The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-09-15

Clure, at the same time that he gave
Mcclure his blessing and urged him to
keep the TINES as it always had been, in
the van of the noble army of Humanity,
But the Press man seems to have got the
LAST word after all. 1t is new render
ins of the old story of the patriarch
Isaac: "The hands are the hands of
Esau, (Alect), but the voice is the voice
of Jacob, emory Smith," The TIMES
anticipated its own disinheritauce on
Sunday by proclaiming editorially that
the "PREss has extended its headlong
enterprise to the spirit land and an
nounces Judge Blacks reply to JEFF ,rson
Davis to appear in its columns to-mor-
row. II is hardly to be presumed that
the PRESS would fabricate a paper that
Judge Black regarded as one of the most
important productions of his life, and
the logical assumption is that some swift
spirit medium has messaged the reply
from the unknown land to our contem-
porary." 1t certainly is strange that
Aleck should "get left" in the spiritual
or hankey-pankey business.
HORACE GREELEY brought little into
this world and carried very little away
with him. 1t is pleasant to think then
that the beautiful and barren tract where
he learned 'all he knew about farming"
is now safe in the possession of his fami-
ly, On last Saturday Miss Gabrielle
Greeley bought the Chappaqua estate of
her father, for $4,000, hal. its estimated
value. Two neighboring farmers wanted
the place, but they would not bid against
Miss Greeley. When the auctioneer
opened the sale she called from her ve-
hicle. "Ten thousand dollars" and
Mr.. Haight tried for half an hour to get
an additional bid of even $40 more. The
farm, seventy-seyen acres, originally cost
Mr.. Greeley about the sum it sold for.
In improvements he laid out over $40, d.
600. Half of the purchase money goes
to the children of Miss Greeley's dead
sister, less about one-third that Colonel
Smith will receive, his wife having died
intestate. The purchaser says she has
not decided whether or not to occupy the
old homestead, but she was determined
it should be kept in the Greeley family.
WESTWARD the course of polygamy
takes its way. On last Sunday afternoon
6S2 new members of the faith landed
from the steamship Nevada on pier at
the North River, New York. The band
OF saints comprised 269 Britains, LOG
Swiss and Germans, 2S4 Scandiuavlans
and 20 returning missionaries. every
immigrant said the Mormon Secretary,
'paid his or her passage out. No aid
is afforded them by the Mormon Church.
The majority have little money; enough
to establish themselves in America.
They will locate in sixteen towns of
Utah. All we do is to protect them
while travelling from Liverpool to
Utah. The great object for which the
community works at present is to gain
the admission of Utah rs State, then to
divide it in two, and in that way to gain
as much political power as possible.
One reat hope for q successful attack
upon the iniquity arises from the fact
that railroad, now established through
its dominion, may help to drive out the
existing filth and nastiness.
THE highly sensational revivalists OF
Erie have sent two people, father and
daughter, to the insane asylum, making
the first almost q murderer. We do not
believe that all the indirect good that
may be accomplished by these revivals
will outweigh this one direct evil. There
is rarely, if ever, n revival at which some
of the attendants do not eventually be-
come insane, nor is this to be wondered
at when it is borne in mind that young
girls and weak women of naturally hys-
terical temperaments form the bulk of
the congregations. Upon their fears the
terrors Of hell, which .revivalist ministers
love to depict in the most lurid hces,
produce an agony of distraction. 1t is a
matter of much doubt whether reyiyals,
crusades, salvation armies and their ilk
ever accomplish much permanent good.
II they do, why must they be SO often
repeated among the same people2-
Shenandoah News.
ANOTHER APPEARANCE. On Saturday
night last W. r. Brooks, of Phelps, N.
Y, discovered singular object in the
constellation OF Draco. He was not GER
tain as to its real character, but on Mon
day night Prof, Lewis Swift, Director of
the Warner Observatory at Rochester, N.
Y, verified it by means of the large
Warner telescope as being comet. 1t
is quite large, nearly round, ald moving
slowly westward. Mr.. Books received
a special prize of $3.50 from Mr.. Warner
some two months since, and if there Is
no prior claimant will be entitled to the
5000 prize on the present discovery,
HOW CONSUMPTION MAY BE SPREAD.
Societies have been formed in England
and America for the collecting of actual
facts Of disease by means of printed
questions addressed 10 physicians, ask
ing fer their experience of the particular
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