The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-11-24
Our New York Letter.


NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 1877
we are watching the progress OF the Wander. |
bilt contested will case, as we would the evOu. |
ton OF a drama in the theatre and those Of us |
who haven't got dollar Of our own. or 'our
daddies" either. take grim comfort in listening |
TO the rattling OF the bones as the learned coun
sci on the side Of the disafeoted heirs, Mrs La
Baw ana her brother, Cornelius Vanderbilt pull
the skeletons from the closets Of the prlncey
mansion in Washington Square. This trial is
the mild sensation of the week, forming the
principal topic OF conver alton in the drawing.
rooms of Murray Hill and the Offices Of down
town" AS the evidence accumnlates there has
been none so morbdlv interesting as the
testimony OF the doctors, who attended the dy.
ing Commodore, and that of the sCalpel.wieldefs,
who carved him up after death. For two duys
last week the court room was ike the lecture
hall Of Surgeons College during clinical exer
cises. What dreary list Of ailments the rail
road king had une 10 almost content with not
being worth one hundred millions Of dollars as
he reads The catalogue Of the diseases And as
If Nature had not provided germs for enough
life-eapping conditions lie must needs meet with
railroad accident that broke his RIBS and drove
| them through his lungs, All this lie news to the
| great public, for as we nfe always led to look
| upon the Commodore as q remarh able eIamD'e
OF the preservation Of robust health through tLe
temperate use he made OF exlsteuCe. well re.
| member the last time saw him, and recall
| now that he certainly seemed man of iron.
was sitting on the porch of Judge Smiths hote
on Central Avenue Just beyond McComb's Dam
bridge, Idly watching the speeders flyinE by
one afternoon, when the we.known namble'
tonan team Of the Commodore came flashing
down the road. the nged driver ttine erect
holding the Teins with the grasp OF youth, keen.
ing his cleHr eyes on the Avenue ahead and
managing his costly horse flesh as If he were
q JOCKEY timing the pair on bet Hes
tough 'un," said a lounger, ,as he walRed into the
bar, and yet all the time the Hambletonian team
was drawing about twenty diseases, and the
physical memory Of railroad accident.
Judge Jere Black who is Mrs. La BaW,s
counsel, excites a great deal Of attention, and
more part cularly owing to the brilliant manner
in which he scalped MIR. L. w. StOughtOn our
new minister to Russia, in the course OF an art.
Gle in last Sundays sun on StOuGhtOn's review
OF Blacks Electoral Commission opinions He
is certainly an imposing looking gentleman. an
astute lawyer, and brilliant genius generally.
The LotOs Club dlDed him recently, and to
make matters even the friends OF StouRhton and
promn ent citizens generally, are going to give
the Russian minister q banquet at DelmOnicOs
] this week. StOu yhton is also remarkable
| looking man, but his face lacks force. He has
splendid gray hair that stands out like hedge,
and when you see him in q private bCx at the
theatre. he Is quite distfn0ue Illnatured peo-
pie say that he is dull and that he travels OIL his
hair. He wouldn't travel long on 1t through the
{ Indian couhtry. A brave would ride thous
and miles to take such a scalp, end would be
, stow as much pains upon the operation as Judge
Black did.
Your attention cannot have failed to be Mt
tracted to the immense number OF murders ant
sulciues to which this sensatiOn-lOving town II
being treated. There Is scarcely day tha
2 some new horror does not come to light and un
less 1t has exceptional circumstances emitting
4 1t to more honor the papers will merely para
graph it. The man HOusemRn, who mnrderet
his two ohiidron and Ohot hinseiI WIN proOob''
be deaa when this reaches you. Saddest CT a.
the dismal cluster OF incidents was 'ne suio'u'
OF the young bride, Mrs stuart VINO TOOK lauua
; mum in her handsome apartments al the b"rS
erly'' FIeneh nat nOtel'corner Oh Nlhth sVree
and Fifth Avenue, because her husband dranl
, to excess. There may be some motive In IN
- - case Of a neglected 6ridei but II the wives
Gotham "shumed OH" ior sueh reason lner
e would oe more wluowers IN new iork tnan 20
+ could snake a SUCK al. passed inc berNflY
4 TINS AFTERNOON ana "onuereu ho" T" was Una
young hahusome' inteAlSeh' Wo'uan' hNin
4 IN such palace OF plnce' cOu'u auo" esn.
: mehtansm 10 SO run AWAY WIN her' tqke
that the husDhhu WHO "cuiu ues'ec' MS iea
than years Dl1de 1or the Dottle'"as not "ort
l. dying TOR There are thousands oil young wive
i IN this city who'djump at such chance TO Dc
# come grass widows with seperate mainten
n ance. Turning INTO University Place went b
> the drug store where the poor thing. disguise
10 as her own servant, bought the drug
10 You have noticed also what o reputation Cei
S,nca NTrs leroy threw hersef into thelsk