The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-12-09
Our Philadelphia Letter.

PHlIA., Pa, Dec. 7, 1870.
DEAR siR,'-The Presidents message has been
by this tme-whispered by the electric wire
from one end Of the world to the other, Mar.
cnuo' has ponder upon IT, and In his Uerv
humble opinion, II seems 10 say Mt the start
You can't cNI ect one OF my ape
TO speak IN public on the stnge"
IRON hll can learn the message seems TO have
cnnsed much disappointment to Republicans
and Democrats alike. lt was certainly Thought
the President would have hnd something TO say
az regards tho unhappy state OF AFFAIRS In Louis
iaila. south Carolina and Florida-soinc sugges-
tion Which might be as oil upon the troubled
waters some idea which would have sustained
hts mossnge os regards an honest count " and
That the whole document would not have sayor.
cd 30 strongly Of hia most earnest desite TO
step down and out"
The cremation of the remains Of the late Bar.
on DePnlm, must certainly take de palnn for
nonsense ana parade ana outside Of furnishing
sensation Tor the newspapers think It likely
the Baron's idea Of Laving his cold corpus ronst.
ei ana burnt to ashes will be barren of results.
Billy Cannon, Of Jamaica, Long Island went
ont cunning, but though all reports agree that
he was n good Cannon, and had Ueun nt tcustum.
ed to the use Of his arms for several years. he
was unfortunate enough to load hi firearm to
sad result So Cannon lost his lett arm, and
therefore mad one arm only left, this s presum.
ing that his right arm was not injured and that
his ilrearm was blown to flinders"
The New York Herald says" Diphtheria
may be conveyed by Kissing" Look ont boys
and bc cautious, for II she has piece of funnel
round her neck there's no knowing what might
happen.
Posted on politics. In conrse I am" she said,
and then the old lady went on 10 say, she tho't
Mr.. Tilton had had enough trouble with that
ere Beecher case, let alone fOOlng with pOler-
tics and trying TO be President"
About this time, prepare to dust your old
Overshoes, and If you find they leak when you
wear them out in your first snow storm open
your heart and give them TO the poor.
The burning of the Brooklyn Theatre was
fearful thing nj bcst.but the pnric which seems
to have seized upon the audience undoubtedly
added great deal in increasing It's list of hor.
rOrs. OF course 1t IL well enough ts talk about
"presence of mind" but it does seem that
we should try and school ourselves aIl we pos.
sibly can rs to what We shoald try and do
should we be placed under like circumstances
In broad daylight yesterday morning, and In
New \ OrS city a brace of Tascals drove up 10
the store of an importer of spices and SUCH
opened the door with false keys and loaded the
wagon with $4,000 worth Of spices and vanilla
beans and then just as cody drove OF with
their acOmatic Dlunder
E. IL. Chamberlain does not want to bo n ''D.
H Governor, and Wade Hampton is anxious
to wade Fight in. This Is the situation Of af
fairs in South CarOlina-ln n nut shell.
And yet gold, III spite of the political situation
seems to keep on the tumble, though, Iegret
TO state that very little of it tumbles to
Yours, ready to take it,
MAnCUIIO.