The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-09-27
FROM WASHINGTON
spsoIal q the oAnnos AprocArr.

Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE
WASHINGTON. Sept, 30, 1884.
II Is bat natural that the county should
wish to know more Of the latest Presi.
Dental candidate. Belva Lockwood, the
nominee Of the woman's Rights party.
The candidates life, written by an i'm.
partial hand, as the only means of com.
pletely supplying this demand, will
doubtless appear at an early day. Hers
in Washington. no book OF that kind is
needed. She is to he seen almost any
day threading the sire ts mounted on a
tricycle.. head erect, and feet working
with an energy which is indicative of the
secret of her success ia life. She was
the first OF her 3, K to mount the tricycle.
and demonstrate the right OF woman to
ride whatever will best suit her purpose.
As lawyer. abe rides wherever her bust.
ness calls and she also rides for the pleas
ure it affords, MS others do in their car
riages. And how she does ride! No lag
CARDS pace is here. Wherever she goes
she is the observed Of all observers, She
is not devotee of fashion in any respect.
She sets her own fashions. With head
in air and face earnestly. not to say
fercely, pointing in the direction her in
dustrious feet are propelliuR ber. she
whirls along, every turn of the Graf k
fnfy-f piping her skirt with unceasing
regularity. She stops at nothing and
turns aside only to pass slower goers or
pick stretch of clear track whereon 10
display a pace which might make Maud
s. envious.
OF late demand has sprung up for
pictures of the Womau's Rights cauti-
date. In preparing to supply this de-
mand the artist has been at lnss how
to take her. Blaine il g-nerall5 repre-
sented as speaking in the House or Sem
ate. Cleveland as standing on the r, g.
trum. Logan Al cavorting on his war
horse each IN position designed to
>how the man at his best Rejecting on
these things the artist was not long in
coming to the conclusion that the proT er
thing was TO represent Belya inonnied
on tricycle., a familiar sight in Penn
sIlNania avenue, where, as any one will
say, she too appears at her best, The
pictures, 1t is understood. will be ready
at an early day. She might have been
taken pleading at the bar, la,ing down
the law rs any man would, and often bet.
er than men do; giving tit for tat, after
the custom of the profession; taking
graceful fights Of oratory, as orators
sometimes do, responsive to suggestion
from tue bench; citing precedents and
cases, principles and practice from
we'll stored repository oflehrning covered
by that well known bonnet or appealing
to the jury for justice for her client.
But after due consideration the tricycl
idea was adopted MS not only TIE mos,
novel, bnt the most truly characteristic.
The General Land Office has been in
vestigating the appropriation of the pub
lie lands and it has been discovered that
upwards of 5000. 900 acres of the pubic
domain have been Illegally fenced in, in
Colorado. New NJ xico, Nebraska, Wy
omlng. Kansas and Nevada, by 'arge
c,ttle companies. many Of which are
English and Scotch. The large corp ra-
tions gobble the land and the poor men
and actual settlers are excluded. II is
to be hoped that The Commissioner W II
make clean j,b Of il. aud oust tn, H..
legal holders. Olher monopolies are
bad enough. but when il comes to o
reople's heritage the public lands teing
monopolized by a few capitalists, it is
tiue to halt.
President Arthur has il is said, settled
TIE vacancy in the Cabinet. He has vir-
tnnlly offered the post of Secretary of II g
Treasury to G.n Gresham. The latter
is willing to take the place. Gresham 4
transfer will probably make Frank H t.
ton Postmaster General, as it is under
stood that tie Presid, Mt is anxi, us 10
reward Hatton especially well for his
good work at Chicago,
A Western Republican Congressman
who reached here th>s morning hid a
long talk few days since with ex Gov.
ST. John, the prohibition candidate for
President. Mr.. st. John told him that
both Republicans and d, mocrats. would
be utterly surprised at the vote which he
would poll. He confidently predic' ed
that tue Prohibition vote would reach u
million, il not more. He estimated that
in his own State OF Kansas his vote would
! he 40 600. and was certain it wonld be
so 900 in New York State. He also
thought that the Probibiiionists w,uld
affect the result in Wisconsin, Michigan,
Iowo and Ohio. He characterized
Blaine's dodaiug issue in Mai le as not
only cowardly but a very silly ac'. and
one that had received the uunixed con-
tempt Of th lse who are on both sides o.
the Question.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Carriers with bells attached are ad.