The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-09-08

patriot, and benefactor Of the human
race.
WILLIAM MARwooD, who has been the
public hangmau in England since Cal
craft resigned n 1874, died on Tuesday
morning, He was about sixty years of
age, and during his term of Office had
turned or as he used to say-more
than hundred of his fellow men. In
his quiet home at Horncastle, Lincoln
shire, when not engaged in vindicating
the majesty of the law, he carried on the
trade of shoemaker ON week days, and on
Sundays officiated as Methodist preach |
er The preparation of soles for boots,
or, spelled in another manner, for Heav-
en-, be regarded as subordinate duties |
Hanging was his vocation. William
seems to have been a mild-mannered
man aud popular with the neighbors.
BY certain classes he was not held in
high esteem, but his country could well
have spared nicer man.
MoNcuRE CONWAY, from England, who
has started from San Francisco for a
voyage round the world, spent some days
among the Mormons and made the ac-
quaintance of Brigham Young's sor.
The latter explained that "courtship
goes on among the Mormons rs 1t does
among Gentiles. 1 believe in love, but
not ln infatuation. Whatever woman
may suppose that she loses by being one
among other wives she is compensated
far in greater devotion to her children,
for, in our system, the maternal feelings
are regarded ss supreme. These feelings
also increase the affection Of man, who
cannot fail to feel q deep tenderness fer
the mother of his children. 1t must be
remembered that in our faith this feeling
concerning the production of the race is
profoundly religious one, and brings a
happiness which we believe Is not real
lied where the relations are merely
worldly Even after this unutterable
"rot" and fnlsehood, Conway considers
that Young, Jr. makes out plausible
case for his people!
; FIFTY years ago, from Tuesday last, on
the 4th of September 1888, the first daily
copy ofthe New York Sun was pu' lished.
We have been furnished with n fac-simile
: of the sheet. 1t is four-paged paper,
as at present, and twelve inches square.
1t contains an Irish story, O few columns
of advertisements, some police news and
is padded throughout with a very mild,
I small-boy class of anecdotes. On the
date mentiored. the Sun was issued by a
Yankee job printer, frcm Springfield,
Mass, whose name was Benjamin II
, Day. The first edition issued numbered
r three hundred. The price was only q
peIny, and as the other New York
r papers were six pence the young printer
made an immediate success. He was
y agreeably surprised to find thatsa great
8 many people more than he expected
e were ready to give one penny, in prefer.
= ence to six, for anything in the shape Of
4 q newspaper. The entire working force
= Of the establishment, physical and H.
tellectual, was supplied by one man and
boy, and the proprietor was mighty
. we'll pleased to placed three, four or tiv,
dollars in his pocket each day as thu
gross receipts of the establishment. A
} the present date Charles A. Dana draw
= $25, 900 month, after all expenses paid
y as his share of the profits in that grea
l. "president-making Sun, which "shine
for ALI and turns rascals out"
. THE sparrow may be the pest and nu 6
- ance many describe him, but it is doubt
- full if one out of q hundred denouncin
70 HIM knows him to be such. There ar
- two sides to the sparrow question, an
W those who have taken up the cudgels i
his defense as rule will have the &C
vantage of personal observations in thei
y favor. 1t is said by such that the spai
row is not exterminating the song birds
at as alleged, and that lie is friend {
u man through the work be does in tb
&c destruction CT insects and worms that il
n Hict damage upon shrubs. fruit and vel
b. citation. That the little fellow can figl
"a his own battles is not good indictmer
u against him. Courage is quality TIL
ne should command respect Wheeler e.
al hibited by man, beast or bird. B,snl
Is | n xror IF determination ic denlarad q uo In,
'e. the sparrow there should be thoroug
n Investigation of and report on his oner,
n tions, lest we Re found fighting and d,
n stoying friend instead of an enemy.