The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-03-17
Editorial Mention.

motnlnB thsJ,
HoN RoDT. KLoTz will please accept
our thanks for public documents.
The Chief Of the Secret Service Diyis
ion of the Treasury Department has been
advised that most dangerous counter
felt Of the standard silver dollar has
made its appearance in Ohio and Indi-
ana. The base coin has the exact weight,
ring aud appearance of the genuine aud
resists the acid test. uuless the outer
coating Of silver is penetrated. It would
radilY be accepted as genuine by mer.
chants. s, ,veral Of the pieces have only
been discovered upon reaching 81 b.
Treasury.
Mas. DAVIS forbade John Doyl', a sa-
loon keeper at North Adams, Mass, to
sell her husband any more rum. "As
long as be ha' money to buy WITH said
Doyle, ''he can get drinks nj NY bar"
Davis abused this privilege by getting
drunk at once. and while in that condit-
ion bad both legs cut off by locomotive.
Mrs. Davis got verdict oil 81. 600 against
Dnyis, and the Supreme Court has con-
firmel it. Suits with similDr results are
constantly being brought in numerous
Stat, y undev civil damage laws which
are substantially alike in their provis-
i,us.
MIS- DEvIsoN, OF Philadelphia, prose
cuted Thomas Craig for breach Of prom :
ise. and he pleaded guilty, accepting n
sentence of six months imprisonment
with peni;ence and resignation. The
plaintiff was q seemingly devout church
member. and had made out pitiable
case. But just when Craig was about to
he taken to the penitentiary James john
son came forward with charge that
Miss Benson had treated HIM worse in
love affairs than the prisoner bad served
her. He produced a bundle of her let
ters, which PROVED that her character
was the reverse of what she had made it
appear in court. The Judge reopened
Craig's case aud discharged him.
DUKES, who has been on trial during
the week, at Uniontown, for the murder
of Mutt. was acquitted by the jury on
Wednesday night. The verdict is an
outrage on justice, and is most justly
condemned by the Philadelphia TIMES,
in the following words: ut is difficult TO
speak with moderation of the acquittal
of Dukes. 1t is disgrace not alone to
the people of Uniontown. bu. to the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. There
was reasonable doubt Of the fellows
guilt of wilful murder as technically de-
fined; but that he had murder in his
heart toward his victim, whom he killed
in the pursuance of deliberate plan OF
crime, does not admit of question. and
the jurymen have dishonored their own
manhood in holding him guiltless of the
blood of Captain Mutt. Such a man as
Dukes is not fit to be at large. We may
question. indeed, whether there is place
on earth low enough to hold such des-
picable william. The creature that could
deliberately write what he wrote Of a
girl who had given herself to him, and
that to the father of the girl, is worse
than murderer. Language is not ade-
4uate to express the contempt and loath-
ing which every man deserving the name
must feel for him, and to have such a
wretch as this fully acquitted of his
crime. the murder of the man whom he
had SO foully wronged. must make every
American blush for the honor of his ma.
I've land. We have cast slurs at the
people of the South because juries are
said sometimes there allowed to lei
their political prcjudices influence
them to connive at-crime. 1t Was open
ly charged when the jury was formed in
the Dukes clse that il was made up oil
members of his own political household
and therefore would not convict him, and
the event has justified the charge. Can
this be true? Can it be that in the State
of Pennsylvania to-day a politician eau
obtain immunity from the just penalties
OF cline 10y his political Influence? l,
would be pleasan;er not to believe this
and aGd one shame to another, and YET
this reFroach will rest upon the jury that
acquitted Dukes. The Indignation oi
the citizens oi UniontoWn is natural and
Proper. Thy will gain nothirg by law.
lessness, and it may be assumed that the
sober second thought Of the people will
put an eud to the violent outbreak that
disturbed tho quiet town Wednesday
night. But they must, for their OWL
hcnor. put themselves emphatically on
record as discountenapcing and denounc,
ing this infamous verdict. By such ac
ton they may at least preserve the faii
F-pHtation Of their community, and they
eau then leave Dukes and his abettors tc
bear the punishment Gf Cain"