The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-12-08
Our New York Letter.
New York, Nov, 80, l,

A very romantic scandal is being men
toned gngerly by the press regarding
Councillor Stoughton, minister appointed to
Russia, which presents many strange and
dramatic features. This gay butterfly, who
is the admired of all admirers in fashionable
circles, met in 1864 at the Boarding House
of Mrs. Young, in 10Th Street, a charming
Southern woman whose husband was then
fighting in the Confederate armies. An
equivocal intimacy continued for five years,
he paying the fascinating lady's expenses.
Stoughton's relatives, however, objected to
the liason and had the lady conveyed to the
Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum on a false
charge of being insane. She was released,
but the late Judge Bowling kidnapped her
one day on Broadway and sent her to Black
wells Island. She managed to get out and
brought suit against her quandom admirer
for 100000, employing Edwin James, an
English lawyer of questionable reputation,
who came here under a cloud. James
weedled her cut of the passionate tropical
love letters written by her ardent admirer,
and on receipt of heavy fee from the de-
fendant, abandoned the case. The late
Councillor jerks of Brooklyn, took up the
case but it was settled by an injunction speci-
flying that the suit should be permanently
abandoned, which injunction was obtained
at corrupt secret star chamber held by
Judge Cordozo. When the State Senate
Investigating Committee examined the re-
cords of this disreputable Jurist he was dis
missed from the bench. The lady's poverty,
though not her will, compelled her to accept
a compromise. Last week she came to New
York and meeting the Judge in china
shop, addressed some casual remark He
rushed out and jumped into an omnibus,
she following him like his evil genius He
only remarked, "What's in the wind ?" She
said nothing. but on Friday last there was a
Romance in the columns of the Express, Civ
ing detailed account of the affair but with
holding the names. The injured woman is
appealing to the President, and the Judge
may possibly be requested to postpone his
mission to Russia indefinitely. Mrs. Car
the lady in question, who resides at Balti-
moreis the mother oftwo of the most beauti-
full womeh in city where the most fascina-
ting beauties is the rule and not the excep-
ton.
Now that Libby O'Bren has escaped from
the Catholic Protectory, to which she was
sent some time ago, people who live on
French Flats-and nearly all of us live that
way who do not live in Boarding Houses
had better see to it that they do not leave
their dresses and valuables laying about
carclessly. And why? l can hear the far
away reader ask. l will tell you. Libby
O'Brien, who is only thirteen years of age,
who is pretty, and has blue eyes, and who
sings pathetic ballads, is the most expert
sneak thief in the country. I forgot now
whether | told you about it or not, but when
she was sent to the Catholic Protectory
about month ago, there were at least one
hundred robberies entered against her name.
Last Wednesday, when they counted heads
at the Protectory, Libby's was not there.
She is evidently in New York city at this
writing, placidly pursuing the pursuit of the
electric bell, that time-saving contrivance of
the Flat system, which allows the servant
girl in the fifth story to open the street door
10y merely pressing knob set in the wall.
Libby walks in and has the range of the
house. CeSt tout.
There was an awful crush the other eve
ming at the Vanderbilt-Twombley wedding,
and SO far as eXtelior appearances were con-
cerned, the entire affair was like a raree
show. As a matter of fact the vulgar public
was attracted to the church simply because
the bride was the granddaughter of the
many times millionaire whose character,
habits and body are being cruelty dssected
in the contested will case. regret to state
that family with so much money as the
Nanderbilts possess, is not looked upon in
New York with any degree of respect We |
are such parvenu city that we know a par
venu on sight, and, as is generally the case,
we dislike the class. The Graphic, the 9th. |
er evening, spoke Of the Vanderbilts as be-
ing coarse, and the last number of P,.ck-a |
clever German English satire-the English |
edition Of which is brilliantly edited by sgd
ney Rosenfcld, our journalistic DIsraeli has
a series of comics by Keppler, showing in
the most scathing way the dust-licking at
titude of William H., when in dealings with
the Commodore. BATTERY.