The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1875-06-19
Our Mauch Chunk Letter F..
MAUcu CHUNK, Pa, June 10, 1

Our MauCh Chunk Letter.
MAUCH CHUNK, Pa, June 10. 1875
Opening my note book, to pore over and ar
range its contents emile Of satisfaction steals
over my countenance as reflect that, for once
should find myself more than ordinarily well
supplied with choice morsels Of stockin-trado.
To thlnk that one young man should have
ruined himself by indulging in over.partialty
for registered letters, and another should have
succeeded In securing free board and lodging at
the county Jail by the too careless use he made
of a deadly weapon, are not very pleasing refec.
tions to the Qutd nunc however, they are as
welcome to us as a resurrected coIpse to the
students in the dissecting What, indeed.
would doctors and newsmonRers do were they
without subjects for treatmenti They are the
cOndttto slno qua non of heir existence.
Rumors Of approaching resumption once more
greet our ears, but since we have been "fooled''
so often heretofore, twere best not to give cred
ence to a report Of IA contamination deyoutly
to be wished" until we know It to be fact I
for one have lost all taste for further hing
ging of the delusive phantom" and. since in
time we ahall learn the truo story, let's abide It.
Otherwise all is quiet-only too quiet for the
season-in Switzerland" i" hotel proprietors look
despondiagly sad. aBd the rest Of mankind not
very cheerful. Thus we goi
Yours. &C., cAvENDIsH.
Dashes Here and There.
What a pity 1t is that human curiosity
should so frequently lead TO disastrous results
1t was the curiosity Of mother Eve which caus-
ed the ancestral pair to be driven from the fra
grant precincts of Eden, and from that day to
this their progeny have continued their erratic
mission on eartn. That fatal tree Of knowledgel
how many nave been its victims. But for II,
young S.F.Weston would notnow be Endurance
vle Naturally OF an inquisitive mind, this
poor ad nad a psrtealaf s nanEerhg oy 20 expSas as
a "sub." by til mail carrier, 1t was IN this en-
pacity that he tried to make himself more par.
sorting and changing tho mails. In cOnse-
Quence OF the aforesaid hankerng after kn0wl-
edge, # Is but natural to suppose that 1t was at
such times, while he was assisting the p0stm1s.
tress OF her clerk, that he had abstracted what
letters were subsequently found as missing.
day which ghould put q period to his thirst for
know, edge. Assisting rs usual at sorting the
down mail received by L. g. s. r. r.. and per-
he took and concealed it about his person. un-
conscious that by doing so he would onter the
Hady baS 1Sf he e the s than special
Agent Of the Department, Eugene Lewis en-.
tered, and, having listied himself that the
carrier, whom he took into custody OF no great
distance from the Post.office; and, searching
him, found the decoy package hid as above.
Once under arrest, young Weston did the best
and only thing he could dO-he confessed, stat
ing the number OF letters purloiued at twelve.
Including he one taken from him Dy the detec,
hye The envelopes of Dll but one he stated to
have burned in the kitchen stove-the other, he
siid, he had thrown in well. Having enjoyed
the hospitality Of the Mansion House, until 72O
p. NJ, he was thence taken to Philadelphia to
repent at leisure of his ''hankering after knOwl
edge" AT a subsequent hearing before United
Gtafa Gnpn .taain Atthu ~Inif Waatn
was held Tor trial in default of g. bail.
Quite q commotion 6sas caused Saturday
evening last, when it became generally known
throughout the town that George Sprowl. O
young man. and resident OF this place. had been
shot, and seriously wounded, in front OF the
American Hotel. Repairing to the spot. found
| the rumor only too true. That "Sprowley" as
| he is famiarly called, should have been used as
| q target, without the least provocation on his
| part had the effect TO greatly increase the as.
| sembled multitude, and Dut for tho promptn ness
| with which after short hearing before EsQuiIe
Yeager, High Constable Painter had conveyed
the culprrt to the jail, serious consequences af
| fecting his personal safety might have res ulted.
| 30 foul an act had heen one John Ii. Race a
| Philadelphlan, who for several weeks had been
employed BY 3. f. Laurish ESD, as paper.
at the time of the shooting the lntter had been
engaged in conversation with Several other
young men unsuspicious of threatening harm.
| SDrOwl, ut this writing, Thursday is doing
well, although the ball nus entered the abdorni.
nal region. and has not been found, strong hopes
| are entertained of his eventual recovery. No
| reason has been assigned, or can be cOnjectured
that could have melted Race to the commission
| Of the act but since the perpetrator Is SAID u
| have been considerably under the influence OF
Alcoholic stimulents at the time, the most pre-
vaent theory Is that he cit or did not know
| what he was about. or did 10 from sheer wanton
| ness. He Is aid to be the son Of respectable
| parents, and an excellent mechanics neither o.
which, however, nor the plea Of intoxication
| m la an
| deserves.
Entering the Office OF K. r. Siewers Esq,
our jovial District Attorney. several days ago.
founu him busily engaged preparing the Com
mOnwealth cases for trial ut the next term o.
Court. which cOnvenes Monday next This MAJ
not be very pleasant news To parties impl Gated
Mr.. John Yeake.s Centennial Almanac hai
this week done service at the Allentown Fair.
Mr.. A. Ii. Tobias, the insurance man. is tn,
only individual know Of who Obstnately re
fuses to JOIN the universal order OF croakers
He declares business to be about rs good a
usual W tn him. Happy man.
Mr.. b. F. chnse, am informed, is meeting
with much encouragement on the part of tn
citizens Of Lehlghton in his endeayors to estat
lish glass factory. Glad TO hear lt. IL show
that Lehightonians properly appreciate thei
Interests.
, No sooner had they heard of the destitutio
cased by the recent forest fires in the PIN
swamp than number of Mauch Chunk ladies
charltabiy disposed. collected and forwarded 70
distribution among the sufferers, from three {
four hundred dollars worth OF useful goods
weai ing apparel, etc. When We cOnsider III
. unostentstious manner IN which this charit
has been performed, II becomes only tho NOR
/ praiseworthy.
AT a late visit at Albright a stroh's four
dry, found the hands about as busy % usua
Last Monday this firm shipped Two OF Plumb
Patent Coal Jigs, and are now constructing sc,
eral more These Jigs appear 10 grow in favo
and since Messrs. Albright d StrOh are the sol
r manufacturers nf the same the resumption
, | operations promises TO them u Ian ge influx
] orders for this useful oOntTivance.
Since fish stories viii continue TO DO tol,
S our resders win do well to receive all stat
] ments concerning the size, number, and kin6