The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-02-24
Editorial Mention.

protect themselves against tenants who
do not pay.
RERDELL's confession and the suicide
of Mrs. Vaile, the wife of one Of the dc,
PENDANTS, from distress caused by her
husbands situation, have given almost
= tragic aspect to the Star route trial.
Since Rerdell began his confession num-
erous reports of what will follow have
been circulated, Oae report is that GER
tain OF the defendants have arrange
with their bail preparatory to leaving
the country. Oa the contrary, it is said
that all the defendants will become wit
nesses when the side of the defence is
heard.
WHEN San Francisco reports that "tLe
winter has been more severe than any
since the city was settled, it does not
menn that the temperature has been
very low. I'VE accounts it quite co d
around this bay" says the Chronicle, "
when the mercury drops d )wn to frecz
ing point; but for many days Of the past
and present months it has been 10 to is
degrees lower than that. Ice has formed d
Ia this city in one night over half an
inch thick, and we have had the unheard-
of phenomenon OF three inch snow
fall.
THE receipts at the State Treasury
have been very heavy the past two
months. During January they nggre-
Ratsd sl,452, ,2o0.59. or thisi amount
S}J3, ,433. 04 was derived from tax en-
ca pital stock; s7S7, 573 96 from tax on
collateral inheritance; Sill, ,32l,77 from
lics1ses; sS3 72S. A from tax on foreil n
insurance companies; $40, SO from
t,t Oh writs; $2S 205 Oh from tax on
/, ms; S23.5l4 60 from tax on net in
90 mes; SIS. "a fr m tax on personal
property, and l9.Ol5 II froms tax on
gross receipts. OF the.collateral i1herit-
ance tax Philadelphia paid 500 2!5 SO
and Allegheny county $24, ,62l G7.
THE greatest obstacles in the way OF
the prosperity of tho legal profession,
sail President Bonney to the Illinois
Bar Association, E'the M st serious hin
Arancos to their usefulness. the SOURCES
Of greatest injury to their clients, IL e
causes Of deepest dissa tisfaction ard
prejudice, are the delays, uncertainties,
aud expenses Of legal proceedings. Tie
losses and the anxieties arising from
these causes are often more than the re-
sults which thei suitor is finally allowed
TO take out of the scales of justice" He
said that no one ought to be heard in a
court of justice except upon the condition
Of submitting both to 90 and receive
substantial justice, without regard to any
technicality orr matter of form. "Let
the law provide" he added, ''that no
jadgmant. .shalli be. set aside or reversed
in any case, civil or criminal, provided
it shs III appear from the whole record
that substantial justice has been DONE"
wEreceived news on Wednesday of til,
loss of the U. S. steamer Ashuelot, which
aocor ling to Hong Kong dispatch, was
los. In the China Seas aud eleven Of hel
Grew were drowned. When the Captain
of United States frigate in port at New
York Was told by reporter of the loss O.
the Ashuelot be made a very significant
remark. ''She was q miserable old tub
like her sister ship, the Monocacy. 1t II
wonder she did not go down long ago.
This view Of the unseaworthiness of the
Ashuelot Is supported byh despatch from
Washington, which says that, although
no official information of her loss hal
been received at the Navy Department
"Wednesday. the report was not at all dis
credited; because the vessel was no: COZ
sidered very seaworthy, and was a laugh
ing stock among nayal officers. Who
then, is responsible for the loss of tn
lives of the eleven seamen who wer
drowned when this sold tub" went down
What an exposure we have here of tt
rotten navy, in whose name millions up
: ON millions Of dollars have been squand
cred and stolen!
TIE London eng. Spectator" give
: fhe following not very aattering view, b.
"A Englishman. Of New York city: 9TH
Empire City is an extraordinary jumbl
OF dirty, mean stIests, ragged telegraph
poles. Totting wooden shanties, mons
trous Advertisements, garish signs, front
made hideous by daubs of crude red
blue and green paint, overtopped, spol
AdieAlly, by enormous piles of heavil
ornate architecture, and overshadowe
BY . network of wires and by the elevat
ed railroad. ANor is the street popula
tiOn an attractive one. The women ar
terribly oVerdressed, and to q strange
ths mems faces wear sad, prsoccupied
Almostisaturnins expression; smiles ar
rare. TAnd. laughs are rarer still. At bot
tom the American is Of a singnlarly good
natured disposition-too good-nature
sv N. for he puts up with variety c
tyr snnies, social and political unde
which most Englisbmsn would writh'
Sach . system Of laissez-Pller. has l.
dra~baokS; the railroad companies, fC
Instance. who are allowed to carry thei
Arasks pretty much where they viii
killed in 1880, 2,7OO persons at the
1.svel crossings.'"
Our New York Letter.
ReGnlAr correspOndenee Of ADVOCATE.