The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-03-28

man who had not good suit Of clothes.
The regalla Of the Order is the most ex-
pensive and showy Of any society In
America. Yet b re every man has on
bis magnificent sash trimmed with costJy
gold bnllion, and almost giving the lie 10
the cry Of the oppression of labor rnd
bard times. The times may be hard for
the United States, aud they are, bNt they
are NOT the bard times Of Eugland nos
the starving poverty of ireland, and if
any one thinks differently lam 9uite
willing to leave it TO St. Patrick to settle
the question.
For simon-pure uuadulterated villainy
we have had nothing for years to equal
tle revelations brought forth OH the trial
nf Fish. the President Of the defnnct'
Marine Bank. 1t fills one with amaze.
ment to think that in the year Of our
Lord 1884, on Wall Street, above all
places in the world, that such things
crnld have been done. We cannot but
ask ourselves ARE they all thieves, or all
fools, or whal?" Ward wants hundred
or hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
20 he goes to Fish for the money; Fish
says NIL right, have you got securities?
Ward said, "Ies, plenty of them, and to
make the transaction perfectly secure I'll
Keep th' m myself" So tlese precic us
rascals took au Empty envelope and
marked il with the amount, aud that as
I'll the bank had TO show for its entire
capital Ii some clever burglar had
cracked the bank safe and stolen ten
thousand dollars, they would send him
10 States Prison for twenty years, if they
caught him; but Fish aud his pals got
away with million. Many poor de.
posiors were ruined. What will they
10 with Fish2 Is the confidence game
played by Fish any better than the petty
larceny game which Hungry Joe plays
ON an unsu.picions countrymau? Il is
nice question fer the Courts TO decide
whether these sauctimonious robbers can
do ia open daylight what an expert u lei
would hardly dare do at hight. We will
await the result with patience, but sii-
ctr,ly hope that this slippery Fish will
not escape through the meshes of tie
law.
Mrs. Elearor Peck comes to the frcnt
again this week. although for some time
past she has been luxuiiatiug in the
Tombs. Mrs Peck will be remen bered
as one of the smalie,t col lfidence w men
In the country, and as tho woman who
swindled Babbitt, the soap man, out of
Sl2 600. Her swiniles have been 20
large and SO numerous that no r, eular
account has been kept of them. Da.
mouds, gol t,silver, houses, lands horses.
carriages. dry-goodI of all kinds, silks,
aatins and laces, all was fish that came TO
her net but somehow she slipped through
every time aud her unfortunate fupes
got let Some months ago she got some
diamonds from diamond mert hant
down town to show TO wealthy friend
of hers, and the next day she pnwned
them for several hundred dollars, She
then tried 10 swindle the pawnbr, ker,
and this brought her to grief, and az
remarked she has been in the Tcmts for
several months. But though hemmed in
by stone walls, her light IS not hidden
MADEIRA bushel, for on Monday Mr. Peek,
the happy husband of this household
treasure, made application to the Court
20 have n mortgage on his house ion ST.
600 declared void. on the ground tlaIe
WAS no party TO its execution. While
Mr.. Peck was Luuting for q pirate's
treasure on the Pacific coast, Mrs. Peck
got short Of money, 30 she thought of a
mortgage on her house in Blooklyn.
MIR. Peek was ont of the way, but that
made little difference to woman of her
inventive genius, so she got gentleman
IL m ID Lawrence TO personate Peck. and
Sue raised the cash. 1t WAS done 30
'nSily that She tried once more ut failed,
and then the husband appears on the
scene to have the mortgage declared
void. Mrs. Peck is wonderful woman
and has lad many narrow escapes, but
1t now looks as it she IVES about 10 be-
come an admirable illustration of the
trlte old adage. The pitcher that goes
| often to tue we'll gets.broken at Last"
Brooklyn has been greatly exercised at
the arrest and imprisonment in the Pen.
itentiary If Paul Bauer. the popular
Coney Island man, for pool selling, Mr..
Bauer is very rich and when warned that |
lie must stop gambling on his premises,
he exclaimed like Tweed. 'Whut are |
You going To do about ii?" When brought |
to tue bar Of justice he looked upon the |
matter as good joke. He pleaded
guilty and put bis hand in bis well filled |
pocket TO pay his fine, but when the
Jcdge, in soltmn ton, s said Penitentiary
thr, e months, his countenance fell and |
when they bundled him into the Bnek
Maria, along with tramps aud thieves, lie
began 10 realz. that the way OF the
trOnsgressor is bard.
1t is we'll enough for the people to
know that there is only one law for the
rich and the poor. and that a wealthy
gambler when he violates the law may
expect the same punishment as a hod
carrier or a scavenger.
The sensation caused by Lssociating
the name of a talented young Episcopal
minister with that of n noted female
swindler from Boston was scarcely
three days wonder, There is no ques-
ton but that the minister made fool Of
himself when be allowed himself TO be
drawn into a correspondence with fas-
cinating widow OF whose sntecedents he
was ignorant Had he been wise as a
serpent though harmless as a dove. he
Uould have looked RusDiciously IN silk