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

been most generous. Born to wealth and
high rank he bad al an early sge made
for himself distinguished position as
lawyer and statesman. He enjoyed
the respect of his countrymen and the
friendship of his sovereign, and during
his two years residence at Washington
was thoroughly popular with all classes.
His domestic relations were exceptional
ly happy, and his only daughter, in
her eight, enth year, was an acknowledged |
'queen" among society bellies. Senior
Barca was exlravagaut in his entertain
meuts but not beyond the limits of his
splendid income. He was preparing to
go to Europe with his wife and daugh-
ter when he put an end to his life, and |
no sufficient reason has yet been disclos-
ed for the terrible tragedy which has
stopped that voyage.
MODERN railroad and marine accidents |
pale before the loss of life cause by an
earthquake which occurred on an island |
off the coast of Itaiy last Saturday night
The island of Ischia, in the Mediteran-
can sea, is about 20 miles southwest of
Naples Its chief town Casamicciola
has a population of 4,200 people. On
Saturday evening, about half past nine
O'Clock, while good many of it's lead
lug inhabitants were ut the theatre, the
convulsions of an earthquake were heard
all around the island, aud in few min
utes the principal town was almost ell
tirely destroyed aud two neighboring
villages were seriously damaged. From
the latest dispatches we Learn that more
than 5000 people lost their lives and that
1000 are seriously injured. The earth |
seems to have given waywithout warning
thus resembling the great Lisbon earth
quake when 10000 reopb were wiped |
out Of existence in six minutes. The isl,
and of Ischia is in the very Heart of the
Eastern worlds earthquake region and |
within a few miles of the volcano of |
V9suvius, and the disaster of Satur day |
night is the third which has befallen the
island in recent years. Earthquakes
have always been frequent and violent in
Southern and Central Italy. In 63 A. D.,
Herculaneum and Pompeii were nearly |
destroyed by an earthquake which they |
escaped only TO be buried under the ash
es of Vesuvlus. The great earthquake in
Calabria, Southern italy, by which 100,
900 persons lost their lives in 1888, will |
never be forgotten. The great difficulty
that arises to common understandings,
when such facts are disclosed, Isl. "why
do people, of their own free will, take
up their residences SO very close to the
jaws Of deatLt'
NOTWITHSTANDING the statements of
Jay Gould aud other "bosses" of the
Western Union to the contrary, it is we'll
established by latest reports from all
parts of the country that the boasted |
victory of the Union ov'rth Telegraph
Brotherhood is what may be called all
poppy The present strike among
the operators is probably the most pow,
erful and well-advised that has ever been
conducted 1t las the sympathy ot
every class in the community, except
that of jay Gould and company" Suf-
ticient money has been raised by vari, Us
kindred societies to maintain the strug-
gle for months, if necessary. A rival
telegraph company is "walking into the
shoes" of the Union and the importation |
of operators from England cannot meet
the difficulty as the two systems OF tele-
graphy are quite different. As en- in
stance of the public sympathy, the Rev.
DIR. Pullman, of New York, said last
Sunday in his sermon upon The Moral
Aspects of the Strike. "-"In PIE Jariug |
my sermon have had interviews with |
more than half dozen of the ost |
prominent iron manufacturers in this
city. could see that deep down in the ir
hearts they sympathizgd with the tele-
graphers, because they recognized the
fact on which l insist, namely that there
are two kinds of capitalists. One class
has capital properly earned an1 wisely
administered. The other class consists
of spoculators, inspired by insatiate
greed, who try to get something for moth
ing. 1t Is easy to see to which class the
Western Union belongs" Another cler-
gy man Of the same city said, "Commun-
ism 30 far has not made footing in this
land, although it has shaken the thrones
of European despots. But if those vast
monopelies which have grown up around
Us are not put down or checked, say to
Communism God Speed; for believe
the time bus come when the American
people must have either reform or revo-
luton"