The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-04-07
Editorial Mention.

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Free Press, show that California stage
robber saved 1851 in ten months, but
in nine months Niagara hackman sayed
's5,96S.
TEE President has appointed Walter
@. Gresham, OF Indiara Postmaster.
General. 70 Gil the vacascy caused by
The death Of Hon. T. o. Howe. lie will
assume the duties Of bis Office on The
18th iAst.
A SOUTHERN jonrnnl says there are
three seasons in Florida-the orange.
vegetable and invalid; the last paying
the best. Iu the summer the Floridiars
live on yams aud sugar-cane, and in the
wipter on Yankees.
VIZ see by lengthy article in the AL.
bany. N. Y, EVENING PosT, that the old
fAvoFits Dan. Rice, will travel with
Nathans & Cos Great Consolidated
Shows, during the coming season. Dan
will draw stronger than mustard plas.
ter through the whole route of travel.
TIE debt statement shows the decrease
Of the public debt during March to be
1854 826. Cash in the Treasury. s3l5..
034 983; gold certificates, $74 900, 720;
silver certificates, S77, 625 33i; cprtif.
Gates Of deposit outstanding, 50 us. 600;
refunding certificates. 1884 450; legal
tenders outstanding, s346 6S1 0l6; frac-
tional currency outstanding, s., ,Olo, 57s.
Thus the N. Y. Sun put the matter:
''The free trade enthusiasts are, after all,
right in their idea that the true platform
for the Democracy in 1884 is a tariff for
revenue only; and yet they are Lut half
right, for their idea is but half the truth.
It is time to utter the whole trath for
them and for all bran 'hes of the Democ.
rAcy, and here it is: I. A tariff for reve.
nue. only. II. The tariff the only source
of revenue"
SPEAKER FAuScE, Of the House oi
Representatives, Thursday OF last week,
issued writ ordering an election on
April "a to fill the vacancy caused by the
action Of the House In the Dukes case.
Owing to the fact that the jury which &C
quilted Dukes was composed exclusively
Of Democrats, the success of r spubli-
can Ia the strong Democratic county
from which Dukes had been elected il
among the probabilities. Hundreds o
Democrats will emphas;zs their disgust
with the action Of the Jury by voting til,
Republican ticket and many Republican,
will be at the polls who otherwise won
have remained at home.
MEssRs SAMUEL THOMAS. of Philadel
phia; E. B. Leisenring. Of Mauch Chunk
and Daniel Barge. of Upper L.high. nj
prominent iron-masters of Pennsylvania
were among those pres mt at the FRA,
coal mines, near Birmiughata. Ala.
few days ago. when the slope aud shat
Joined issue. by which an addi!ioaal ou
pat Of 800 tons day was secur-d. The
announced their Intention TO build tbre
= cdke furnaces on Village Creek, two mile
from Birmingham, and 10 supply thet
furnaces would open n new coal mine o
Five Mile Creek, near the Milner Raj
road The sites for these furnaces ha,
baen selected, aud they will be erected I
an early day.
GEN. N. B. BuFOsD died IN Chicag,
Ill. on Wednesday night of last weel
Napoleon Bonsparte Baiord was bonn i
1907, WAS graduated at West Poiut
1927, aud entered the artillery. He W,
Assistant Professor of Natural History
West Poiut from 1888 to 1885. when
resigned from the army. For the nei
seven years hs had chl hlrSe of the in
proyements on the Licking RIVER. Fro
lS43 to 1851 he was an irou founder an
banker at Rock Island. He WAS al aiu
cd Colonel of the Twenty seventh Iiliuo
Volunteers in August, 1861. took part
the attack on Island No. 10 il Marcl
1862. and captured Union City in Il
same month. Hs was appointed Brig
der General of Volunteers April 10 ISC
and served through the sieges OF Corinl
and Vicksburg. lie commanded
Helena, Ark, from Sept. II 1868,
March 8, 1866. March IS, 1865. he WI
breyetted AUjor- General Of Volnntt er
He was appointed Special United Stat
Commissioner Of Indian AT .irs ~ 1867
A CORRESPONDENT OF the PhiladelpL
American writes that the true inwardne
OF the opposition to Home Rule ON Il
part of many whose fathers strenuous
opposed the Union ''lies in the app
hension that most Of the constituenci
would infa!li''y return mtn whose ma
efortG would be in the direction Of
NEST serious Interference with the yesl,
interests Of real estate hold, rs. As me
persons are aware, the hulk "t Irelai
q. has at some period been couiscated. Al
those who claim 10 be the TepTosentatiy
of the original holders conceive that th
are entitled to it. Many years ago
poor woman on Lord DuffrTin's estf
secretly. in the fsllness of her heart
Lady Dufferius many acts Of kiudntt
submitted to her plan Of the Duffei
property, mapped out in parcels.
which her own husband was 10 have ol
She generously intimated that when I
hard times came for the Dufferiu's :
should, in gratitude for past iavors,
all in her power to 'let them down cas-
This bit Of feeling about property p
walls among three millions OF Irish"
A coRAEsPoNDEST Of the Pbiladelpl
PREss has been interviewing Sena
Geo. 4. Vest. nj 81. Louis, ON the pol
cal situation. Touching the next Pr'
dsut the Senator said; i have l
much Of interest TO tell You Tbtr'
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