifn. "All
you fellers run for your lives. That dom
goat has gone and filled hisself with dyna-
mite and he may go off any minute"
At first the spectators only laughed, but
when they were solemnly assured that the
goat had really swallowed half a dozen
dynamite cartridges which Hanifin had
expected to use in little private blasting
work the situation was found to be serious.
The wild-eyed goat had enough dynamite
in him to destroy the new City Hall.
Haniin dropped his club and his knees
knocked together with fear.
Whoa, Billy; SO, Billy" he said.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

body of poor little E 11O8 and told the
story of his death.
The young bird. after soaring high
enough above the buildings of the City to
get his bearings, started faithfully for
home but fell victim to misplaced con-
fidence. While crossing the water he
spied the ferry-boat steamer Bay City, and
being, perhaps, little tired concluded to
take rest on her.
Either because Of the fact that the
steamer was moving. or because his tired
little wings would not guide him Alright,
he missed the pilot-house, and, striking
the whistle cord, fell TO the deck with
broken neck.
The master of the vessel brought the re-
mains to this side, and turned it over to
Mr.. Leydecker, whom he knew to be
fancier, and thus the battered body found
its way tc its owner.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-09
THE LEGISLATURE.

The session of the Senate, on Monday
yet held. Several bills were passed,
among them being House IA, providing
that all real and personal property of any
municipality shall be subject to taxation
If located in any other municipality SEN
ate II, provides for the incorporation of
any society associated together as a
woman's work exchange; Senate Is, pro-
vides that five or more persons may form
bank or banking company for discount,
deposit and circulation, subject to the act
of April Sth, 1875, $4,000 capital stock
required; Senate 80, enables theological
seminaries to confer the degree of B. D.
after special course of study and exami-
nation has been satisfactorily passed Sen
ate 81, provides for the incorporation of
associations for the improvement of public
grounds In any city, town, township or
borough; Senate IS, repeats section 90,
act of March 27th, 1874, relative to trials
of small causes Senate II3, fixes fine of
500 or ten days imprisonment for run
ming hounds or horses across another land
without consent; House IS, provides that
terms of all township officers in second
class counties shall commence on the Fri
day following the annual town meeting,
and shall hold Office until their successors
shall be duly elected and qualified.
Among the bills introduced were these
No I45, Mr. Voorhees, Amending in sew
eral particulars the act under which the
Teachers Retirement Fund was organized
members of the State Board of Education,
three members of the State Teaches AS
ISOLATION and the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction. The State Treasurer
shall be the treasurer of the fund, the Sec
rotary originally receiving all receipts.
Twenty years service as teacher is re-
quired before one is entitled to be retired
on half pay and the annuity must not be
less than $3.50 nor more than $500 for the
first FIVE years. The time for joining the
fund is extended to December Ist, 1897.
No. I49, Mr.. Ketcham. Dividing town
ships of from FIVE to seven thousand in
habitants into as many wards as there are
polling or voting districts. Each ward |
shall elect one Township Committeeman
and the township shall elect one Council
man -at-Large to preside.
No. ISL, Mr. Francis. Providing for an
assistant prosecutor of the pleas, at sal
airy of 81, 400 year, in second-class coun-
ties of from $4,000 to 100000 inhabitants.
No. I52, Mr.. Skirm. Providing for the
licensing by the local municipal author
ity of special officers for any university,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-09
STATE NEWS,


