The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-07-14


DeI u,ies ON Tuesday last, NJ. Paul &c
. s. a mac made a violent attack upon the
In public assembly be
called the Prime Minister NJ. Jules Fer
~, "the lowest and most degraded OF
liars and cowards." He was expelled |
from the House for a fortnight. but as e
edits little Napoleonio rag" of his own |
in Paris he can go hcme and throw dirt
The Goverr rment takes no moro notice of |
such abortions than if they were merely |
loquacious oysters.
The Salvation Army in Syracuse, N.
Y, is beginning to "bust it's own pic
ric." Miss Houser accused Mr.. Mott Of
seduction under promise of marriage
Mi r Moore secured property on which
to erect barracks, but local newspaper
exposed the fact that the deed had been
made ont to the gallant Major himself,
when the subscriptions promptly ceased,
The churches are down on the army be-
cause a recent rule prevents salvation
soldiers from being members of any
church. ThCrs is also rule that no
member can marry until after two years
from the date of enlistment. and Miss
Captain Hall, in command of the Syra.
case detachment, violated this law. She
became the wife of one of her priyates
and had to leave the service. Miss
Lieutenant Richardson is the most Gt-
tractive of The officers and as she is going
to DO married, the enthusiasm Ct the
prayer. meetings has collapsed and the
rect parades do not muster more than
h If dozen warriors. These things be.
ing so, We feel justified in saying that the
Sacred Soldiers of Syracuse are pretty
well "busted up"
MISS KATE FIELD seems to be able 10
d - almost anything well except to run
dry goods store. Her failure IN this res
pect with the New York cooperative
stores was conspicuous. But the versa
tile h,tl1 lady has taken to writiig G play
aul her new drama Extremes Meet"
has had three months successful run in
En3lond. Kate is also distinguished as
d newspaper correspondent. Size is
first class lirguist, an excellent instiu-
mentGlis, and possesses charming voice.
She WAS a brilliant member of that So
cety which adorns the Hub" and in
England SIZE enjoyed the friendship OF
Tennyson, Browning, George Eliot and
Thomas Carlyle. Her lectures are gems
like her magazine articles, and it is no
wonder Georgian editor considers that
"no more brilliant woman has Lem born
in this republic"
FvoLs and knaves are evidently not
confined to this country, and they seem
to be selected for jurymen in other cases
than the Star Route business and the
nbortiye trial of Dukes. Witness the
following from Alb,on's sea.girt shore:
Mr.. Justice Moule sentenced a rural
prisoner in England in the following
words: Prisoner at the bar, Your conn
sci thinks you innocent, the counsel for
the prosecution thinks you innocent,
think you innocent. But a jury Of Youl
own countrymen, in the exercise # sucb
common sense as they possess, which
does not seem to be much, have found
you to be guilty and 1t remains that /
should pass on you the sentence of the
law That is, that you be kept impris-
oned one day, and as that day was yes
terday, yuu may 50 about yoar busi-
ness"
THAT great and good man John L. Sui,
livan, of Boston, must fight some more
battles to keep permanently the laurel'
which have so long adorned his nam,
aud coat collar. Jem Mace and Slad,
are coming over in July, and tie latte
bTuiser IS to spar three rounds with Sui
Ivan. one week after landing. John L
Sullivan is practically invincible. H
has beaten every one in America, includ
ing his own wife, and it sounds like th
story of "a pound of candles that eat Ii
cat" when We hear of a New Zealande
like Slade who proposes to knock th
tar" out Of such warrior rs Sullivan
4 man who coulj beat his vile ought I
be well abs to beat any one, and II
doubt Sullivan is conscious of the fact.
The farmers of Reading are bcginnin
to discover that If the sparrow is ext
minated the crops must suffer more irCi
the HeSsiau worm and the wheat fly tia
they have ever done from the Euglis
sparrow. This may be accepted as
sign Of the good feeling which prevail
t between Eughnd and the Stats. A fe
d months ago the farmer regarded Il
G sparrow with much the same feelinl
+ that Ben Franklin at one time regard,
= the English Government. If the Iri,
+ people would only take kindly to Il
sparrow they would soon "swear OF
?, agitation, shake hands perhaps wi
l. Johnny Ball, aud throw buns and tai
? to the British Lion.
70 MoRMoNIsM seems to be hourisLil
with vengeance. Six hundred Al
" eighty new members of the much mari
sect arrived in New York last Suni
morning on the steamship Nevada. Tn
are mostly from Sweden, Denmark, Wal,
" England and Norway Tne sexes g
about equal in numbers. The remal
able thing about those miserable duI
- j. that they Gre almost invariably attra
:, ell to the States, not by tue charm
- polygamous institutions, but by the
- ducements OF free farms and well-pa
" labor which are held out by the beard
," and bald-headed rasca,s sent )ut as IN
sionaries from U;ah.
r SMALL boys, between the years Of
Mt ald fourteen, are strangely suseepti
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