The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-04-19

~ m fitS phyAiciahs are very decidedly in
favor of the total abolition Of corporal
- Bubishmtnt in schools The editor as.
= ssrss that tie Bondon University College
School, which is attended bv 500 boys.
hos beencnried on from the FIRST with.
out corporal punishment, and is quail to
any school in England with respect to
y discipline.
At q B1sToN seance a disconsolate
~ widowef succeeded in estab fishing com
Il. manhattan with bis wife, who had passed
& into the spirit land from the Hub, OF
i whose esthe;ic circles she had been
member. The man Inquired if she was
happy and il She liked her new sur
.roundings to which she replied; well
dear IL is very charming and lovely and
all that, but Of course you know, dear
1t isn't Boston"
The Philadelphia correspondent of the
Detroit MEDICAL ACE deuounces Schuyl
kill drinking water in unmensured terms
lie says lie cannot even say of 1t MS did
the old topper, that it is good enough
To wash in 1t appears that mauy Of
Che large manufacturing Villages use the
river an a sink. aud there is moreover.
within two miles OF the ciry's water
works thickly settled cemetery which,
d, &, situated on n bluff ut the waters edge
drains directly into the already contain
mated stream,
IT is now no longer matter Of doubt
that Grants friends are planning an
earnest movement to make him the eau.
sidats of the Republicans, with Line llu
for the second place. LOGAN aud Grant
are in entire accord, and it is confidently
expected that the bulk of the Old Gnard
of 1880 can be rallied to Grant on the
home-slre'ch. 1t is claimed by Lis
friends aud admitted by all. that Grant
Is vastly stronger now than he was in
1880, and his candidacy would be free
from the load of thirdierm hangers Oh
that crushed bIm in the last Convention.
DE,PATcH from Harrisburg states
that in the case of the Commonwealth,
Va, John S. Griifitl an ex-Treasurer Of
Luzerne county, for tax on loans for the
years 1879 80Sl. an opinion was filed
Tuesday giving ju 'gment in favor of the
defendant. The Court holds ttat the
County Auditors and not the Auditor
,aGenernl and State Treasurer are tie
sHDrODer natiiea IN sat,Jo .od ala. .t
'7Aecoants ofa County Treasurer for this
tax. and as the account of Griffith. then
Treasurer of Luzerne county, had be, IL
o q s,ttled and adjusted hy the County aud.
'Nitors and notappealed from by the Safe,
It was conclusive.
DURING the past week there has been
much discomfort comment and worri.
ment exhibited in aud around the Conrt
House. at Mach Chunk, by the new ap
pllcanta for license TO dispense liquor,
and their friends, on account of the op-
position offered by the Temperance
felix's to the granting OF their petitions.
We do not know whether the obi ,ctions
ara made on account of character or not,
but so, we are OF the opinion that that
should make but little difference. be-
lisvlng as we do with the Irishman, who,
some years ago, applied for II license
and when asked by the court if he could
produce good moral character, very in
hocently asked: rs it a moral kuracttr
ys wantsl Then, be me sowl, its very
little karacter mon needs to sell
WhiskyE Pat evidently fully nuder.
stood tue nature of the business. Ifthe
temperance people would make n change
Of base.and instead of petitioning against
license, let all who apply get tue priv
ilege, We believe that the business in n
very few years would become so unprofil-
able to those engaged in it. and SO dis.
gusting to all respectable citizsns. that
the traffic would prove its own execu.
tioner Thus, if every man can get II
license by paying q stipulated sum OF
money therefor, he will naturally expect
10 make living out OF it, but if you put
twenty saloons where there are now per.
haps but one. the Profit TO each one
them will be so small that they will and
must give up the business in disgust
ana Que trial will suffice for lifetime
The very best way TO kill thing is To
make it obnoxious to the community
aud the liquor traffic would, by the
granting o; i,cel SO to all Applicat l., so
obnoxious that it would only be ques.
ton OF a snort time till the peuplr
would do just what our temperance peo-
pie want them to do-Vote for Prohibi.
tion! "Glve a dog rope enough and he
will hang himself" just 81 with the
liquor trafic-glve it all the sway ii
wants and it will die of its-If.