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M’COWAN & NTOHOLS, Editors and Proprietors. 4 Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may.” TERM:3-$1.50 per year, in advance. VOL. XXXI._ BRIDGETON, N. J„ THURSDAY, MAY 30. 1878. NO. 1578 [BY AUTHORITY ] LAWS OF NEW JERSEY. CHAPTER CXCV. An act to prevent trespasses on railroad cars or trains. Whereas, It has become a common practice with many persons, not passengers, of jumping on and off railroad cars or trains on their approach, during their stay, or on their leaving railroad stations or depots, to the an noyance and discomfort as well as actual danger of passengers either on or for such trains; therefore. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That if any person, not being a passenger or employee, shall be found trespassing upon any railroad car or train of any railroad in this state by jumping on or off any car or train on their arrival stay or departure at or from any station or depot of such railroad, or on the passage of any such cars or train over any part of any such railroad, such person so offending shall he deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on convic tion thereof shall he punished hv a fine not exceeding twenty live dollars, or by an imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both. 2 And he it enacted, That this act shall he deemed a public act and shall lake effect immediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCYIIJ. A supplement to an act entitled “An act relative to the court ot errors and appeals," (revision;, approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, four. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey. That in the case of an appeal from any order or decree of the chancellor, such judges of the court of errors and appeals, being justices of the supreme court, as may he appointed for that purpose by the said court ot errors and appeals (not exceeding three) may, in vacation, by order signed by them upon good cause shown, continue in its original force and effect any injunction or order of the chancellor which may have been dissolved or vacated, or modified by him, and may •also stay all the proceedings in the original suit until the next succeeding term of the court of errors and appeals, and may also make all necessary orders in the premises. 2. And he it enacted, That this act shall take effect i mmediately. Approved April 5, 187s. CHAPTER CC1X. Supplement to “An act to secure to mechanics and others payment for their labor and materials in erecting any building (revision,. approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four." Whereas. By an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled an act to secure to mechanics and others pav inent for their labor and materials in erecting anv build ing." approved March ninth, one thousand eight hun dred and seventy-seven, it was, among other things, enacted “by the Senate and General Assembly ot the State ot New Jersey." that every person intending to claim a lien upon any building or lands by virtue of thi> act shall, within one year after the labor is performed or the material?, furnished tor which such lien is claimed, tile his claim in the office ot the clerk in the county where such building is situated, which claim shall con tain this matter among others: “IV. In claims hereafter tiled, a true statement of the time of the commencement of the building tor which said iien is claimed, the statement 01 which shall be conclusive as against the claimant." And whereas, By a supplement t' an act entitled “An act to secure to mechanics and others payment for their labor and materials in erecting any building,’'approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, the aforesaid section tour, relating to the statement of the time of the commencement of the building was repealed; therefore, 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That all lien claims hereafter tiled in thi> state, without containing the matter so set out in section four aforesaid, relating to the statement of the time of the commencement of the building he and the same are hereby made valid and legal and effectual, to the extent that said lien claims would have been valid, legal and effectual if the same had contained the said matters so set out in section four aforesaid, relating to the statement of the time of the commencement of the build ing as aforesaid. 2. And be it enacted that this act shall take effect im mediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCX. An act to regulate and prevent extravagance in the use of school books in cities. 1. He it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New jersey, lhat from and after the pas sage of this act. in cities ot this state having a board des ignated by law a “Hoard of Directors of Education,” who have the control and management of the public schools therein, such board or its successor shall not designate for use or permit to be used in any of the grammar or primary schools any text book or books excepting books already contracted for, which have not been on the list of books designated for use in such schools for two years immediately preceding, unless at least two-thirds of the principals of such schools sh.dl by petition in writing, by them signed, and giving go. u am. sufficient reasons there for, request a change or alteration in the aforesaid list as it shall remain after the passage of this act; and when a list of books shall be designated for use in said schools in accordance with such act. the same shall not be again changed oftener than once in even- three years thereafter, except by petition as aforesaid. 2. And be it enacted, I hat all acts or parts of acts in consistent herewith be and are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect immediately Approved April 5, 1:7c. CHAPTER CCX1. An act concerning cities having a population of over one hundred and twent\ thousand, and providing for con formity between the lines of wards and assembly dis tricts, in any such city. 1. He it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That in any city of this state, which according to the last state census of this state con tained a population of over one hundred and twenty thou sand, or any city which may hereafter acquire such pop ulation, it shall be the duty of the mayor and common council, or other municipal board corresponding thereto, and such mayor and common council, or municipal board of every such city, are hereby directed, by resolution, to divide such city into wards, corresponding in number and boundaries to the assembly districts, or part or parts of assembly districts within the limits of such city. 2. And be it enacted, 1 hat such division ot such city into wards as provided for in the first section of this act, shall be made on or before the first day of May, after the passage of this act, and on or before the first day of May in each year, whenever any change of the assembly dis tricts in such city shall make it necessary to take the ac tion directed in the first section of this act. so as to estab lish an exact conformity between the ward lines and the assembly district lines, or part or parts of assembly dis tricts within such city. 3. And be it enacted, That whenever, under the terms of this act, ward lines are changed as aforesaid in any such city, no other wards shall exist or be in any way recognized therein. 4. And be it enacted, That nothing within this act con tained shall be so construed as to effect the terms of office of any person elected from any ward as existing prior to such change directed by this act, but the terms of office of all such persons shall continue until the expiration ot the time for which they were elected, and no longer. 5. And be it enacted, That the common council or other municipal board corresponding thereto, and also all other municipal boards, the members of which are elected in wards, in any such city, shall thereafter consist of those persons holding over lor their elected term or terms, and those hereafter elected from the wards as changed by authority of this act; provided however, that after the expiration of the terms of office of those bolding over as aforesaid, such common council, or other municipal boards, shall consist of those elected from the wards as changed under the authority of this act. 6. And be it enacted. That all acts and parts of acts, general, public, local or special, inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 5, 1878 CHAPTER CCXII. An act concerning the number of chosen freeholders to be elected from the wards in tho.se cities of this state where there shall be an exact conformity between the 1 lines of the w ards and the assembly districts exclusively within such cities, and embracing no territory outside 01 sucn cine*. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That in every city in this state where the ward lines of such city now or hereafter shall correspond with the assembly districts lines in such city, and no such assembly districts in such city shall embrace any teritory outside of such city, there shall be elected annually three chosen freeholders from every ward i n such city. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts, general, local, public or special, inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect im mediately. Approved April 5, 187S. CHAPTER CCXIJI A supplement to the act entitled “An act relative to guar dians and the estate of minors,” approved March twen ty-seventh eighteen hundred and seventy-four. 1". Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That in case any guardian and his ward are both residents of another state or of a foreign country, and such ward is entitled to funds or property of any description deposited in the court of chancery or under the control and direction of the chan cellor. arising from the sale of the property of such ward in this state or otherw ise, it shall be lawdul for the chan cellor to make an order that such guardian may receive and remove the same to the residence of himself and ward; and the delivery; transfer or payment of such funds or property to such guardian, after the making of such or der, shall lie a legal discharge and acquittance for the same. 2. And be it enacted, That before any such order as is mentioned in the first section of this act shall be made, proof to the satisfaction of the chancellor shall be made, by certificate according to the act ofcongress, in case the guardian and ward reside in another state, or by attesta tion under the seal of the court wherein or officer before whom the proceedings were had, if their residence be in a foreign country, of the appointment of such guardian and that he has given adequate security as such guardian in double the amount in value of such property, over and above the value of the property of such ward in the place of his residence; and 111 case the chancellor shall not be satisfied with the sufficiency of such security, additional security, to he given in this state, may be required in such form as the chancellor may direct. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect im mediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXIV An act to fix and regulate the salaries of city officers in cities of this state. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That hereafter it shall not be lawful for the members of the board of aldermen, or city council, or legislative body of any incorporated city of this state, w'hicn according to the last census, had more than twenty thousand and less than thirty-five thousand inhabitants, to be paid or receive any salary, compensa tion or allowance of any sort for their services as such city officers. _ . .. „ 2 And be it enacted, 1 ftat this act shall take effect immediately, but shall not effect the salaries or right to salary of any of the said officers now in office in any of said cities until their present term of office shall expire. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXV. An act in relation to cities. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That in all cities of this state of less than one hundred thousand and more than fifteen thousand inhabitants by the last census, whose charter prescribes that the rate of taxation for municipal purposes shall not exceed one hundred cents on the one hundred dollars, the common council or other municipal body shall have the power by ordinance, duly passed and approved, by the mayor, to direct and require a rate of taxation for said municipal purposes, equal to and not exceeding one and one-half per centum . 2. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect im mediately. Approved April 5, 1878 CHAPTER CCXVI An act relating to the assessment and revision of taxes in cities of this state. i. Me it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the Slate of New Jersey, That in any city in this state where a board of assessment and revision of taxes now exists, such board shall hereafter consist of four members, who shall be resident electors of such city, the members of such board shall be nominated by the mayor and confirmed by the common council, and shall hold their office for the term of four years from the date of their appointment; provided, however, that in making the first appointment the mayor shall nominate two of such board for the term of three years, and two for the term of four years, and in case of any vacancy hereafter from whatever cause, the same shall he filled as herein provided lor the residue of the term; and provided, fur ther, that in making such nominations two of each of the members of said hoard shall be taken from different po litical parties; and provided, further, that in all such cities where boards of assessment and revision of taxes now exists, the terms of office of the members of said board shall terminate upon the appointment of their suc cessor. who shall be appointed immediately after the pas sage of this act. and all books and papers in their pos session shall be turned over to their successors, who shall carry out the provisions of the statutes in relation to the work of said board, and provided, further, that nothing in this act shall be construed as to invalidate the acts of any existing board. r And he it enacted, That the compensation of each of the members of said board shall be two thousand dollars per annum, to be paid in such manner as provided by or dinance in such cities. f • And be it enacted, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to cities having a population of less than one hundred thousand inhabitants. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall be deemed a public act. and take effect immediately, and all acts and parts of acts, be they general, public, or special, in consistent herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXVII. A supplement to an act entitled “An act to incorporate benevolent and charitable associations/’ (revision) ap proved April ninth, eighteen hundred and seventv five. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That persons or associa tions whose object in addition to other objects enumer ated in ssid act and the various supplements thereto, and to which said act this is a supplement, is to promote the reformation of wayward persons of either sex, that have been or shall be incorporated under the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, shall be deemed and taken to be lawful corporations of this state, and entitled to all the rights and privileges conferred by said act anti its supplements; provided, that nothing in this supple ment shall be construed as authorizing such associations to deprive any person or persons ol their liberty, unless by cue process of law. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXVIII. An act in relation to water companies. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That in case any incorpor ated water company of this state who have by agreement or otherwise collected water rents in advance shall fail for more than rive days at any one time during any pe riod for which such rent is charged, collected or received, to supply water to the person m ho has paid such rents in advance, such water company shall refund to such con sumer a portion of such rent proportioned to the time of ... «*-i ^*‘**'* .1,. ply to any city or town where the water works are owned and controlled by the city or town authorities. 2. And be it enacted, 1'hat the word ‘•consumer" in the first section ot this act shall be construed to include individuals, firms, private,public and municipal corpora tions furnished with water for any purpose other than that of motive power, by any incorporated water com pany . 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXIX. An act to provide for stocking the waters of this state with food fishes. 1. He it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey. That the sum of lour thou sand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated to be expended in the hatching and propogation of shad and other food fishes, and in stocking the lakes, ponds and streams of this state with food fishes, under the direction of the commissioners of fisheries of this state. 2. And be it enacted. That the treasurer of the state shall pay the said amount, upon the warrent of the comp troller, to the said commissioners on their requisition, in such sums as shall he needed by them for the purposes of this act. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXX. A supplement to an act entitled “An act to incorporate trustees ot religious societies,’’ approeed April seven teenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. 1. He it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That section fifty-eight of the above act, which reads as follows. “50. And be it enacted. That the provisions of this act. with all the rights, privileges and advantages thereof are hereby extended to and for the benefit of ail associa tion.*. which now are or hereafter may be organized in this state, the object of which is or shall be to establish and maintain what are commonly known as ‘Mission Sun day Schools,’ ” be and the same is so amended so as to read as fellow: 38. And be it enacted, That the provisions of this act with all the rights, privileges and advantages thereof arc hereby extended to and for the benefit of all associations which now are or may be organized in this state, the ob ject of which is or shall he to establish and maintain what are commonly known as Sunday Schools. 2. And be it enacted, Thai this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXXI. A further .supplement to an act entitled “An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to game and game fish,’’ approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. 1. He it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the state of New Jersey, That section twenty (20) ot the act to which this is a further supplement, which reads as follows: “20. And be it enacted, That no person shall at any time catch or kill in any of the waters of this state, save only with hook and line or scroll, and no person shall catch or expose for sale, or have in his or her possession after the same has been killed, any black bass, pike ot pickerel, between the first day of March and the first day of May, except alive for stocking other waters, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each offence*’’ be amended to read as follows: 20. And be it enacted, That no person shall at any time catch or kill in any of the waters of this state save only with hook and line or scroll, and no person shall catcli or expose for sale or have in his or her possession, after the same has been killed, any black bass, between the first day of March and the first day of May, except alive for stocking other waters, under a penalty of twen ty-five dollars for each offence.” 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall he a public act and shall take effect immediately. Approved March 29, 1878. CHAPTER CCXXII. An act to grant power to the city councils of cities to regulate and control by ordinance the erecting and re pairing partition fences in cities. 