The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-01-13
Editorial Mention.

THE tonnage launohed at Glasgow in
1859 was 81 7t9; ia 1862 1872 $40; in
1879, l74,75O; in 1882, 3ol, 1884,
GovERNoRsHoST will rcmo1e from the
Executive Mansion TO the Lochisl Hotel
on Monday next. Goveroor-elect Patti
soa will occupy apartments at the Bolton
House from Monday uutil after his in
auguration on Tuesday.
VI. STANIsLArs MARTIN states that, as
the result Of an experiment on three
different criminals sentenced to death
who accepted the scientific trinl in pref
sreuce to hanging, No. /, nourished e1-
elusively on TIA, lived three years, and
than died. He had BECOME elMost
skeIetoa aud was in transparent con-
aitioR. No. 2, on eoff-e. died in two
years, burned as if IA tinteri " Ere had
calcinsd bin. No. 8 lived en- choec ecla.e
for eight months, aud died in very sa-
vsnseA state Of rottenuess, AMI, as ii
were, devoured by worms.
TIE International Exhibition st Ans
terdAm. which is 10 DO held this yeai,
promises to be very considerable affair.
Holland has awakened from the letharEy
vita which the prof, ct was Arst regarded
and great preparations are being slready
made for the reception Of the many thou
sands Of e1pectei visitors. a thousand
Dutch 6rmS have already entered their
names "a exhibitors, and demaud 5000
square yards of spncc. B lg.um surpas-
ses this figure. Germany is sending a
large number Of exhibits, including those
Of the house of Krupp. Eugland is said
to be fairly represented.
IL opening the winter semester lately,
the rector of the University of Leipsic
mentioned that of twelve students who
had died during last session, only four
sucounbed to natural causes. One fell
in duel, and six had committed suicide,
This would bear ont The statement of a
the kingdom of Ssxony is "the Chimbor.
axo of suicide" In Saxony the number
of those who take their own lives is alb.
solutely greater than that of any other
country ia Europe. Its population is
certainly denser, but no one has YET
given anything like q plausible COM
plete explanation of this suicidal mania.
The Civil-ServiCe Reform Association
Of Philadelphia has just published
Pamphlet No. s of its series, "How you
may aid Civil-Service Reform" 1t is q
terse statement of4 aims and methods,
with foot-noto references to the various
publications Of the Associations in New
York and Philadelphia which give de.
tails and facts in full, and the cover
gives the prices of these, together with q
list OF oil the Associations and Secretaries
in the United States. The reader is thus
enabled to reach all the literature upor
this important subject. No. 8 may bi
obtained by enclosing cents in stamp!
to r. Francis Wood, Esq, Secretar,
Civil-Service Reform Association, 263 S
4th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
DURING debate in the House of Rer
rosentstives on the District OF Columbit
appropriation bill, Friday, Mr.. Klotz, o
this State, charged that enc of the en-
ployees of the House was in the emplo,
Of the Washington Gas Company, snt
that no matter of legislation affecting III
Interests of the company could transpir
il Congress without this person notify
isg his employers outside. The man t.
whom Mr.. Klotz is supposed to have re
fsrred is Dir. Bailey, Chief Clerk in tn
Office of Clerk Mcpherson. Mr.. Murcb
al Maine, has prepared resolution pro
vi ling for an investigation of this charge
Mr. Mnrch tried twice on Saturday t
get his resolution before the House. bu
he was prevented from so doing by tn
ruling of the Speaker and the objection
of Mr.. Nenle.
CHIEF CLERK MEEK, of the House O
Representatives, last Monday made hi
selections of pages and scrubwomen, ant
tine effect is great disappointment amoni
che numerous applicants. The numbe
of pages employed at the several pas
sessions has been fifteen, but Meek La
chosen only six, in the belief that tie,
will be adequate to the accommodation
ofthe officers and members of tie House
The number of scrubwomen ! MS beel
reduced from one hundred and fifteen {,
sixty-five. By this stroke Of reicrn
Chief Clerk Meek viii reduce the ex
penses Of the House about 50, 500 IN
session of one hundred days. If th
Democratic House caucus should ratif'
the action of the committee on reducticl
of offices the total reduction Of expenses
ineluling that projected by Mr. Meek
will be about $4,000
IT is estimated that at least 10 O0
looms and probably 200, 600 spirdles ar
idle in the cotton aud Woolleu mills @
Philadelphia, in consequence of con
T tiaued depression iu the trade. At th
usual rate of running these machine
this means total loss OF work for be
tween 5000 and COCO operatives. Will
ten times as many are working at reduce,
wages and shortened time. A leadin
mill owner said few days ago as rcas
on for all this that everybody who caul
afford TO do SO was closing down. Mil
were stopred because they did not pay
and this wonlds continus until the prle
of labor decreased or that of pro luc!
advanced. Some of tho mill Ownel
think that Southern cotton mills al
competing and others that the wrsottly
condition OF tie tariff question Is worl
ing harm. All Of them expect Tie d
precision to wear of in short time.