The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16


vi0ion in the brain of Mr. Whitney, who
died, like the prophet of old, in sight of
the promised land, but never realized
his dream; Grant was West Point ca
det, and Bob Lee a lieutenant in the
armies of the United States. Douglass
was just coming into public notice and
Lincoln was only country lawyer in
} Illinois with a'limited local reputation
The Senate Of the United States still
/, echoed with the majestic thunder of
b Webster, the persuasive eloquence of
Clay, and John Quincy Adams having
served as President of the United States
considered 1t no degradation to represent
old Massachusetts as a member of the
lower house.
But / find myself wandering away
from Gardner Springs old church. The
congregation dropped off by twos and
threes, the drift of fashion swept up
town, and at last it was resolved to sell
the old church and follow the congrega-
tion. The property was sold and the
remains taken nreverentlyfrom the graves,
and some of them found their way to
Greenwood, then rural suburb of the
city Of Brooklyn.
After the Neto York Times became an
established success, the Times Company
bought portion of the property. When
the Times undertook the gigantic job of
breaking up the Tweed ring, the COM
pany was served with notice that If
they did not desist in their attacks, they
1 would be driven from their property and
ruined. There was some force in the
threat, as they packed the juries with
their creatures, and the judges high and
low were their abject slaves; hired bull
lies crowded the streets at night, as
saulting and manning decent citizens
without remonstrance from the leather
heads, as the old police were called.
But the Times fought the battle through
to the end, and the Tweed ring only
lives in mems memory now in connec-
ton with the criminal calendar and the
increased city debt. Looking at the
gigantic building now going up on the
site of the old World office, / said to
myself, we are no longer what we were,
and as another evidence of the change
look at the NetD York World A couple
OF years ago it was in the last stages of
collapse, to-day it is one of the great
newspapers of the land whose imperidL
dtctun1 is worth 500, 900 to the Barthol-
di pedestal.
1t seems as If we would never get
through with rascality. The Scoville
trial in connection with Day & Lord has
unearthed perjury, forgery, lying, steal
ing, breach of trust, grand and petty
| larceny, and lots of other crimes, too
numerous to mention. Speth, the man
ufacturer of the forged plates for the
Mexican bonds, and who figured in the
bogus railroad tickets, who also made
the plate which played so conspicuous
part in the Mayer perjury case last week,
comes again to the front as the assistant
of Scoville with more bogus plates.
Mrs. Scoville, under an assumed name,
got several thousand dollars somewhere
and placed it where the dogs could not
get at it. The fact is the Lords and the
Days and the Scovilles are queer lot
they have always been in trouble Some
years ago old Daniel Lord was robbed of
hundred or two hundred thousand
dollars worth of bonds; he got them
back somehow, but the thieves were
handsomely rewarded and never came to
grief for that offense, at least Then
the old man in his dotage, married a
woman young enough to be his grand
daughter, and for several weeks his sons
kept New York on the qui uipe by trying
to get at him but he kept himself locked
up in his house till the honeymoon was
over. 1t is an unsavory trial, and sup
pose there are many more Wards and |
Scovilles on Wall street, and one of these |
days they will find them out
General Grant gave clincher to the |
World on Wednesday. One Of its en-
terprising reporters in spirited article
t)ld just exactly how General Badeau !
w:ote Grants new book, and it was Civ
en- with such plausible detail that some
stupid people might possibly be deceived,
but General Grant came out fiat-footed |
and gave the World people to under
stand that he was the author of his own
work-so the World took the back
water.
The fearful collapse of the Buddensiek
building in this city a couple of weeks
ago, is supplemented by more terrible
collapse in Brooklyn; when building
in which 700 people were employed col
lapsed like an empty egg-shell, and then
caught fire, carrying death and dissolu-
tion to Heaven only knows how many,
for the roll of the dead is not yet com
plete. Our city is full of just such death
traps, originally built for tenements, and
then altered into factories, loaded with
heavy machinery and tons upon tons of
the heaviest kind of goods-what Won
der they fail to pieces on the slightest
provocation. An awful responsibility
lies somew here, l wonder if the NUM-
cipal authorities can find out where it is.
The city has been further enlivened
by the trial of Dick Short, the would-be
assassin of Captain Phelan, and a more
brutal, murderous-loolSing rulfian than
this same Dick Short it would be hard
10 find; wherever such a rascal can be |
found it would be quite safe to hang :
him on general principles, on the ground
that the world would be much better !,
him. Captain Phelan turned !
up for the prosecution, all prophecies to !
me contrary notwithstanding, and from !
the manner in which he goes heeled for /
a light, whoever tries the job of assassin :
ating him again will find he has under !
taken very heavy contract. :
The acquittal of Dick Short, the ruff /,
ian who attempted to kill Captain =
Phelan, was good deal like a charge of /,
Irish dynamite-nobody expected it. SO !
as American justice has triumphantly !
indicated Short, we may expect to hear I
that Captain Phelan has been remOued !
by order of No. l, K.C.P. :
Quite as much of sensation was the =
discovery of the old rascal Fish's con- .
nection with the unfortunate Sally Re- :
Der. am inclined to agree with Sir :
Peter Tezel, "Its - wicked world, =
and the fewer we praise in it the bet
.er."
Our sister city, Brooklyn, is jubilant,
ior rapid transit, after years Of travail \
md disappointment, is at last an accom- =
plished fact, and they have the advan- .
age of us on this side OF the river; they =
ride for five cents. y
don't know how many elopements a
nave occurred in the past week but they i
nave been numerous. One old woman :
who ought to have been thinking seri-
ously about her future state, ran away 7
with boy of nineteen who might easily !
nave been her grandson. Poor old wo- 4
nan, guess she has found out her mis- a
AXE by this time. - =
A female evangelist In Brooklyn, as =
iumed the pastorate of the p. NJ. l.. =
Church, and it was not long before she |;
got the congregation, deacons,. trustees, Z
and everybody else by the ears. The !