2. He it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That power and authority is hereby granted to the city council of any city of this stale to pass, alter and repeal ordinances regulating the build ing, erecting and repairing of partition fences within said city, prescribing the notice to be given and manner of proceeding to make each land owner liable for one-half of the cost and expense of building a line of partition fence between th^lands of such person or corporation, and that of any other person or corporation, and such sum may be recovered by action of debt or in any court ha\ - ing jurisdiction of such sum by the person incuring such cost and expense in accordance with the provisions of any such ordinance. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXXIII. Supplement to an act entitled “A11 act to amend the law relating to the property of married women,’’ approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy j four. 1. He it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly 1 of the State of New Jersey, That any married woman who owns real property in the state of New Jersey, and is living in a state of separation from her husband, and whose husband neglects and refuses to maintain and support her, may at any time during the continuance of such separation, neglect and refusal to maintain and sup port her, apply by petition to the court of chancery of 1 this state, asking said court to make an order or decree, that during sucli separation, neglect and refusal to sup port her, sdie may sell, convey, mortgage or lease any in | terest estate, or right that she may have in any such real property, in the same manner, and with the like effect as if *.hf» were *nle and unmarried, and imoil such notice to the husband as the court may direct, and satisfactory proof to said court that she is living separate and apart Irom her said husband, and that he neglects and refuses to support and maintain her, it shall be lawful for said court to decree or order, that during such separation, ne glect and refusal to support her, she may sell, convey, mortgage and lease any interest, estate or right that she may have in such real property, except such as came to her by gift through or from her said hnsband, in the same manner and with the like effect as if she were sole and unmarried; and that any sale, conveyance, mortgage or lease by her of any interest, estate or right which she may have in such real property, maJe in pursuance of such order or decree, shall pass any and all such interest, es tate or right that she may have in such real property, ex cept such as came to her by gift through or from her hus band, in the same manner and with the like effect as if she were sole and unmarried. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXXV. A further supplement to the act entitled “An act for the relief of soldiers and sailois of this state in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve,” appoved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, x. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That section one of the act to which this is a supplement, which reads af follows: “1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the sum of one hun dred dollars per annum be paid all soldiers and sailors of this state, who served in the war of one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and the widows of any such soldiers and sailors in equal semi-annual payments during their life-time.’’ . , and the amendment to the said section of the act as enac ted in the supplement thereto, approved April twenty first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, which reads as f0“That the sum of one hundred dollars per annum be paid all soldiers and sailors of this state, who served in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the widows of any such soldiers and sailors, in equal semi-annual pay ments during their life-time; provided, that no such pen sions shall hereafter be paid to such widows.of deceased soldiers and sailors as snail have again married. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the stun of one hundred dollars per annum he paid all soldiers and sailors of this state, wno seved in the war of one thousand eight.hundrcd and twelve, in equal semi-annual payments during their life-time, and such widows of soldiers and sailors who were married to them prior to the first day of January eighteen hundred and twenty-five; provided, that no such pension shall hereafter be paid to the widows of deceased soldiers and sailors who nave again married; provided, that this act shall not apply to any persons who are now or who shall hereafter become entitled to a pension under any law of the United States. 2. And be it enacted. That the governor shall have the power to direct the adjutant general of the state to pre sent to the pension office at Washington the claims of the soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and ' twelve who are entitled to pensions under an act of con gress. approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and sev . entv-eight, and to procure the payment of said pensions without expense to the pensioners, i And be it enacted. That thisact shall take effect im mediately. Approved April 5. 1878. CHAPTER CCXXY 1. An act concerning street railway companies. 1. Be it enacted by tne Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That any corporation hereto fore organized under any special act of the legislature of this state, and empowered to lay radroad tracks and op erate a street railway company, and the time limited by their act for commencing building their railroad has not expired, shall have power by and with the consent of three-quarters of the stockholders to extend its tracks, if deemed necessary for the successful transaction of its business in any county, and into any county adjoining the one in which such company was authorized and em powered to operate; provided, the consent of the town ship committee or board of aldermen, or common council, or other municipal authority of any city, town or town ship. or any other corporations upon the streets or roads of which it is proposed to lay such tracks, shall first have hccifhad and obtained. 7. And he it enacted, That this act shall take effect im mediately. Approved April 5, 187S. CHAPTER CCXXYT11. An act to regulate the sale of milk. i. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New jersey. That every person who shall sell, or who shall offer or expose for sale, any milk from which the cream, or any part thereof, has been removed, shall distinctly and durably stamp or mark, in letters not less than two inches in length, in a conspicuous place, above the centre, upon the outside of every can, vessel or package containing such milk, the words “skimmed milk,’’ and such milk shall only be sold or shipped in or retailed out of a can, vessel or package so marked or stamped. And be it enacted, That any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, in addition thereto, be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars, and, on trial for such misdemeanor or penalty, the sale or offer or exposure for sale of milk or articles contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be presumptive evidence of knowledge by the accused of the character of the milk or article so sold or offered or ex posed for sale, and that the can, vessel or package was not stamped or marked as required by this act. 3. And be it enacted. That all penalties imposed under the provisions of this act may be sued for in any county of this state where the offence is committed, in any court having competent jurisdiction, one-half of the fine to go to the person making the complaint, and the other half to be paid to the county collector, for the benefit of the county. 3. And be it enacted, That on the non-payment of the penalty, the defendant shall be committed to the common jail of the county for a period of not less than one day for each dollar of the amount of the judgement; any court of competent jurisdiction in this state shall have jurisdic tion to try and dispose of all and any of the offences aris ing in the same county against the provisions of this act, and every justice of the peace shall have jurisdiction within his county of actions to recover any penalty hereby given or created; provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply except to milk in cans or other packages containing twenty quarts and upwards. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTERCCXXIX. An act to authorize cities to issue and sell water bonds not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars to complete any part of any unfinished reservoir for water in any city. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey. That any city of this state j having a board of finance and taxation, shall have power ; and they are hereby authorized to issue and sell at not ! les< than par. bonds not exceeding one hundred thousand i bonds of such city, and the proceeds of the sale of which bonds shall he used for the purpose of completing any part of any unfinished reservoir for water in such city and for no other pui pose whatever; said bonds shall only be issued by resolution of the board having control ot the finances of such city, and they shall be in such form and for such amounts and bear such interest not exceeding six per cent, and run for such periods not exceeding thirty years, as said board shall determine; said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and city clerk, and by any other city officer if designated by said board; that the principal and interest as the same falls due shall he raised by taxa tion at such times and in such amounts as the saia board shall determine; and said hoard may from year to year cause to be raised by taxation sufficient money to create a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds and interest thereon, as the same may fall due. 2. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect im mediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXXX. A supplement toan act entitled “An act respecting county physicians,” approved April twenty-first, eighteen hun dred and seventy-six. