The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-09-22
Editorial Mention.

ing to that philosopher himself, is copied
from a splendid model. He says that
"Christ always made q sensation when
be preached" The Brooklyn "Beauty"
has impudence enough TO start an AS
surance Company.
II. j.. PIERCE late Republican nominee
for Governor of Massachusetts, says that
Ben Butler is charlatan. If all the |
other first families of Boston pitch into
Ben in similar strains they will benefit
him more than even the Tewkesbury
tanning establishment.
The New York SUN of Monday devot-
ed its frst page TO booming Holman of
Indiana for President. Dana must have
made life long study OF the character
as in the last ''send off, he is able to
give Halman's mlddfs name in full. No
one has ever been able to do this before
at such an early period of the presiden-
tial campaign.
EDrroRs know good deal. but they
don't know everything, An Allentown
knight of the quill had recently visit
from religious brother of Lehighton
who asked the bl ssing at dinner. Di-
reotly afterwards the editorial four.year
old said, Pop, why don't you learn to
say that" The parent Immediately
rushed for the newspaper directory but
could find no blessing
IT IS hard to say whether being closer
to hell is the cause, but there can be no
doubt of the fact that newspaper morali-
ty is on q higher platform in Georgia
than in Pennsylvania. The presiding
judge in Atlanta has prohibited the cir
culation of the New York POLICE GA
zE1TE under the full penalty imposed on
: obscene Literature.
Now that money rules the roost and
Senatorial Commission is sitting on
"Laoor" it may be we'll to recall some
words of Lincoln, Esed in his letter to
Ellis in 1864: II affirm it as my settled
conviction that class laws, placing capi-
tai above labor In the structure of the
Government, endapger the Republic
more fatally this hour than did chattel
slavery in the days of its haughtiest sup
ren1acs." -"
ODoNNELL who shot James Carey the
informer is to be tried shortly in Lon
don. He has large share of public
opinion in his favor. Whatever other
Irishmen may have suffered at the hands
( of English justice an English jury will
not deal vindietively with a man who
shot an Irishman who helped to murder
an English Lord. After his acquittnl
his own countrymen will probably send
him to Parliament.
IT HATH been said by him of old time
that "foolish son is the heaviness OF
his parents.' Such may have been the
case in ancient Israel but it does not ap.
ply in Milwaukee. II ever there was
foolish son surely it is the "Bad Boy Of
Peck's paper, yet old Peck has made sc
much money out of the wickedness o.
the youth "Hennery' that he wants tc
sell out aud retire. The children of thi,
world are in their generation wiser thar
the children of light.
Now that so many poor Englishmer
are coming over to buy cheap land il
this country it would be "gay revenge
if some rich Americans went over anC
bought expensive land in the old coun
try. There is some of it "too dear fo
anythlng;" each sod precious as its owl
weight in rubies, which may be seel
from the fact that last week land wa
sold in the city of London at the rate O
$3,300,00 an acre.
JUNIUs BRUTUs BooTH died at his owl
hotel at MancEester-by-t -the-Sea, N. H., OIL
Monday night He was the eldest son o
the famous actor whose name he bore
The deceased, though popular in Eng
land and his own country, did not saw
fortune from his stage earnings. No
many years ago he retired from his pro
fession, opened hotel and made it
success. He was married three times -
each time to an actress. His third wife
married in 1867, survives her secont
husband.
THERE is as much real downright ems
sedness about the doipgs of Railroa,
Companies as about Peck's Bad Boy
The latest symptoms are seenin a com
munication read before the Board o
Trade at Philadelphia on Monday even
ing. 1t stated that the Pennsy lvani
Railroad Company was making discrim
N nations against Philadelphia iu favor o
New York, Baltimore and other cities ,b
selling round-trip tickets to the latte
cities, good until used, at less rat
than tickets to Philadelphia could b
bought, which are good only one wa
and allow tho traveller to stop only once
The effect is to send trade 10 New Yor
and Boston.
MRs LANoTRY told newspaper ma
in London that she was very fond c
America and that the American peopl
were "daad nuts" upon her. The latte
part Of the statement may be comfrme
by visit to the Registers Office, Me-
York. where proof positive is found c
Yankee affection. 1t is a simple yarr
but il is true ana full of pathos.
states that several mortgages have bee
assigned to Mrs. Langtry ON property i
New York for consideration of $751; 00(
The true inwardness of this harvest
that handsome butinoompotent actres
was advertised thoroughly 10y the Prime
OF Wales aud young Gebhardt.
''IT makes one almost be in love wit
death to be buried with such pomp q
was displayed at the funeral Of Hugh ,
Hastings on Sunday. That gentlema