The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-08-04


.would-if discovered give them much
more interest and significance. Hoken'
dauqua comes from "HUckiu" which
means "laud" and "Dookwe"--a "search. :.
ing for" "Coplay" comes from the or
iginal Indian word "Copeechan" which.
means "a fine running Stream" "Catas-
auqua" means "parcbed laud;" "Towa-
mensing wilderness; ;""Mauch hunk"
"bear mountain;" wyoming" %arge
plain" "Susquehanna," abroad shallow
river% and "Lehigh" comes from "Lech-
aw" which means West Branch.
THE grave-digger in Shakespeare said
that Hamlet bad been sent to England
because he was mad, but Hamlet's lun-
acy would not be noticed in that coun.
try as "they are all mad there Some
descendants of the many lunatics are
alive at present and one of the prevailing
alterations is connected with America.
Certain British holders of Confederate
bonds are making elaborate preparations
TO start an agitation for the payment Of
those securities, either by the United or
the Southern States. Holders of the
bonds may for,ify themselves with the
ancient maxim that "when the sky falls
we shall catch many swallows"
THERE were more than nine hundred
deaths from cholera, last Saturday, in
Egypt. Three English soldiers died on
Sunday aud the medical relief has not
yet arrived from Europe. Everything,
that stringent quarantine laws can do for
Europe or America has been done, and
prohibition has been placed upon the
importation at New York of all commod-
tiles from Bombay or Alexandria. Even
the mails are being subjected to Iisin-
fectants, and whole cart.loads of letters,
manuscripts and newspapers arrive in
our large cities all perforated in half
d, zen different places for the purpose OF
inserting carbolio acid or some other
health. preserver
RUsKIN says that seYen years of court
ship are necessary to happy marriage.
At that rate Bonedicta Price and Thomas
Barbour SHOULD be -four times and two
ever the happiest of the happy ones
Among the passengers on Monday. on the
American Liue Steamship british
Grown" was Miss Benedlcta Price, aged
sixty-three years. She was met on land
ing by her intended husband, Thomas
Barbour, aged seventy. The two had
been engaged for thirty years and had
not seen each other for twenty-eight
years. The meeting was tender, and the
happy couple at once started for min
lister at Fraukford by whom they were
immediattly married. Thomas has a
cooper's store and S2OO0 in bank.
WHY, there's nothing there that my
Matt couldn't do" said Mrs. Captain
Webb on Monday morning as she looked
into the Niagara whirlpool. The young
widow, who is only twenty four years of
age and of a're6ued lady-like appearance,
believes that Webb swan the rapids safe
ly but that he met his death by coming
in contact with tho jagged rocks at the
mouth of the whirlpool But there is
another aspect to the case. 1t is popu-
larly believed in England that Webb had
been for some time disgusted at having
outlived his fame, and as lie saw 10
prospect of making money in any other
way he had determined upon death in Nj
agira Falls, in that manner being able TO
leave for his wife and children the few
thousand dollars he had saved.
ALTH UGH cholera and small pox have
not as yet made serious ravages among
soldiers and sailors Of the United Stat S.
another epidemic is raging among army
and navy officers. Scarcely day passes
without some account of q military or
naval officer who has been arrested for
. duplicating his pay" The process is
as lying" An officer goes
to some tradesmln or banker with whom
he is acquainted and gives AN order upon
his paymaster for a months pay, the
order to be sent in at the end of the said
month. The officer receives the amount,
spends the money at a gaming table or
elsewhere, wants more of the "needful'
and procures it by giving another order
for the same months pay to another
frienl. That's now it's done.
JAMES CAREY, founder of the "Inyil ci-
bles," chief instigator Of the Phoenix
Park murders, and afterwards iniormtr
against the partners of his guilt, has met
his own death from the hand of an as
sassin. The English government sent
Carey, his wife and seven children under
the assumed named of Power, to Port
Elizabeth, South Africa. On the voyage
out Carey made the acquaintance of a
man named O'Donnell. Both passengers
changed ships at Cape Town for Cape
Elizabeth and last Saturday while the
ship WAS in Algoa Bay and Cary and o.
Donnell were drinking in the ships sa-
loon, O'Donnell shot Carey three times
ii presence of the informer's family.
Carey died within twenty minutes. o..
Donnell gave himself up to the authori.
ties, and was tried last Tue sday before q
magistrate at Port Elizabeth. When O..
Donnell has been punished we shall
probably have heard the lmst of a terrible
chapter in the history of British Rule il
| Ireland.
A SPECIAL correspondent of the Press
IN ireland, in expressing his opinions
that the country is only fit for grazing
makes the following suggestive CON
men!s: This wet climate is GROWN,
more humid year by Year 1t is getting