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey. That the first section of the act to which this is a supplement, and which is in the fol lowing words; “ 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for any board of chosen freholders of any county in this state, whenever said board shall deem it best so to do, to elect at any regular or special meeting of said board, a county physician, from the number of licensed physicians resid ing in said county, and to pay him such yearly salary for the service rendered by him as to said board shall seem just, to be fixed from time to time as such elections shall be made; before entering upon the duties required of him by this act said county physician shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the clerk of said county, faithfully and fairly to perform the duties of his office to the best of his skill and understanding, which oath or af firmation shall be filed by said clerk in his office,” be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as fol lows; “1 Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for any board of chosen freeholders of any county in this state, whenever said board shall deem it best so to do, to elect, at any regular or special meeting of said board, a county physician from the number of licensed physicians residing in said county, who shall hold his office for the term of three years, and to pay him such yearly salary for the service rendered by him as to said board shall seem just, to be fixed from time to time as such elections shall he made, and in all counties containing not less than fifty thousand inhabitants, and before entering upon the du ties required of him by this act said county physician shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the 1 clerk of said county, faithfully and fairly to perform the duties of his office to the best of his skill and understand ing, which oath or affirmation shall be filed by said clerk in his office. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts in consistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect im mediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXXX1. A supplement to on act entitled “An act aespecting bridges.” (revision) approved April tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the* State of New Jersey, That no bridges shall he erected over any part of the navigable waters separating this state from other states where the tide ebbs and flows without express permission of the legislature of this state, given by statute for that purpose; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to forbid the erection of docks or wharves. 2. And be it enacted, That no law heretofore passed, or action or organization under it, shall be construed so as to authorize any such bridge not now erected. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXXXII. An act respecting assessments for constructing sewers or continuations of sewers running through adjoining cities. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State oi New Jersey, That hereafter in assessing the cost." and expenses incurred in the construction of any sewer or continuation of any sewer running through two adjoining cities in this state, and which may have been or may hereafter be built and constructed under the direction of commissioners appointed for that purpose under and pursuant to the provisions of any law of this state, the commissioners, freeholders, city surveyor or other person or persons appointed, or to i»e appointed under any law, and who are or may be authorized by law to make an assessment for such improvements, shall in all such cases in and for which such commissioners of asses inents, freeholders, city surveyor, or other person or per sons are or may be lawfully appointed to make assess ments, assess the costs and expense of such sewer or con tinuation of such sewer or sewer improvments upon the land and real estate benefited by suen improvement and in proportion to the benefits thereby received, in making which said assessments hereby authorized lor such sewer improvements in any cities of this state the same shall he made and assessed upon the several lots or parcels of land benefited by such improvement in proportion to the benefit received by each one of said lots or parcels of land, and no lot or parcel of land shall he assessed more than it is benefited; provided, that if the total cost and expense of such improvement exeeeds the aggregate amount of assessable benefits, then only so much of said cost and expenses as equals the aggregate amount of such benefits shall he so assessed, and the reinaider of such cost and expense shall be borne by the cities at large in built, one-half of which remainder shall be borne and paid by each of such cities, and the same shall be as sessed, levied and raised by general taxation upon all the taxable property in such cities respectively, in the same manner in such cities respectively for other city purposes are assessed, levied, raised and collected. 2. And be it enacted, That all general, public, special and local acts inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed; and that this act shall be a general, public act, and shall take effect immediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXXXIII. An act to authorize incorporated cities in the state of New Jersey to adjust and compromise certain past due taxes. Whereas, certain taxes heretofore levied within cities in this state have been illegally assessed or made, 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the state of New Jersey, That it shall be lawfnl for the board of aldermen or common council of said cities re spectively, or any committee of said board of aldermen or common council, of not less than three in number for that purpose by resolution appointed, to examine, revise, alter, adjust and compromise all or any such past due taxes in said cities respectively, the justness and legality of which may be disputed by any person or persons or corporations; provided, however, that in all cities where there exists a board of finance and taxation or commis sioners of the sinking fund that such board or commis sioners, as the case may be shall exercise said powers in lieu of said board of aldermen or common council; and in all cases the final action of such committee, board of fi nance and taxation, or commissioners, upon any case arising under this act, shall, before the same shall become valid, be approved by the board of aldermen or common council of said cities respectively. 2. And be it enacted, That any person or persons or corporation, separately or collectively, aggrieved by any such past due taxes iu any said city, may present to said board of aldermen or common council or board of finance and taxation or commissioners of the sinking fund of said city in which such disputed past due tax exists a petition therein stating his or their objections to the same, aud praying for relief; and upon so presenting such petition, the past due tax so objected to shall be considered to be disputed, so as to give any such board of aldermen or common council, or commissioners of the sinking fund or any committee thereof, duly appointed by resolution of said board of aldermen, or common council, or board of finance and taxation, or commissioners of the sinking fuud, jurisdiction to revise, alter, adjust and compromise the said past due tax as shall be equitable and just; and that every such past due tax which shall be so revised, altered, adjusted and compromised, shall be final and conclusive between every such person or persons or corpor ation so objecting and the city in which such past due tax shall be revised, altered, adjusted and compromised. j. And be it enacted. That the proceedings of every of the said hoard of aldermen, or common council, o board of finance and taxation, or commissioners of th< sinking fund, or the duly appointed committee thereof shall be signed by the presiding officer of such board o alderman, or common council, or hoard of finance am taxation, or commissioners of the sinking fund, if had be fore them, or if before a commute thereof, as herein an thorized, then by the said committee, or a majority »> them, and filed in the office of the officer of the said citj in which such proceedings shall be had, with whom suer tax was filed before such revision; aud when such pro ceeding shall be so filed, the said past due tax, as reviser altered, adjusted and compromised, shall he and remair a lien upon the property on account of which said ta> lias been originally levied and assessed, and shall he col lected in the manner provided for the collection of taxes in said cities respectively; provided, however, that any person on persons or corporation desiring to have tin. benefit of this act shall file his or their petition or peti tions therefor within twelve months fioni the date of the passage of this act; provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be held to alter or affect the rights or reme dies at law, or in equity of any person so petitioning, or of such city as they existed at the time of filing said peti tion unless settlement shall be actually agreed to and ef fected. 4. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect immediately. , Approved April 5, 1878. CH APTER CCXXXIV. A Further Supplement to the act entitled “A supplement to an act respecting Mortgages,” approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, which supplement was approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. 