The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-04-05
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March to be sl4. .23S. 324: decrease since
June 80, 1883, ssl 1928 9oS; cash in the
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ENGLAND having pulled our nose and |
ouffed Oor ears in the O'Donuell busi-
ness, Chilli was emboldened to do the
same thing when we protested against
the unwarranted imprisonment of half a
dozen American ciiizeus in that God
forsaken county. Doth of these gross
insults We poCketed, as matter of course.
aud so here comes Turkey, nation so
poor that it picks its living from the
swill barrels of standardization that
lives AID dies from opium eating. and
slaps our face with the sume complacen-
Oy that has characterized the impudent
assaults Of the others, The cause Of tie
Turkish disgruntlement arises from our
protest against the exac;ions Of the Sui
lime Porte in levying an exerbitant duty
upon our petroleum in face of the treaty
upon that subject. II we were sure that
our navy would not 60 to the bottom be-
fore it could reach the Orient, and If We
could be guaranteed that it would not be
blown out of the water should it got
there by the two war-ships that Turkey
purchased Of us years ago. it would not
DO bad idea for the American Govern
ment to resent this last insult, and show
to the other nations abroad that it will
not allow sick man TO knock chip
from it's shoulder, whatever it may take
from muscular chaps like Johnny Bull.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN, of Ohio. who
is much more of q candidate for the
Chicago nomination than is his brother
Tecumse, is Of the opinion that Ohio
will be carried for the Republicans this
fall as easy az rolling offa log, if only the
right man be put forward. What mental
reservation or secret evasion possessed
Mr.. Sherman in making this conditional
prediction can best be copjectured by
the logic Of events that accompanied
Mr.. Sherman's candidacy four years ago
He said then as ho says now, that ian
enthusiastic aud united party was OF
more consequence and more 10 be de-
sired than the working out of any mans
ambition, be be ever SO popular or were
he decked with the garb of unquestioned
availability" The slyness with which
Mr.. Sherman has always manipulated
machine politics, Is manifesting itself
now when he says that, "believing that
the convention when it meets should be
free, uninstructed. and in shape to do
the very best thing for the VIII Die party.
! have counseled my friends to that end,
and I do not find that condition of
things to justify my being candidate
that found four years ago." Putting
this and that together, then, we are to
assume that Mr. Sherman's candidacy
can be relied upon in an emergency,
which emergency he and his friends
fondly hope may overtake the Chicago
convention before anybody else rakes
the pool.
A LARGE audience assembled at the
Crystal Palace at Sydenham few days
ago 10 hear Mr.. Oscar Wilds's lecture Oh
his impressions of America. Mr.. Wilde
twho has discarded knee breeches aud
reassumed the prosaic trousers) said that
the Americans are the noisiest people in
the world. whose national occr patton is
catching trains. Pennsylvania. with its
rocky gorges aud woodland scenery, re-
minded him Of Switzerland; the prairie
Of q piece Of brown bloiting paper.
Everything Is twice MS large as it should
be; everywhere is twice as far as it should
be. He visited LeadWlle. the chiei
characteristic of whose inhabitants is the
constant use OF the revolver. He lee.
tured to them npon "Benveuuto Cellini.
his Life and Works" and was reproved
by his bearers for not having brought
that artist with him. The explanation
that he had been dead for some it'll,
time elected the inquiry. "Who sho
him1" Among tbe more elderly Inhabi
tants Of tho South he found melancholy
tendency to date every event of impor
tanoe by the late war. "How btautifu
the moon is tonight" he once remnrket
TO . gentleman who was standing next I,
him. "YeS," was the reply, "but yor
should have seen it before the war" S.
tufnitesimal did he aud the knowledg
and appreciation OF art west of tn
Rocky Mountains, that an art patron
one who in bis day had been miner
actually sued the railroad company 70
damages because the plaster cast o
Venus OF Milo, which he had importe,
hOm Paris, had been delivered minu
The arms, And. what was more surpris
ting still, he gained his ease and tn
damages. Dear Oscar. do visit Lead
willie once more. The boys. no donbt
would love to interview Iou!
Our Northwest Letter.