The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-01-15
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.

covering five grades of process ranging from
$50 to $3.50 per license, and footing UP to-
tai of $237,Sl5. There was total of g,O73
for the year, as against s,446 in
1879. There were 27 7493 births in 1880 as
against 25,573 in 1879. The total receipts
of live stock here was, beeves, GA, 1876, cows,
6,S6S calves, l77,269 sheep, 1856, ,269 (;
swine, l,722,6S7, being slight average in
crease over 1879. In round numbers, 4G 900
vaccinations were made by the Board of
Health. A total of 2O,sOS immigrants
landed at Castle Garden, exceeding the hu-
man receipts at this port on any previous
year. In 1879 it was 1856, ,070, and the near
est approach to 1880 was 1854, when 3Ig,-
223 persons came to us from the effete des
potisms. Since the Commission of Immi-
grafton was organized 81 years ago, in 1S47,
the grand total is GIFTS Of those who
arrived last year the Labor Bureau found
employment for 39,50S people, as against
1888 in 1879. The number OF failures re-
ported was 344, with aggregate Liabilities OF
SIS, ,291 ,5S2 and assets amounting TO SS, ,l46,-
29l. While the gross liabilities exceed those
OF 1879 by nearly $1,000 900, the number Of
failures is % per cent less, and is the small
est since the panic of 1873. More than hall
the total liabilities of 80 are included in
eight failures in the coffee, cigar, grocery
and iron trades, thus showing in general re-
suits that the proportion OF. liabilities To the
number Of failures is much smaller than for
the past decade. There were four failures
each upwards of $1,000, 900; four between
$780, 900 and 81 ,O00, 900; five between 5000,
600 and $780, 900; nine between Sl00 900
and $500, 900, fifteen between $50 900 and
100000, and 307 in which the Liabilities
were under $50, 900 each. Among these un-
fortunates was one lawyer, and, most won
derful Of all, one plumber The names oil
no newspaper men appear in the list pos
sibly because they all made plenty of mon
ey, possibly because they had nothing to
lose While the statisticians appear to have
overlooked the matter, can see no legiti-
mate reason why John Kelly's political fail
ure should not be appropriately included in
the list; liabilities and assets badly mixed,
made up promiscuously of unfulhlled
pledges, "deals" with the political enemy,
two newspapers-bothd daily, political power
fatally telescoped, wholesale abuse from
both parties and bulldog determination
TO get even with the follow who went back
on him at the wrong moment. The figures
showing the wholesale and retail trade for
1850 are impossible even to approximate till
later in the month, but | am informed on
the best of authority that in the dry goods
business Lord & TAYLOR is a long distance
ahead. There are plenty Of other figures to
be obtained but | think what have given
will serve as samples, and | will only add
that the city budget for 1881 calls for S29,.
854 1922, or an increase of $l,7ll, $3.50 over
1880. If the bucolic lawmakers at Albany
will let us alone tor year it will not cost
much in 1882 TO run the city machinery. II
is interesting TO notice how the funds ior the
expenses of the City Government for the
current year are divided: Common Council
S64,250i Finance Department, $2O5,S7O
Law, $l4S,l4s; Public Works, S2,445 $50;
Parks, $64l 500; Police, $3.400 ,74O; Street
cleaning, S735 900; Fire, 81 ,56S,959; Health
S2Tl ,063; Charities and Correction, 81 ,4S7,.
4l6; Education, $S,6O2, ,095; Election Ex-
peDses, Sl6l, ,l50, and so on to the end Of the
chapter.
Quite disconnected with this arthmttical
farewell dress parade Cf the year that has
left us, but decidedly apropos of the inaugu-
ration Of 1881, was the fact that on the asl
day of 1880 the flags over the City Hall
were at half mast. Which was certainly
suggestive of dead hopes, dead ambitions
aud all the rest of that sort of sentimental
things; and while these emblems Of city
state and national glory swung sadly in the
breeze IL Was easy for many lonely heart
to recall the dear ones who were with us
only twelve months before, who would nev.
er more exchange with us glad greeting oi
the holiday time. The real cause for which
the flags were half. masted was the death ol
District Attorney Phelps, who was univer-
sally respected by men Of both parties lor
his sterling good qualities.
Speaking Of his death reminds me of a
somewhat singular coincidence. At his
funeral on Sunday which was attended by
a great number OF gentleman of local. and
not a few OF national prominence, a hymn
was sung, which Mr.. Phelps wrote in mem.
ory Of dead friend. On the same day AT a
memorial service in honor of the memory Of
the late Rev. Dr. Chaplin, held in Glouces.
ter, Mass hymn was sung which was
composed by the dead clergyman.
The end of the old year and the beginning
Of the new has been prolific of firesSnot an
uncomfortable thing TO read of in view Of
the recent demoralized condition of the tber.
mometer. Among these hres was the burn.
ing Of James X. Keene's Newport villa. in.
eluding what the redoubtable BON pira,,t
Sam Ward, pathetically characterized as "a
divine wine cellar" Another fire was the
destruction Of the Provost mansion, in th,
town Of Pelham, which is said to hayo beer
occupied at one time by Aaron Burr. The
latest important addition TO the list was the
total annihilation of Mt. ST. Vincents. il
Cenual Park, on Sunday morning, NOR,
recently and better known as "Stetson's.' ,
which has been private resort and res
taurant for sporting men and the genera
public. The part Of the building used fol
hotel purposes was over one hundred wear
old.
Considering the fact that Fahrenheit ba
been fooling around at all sorts of ridiculou
degrees below zero within the past week /
is highly edifying to read Of the case of bo,
who Was Overcome with the heat" AZ M,
Grand Opera House few nights since. i
hal the same grateful effect on ones feeling
as a genuine case Of sunstroke would proiue,
| in Alaska.
Mr.. Chester Lord, who succeeded "Doe'
Wood as night editor Of the Sns, ha. ,aLcl