"A petition was presented to the Allan
tic county Board OF Freeholders at their
meeting Wednesday for a new county
ing, to cost $1,000.
The twelve-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Candy, of Green Greek, deeply impressed
an audience of Epworth Leaguers by an
address of peculiar spiritual insight, last
Sunday night. On Tuesday she was strick-
en- with fatal illness, which ended her
life in few hours.
While sitting in the presence of his
wife, in their Phlllipsburg home, on Tues
day, Charles Mccartney, ex-school COM
missioner, attempted suicide by cutting
his throat with razor. Failing i'll that
attempt he jabbed fork in his breast, in
licting terrible wounds. His recovery is
doubtful.
For the first time since it was found
ed Hammonton is likely to have licensed
saloons. At the citizens caucus Wednes-
day night the license party succeeded in
nominating three of their candidates tor
Council, and the anti-llcense party one.
The word license" received majority of
sixteen over mo license"
John Dollard, of Sewarren, was beaten
and robbed by three unknown men on
Tuesday night. He was returning from
Carteret when the men bounced upon
him. They took his watch and about
$40 in cash. The footpads then beat him
into insensibility and left him lying in
the roadway. He was picked up later and
carried home.
-Workmen, while cutting away the
sides of a hill at Chestnut Neck, Atlantic
county, on Wednesday, disinterred the
skeletons of six Indians, all of which
measured over six feet in height. Arrow
heads and stone tomahawks were found IN
each grave. Chestnut Neck, according 10
the old legends, was an old Indian battle
ground, and many bodies have been found
III the vicinity.
"A sad fatality seems to follow family
in New Brunswick. On February 18TH,
Mrs. Margaret Seward died. On Febru-
airy 23d, the day of Mrs. Stewards funeral,
her sister, Mrs. Rachel Collins, died
Another sister, Mrs. Henry Walker, who
attended both Mrs Seward and Mrs.
Collins during their illness, was taken
sick few days ago, and died on Wednes-
day. The three sisters were daughters OF
the late Abram D. Vanpelt Death in
each case was due to pneumonia.
The Pennington shirt factory resumed
operations Tuesday morning, latter being
idle for several months, giving employ
ment to fifty girls and women. The large
iron factory of that place resumed opera
lions Monday morning. 1t is expected
that Fulper BROS. & Co.'s potteries will
commence this week, giving employment
to large number of hands. In view oil
| the prospect that HunterdOn county will
yield an immense crop of peaches the bus
mess outlook is brighter than it has been
for three years.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-09

SOME of the arguments advanced in
favor of leniency in the case of default
ing collector who was before the court for
sentence, were against him rather than in
his favor. The plea that he should be al
lowed to go free because others had escaped
was poor one. The fact that it has been
easy to secure suspension of sentence or a
light fine for somebody else to pay. has
not served to deter others from pursuing
the same course, and when one guilty man
is captured the fact that others have es-
capped does not lessen the degree of his
crime. Another point received greater
attention by counsel than it deserved,
when he pleaded for more time that the
bondsmen might be reimbursed and sat
isfed One might have supposed it was
only matter between defendant and
bondsmen, the state of New Jersey was of
secondary importance. The truth is there
is too much of this falling short in public
accounts, whether it be accidental or Grim
inal. The air is full of rumors of other
cases in this county needing rigid inves-
LEGATION, and the sentence imposed on
Saturday may have a salutary effect.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-09

THAT the position of Judge is not with
out its unpleasant features was plainly
manifested to those who attended court on
Saturday morning when sentence was pro-
nounced upon four prisoners. The de-
PENDANTS were not hardened criminals and
strangers, but each was before the court
for the first time. Three of them were
young men with whose parents and rela-
tives Judge Gaski1l is we'll acquainted,
while with the fourth he had personal ac-
quaintance. To send them to harsh pun
ishment would have been trying under
ordinary circumstances, but in each in
stance, petitions and communications had
been sent to the court for 1eniency, and
counsel had made strong pleas for the
same end. ALI of these facts made it
doubly hard for the court to take action
But duty to the law and to the community
rose above all per sonal feelings and sem
fences were pronounced in accordance
with the courts idea of the offences. They
are beyond criticism and it is sincerely
hoped that those who are inclined to lead
hayward lives will take warning and
awaken to the fact that the law will be
upheld, and that evil doors will be pun
ished
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-09

for efficient service in the restoration of
financial stability and prosperity. 1t is a
fine expression of lofty patriotism, of
broad craftsmanship, of appreciation of
national needs, of sagacious suggestions
of remedial policies, of unsel6sh devotion
to the welfare of the people 1t will in
spire confidence by its assurances of the
observa nee of sound policies, its intelli-
gent recognition of the gravity of existing
conditions, and the emphatically express
ed intention to use all means in the power
of the Executive to improve them.