The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-01-12
Editorial Mention.

money necessary TO pay the annual pen
ktons by several millions of dollars, ant
that, with the unexpended balance nov
on hand, only $4,000 600 will be neces
sary for the fsoal,year of 1885.
NEAR midnight Saturday, the oonven
Of the Immaculate Conception, at Belle
vile, H., near St. Louis, was totally de
troyed by FIRE. Twenty-Five or thirty o.
the Sisters and pupils we're burned tc
death or killed by jumping from the up
per-story windowsor are still unaecount
cd for.
Mn. RANDAIh and his Committee on
Appropriations have begun their work
Of retrenchment by cutting down Com
missioner Dudlev's estimate for pensions
twenty-five million dollars. Last year
The expenditures on the pension account
amounted TO about S66. 600. 900 aud there
Is now said to bo available for pensions
nearly $50 900 900 in unexpended ap.
propriNtIons. In the face Of these facts
Mr.. Dudley had the assurance to ask for
$40, 900 600 for the coming fiscal wear.
CoNoREs. MAN STORM. Of this District
has introduced several hills. ms follows
To provide for the issne of circulation I q,
revenue laws Of the United States. and to
abolish all taxes and officfs created hy
taem; TO repeal chNnter 10. title 3j Re-
vlsed Statutes Of 1873 relating to ieencics
AID SUGGESTIONS; for the retirement of
Trade dollars from circnlaiion: for the
relief OF Henry II. Wood: for the relief
OF Charles Edwards: and granting pen.
sion to Mrs Cornelius J. Schoonover.
The Harrisburg PATRI makes the
following sensible comments on an old
snhject; We presume that some people
think newspaper men are persistent
duns; let farmer place himself in
similar position and see if he would not
do the same. Suppose that he raises
one thousand bushels of corn and his
neighbor should come and buy bushel.
one dollar, or less, and the neighbor says
IL will pay you the amount in few
days. As the farmer does not want to
be small about the matter he SAYS. 'all
right" Another comes in the same way
until the whole of one thousand bushels
are trusted to one thousand different per
sons, and not one of the purchasers con-
Germs himself about it, for it is small
amount they owe the farmer, aud OF
course that will not help him any. He
dots not realize that the farmer has irit.
tered away his large crop of corn, aud
that its value is due in thousand little
driolets, and that he is seriously embsr-
rassed in his business because his debt
ors treat il as little matter.
TIE MANHATTAN MAGAZINE, of the cur
rent month, contains several articles OF
more than ordinary interest ond impor-
tsnoe. The number opens with an ac-
count, magnifcently illustrated, of tue
Luther Monument al Worms. There are
somo fine portraits of Luther, John Huss,
John De Wycliffs, Philip Melanchthon,
Savoncurola and Peter Waldo. No con-
temporary journal, within such compact
pages, offers SO many inducements to all
who regard the period of the Reforma-
tion rs an epoch inferior in interest only
to that which saw the foundation OF
Christianity itself. There is also pow
erfully written article upon "Woman in
Modern Civilization" Mr.. George
Ticknor Curtis enters the lists with Mr.
Darwin and contributes the introductory
portion of a philosophical inquiry upon
"Cfeption or Evolution2' He promises
to show that the systems of Darwin and
Herbert Spencer result in negatives
which put an end to the idea of immor-
.taliiy and "that the weight of evidence
is against both of them" We can cordi-
ally recommend this magazine to our
readers.
The late peculiar appearance of the
sky after sunset has attracted much at
tention in the Antipodes. The Mel
bourne ARGUS mentions peculiarly rich
glow which has appeared in the western
sky for a considerable time after sunset,
and has been popularly ascribed to the
AURORA AUsTRALIs. The Government As
tronomer. Mr. Ellery, however, attributes
the phenomenon 10 different cause.
The spectrum, he points out. exhibits
breadth in the telluric or atmospheric
lines, and especially Of those shown 10y
II. Jansen to be due 10 aqueous vapors
in certain conditions in the highcr strata
OF the atmosphere. He is satis led that
the cause of the gorgeous sunsets is sim,
ply Peculiar hygrometric condition of
those regions. H. predicted wet and
broken weather.; aud as matter Of fact
the peculiar sunsets have been followed
by c0pious rains all over the Australian
continent. The season, in fact, ia the
colony has been almost rs the sunsets,
nothing like ii having been experienced
4pr many yeals. Anoihsr and more nh.
comfortable solution of tue great 'sunset
mystery is gwen by a Persian astrologer,
who predicts that the blood-red appear,
anee of the sky is forewarning of a war
suoh as the world has never yet beheld
There Is TO be bloodshed on an upe..
ampled scale in all quarters of the globe.
W. U. HESsEL, Chairman of the Dem.
oepatie State Committee, was in Harris
eSrg last Saturday and mads arrange.
menis for the meeting of the committee
on-Wednesday, the 23d init. The COM
nittse will elect Chairman Cor the o1m.
ing year and Az the time for holding the
State Convention TO nominate caudi.
date Tor Congressman at largo. Mr..
Hensel viii, in obedience to a general
demand, accept reelection. It is IN.
derstood that State Senator Homer ].
HnmAa will also ha n candidate f. A.