The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-02-23
Editorial Mention.


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IT appears that the drama The Fate
of the Molly Maguires" takes greater
liberty with the subject than the mem.
bers of that organization approve. The
COMPANY performing the piece in Lead.
willie was driven from the stage with
chairs ard all other missiles which were
available.
DESPATCH from Berlin asserts that
naturalized German-American citizens
who return to Germany are again being
vigorously subjected to military duty.
1t says, too. that the German Foreign
Office ignores United States Minister
Sargent and conducts all negotiations
directly with Washington. r Bismarck
lad better let up on the American hog,
or he may 6nd something worse thar
TRIcHINE.
FATAL cases OF fricbinosis have Just oc.
CURED in Michigan and Indiana. In
both instances German families were the
sufferers, and the victims bad been eat.
ing uncooked swine's flesh. The per.
nicious habit of eating smoked or salted
pork. without cooking it. retains its hold
upon the Germans. notwithstanding the
warnings of physicians and the frequent
reports of disease and death resulting
fro N the practice. 1t is this habit TO
which the great prevalence of trichnosis
in Germany is to be attributed.
MIR. N1MMo. Chief of the Bureau of
Statistics, has made report TO Secretary
Folger on the hog question. After CIV
ing statistics of the industry and the
German and French edicts in regard to
American pork, he says: "The most ir-
ritatiug feature of the restrictive meas
ures adopted by Germany is the fact that
that country forbids the transportation
of such products across her territory in
transit and bond to other countries, not
withstanding the fact that abundant pro-
visions exist throughout Europe for the
security of merchandise 80 transported
over railroads." A history of trichirm
is given, and evidence that the danger
arising from the consumption of pork is
i1finitesimal.
SECRETARY SwANK, of the American
Iron and Steel Association, has collected
from the manufacturers the statistics of
the pig-iron business of the country for
1883. The total product of the United
States was s, LAG, 972 tons of 1000 pounds
each, as against 5,l7s.12 tons in 1882
The total production of Pennsylvania in
1888 was 2 6SS, S9l tons; in 1882 it was
2,449, 256 tons. Statistics full of signifi.
cance in reference to the number of furn
aces in blast were also obtained. On
January /, 1884, there were 6SS furnaces
in the United States, of which 27I we're
in Pennsylvania. OF these 6S3 furnaces
3o7 we're in blast at that date, of which
1i3 were in Pennsylvania. On January
J, 1883, there were AT furnaces in blast
in the country, of which 1856 were in
Pennsylvania. On July /. 1883, there
were 334 furnaces in the entire country
In blast, of which l5l were in Pennsyl-
vania. Mr.. Swank said Saturday that
the prospects for the current year were
not so bright as might be desired, and a
good many furnaces have already gone
of out blast since the first of the year.
The question of the Bible in the pub
lic schools has arisen in new shape in
Iowa. The complainant said that the
teachers of his two little girls turned the
school from its lawful design into place
Of worship and religious instruction, and
made OF themselves ministers of relig-
ion therein, in the presence and hearing
of ali their pupils.' The Bible was dali
iyf read. the teachers and pupils repeated
the, Lords Prayer, and religious hymns
were sung. He gave notice to the
ptincipal of his objections to these re-
hgioas exercises, and requested that
they be discontinued, but all in vain.
He then appealed to The law. Judge
Burton refused an Injunction. To say
that a school where the Bible is read as
part Of the morning exercises, or where
the Lords Prayer is repeated, or hymn
sung, is place of worship, or that such
teachers are ministers of religion, seemed
10 his honor more speeious than sound.
Ne held, moreover, that Iowa's constita-
tionAl provision granting religious toll
sEatiOO, aud prohibiting the Legislature
from providing any religious establish
meet, is not eontravened by laws which
recognize the Scriptures, OF the Supreme
Being. or Sunday as religious day OF
Hest, but that such laws are legal and
valid.
AP0INT WELL TAKEN.