The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-01-06
The STATE PRESS.

1t is a good suggestion that the two newly
appointed county detectives be assigned to the
duty of discovering why the Board of Free
holders was recently called together In special
session. Camden Democrat.
James s. FreIinghuysen, nephew of the
late Secretary of State at Washington, is
likely to be the Republican candidate for Sena-
tor in Somerset county next fall Certain
names perpetuate themselves in State and
National affairs, Advertiser.
Representative Pitney has been doing
some excellent work at Washington during
the closing days of his official life there and
his retirement from Congress will be real
loss to New Jerrey, although his services at
Trenton will be of value not only to Morris
county but the entire State.-Orange Journal.
A growing sentiment is observed In favor of
a change in the method of selecting Boards of
Education in cities of the State, which are now
elective and therefore liable to contain mem
bers whose adaptability to the peculiar de-
required as would be men especially selected
for the purpose Orange Journal.
Montcla. IS just now undergoing series of
petty larcenies. Indeed, it would seem as il
the town is full OF thieves Judging from the
various reports of robberies that reach the
police station. Scarcely a day passes that
some new theft does not come to light 1t Is
either raid on q barn, the theft Of clothing
or jewelry In a household. or the disappear
ance of valuable dog.-herald.
Attorney General Stockton denies that a
movement is on foot on the part of the
Democrats to make objection to the Inaugural
tion of Governor-elect Voorhees, The possible
ground of contest was that Mr. Voorhees,. hav-
ing succeeded Attorney General Griggs in the
chief magistracy of the state. is still the Gov
ernor, and that as Governor cannot, under
the constitution, succeed himself, he is ineligi-
ble.-Orange Journal.
1t is announced that an immense thread
combination has been organized which takes
in three of the largest manufacturing concerns
of the country, namely. the two Clark con-
Germs of Newark and the Coates of Pawtucket,
X. |. All these concerns were originally En-
glish and still have English connections, but
their American business has grown till 1t Is
considerably larger than that of the parent
concerns. Paterson Call.
Bob Davis says that he is not afraid OF Judge
Lippincott and cares nothing for what he say
about indicting the pool rooms and other IL
legal places of resort. Bob says that the
Grand Jury does not care for the Judge either,
nor for what he says to them. The Democratic
managers of Hudson county have themselves
SO hedged about that they simply snap their
fingers at the courts There may be change
Paterson Call.
A man who, when drunk in Middlesez
county, commits murder, is reasonably sure OF
getting off easy, If the sentence imposed on
streeter, who killed Drobney In Bound Brook
two months ago, is any criterion. Because he
was drunk Streeter killed Drobney, and be-
cause he was drunk, he is punished by a very
| light sentence. Some one Is to blame for tfe
wilful murder OF Drobney. He had a right tc
| his life and the man who deprived him of II
should have been adequately punished. We
cannot think the light sentence imposed By
Judge Collins recently Is calculated to lessen
the crime Of murder in Msddlesex county. -
Plainfield Courier.