The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-11-03
Editorial Mention,

IN Mississippi two Mormon mission
aries have been arrested on q charge Of
vagfancy, as they have plenty of money,
tits more than probable that test case
will be made of the affair.
TnE published report of al English
benevolent society says: "Notwithstand-
Jog the large amount paid for medicine
anil d icsl attendance, very few deaths
ooourred duting the year" This is de-
cidsdlse ough on the doctors.
DENNIS WHALEN, the Schuylkill county
Greenback candidate for poor director
has Withdrawn from the fight. Whalen
most bitterly denounces some unknown
for making tool of him. There is un-
doubtedly heavy discount on Green
bAckers in Schnylkill county this year.
TIE American Iron and Steel Associa-
tion has received statistics showing that
the imports of iron and steel from Great
Britain last month footed up 55,l4 tons
against &C, 633 tons for the previous
inonth. The total imports for the nine
months Of this year were $40. 079 tons
while for the corresponding period last
year they were 950. 905 TONS
AT Chicago, on Thursday evening of
( last week. large meeting of colorea
citizsns was held TO protest against the
recent decision of the Supreme Court on
the Civil Rights bill. The Rev. W. Polk,
pastoro of the church in which tho meet
ing was held, said; "This decision is an
insult'to our race. have always been
good Republican, but now I believe
we should give our allegiance to that
partyx1ich will give us our rights, even
ifitT runs the devils ticket or Ben But
lsr.f.
TIP! RYSDER, chairman Of the Green
back Stale Committee, has issued an ad-
dressscallipg upon the Observation-Disclosures
mensto stand by their flag, He predicts
the early arrival Of the worst panic ever
seen il this country If the principles of
thssGreenbackers should not be put into
practice Immediately, He condemhs the
national bankers for demanding in their
,receit convention 'the stoppace of the
silver coinage. the Eretiremeut OF the
grsenbacks and the perpetuation of the
national debt"
The quadrennial session of the Aneri
can Wesleyan Conference, held at Syra-
cuse, n. Y, has voted not to ordain any
Eperson who uses tobacco. A resolution
.was.also adopted declaring that the de-
cision OF the Supreme Court in the civil
rights cases opens the issues of the war
aud makes it possible for the people of
any State to trample on the thirteenth,
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to
The Constitution, and that if the Consti-
tuition does not give the citizens protec-
tion it is fatally defective, and should be
amended at once.
A CAREFUL perpsal of the leading po,
,4itical papers of this State, lead Us TO in
for that there is MUCK FEAR AND TREM
BLING on the part of both the great po
litical parties as to the result of next
lFueeday's election. The carrying of this
State is matter of vast importance, not
perhaps, SO far as the officls at stake are
concerned, but in view Of its effect OF
next years Presidential campaign. Il
the Democrats succeed in winning the
State this year, the chances for its goine
for Democratic President next year ar,
almost certainty. Hence. each party
will nss its utmost en- leavor 10 carry the
State next Tuesday.
A CABLE dispatch dated London, Oct
St-2:3Oa a. m. announces q startling
sensation on the previous night. TIVE
explosions took place almost simultane
ously, aud TIVE tunnels OF the under
ground railway fell In one many peopl,
were injured, and in the other grea
damage was done. The Euglish paper
do not hesitate to attribute these explo
sions to the Fenians The DAILY New
says, four rockets of dynamite are said t
have been fond near the spot, and adds
1T is quite impossible to avoid the con
clusioa that the mysterious explosions
were caused By foul play, aud it is quit,
needless to say that the outrage is at
tributed TO the. Irish
AT the funeral of the Russian novels
TIurguenieii, inst. Petersburg recently
there were. Deputies representing tn
Caucasus. Siberia, Finland, and eyel
Central Asia. One hundred aud seveht,
hix deputauons. each with an nppropriat
wreath. numbering altogether 2000 pei
sons OF both sexes, stretched away fror
the station through the crowded streets
With windows, balconies, and rooftop
ell occupied for a distance Of mile o
mnre toward the cemetery. Nearly a.
the learned and art societies of the capi
"a, were represented, as well as all civil
tAidd.s aud high class schools, the un
versities. the female gymuasia, foriy.on
lseTapape-s and magazines, the territoriG
HAssmblies aud nobility ofSt Petersbur
nod Novgorod, the town councils {
Nool4irh. tits, Samara, Moscow, an
st. Petersburg. the Imperial Academy {
seiences,and all the lyrical and drnmati
e'mpanies OF the two capitals. Twenty
two of the wreaths were carried by We
men.
A hTArENEST prepared for the use {
the Post Office Department shows tbs
=. toe total receipts from the postal seryiC
during the fiscal year ended June 81
1883. were sl5.5os.G72, nede mp as fo
lows; Letter postage paid in none!
STAG 2l9i box rents and branch oiiieel
$i.sS2, ,06l; iues ana penalties, 50, IS:
postage stamps, stamped envelopes
newspaper wrappers ana postal card
S4S,Ol4. 0l3; dead letters. Sl2 2SO; re'
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