The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-01-20
Editorial Mention.


REv. BISHOP JOSEPH CRUIKsHANK TAI
BOT. Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the
diocese Of Indiana, died in indianapolis, |
Monday evening al $50 o'clock after an
illness of several months. He suffered a
fifth stroke of paralysis on ThursdaY
after which time he was practically un-
conscious.
In another column will be found full
account of the Inauguration of Governor
Pattison and his address in full, together
with the appointment of Cabinet officers.
While the address is fully up to the
promises of the Governor when candi-
date, his appointments especially that Of
Cassidy as Attorney General, 40 not tally
with the pledges made by him during
the campaign; it being claimed that Cas-
sidy is unit for the position, his political
career being dubbed as "iisreputable"
by Senator Kennedy iu q speech oppos-
ing his confirmation in that body.
The Secretary OF the Interior asks Con.
gress to appropriate 100000 Ito COM
,plote the Tenth census" Congress has
b en- voting money for that purpose ever
81 ce 1'79. and yet the Tenth census is
not COM plete. Nobody knows when it
will be complete. Nobody knows how
many dollars will be required TO COM
plete it. Nobody knows what it will be
VIII finished. All that is known with
certainty concerning this wonderful work
is that it has already cost s., ,503 GA. 81,
or about 50, 500, 600 more than the limit
fixed by the original act Of March 8, 1879.
Iu other words, il has cost to count the
people of the United States rather more
than ten cents for every man, woman
and child of the fifty millions.
The Rev. E. r. Donehoo. a leading
orthodox clergyman of Pittsburgh, tlis
State, and pastor of the Eighth Presby
,rrian Church, who is noted for his un-
firing zeal in works of charity and re-
'ivrm. delivered sermon last Sunday
morning, in which he inveighed against
the creeds of the churches of the present
day as being tyrannical He also spoke
against existing Sunday laws, and on
this subject be said:
SIN New York business men have been
greatly exercised over an attempt to en-
free certain Sunday laws, which had
ueen enacted under far different condit-
ions of society, where very different SEN
timents were entertained in regard to the
claims and limitations of the Sabbath.
The Puritauical ideas which found ut
terancA in these recently exhumed stat
utes have long since given place to more
liberal and Christian constructions OF
mans duty toward the Sabbath precepts.
With the great changes which have taken
place in our land since these laws were
first enacted, the necessities OF the times
demand that modification shall be
made in those laws which govern the
observance of the Sabbath; also, they
Will soon become, as they are now rapih-
J.; ,bec ming, hn entire nullity. On
vltarly taught that rational necessity,
man natural wants and requirements,
determined the manner of Sabbath oh
servance. What to-day is needed i'll this
and other States in the interest of NOR
ality and religion is modification Of oul
Sund. y laws to such degree as TO bring
them into something like accord will
the enlightened sentiment of the presen
ae.
The sermon has created much com
ment in religio is circles throughout thu
country.
JUDGE WHITE, at Pittsburgh, last Sat
urday handed down an voluminous opin
ion in the case Of H. H. Collins agains
Captain Edward II. Nevin, Surveyor o
the Port of Philadelphia, which is a sui
involving the legality of stock jobbing
In the years 1868 and 1869 Collins ant
Nevins were engaged in buying stock
on margin, the plaintiff advancing tn
money and the defendant buying tn
stock. All the transactions were OIL
margins. They lost heavily. On the Is
of July, 1871, some three years after thei
operations had closed, they made set
tlement showing that Nevins was in
debted to Collins for $50, 1913, as hi
share of the losses, for which Nevin gay
his bond. Subsequently Judgment wa
entered against Neyin, and he moved 70
a rule TO open judgment, in order tina
he be enabled to defend. He decline
to honor his bond, claiming that tn
debt was incurred in an illegilimat
transaction. Judge White, in his opin
ion, says: There can be no doubt tha
tleir transactions were illegal-nothin
more than gambling adventures, immoI
al and against public policy. The fac
tlat a judgment was entered upon wal
rant OF attorney accompanying the bon
does not preclude the defendant from a.
leging the illegality of the consideration
or prevent the Court from irquiring il
to it. Gambling in gold, stocks. grain
oil etc., is one of the greatest vices {
the age. These parties ard the publ
should know that all pretended purchai
"a of sales 'on margins are nothing br
gambling transactions, immoral in thei
character aud exceedingly pernicious j
their tendency. The Conrts are not ope
t, enforcing such contracts, and wi
give no ruling to these who voluntaril
participate in them and become victim
of unprincipled spectators. The m
10 open Judgment is made absolute
Exceptions were filed TO the opinion |
C,llins' counsel.
Our Washington Letter.