1. Re it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the first section of the supplement above mentioned, which was approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and which is in these words; “ Every mortgage or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage of goods and chattels hereafter made, which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed by an actual and con tinued change of possession of the tilings mortgaged, shall be absolutely void as against the creditors of the mortga gor and as against subsequent purchasers and mortga gees in good faith, unless the mortgage, or a true copy thereof, having annexed thereto an affidavit or affirma tion made and subscribed by the holder or holders of said mortgage, his, her or their agents, or attorney, stating the consideration vf said mortgage, and, as near as pos ! sible, the amount due and to grow duethereon.be filed I as directed in the succeeding section of this act,” shall be and hereby is altered so that the said section i shall read and he as follows; [ Every mortgage or conveyance intended to onerate as .1 mortgage of goods and chattels hereafter made, which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed by an actual and continued change of possession of the things mortgaged, shall be absolutely void as against the creditors of the mortgagor, and as against subsequent purchasers and mortgagees in good faith, un less the mortgage, or a true copy thereof, having unnexed thereto an affiadavit or affirmation made and subscribed by the holder or holders of said mortgage, his, her, or their agents, or attorney stating the consideration of said mortgage, and, as near as possible, the amount due and to grow due ihereon, be filed as directed in the fortieth section of the said act, approved March twenth-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four; provided, that noth ing contained in this act, nor in the* acts to which this is a supplement, shall be taken, construed or held to apply to any mortgage of personal property included in a mort gage of franchises and real estate heretofore or hereafter made by any railroad conipanv, and which hath been or shall be, recorded,or registered as a mortgage on real es tate in every county in which such railroad, or any part of it, is or shall he located; and It shall not be necessary to file, as a chattel mortgage, and such mortgage as is in this provision described; and all acts and parts of acts contrary to the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed provided, that the provisions of this act shall not in any wise affect or impair the rights of any person or corpora tion under any mortgage, judgment or other lien or claim set up in any now existing suit or proceeding at law, or in equity, by or against any railroad company in which the validity or priority of such mortgage, judgment or other lien or claim has been, or is now, legally questioned. 2. And be it enacted, That this act and the supplement to which this act is a supplement, shall take effect im mediately; provided, however, that if any mongage or conveyance, intended to operate as a mortgage of goods and chattels or any renew al thereof, shall he filed before the fourth day of July next, without the affidavit or affir mation required hereby, such mortgage or conveyance shall have the same force and effect as it would have if such affidavit or affirmation were annexed thereto. -vpm 5, 1070. CHAPTER CCXXXV. A further supplement to an act entitled “An act to regu late elections,” approved April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That whenever any ward or any election district in any ward shall be cut by the line or lines of one or more assembly districts, so that such ward shall not be wholly within the lines of one assembly district, that in every such case it shall be the duty of and the board of aldermen are hereby required to forth with divide such ward into election districts; so that each election district in such ward shall be wholly within such ward, and wholly within one assembly district; and such division shall be made notwithstanding the result of such division is to make election districts that shall contain less than six hundred voters each; and in any division there after of such ward into election districts, such division shall be made in the above way and manner, and no other: provided, however, that if the division hereby provided for shall leave a portion of a ward containing more than six hundred voters the same shall be divided into election districts in the manner now required by law. ■2. And be it enacted, That the board of aldermen are hereby required, whenever such division shall be made as required by this act, to appoint in time for the next general election or next municipal election next thereaf ter, two inspectors and one judge of election and one clerk of elections for each of said districts so set off, who shall be residents of the election districts in which they are appointed, and who shall serve until their successors are elected: the said inspectors so to be appointed shall not belong to the same political party; the bo«»rd of aider men are also hereby required, within the time aforesaid, to establish a polling place in and for every election dis trict. 3. And be it enacted; That all general elections and all municipal or other elections that may hereafter take place in any such ward, after such division of the same into election districts as provided in this act, shall be held in such election districts created under this act, and not otherwise. 4. And be it enacted, That for the purposes of this act the term ward shall be construed to include “aldermanic district,’’ “town” and “township,” and the term board of alderman shall be construed to include a “council,’’ “common council,”’ “township committee.” and any similar body by whatever name designated. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTR CCXXXV1. An act declaratory of the power of the chancellor to issue and determine writs of habeas corpus. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the chancellor of this state is hereby declared to have, and to have had, the power to issue wTits of habeas corpus under the seal of the court of chancery, and to hear and determine the same, notwithstanding the provisions, or any of them, of the act entitled, “An act for preventing the injury of ille gal confinement and better securing the liberty of the people,” (revision;, approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and in the same man ner as if the said act had never been passed, and the act entitled “An act for preventing the injury of illegal con finement and better securing the liberty of the people,” passed March eleventh, seventeen hundred and ninety five, had never been repealed. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXXXV1I. An act to provide for holding the court of special quarter sessions, in counties where the same may now be held, by a less number of judges, in certain cases. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That whenever, by reason of a vacancy in the office of a lay judge of the court of com mon pleas in any county wherein a court of special quar ter sessions may now be held, there shall be but one lay judge in said county, the court of special quarter sessions may be held by the law or presiding judge, together with such lay judge until such vacancy can be filled; provided that, in such case, if said court, in the trial of any person charged with crime, shall disagree as to any question of fact arising therein, such disagreement shall not operate to acquit or discharge the prisoner, who shall be held, and either tried again upon the allegation against him, or upon any indictment found against him by the grand jury. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect im mediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CCXLIf. A supplement to an act entitled “An act to establish a system of public instruction” (revision), approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy - four. 1. JJe it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That section ninety-five of the act to which this is a supplement, which section reads as follows: “95. The treasurer of this state, upon the order of the state superintendent of education, is hereby authorized and directed to pay over the sum of twenty dollars out of any money that may be in the public treasury to every school district, which shall raise by subscription a like sum for she same purpose, to establish within such dis trict a school library, and to procure philosophical and chemical apparatus; and the further sum of ten dollars annually, upon a like order, to the said district, upon con dition that they shall have raised by subscription a like sum for each year, for the purposes aforesaid,” he amended to read as follows: “95. The treasurer of this state, upon the order of the state superintendent of education, is hereby authorized and directed to pay oyer the sum of twenty dollars out of any money that may be in the public treasury to every public school for which there shall have been raised by subscription or entertainment a like sum for the same purpose, to establish in such school a school library, and to procure philosophical and chemical apparatus; and the further sum of ten dollars annually upon a like order, to the said public school, upon condition that there shall have been raised by subscription or entertainment a like sum for such year, for the purposes aforesaid.” 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect im mediately. Approved April 5, 1878. CHAPTER CLXXIV. An act to empower incorporated towns having a popula tion of not less than fourteen hundred by the census returns of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, in any county of this state, having a population of not less than fourteen thousand nor more than twenty thousand by said census, to support the poor of said towns and to relieve said town from paying county poor tax. 1. lie it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That any incorporated town, having a town council, with a population of not less than fourteen hundred by the census returns of eighteen hun dred and seventy-five, in any county of this state, having a population of not less than fourteen thousand nor more than twenty thousand by said census returns, are hereby authorised and empowered to provide for and maintain the poor of said town and to raise by taxation the money necessary therefor in each year. 2. And be it enacted, That if the town council of any such town shall determine that hereafter such town shall provide for and support the poor of said town, and shall before the first day of May in any year pass an ordinace to that effect, said town shall thereafter provide for and support in a proper manner the poor of said town, and shall not thereafter be assessed with any county poor tax, nor be liable to pay to the county in which it is situ ated any poor tax or tax for any provision for or the sup port of the poor of said county. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 5, 1878. There is a good story in Planche’s Me moirs, told by Rogers, of a man who got very drunk at a country house, was tarred and feathered, and put to bed. He woke, still drunk, in the morning, reeled over to the looking-glass, and exclaimed, “Become a bird, by Jove!’’ A LOVE-CRAZED POISONER. Cleveland, Ohio, May 23.—A despatch from Fremont, Ohio, gives an account of an extraordinary poisoning case which has stiired up society in Fremont. Miss Etta Smith, a teacher in the High School, lias been arrested on the charge of having attempted to poison the entire family, consisting of eight persons, of Mr. \V. W. Stine. Mr. Stine is a well-known Demo crat politician, and has held important comi ty and municipal offices. He left for the west a few days ago, and on Friday last his wife received a basket containing oranges, figs, tea, coffee, meat, &c., with the expla nation that Mr. Stine had ordered it before departure. Mrs. Stine’s first suspicions were aroused by the complaints of her child ren that the fruit was bitter. Fearing all was not right, she sent the articles con tained in the basket, with the exception of the sugar and coffee, to a doctor, who upon examination, found that every article con tained strychnine enough to have been fatal to the entire family. The sugar and coffee which Mrs. Stine did not send to the physician with the other articles were confirmed, thrown into the slops and given to the hog, causing its death within a veiy short time. It was discov ered that Miss Smith had bought strych nine at three different drug stores, and had charged the fruit by inserting the drug with a needle or piu at the stem, and the provi sions in a more bungling manner. She gave the basket to the janitor of the High School building, and told him to carry it to Mrs. Stine with the statement above given which ho did. Miss Smith was at ouce arrested on the charge of having attempted to poison Mrs. Stine, and her bail fixed at $800. A num ber of citizens came forward to go on her bond, and she was released at about 10 o’clock on Saturday evening, and spent the following day with her mother at home. On Monday morning, however, she was re arrested on a charge of having attempted to poison the entire Stine family, her bail fixed at $2,000, and she was locked up again in the county jail, where she now is. Miss Smith is about 30 years old, and has taught in the public schools for many years. She lives with her widowed mother. She is an active member of the Episcopal Church, and has been efficient in the Sunday school, managing the exercises at the Easter cele bration this year. She is of about medium size, light complexion, dark hair, with an intelligent, though not handsome face and a ladylike manner. What the relations of Miss Smith with Stine have been is a subject of general spec ulation. It is evident that herein lies the iujowij VI tuc uiuuvc lVI UC1 CT1 111 III ill iict. The general theory is that she has been madly enamored of him for some time, aud that she endeavored to destroy his fam ily in order to remove the barrier which prevented his union with her. One repo'-t is that improper relations have existed between the two for years past, and that his departure for the West with the intention of removing there caused her to commit the act. His friends assert that he had no complicity in the affair, and deny that he is compromised by any criminal re lations with her. It is reported that an at tempt was made to poison him last winter by a box of sugars sent him by mail, which he found so bitter that he did not smoke them. Stine’s friends have telegraphed him to come home at once. Mr. Stine is about forty years old. The theory most generally accepted is that improper relations had existed between Stiue and Miss Smith for a long time; that she was greatly infatuated with him, but that he had grown tired of her and wanted to throw her oft'; that all went along quietly as long as he kept his place on the School Board, aud she was secure of her’s as a teacher, but that when he lelt the board aud determined to leave Fremont and seek a new home in the West matters came to a crisis. Stine, it is supposed, told Miss Smith that their relationship must come to an end, aud in a fit of desperation she de termined to destroy his family, so that there would be no obstacle to his marrying her. The basket containing the poisoned arti cles was accompanied by a note written by Miss Smith in a disguised hand, and pro fessing to come from the grocer where the things were bought. Mrs. Stiue got the impression that the meat came from some relatives in the country, that they had sent it preparatory to coming and dining with her, and that her husband, learning of their visit before he left, had ordered the fruit and groceries. --— Lippincott’b Magazine.—“Easter on the Rivieia” is the title of the opening paper of LippincoW a Magazine for June, and invites the reader to join in the holiday excursion of a London barrister and an Oxford pio fessor among the bewitching scenery and famous watering places of the Maritime Alps, of which glimpses are given in the il lustrations. “Tlie Four-in-Hand, and Glan ces at the Literature of Coaching,’ recalls the modes of travelling of a by-gone day, apropos of the recent trip to Philadelphia of the New York Coaching Club, with illus trations depicting the different styles of equipages, from the state carriage of Queen Elizabeth to the “drags” driven by Colonel Jay and other members of the club. Edward King has a second article on Rou mauia, full of graphic sketches and inter esting details. “The Masons of Virginia” gives the history of a family tragedy by a lady personally acquainted with the actors and events. Marion Coutliouy writes ap preciatingly of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dr. H. S. Schell describes some new dis coveries in “Visual Photograhpy,” and Lucy H. Hooper gives an account of “Parisian Maniacs aud Madhouses.” The stories in this number are numerous aud varied. Besides the serial, “For Per cival,” and the conclusion of Dr. Weir Mitchell’s “Hephzibah Guinness,” there is an amusing character sketch, “The Pro fessor of] lollingen,” by Anna Eichberg, a nathetic storv of French life. “Rue St. Jean,” and an exciting incident of-railroad travel, “Chased by an Engine.” Three of ourbest poetesses, Louise Chandler Moulton, Celia Thaxter, and Emma Lazarus contri bute to this number; and the “Gossip,” be sides other good things, gives some hints on art study by Emily Sartain. Bkajn Stimulent.—The best possible thing for a man to do when he feels too weak to carry anything through is to go to sleep as long as he can. This is the only recuperation of brain-power, the only ac tual recuperation of brain force, because during sleep the brain is in a state of rest— in a condition to receive and appropriate particles of nutriment from the blood, which take tho place of those which have been consumed by previous labor; since the very act of thinking burns up solid particles as every turn of the wheel or screw of tho steamer is the result of consumption by fire of the fuel in the furnace. The supply of consumed brain substance can only be had from tho nutritive particles in the blood; obtained from the food eaten previously, and the brain is so constituted that it can best receive and appropriate to itself thoso nutritive particles during the state of rest, of quiet, and stillness of sleep. Mere stim ulants supply nothing in themselves, they goad the braiu and force it to greater con sumption of its substance, until it is so ex hausted that there is not power enough left to receive a supply. There was a touching scene recently over a fresh grave in Spring Grove Cemetery. A little boy, an only child, was being bur ied. Among the mourners was a divorced couple, the lady being tho sister of the weeping mother there. Her divorced hus band had brought crosses and wreaths of flowers to place on the coffin, and also on another grave, that of his own little boy buried in the same lot two years before. In the emotion of the moment the man handed to his divorced wife the floral tri bute to place upon the grave of their lost little one, and their tears mingled over both graves. A NAPOLEONIC EPISODE. A Corsican, the chief of the late Empe ror Napoleon’s Secret Guard, relates the following episode. Shortly after the mar riage of Napoleon 111 and the Countess Eugenie de Montijo, the papers announced the arrival in Paris of an Italian lady of wonderous beauty. The “gilded youth" of the capital rushed with impetuous haste to leave their cards at the Hotel Beauvau, the residence of the magnificent Duchesse C'astigliona, for that was the incomparable creature’s name. The court sent her a tahouret, and this compliment was the only one the Ducesse deigned to accept. She accepted the tahouret and houored with her gracious presence a grand state ball at the Imperial Palace. Her entrance into the ball room created a tremeudous sensation. The Emperor, who could not keep his eyes off La Castigliona, begging the Grand Duke Earnest of Saxo-Coburg to step a measure with the Empress, gallantly offered his hand to the fair Italian, and the next moment they were mingling with the whirl ing throng. After a few turns Napoleon proposed a promenade, and the pair walked slowly round the room gaily conversing while the others waltzed. The next day as we returned from the Bois de Boulogne, General Fleury told me to he in waiting in the Salon de Service that evening at eight 0 clock. According to the Emperor's or ders I presented myself in the Salon, dut a little time before the time fixed. His Majesty, seeing me so early, asked if there was anything new. “No, sire, I only wished to know whither we are going.” “And why?” asked the Emperor, curiously eyeing me. “Because this night something will happen.” As I made this remark, Fleury came, and we set off at once—Napoleon, Fleury and myself. As we went into the Hotel Beauvau, and just as I put my foot on the first step of the staircase, spoke these words to Monsieur Fleury, “Look out General, we are in the house of an Italian!” 