The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-03-08
Our New York Letter.
Regular correspondence OF ADVOCATE.
New York, March 4th, 1884

The unwholesome squabble caused by
the death OF the late Salmi Morse is ended,
and McGivney, the manager of the show
"On the Yellowstone" and its principal
hacker, as well as the suitor for the hand of
Mary c. Black burn, the star, made thor.
ough ass OF himself, and came near getting
himself into serious trouble. He was ab
surdly jealous of old Morse, he struck him
several times, and made himself so un
pleasant to Miss Blackburn, that there was
ample ground for the suspicion that he had
procured the death OF old Salmi himself
Now that he is out OF trouble. and has lost
about 81 900 in "On the Yellowstone" he
is tired of being "sporp any longer, and
proposes to go back to selling rum again.
He ought to have known better from the
start than to dabble 10 theatricals, for he is
oyer fifty years old, bald and gray, and GER.
tainly ought to haye learned a thing or
two in those years.
It was said about town that McGivney
might have AVOIDED all this trouble if he
had "seeD" the Coroner. do not think
that Mr.. Levy is person of the kind 10 al
low himself to be bribed from the prosecu.
ton Of his duty, but that such things are
done is well known fact. Only recently
when woman committed suicide through
dependency because the man with whom
she had been intimate for years married
another woman, the inquest was hurried
oyer, and the name Of the man never ap-
pesred. II was told that this leniency cost
the man $4,000. This money, when de.
manded is generally said to be necessary to
keep witnesses out Of the way" | sup.
pose the CorOner's Office will come up for
investigation next, as all the departments
are now being Oyerhaued;but don't think
that 1t will go very deep because so many
secrets Of wealthy and influential people
lie buried there, that heaven and earth will
be moved before they will be allowed 10 be
exposed. Still the Coroners are not so bad
as they used to be. In iormer days, when
the Office was yet a elective one, il is said
that II a dead body was found in the river.
It would do for five or six inquests. The
Coroner on being notified of the discovery
OF body would view the remains and give
permit Of removal. The henchmen then
would quietly tow the body to another pier,
where it would again be viewed as a new
discovery. Thus the amount of fees was
swelled, and the city treasury was depleted.
The boxing tournament under the aus
pices or the New York Athletic Club last
Saturday evening, turned out as everybody
expected, into genuine sluggng match
TammaDy Hall was packed with people.
and the boxes were occupied by LAWYERS,
professional men, merchants, and generally
speaking, representatives Of The best society.
The young athletes showed very little
science. They went for earh other and
battered each other from the moment the
word was given. As a result endurance
under punishment, not skill won The day.
Some of the youngsters had their faces bad
ly Gis6guTed and will carry the trophies
they earned for several weeks. Two of
them had teeth knocked out.
One of the mosl Interested sneetators al
this show was Roscoe Conkhng. |. NAV
not be generally known, but il is none the
less fact that the Utica AdOnis is almost
as handy with his fists as with his power of
sarcasm and inveetive. He used 10 spa
very frequently with some of the best pro
fessienal talent at a Sixth AVenue Gymna.
SUM, and IL took good man 10 get the best
OF him. lie has several sets OF boxing gloves
OF his house, and when friends call VINO
have any proficiency in the manly art, he |
frequently invites them 10 friendly bout. |
He attributes his health. strength, mental |
Vigor and readiness solely 10 this exercise.
The Queens Book came out last Thurs. |
day, being published in a chesp form |
by the HsrPers and Munro.
The book was not issued until two O'Clock.
but before eight O'Clock about eighteen
thousand copies had been disposed OF. On
am eTeditubly informed, the
sales reached fifty thousand This far ex-
seeds the sales in EDgland. Smith a Elder
required two days 10 sell their fjrst edition
r
r3 so edition, hut even so one would have
thought that Englishmen with their awe
and veneTalioD for The Queen, would have
shown more alscrily in possessing them.
selves of her inmost thoughts. The book
9y the way is Utter rot. 1t con-
iists ~ ppttings Of the most commonplace
temestle details, which a person Of any
aste or Judgment would under no cireum
stances have held up IN the aR Of @ eriu
,izing and uninte rested world.
Great oaks from little acnTns grow :" is
IN old and very true maxim. A pYoof of
is truth learn from q member Of DR.. New.
mans Church. As you no doubt are aware,
Ex President Grants pastor, has been Tor
Ome time at skies and seYens with his con-
,regstiOn. The old members want him
while the later arrivals want him
o stay, and are anxious for new church.
: Is said the whole opposition 10 him arose
rom the fact that 1T Que time, sotRe months
go he delivered terrible phihpis against
yoree. One OF the IDost prominent meIn-
'srs % the church is divorced from his first
Rlier who il hopeless lunstie, and 10
narrled 10 another woman. This gentle
nan took up Dr.. Hewman's remarks as
eVelsed at biUa personally, ever since that
lne be nsturslly ieit very bitter towards
he pastor, particularly IS neither in a
moral or legal sense he has done any wrong.
In three week the hrst batch Of summer
oarists will leave this port SIR a run through
-uTope. A good many Of these people are
ond Oi rseing and they 20, 80 as l0 be 10
inc for the rarly Spring events on the
British turf The best Office on o crack