The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-08-09

lows about Washington, and some Of them
have carried their jokes SO far as to propose
the appointment of General Grant as Minis
ter to Britain, i'm place Of Mr.Welsh, resigned |
This would be one way Of shelving q candi. |
date for the Presidency, though after all he
might be elected President whilst In Britain,
supposing the nomination to be made and
accepted. We, however, fear that General
Grant would be no more experienced in the
ways Of this wicked world than poor General
schenck, who in his simplicity allowed him
self while United States Minister to Britain
to endorse the Little Emma Mine swindle.
Your Generals are not usually business men.
Some are apt through ignorance to allow IA
vorites and contractors and rings to 60 sad
lengths. The man who appointed Belknap
and then saved him from impeachment,
who sustained Shepherd and Bobcock and
Robson, and many similar officials through
thick and thin, couldn't be a safe represen-
tative Of this country abroad, any more than
a safe President at home, however honest
he may be himself
1t is supposed that the Women of Lynn,
Mass, will muster two hundred voters at
the next election for School Committee.
The Chicago Tribune" whose chief
political plank seems to be the unlimited
coinage of silver, thinks that Blaine is the
strongest candidate for the Republican
Presidential nomination.
The Democrats of Wisconsin have put
off the meeting of their state convention
until the 9th of September, as is asserted for
the purpose of perlecting an alliance with
the Greenbackers.
The young lady who was recently elect
ed State Librarian of Indiana has been
married, ond it is held that she cannot be
both wife and librarian, and she is asked to
resign. This she declines to do.
As one result of the greenback craze in
Maine it is related that woman who had
$500 in Confederate bills travelled n long
distance to Bangor with the firm belief that
she would be able to sell them and get a
) large sum in greenbacks in return.
Lucy Stone has written to the town clerl,
of Amherst, Mass, asking him to find some
public spirited woman to circulate a paper
among the women there giving information
about the female suffrage law but he can
not find such canvassor.
-Ex- Governor Charles Robinson of Kan
sas, an old abolitonst now revisting Mas
sachusetts, says the immigration of colored
people to Kansas has ended, and that there
is o great deal less talk about the southern
exodus in that state than there is in New
England.
: John Allen, an old speaker well known
at Maine camp meetings, was requested by
a Greenbacker of that state few days ago
to attend a greenback meeting and open il
with prayer. The old man hesitatod, but
at last said, "Well, brother, guess will
the lord knows you need praying for bad
enough
Parker Pllsbury, the veteran Maine
politician, delivered an austere discourse a
Portland last Monday, in the course o
, which he predicted that ere long the coun
try would be given over to communists anC
plunderers. He happily described the Green
back theory as one which would give us {
system in which "only one dollar in fy'
could say 4 know that my redeemcr lv
, eth"