The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-12-29
ssrrs Editorial Mention.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YoT

is soon to be occupied, cost about So,
1i 100000. It's dimensions are, l75 feet
inches on Chestnut street, It's feet incl
on Market street, and 4S4 feet on Mint
street; height Of the dome above tn
curb. 40 feet
Ion last Saturday the New York Min
ing and National Petroleum Exchang
voted in favor Of consolidating with th
New York Petroleum Exchange. Tb,
latter Exchange also decided by ballot il
favor Of the consolidation, but the ma
jority vote was very small, and some o
tbe members were of the opinion that i
was not large enough to warrant the con
Bclidation. Committees were appointed
by both Exchanges to draw up plans fol
the merging of both into one body.
CHIcAdo News: Congressman Robin
son. of New York, indicated few day:
ago that it is his intention to follow ur
during the present session the asinine
career he began last winter as bowler
against England aud her government,
It strikes us that the interests of this
country would be conserved if Robinso 4
and his associates paid less attenti IN to
the British lion and more attention to
tse American eagle. Il would be best to
look after our owl; Aviarv before dipping
aronud in foreign geological gardens.
AFTER St. Louis had experimental un-
satisfactorily with wood, asphalt, granite
and other material for pavements, hum
dred public-spirited men contributed
$50 each toward fund to test fire brick
for paving purposes. The test Was made
in che busiest streets. A committee of
engineers and others have just reported
fire brick show all the endurance OF
granite, and that they make q smoother,
cleaner, and less noisy street, and are
moro easily repaired and give better
foothold to horses; that neither frost nor
fire affects them, and that they can be
used at less than half the cost of gran
ite."
The concluding sentence of Mr.. Dar-
wins posthumous paper on "Instinct,
read before the Linuean Society IN Eng
land the other day, is: ut may not be
logical, but to my imagination it is far
more satisfactory, TO look at the young
cuckoo ejecting its foster brothers, ants
making slaves. the larvae of the Ichneu-
monid@ feeding within the live bodies of
their prey, cats playing with mice. o.ters
and cormorants with living fish, not as
instincts specially givsn by the Creator,
but as very small parts Of one general
law leading TO the advancement Of all
organic bodies-mrltiply, vary, let the
strongest live and the weakest die."
CoNeREssMAS HOPKINS, of Pittsburg,
ihinks that the alien landholder ought
to go, and proposes q law restricting to
1000 acres the quantity of land which
may be acquired by foreigner who has
no Intention Of becoming United States
citizen. Those of our people who with
out protest or murmur saw empires given
away in aid of railroads and railroad
schemes will be surprised when made
aware to what extent the public lands
have been taken up by alien landlords
One English Earl owns tract of 100,
600 acres, while another has 60, 600 acres
Of Dakota wheat lands. syndicate of
speculatively inclined Englishmen now
possess 8 900, 900 acres in Texas alone.
A WESTERN Senator is about to pr sent
q apetition for the ratification of treaty
with the Sioux Indians under which the
10000 square miles known as the great
Sioux reservation" may be opened to
settlement. The CHICAGO TIMES says
that by the treaty of 1868 these lands
were reserved to the Sioux forever, and
that IL WAS stipulated that no modifca-
tion OF the treaty should be made except
upon vote of three-fourths of all the
adult males of the Sioux; but when the
discovery of gold in the Black Hills
made the expulsion of the Sioux desir.
able the Governments agents made a
dicker with the chiefs and the head men
OF the Sioux for the cession of the lands.
The Senate refused to ratify this trans
action, and it is this real estate operation
that the Senate is again to be asked to
consider. This is only one of the COM
plications of the South Dakota problem.
On Dec. 6 the Earl of Devon's Irish
tenants met to consider his offer as to
tAs purchase of their holdings. A letter
from Mr.. Parnell was read, in which lie
said that sixteen years purchase, pro-
viied the yearly installments did not 1 4
c'ed the present rents, would be fair
offer on the part of the tenants. Tie
agent suggested making this offer to
L1sd Devon, and said chat he had heard
from several landlords in the counties OF
Limerick and Kerry. who were watching
the negotiations and would allow their
tenants to purchase on similar terms to
those which might be agreed apou. 1t
was resolved to appoint local commit.
Tee TO ascertain the views of the tenants
and the of'ers they would be prepared
10 make for their holdings. Adoeument
Is said to have been signed by more than
half the tenants expressing then willing
ness to purchase. This business excites
great ihtexest in Ireland.
AT the last esnsus the natives Of Ire
hhd who we're presSns in England and
WalOs numbered 562,974. being in the
prORestiOA Of 81, 65 to 1000 OF the entire
Popahtion. The number is not an in.
srsasing quantity, for in 1864 it was 6OI,-
654. sAd at each census since it has fall
len gradually. These 6gureS show that
relatively 90 the whole population of the
country the Irish element is not formid-
able. but its uneQual division over tha