1 was the last, and as we came on the landing I slipped aside into the shade, while a servant showed the Em peror and his aid-de-camp into the salon. When the servant had done this she closed the door, and after walking a few paces across the corrider, clapped her hands three times. The same instant a. man emerged, 1 know not from where, and advanced soft ly toward the salon. He carried something in his hand. Before he got to the door he was a dead man—a dagger stroke dealt behind had pierced his heart. The shock of the body falling on the floor, ----... UCU oral Fleury hastily to the spot. He saw at a glance what had happeued, and while he locked the servant up in the housemaid’s closet, I dragged the corpse into an adjacent room. Making a sign for me to remain, the i Emperor and the aid-ce-camp hurried from the house. Directly afterward the former ! returned, bringing with him two carriages and the secret agent Zambo. Into one of the vehicles wore thrust the dead body and the servant and intrusted to the care of the agent. The General and I, taking with us the Duchesse, entered the other. A few minutes later I was summoned to the Tuileries. I found Napoleon in his cab inet, leaning heavily on a table, his head between his hands, He regarded me grave ly, saying in a tone of reproach: “What, more blood! How do you know that the poor fellow whom you have just killed was not the servant’s sweetheart?” “Servant’s sweethearts do not generally carry with them such recommendations as these,” I replied, laying on the table a four barreled revolver and a poiuard with a poisoned blade. His Majesty examined the weapons attentively, oo|>coial]y tho poiaonod dtv^oi-, and alter making me a present of 3,000 francs, told me to inform Pietri of all had happened. The Duchesse de Castiglioua was escorted to the Italian frontier, and betook herself immediately to Milan. In Appleton’s Journal for June ad vantage is taken of tho public iuterest in the new silver currency to describe the pro cess of coining the silver dollar. The ar ticle is by Mr. William H. Rideing, who is | making a wide-spread reputation for the ! taste and literary skill with which he de scribes the places and industries of the ’ country. “The Genesis and History of a , Silver Dollar” begins with the mining of the ore, and carries the reader on to the moment when the tinkle of the completed coin as it drops from the coining machine announces that it is ready to enter the world on its mission of good or evil. The article is written in a picturesque and graph ic style, and the illustrations by Kelly are striking and appropriate.—-Julian Haw thorne’s stirring story, “Mrs. Gainsbor ough’s Diamonds,” which began in the May number, is concluded- This is one of the best short stories of the season. —Wil liam Minturu begins a series of papers un dertlie title of “French Writersand Artists,” starting off with a graphic sketch of Ernest d’Hervilly, the Parisian litterateur. Miss Susan Fenimore Cooper, who has written little of late years, begins a series of papers under the title of “Otsego Leaves,” the first article being a contrast in the abun dance of birds twenty years ago compared with their scarcity now. There is a short story by Christian Reid; a discussion of new “Varieties of Verse” by Bl ander Matthews; an essay on “Old Fogies” by C. P. Cranch; a paper on two old South Carolina archi tectural relics; poems by Fawcett, Lath rop, Earl Marble, etc.; and still other pa pers. Charles F. Williams has just been sen tenced, in Portsmouth, N. H., to three years’ imprisonment. His criminal career is remarkable. During the war be nae a notoiimis bounty jumper, and was sentenced to be shot, but Lincoln changed the penalty to imprisonment for life, and Johnson par doned him. Afterward he served several terms for bigamy and assaults. In his in tervals of freedom he was a public singer, a clown in a circus, and a Methodist clergy man. In the latter character he was suc cessful as a revivalist, his sermons and singing being wonderfully effective with sin ners. He was always able to get good pay in the form of collections, and having se cured a sufficient sum, be went to some i large city to spend it in debauchery. One day two travelers in Yemen prepared two fowls for dinner; but, the hour of prayer comiug on, they left them on the table and went to perform their devotions; meanwhile a fox came and stole one of the fowls. Af ter their prayers were finished, they saw the fox prowling about with their chicken in his mouth, so they pursued lym and he dropped it; on comiug up near to it, they found it to be only a piece of palm-fibre, which the fox had dropped to attract their attention, and had in the meantime crept round and carried off' the second chicken, and left them dinnerless. John Bright said the other day in the British House of Commons: “In the two years of the war between this country and the United States in 1812 and 1814, the American privateers captuiod no fewer than 1.500 English vessels of all sizes. If our tonnage has increased sixfold since that time, and if the United States have in creased their power tenfold, I should like to ask what would be the number of English ships that would be captured now in any war between this country and the United States. It seems to me a matter well wor thy of consideration.” St Louis upper-crust elevates its eyebrows in surprise over the recent reunion of J. B. C. Lucas and his divorced wife. Lucas who is a member of ono of the wealthiest families in tha Mississippi ialley married two years ago Miss Morton, a Louisville (Ky.) belle. Four months later a child was born, aud the shocked husband cast off his bride and seclu ded himself in the Minnesota woods. At last, however, his deep love for the erring wife triumphed, and he lias once more taken her to his bosom, forgiving all and adopting her illegitimate child. THE OLD MAN. One time there was an old man whose back was bent and his step slow. Men who gazed upon his snowy hair and wrinkled lace shook their heads and whispered to each other: “Jle is a good old man, who has not long to live.” The old man had been well off in his day; but when he found himself on the shady side of life, wife dead and home broken up, he said to his only son:—“Here, William, take all I have, and ! let your homo be my home until I die.” ! The sou took the papers—you bet he did; and the father was given a cosy corner, a big chair, and a corn-cob pipe. All went well for a year or so, and then ; the son and the son’s wife began to make it [ uncomfortable for the nice old man in the corner. They threw out hints, deprived j him of his comforts, and ou one cold day in j winter he was told that he had better go to Halifax—Nova Scotia. The old man’s heart was sore as he went out iuto the world to battle against hunger and cold, and when night came he cowered I in a doorway and wept like a child. “Who is making that chiu-music up j there?” called a reporter, whose steps had been arrested by the sobs; and he W'eut ub the steps, patted the old man on the back, i and sat by him until his story was told. “Come down to the station with me.” j said the reporter, taking the old man’s arm. “ if our son is lirst cousin to the man who j preferred buzzard to lamb, and I'll help you , tix him.” Next morning one of the daily papers | contained an item to the effect that an old gentleman named Goodliart had been found wandering the streets at night, and that, when taken to the station, ten thousand dollars’ worth of United States bonds were I found on him. The old man read it over three times, slapping his leg as he saw the point, and a beautiful smile covered his face and climbed up through his hair. In about an hour his son William rushed into the station, and called out: “Father! dear fatherl come home!” We t ■were crying all night long, and my wife is now lying in a comatose state on your ac count.” The old man went home with him, wink ing at the lamp-posts, and smiling as he turned the corners. Hu had all of his com forts back, and the son bought him a costly pipe and a pair of box-toed boots that very ! day. Well, as time went on, the son ventured to suggest that the bonds had better be turned over to him; and every time he said : “bonds” the old man would smile and turn the subject. I he other day the father went to bed to ; die, and he smiled oftener than before he 1 he lay waiting for the summons. The son said his heart was breaking, and then as went through the old man's clothes to And the bonds. He didn’t And any. He searched the barn, the garret and the cellar and fi nally when he saw that death was near, he leaned over the bed and whispered: “Father, do you know me?” “Oh, yes! I know you like a book?” re plied the dying man. “And, Father, don’t you see this thing is j killing me?” “Yes, William, I see it!” “And, father, those—tiiose bonds, you know. I suppose you want them used to purchase a monument?” “Yes! correct, William?” whispered the father, winking a gastly wink, and as the same old smile covered his face, death came to take him to a better home. When evening fell, the son and the sou's wife were wildly searching the straw bed to get their hands on those bonds. -- The Atlantic Monthly for June contains the very interesting closiug chapter of Mr. W. H. Bishop’s romance, “Detruold,” the story ending in a way that will prove satis factory to the most exacting reader. The “Imaginary Dialogue on Decorative Art” by John Trowbridge, will certainly at this time attract much attention. In “Days in June” more extracts are given from the journal of II. D. Thoreau. There is an ad mirable critical article on Doudan by T. S. Perry; and “New Books on Art” are ably reviewed by an anoymous writer, who dis | cusses Perkin’s “Raphael and Michelan I gelo,” Elliott's “Pottery and Porcelain,” Gardner’s “Home Interiors,” etc. The i sixth of Charles Dudley Warner’s delight ful papers, “The Adirondacks Verified,” treats of “Camping Out.” Richard Grant White in “England outlie Rails,” describes English railway traveling and travelers, and Mr. H. F. French in “Couut Pulaski’s Strange Power,” relates some curious inci dents which occurred on shipboard during a passage from Portland to Liverpool in i 1858. Henry Cabot Lodge contributes an exceeding interesting paper ou “Timothy Pickering;” and the “Unforseeu Results of the Alabama Disputes” are detailed by Mr. Arthus G. Sedgwick. The poems of the month are “Border Lands” by H. H., “Decoration Day” by Amelia D. Alden, “Closing