The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-08-04
Editorial Mention.

an earnest and honest ambitio III to be-
coms newspaper reporter,
OK Tuesday general advance of 10
cents per ton in the tolls on coal shipped
both by rail and canal was announced
by the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
road Company, to take efeot on August
LIST.
CoNvICr labor has become profitable to
somebody, though it interferes material
ly with honest laborers who have never
had prison experience. The earnings
OF Sing Sing prison for July are $40 O9l,
and the expenditure sl4,0s0, leaving a
net profit of over $1,000.
The S2xons are not done with O'Dor-
ovan Rosa yet. lie hung his waistcoat
over chair in his Now York Office on
Tuesday afternoon while he and his
frieads celebrated Cary's assassination.
two strangers came into the room with
some new improvement in dynamite,
When they departed Rossa's watch was
missing.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY il not yet done
wi h Africa and his civilizing process is
1ik-ly to be after the usual methods pur-
sued with aboriginal races. Three thou
sand carbines have Just been sent cut
from England to the great explorer.
Bibles and whiskey ought to have been
sent along with them, as "Rum, Rifles
and Religion" are the invariable reqsis-
ties Of Anglo-Saxon civilization,
IT was o sorry satisfaction for the dam
gerous exploit of her young husband
that Mrs. Webb received on Saturday
morning. The dead body of Webb was
found on Friday afternoon floating in
the river short distance below Lewis.
top, New York. AT the inquest a ragged
cut was discovered on top of the head, ol
about three inches long, and which was
su iiisienthy opened to expose the skull.
II vi the app. arance of having been in
I'll ted by Il rocf, aud probably cansed
Immediate dealt. Tne widow is residing
at Boston. Mass
THIS ears encamrment of the Grand
Army, which took place at Denver, CON-
n, ,ans of causing new departure in the
history Of Colorado. From all sides we
hear nothing out praise for the arrange
ments and qualification at the success of
the entertainment. All ranks of the army
and all ST Q ions of the country were rep
resented, and over 10000 persons were
in line, of whom 500 hailed from Penn
sylvnnia. At least 100, 900 persons were
on the streets. The General Meade Post
of Philadelphia commanded universal
admiration.
The ADVOCATE, commenting on the
career of Tom Thumb, remarked that it
WAS possible to make considerable noise
in the world by being every very small"
Th) converse of this proportion may be
sse in the case of the "Great Eastern
st ,amship" whose only claim to dstinc-
ii n is that she has hitherto been too big
TO do anything useful, We are glad
howe ier that she is to put to some work
be ore being transformed into FIRE wood,
4 com any has been formed to purchase
the ocean going Jumbo and employ it
fot carrying Goals between the Firth Of
Forth and the river Thames.
WILL any legislation put an end to the
gross care lessnes which turns every ex-
cursion season into q sort of Valley of the
Shadow of Death2 Scarcely had the
names been made out of those excursion
lists who perished by the fall of a rotten
bridge near Baltimore, when another
horrible catastrophe occurs. At half past
nine o'clock last Friday night, tourist
train collided near the Carlton depot, N,
Y, with a freight car; (which the wind
had blown from a switch upon the main
track" Nineteei, people we're killed aud
thirty wounded. Why do Presidents,
Senators, Generals and Congressman
never come TO grief on excursions?
LuNATIcs, like other misfortunes. never
come alone. Murphy, the Liverpool
tain Webb and who had always contend.
ed that Webb would never come out alive
from the Niagara whirlpool. has met Will
o death very similar to that which term,
mated the poor Captains gallant life
Gu the very day that Webb ATTEMPTED
Niagara, Murphy tried to swim through
the whirlpool of the Rioble, IapiC
s,re0ni in the north of England, and va
drowned. Another man, who attempted
TO cross the English channel on a nauti
cal tricycle., failed dismallY in the at
tempt
JUDGE MONTGOMERY BLAIR, who die
last Friday at Silver Springs, in Mary
land, near Washington, has been fo
asarly haifa century prominent figur
In public life. He was educated at Wel
Point and served as an officer in Ii
Seminole war. He then adopted the la
as profession aud became District A
torney at st. Louis, Originally and a
ways Democrat Of the true Jeffersonia
type, bis hatred of slavery led him
identify himself with the Republican
and in 1856 he supported the candidatu
ofMr. FE, mont for the Presidency. TV
years later Mr.. Duchanon dismissed hi
from his post in the Court of Claims.
1861 MIR. Lincoln chose Judge Blair
his Postmaster General, and he held th
Office until 1854, when he retired.
still remained however the warm frie
and frequent adviser of Lincoln. VIII
the war was ended and slavery had d
appeared he resumed his early relatio
with Democracy, and continued to b
member of that party until bis death.
a. aid of him by a distinguished wri