The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-03-21
Current I,ems.

The Virginia penltenttry Is not only
,self-sustained. but has balance in its
favor Of S1l, 900.
Mexieo is mending She has had
three months of uninterrupted peace,
all kinds of bl siness impi owing In con-
sequence.
1T is said that Simmons, the Boston
( oileetor Of Customs Il ALREADY very
wealthy, having made at least si20, 900
las q Government spy.
A highway robbrr, captured in Maine
the Other day, lIoved to .e graduate
from Harvard, bnt after all his rduca'
ton was help to him, az he pleaded
his own case and got of with three
months in Jail.
About 100000 bushels of grain,
half of which is said to be wheat, are
locked up in the Erie Canal.
Pittshurg has doubled its corporate
debt within two years, besides having
expended FROM four TO six millions
on streets and avenCes. The citizens
are beginning TO investigate.
The Indians threaten trouble In Man
itOba. The chiefs demanded an abrO-
CATION of treaties made last fall, by
which their reserves were circumscrib
ed. They also complain that the
whites are cutting their timber.
OF 700 male convcis once in State
Prison at Auburn, 600 were there for
crime committed under the influence oi
liluor; 500 of whom testified that Wing
tobacco was the beginning of their in
temperate habits.
Mt. Carmel, March 15.-The engine,
boiler aud shaft houses of Alaska shaft
were burned this evening, and belonged
to the Philadelphia Coal anu Iron Com
pany. The cause of the fire is not
kn.own. Buildings all new and not yet
completed. New works are just in
construction.
The man who answered an advertise
ment to the following effect had his
curiosity satisfied: "If yOn would learn
to make home happy send fifty cents in
postage stamps to A. B., &C." Upon
receipt OF postage stamps, A. b. replied,
your home would be more happy If
you were less frequently Il ere."
The jury In the case of Woodhull and
Clafiin, on trial for libelii e Luther
Challis, returned a verdict Of not guilty
Monday morning. Judge Sutherland
characterized the verdict as one of the
most outrageous lie had eyer heard.
The women left the courtroom cheer.
ed by their friends.
A meeting of coored and white Re-
publicans of Brookhaven, Mass, to
nominate town officers was not cbarac.
terized by harmony. A man named
Rivers said something insulting to n
man named Baker. Baker drew a hat
chet from under his coat, and knOek
followed, including the Postmaster. Pis-
tols were drawn, but no votes lost.
Brooklyn, March IA bloody ira
gedy was enacted In Brooklyn this
morning, by a watcbman named Della
ney, without any quarrel whatever, and
while, it is stated, perfectly sober, at
tackled his wife wifi hatchrt and beat
her head into a shapeless mass. The
assassin then cut his own throat. almost
severing his head from his body. His
wife is lingering oil the point of death,
without the slgl test hopes OF recovery.
A SOIL ten years of age states that there
was no quarrel, and the first he knew
of it was the blood of his fathers wound
spontng over him.
Nine. Bazaine, accompanied by hel
two children, paid visit to tho Mar
shal at the Isle of st. Marguerite on Feb
l6. The Marshal walks Tor two hour'
of each day in the court yard or RardeI
of the building in which he is imprison
ed. The ferryman of the island, whit
Is also sutler to the garrison, supplies
his food. The garrison il now colnpos
ed Of ninety soldiers OF a line Fegimen
under command of a captain, and TN
prison has five wardens.
Philadelphia, March 7.-The Even
ing Bulletin of today publishes
lengthy and interesting description O
the treatment Of the insane poor in Ger
tain county almshouses in Pennsyl
vania. The Balletin states thai terrbl
abuses have grown up in this connec
tion which only need exposure to brin
about a speedy reform, and announce
Its intention of publishing all the fact
that can be obtained concerning thes
abuses. A visit 10 one county poo
house betrayed terribly condition {
affairs in the insane department. A
sanitary measures were neglected, All
q sickening odOr prevailed in the depai
ment named The insane paupers WEI
confined In wooden cages, having onl
a small opening protected by iron bal
TO admit air and light. Tile ipteripI
OF the cages we're covered with piles
dry straw and filth, and the atmosIhtl
was indeScribabla. In cage M. WI
an agricultural laborer, clad in rag
He vas quiet and ciYil, his Gerang'
ment not being of violent charaete
He had been shut up in the filthy b,
for eighteen months. simply beau
they had no other place to pvt him !
In the other cages the scenes present
were even more inhuman and revolt n
The unfortunate inmates were netr
naked. two of them wholly so. Tn
crOuched among the straw and litter
their dens, some asleep or In a stupC
and all suffering greatly from the wa
ton neglect of their keepers. Sol
could not rise from weakness, tn
limbs having bern SO long in cr0uc
inu attituls thau cnuld NOT n,nx,., la,