Chords" by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, and a “Spring Song” by Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt. The exhibition at the Kurtz Gallery of the New Society of Artists, is critically' described in the “Open Letter from New York.” Ballou’s Monthly Magazine fob June. - I UC U line 1IUIIIUC1 III JJllbtUU a is as fresh and fargrant of good things as the roses of the month. There is not a single dull article in the whole book; and, as people want some tiling to occupy their time and minds, we can do no better than commend them to buy or subscribe for Bal lou’s. They will find it all that the most particular and fastidious could desire. The contents embraces such articles as “Home wardens;" "inank won: “My trainer's Wife:” “A Love Song;” “The Astrologer’s Tower;” “Raised from the Dead;” “On the River Bridge;” “Hanging Failures;” “The Daughter of the Palatine;” “Why the Doctor Married;” Three Rainy Days;” “The Cold-Water Pledge;” “How Mrs. Malcolm found her Bread;” “Out of a Fash ion-Plate;” “Lines to A. G. W.;” “Recol lections of Other Days;” “In Pawn;” “The Lady in Green,” “Almost Homeless;” “Content;” “Our Young People's Story Teller—“My Life’s Lesson;” “Ruthveu's Puzzle Page;” “Editorial Notes;” “The Housekeeper;” “Curious Matters;” “Things Pleasant aud Otherwise;” “Our Picture Gallery” (humorous illustrations). Please remember that this charming magazine is only 15 cents a copy, or $1.50 per year, post paid. Published by Thornes & Talbot, , 23 Hawley Street, Boston, and for sale at all the periodical depots in the country. The most venerable couple in Texas, per haps in the country, are Mr. and Mrs. Rob inson of Mountain City. He is reputed to be 103, and she 102 years old, and they were married in Kentucky eighty-two years ago. Mr. Robinson says he never swore but one oath, has never borrowed but fifty cents, and never gave a note. He and his wife are like children in their devotion to each other and after any separation shed tears ou meeting. Recently they were presented with a comfortable house by a generous neighbor. The Prince of Wales has had the pleas ure of casting his own statue in the pres ence of a distinguished company assembled at a foundry iu London. By simply lifting a lever the Prince allowed some eight tons of metal How into a mould, from which will come an equestrian statue of England's fu ture king, to be presented to the city of Bombay by Sir Albert Sasson, in commem oration of the Prince to India. A good little boy who was kicked by a mule did uot say naughty words or go home crying to his mother. He just tied the mule within live feet of a beehive, backed him round to it, and let him kick. Governor C. C. Washburn, who lost so much money by the Minneapolis mill ex plosion, has very generously contributed $1,000 to the fund for the relief of the wid ows and orphans of the killed. TRUE LOVE INDEED. Washington, May 15.—The mischievous god has shot his flower tipped arrows into ancient circles, and among the desperately wounded are the Hon. Thomas Swann of Maryland and Mrs. J. W. Thompson of Trenton, N. J. Gov. Swann is nearly three score years and ten; his scant locks are sil very gray. For many years he was Presi dent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. In those days he was politically a Whig. Later he became one of the pil lars of the Know Nothing party, and under the notorious Plug Ugly regime was twice elected Mayor of Baltimore. During the war his sympathies were with the South, and he gradually drifted to the Democracy. Being rich and powerful, he soon became a leader, and was elected Governor of Mary land. While in this position he was chosen United States Senator by the Legislature, but declined the proffered honor because the then Lieutenant-Governor was a Repub lican, and he deemed it impolitic to place the State Government in his hands. After the expiration of the gubernatorial term he was elected to Congress, and is now serving his fifth term in that body. Only a few weeks since his will was made public, wherein he bequeaths about $5,000, 000 to his children, graudchildren and great grandchildren. Next we hear of his ap proaching nuptials with the widow Thomp son, relict of the renowued President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the man who raised Tom Scott from obscurity, and to whose position Scott has succeeded. The great railroad king left his widow with ready millions. She is a daughter of the late Aaron Ward of New York, a sister of Mrs. Samuel J. Randall, wife of the piesent Speaker of the House. Mrs. Thompson is one ot the most well-preserved women on the continent. Her varied accomplishments fit her for any society. She has traveled the world over, is blessed with excellent health, rare tact, charming manners, and altogether is considered the most fascinat ing woman in New Jersey. The wedding will occur before the summer solstice, and the billing and cooing season will be spent in Europe. The Law on Recent Fashions.—In an indirect way the Supreme Court of Penn sylvania has been called upon to decide the important question as to whether a w oman has any legal right to wear stays. It gal lantly says she has. The matter found its way into court after this fashion: A ladv was r idiII.O- in a horse car nnf crowded perhaps, but containing ladies enough to cover all the seats with their dresses so that this passenger had to stand up. The car stopped suddenly, aud she fell over, breaking her knee pan. ' She sued for damages. The company claimed contribu tory negligence on her part in that she did not take hold of the strap that is pro vided for standing passengers. She set up on the other hand that she could not reach or hold the strap owing to the stays which she wore, and that with the present fashions no lady could do so, at least without incon venience and possible injury. The lower court decided that the lady, in taking hold of a fellow passenger’s hand, had done all that was necessary, and that, under the circumstances, she was not obliged to stretch up to the strap. It awarded her about $5,000, and the Supreme Court, re viewing the case, declines to interfere. It is a question of some sociological import tnce to know how this decision would be received by the sex. At first glance it looks like a declaration in favor of woman’s rights, but it will scarcely stand analysis as such. It araoimk rAally t,, tlia official oroc.lamation that woman shall remain cramped, barrelled up, and unable to lift her arms, aud content only with clinging to some other per on’s hand for support. And this is what mod ern dress amounts to? Of corset is. Since the million dollar Manhattan Mar ket, New York, was opened in 1872—it was sold under foreclosure for $150,000—the number of stalls occupied has steadily di minished, until now there are ouly about half a dozen. It covers about four acres, and looks like a mammoth bird cage, the sparrows having taken possession of it for the last two or three years, and built their nests and hatched their young in the trus. sos that support the arched roof overhead. Three ineffectual attempts have been made to drive the sparrows out of the building, but they are now more numerous than ever. - ■ ■ ♦ ♦ — The Jews have a pious, but somewhat dangerous, practice at the feast they hold at Easter time of leaving the house door ajar that the Prophet Eli may enter in spirit and take his seat at the board. A thief in Paris last month, who was up to this, got into a dining room which was swept and garnished for the solemn occasion, and had just popped a tine piece of plate under his coat when he met the concierge, who, not recognizing a prophetic cut about the fel low, asked his business, and soon discovered what it was. The Solid South has cut itself off from all claim to magnanimous treatment for a long time to come. By its own confession Hayes has done more to pacify and rebuild it than Tilden could have done had he been Presi dent; and yet at the lirst opportunity it turns about and attempts to supplant Hayes by Tilden, at the risk of throwing the whole country into revolution. Aside from the reckless dishonesty of this conduct, it is the blackest specimen of ingratitude this generation has seen.—AT. T: Trihu E. B. Alter obtained a divorce from his wife in La Crosse, Wis. and was awarded by the Court the custody of their little girl. Mrs. Alter hid the child, and was committed to prison for contempt, the Judge saying that she would not be released until she obeyed his order. She declares that she will endure imprisonment for life rather than give up the child, and her acquaint ances say that she is a woman of her word. -.-♦ ♦ ■ Elam Potter is pushing a wheelbarrow from Albany to Sail Eraucisco. Ho wears very long hair and whiskers, and the wheel barrow is caudilv uainted, so that his arrival in a village causes excitement. Ho goes to a hotel, as previously arranged, and a crowd follows. Business at the bar is brisk while ho stays, and he gets a share of the profit. Probably his journey will terminate at the western limit of civilization and barrooms. -♦ ♦ ♦ After all, man is a generous beiug. Not long ago ono died in Massachusetts wno had been married only a year, and received a fortune of $50,000 from his wife. And what did he do when he found death staring him in the face! Not enrich his relatives, as he might have done; he willed it all back to her again, on the simple condition that ■she should not marry again. The noble man! A three-mile ride on a freight train, sus pended by his clothing from a hook on the side of the car, was the experience of a tramp the othe night at Oxford N. Y.— There was not a scratch upon him when rescued, but his mental suffering was in tense, as he expected to be dashed to pieces. He had been stealing a ride, and attempted to jump off while the cars were in motion. Trade dollars are no longer regarded as coin. They are received at the Mint as bul' lion and are valued at 93j cents. They, however, pass current in all business trans actions, everybody receiving them without complaint, the majority being glad to get them. -..-♦ ♦ - Mrs. Abbey Price, an aged lady residing with her husband and daughter at the Pha. laux, near Red Bank, fell down stairs on Friday and received injuries which resulted in her death.