The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-06-13

care Of the Episcopal church, one of the |
grandest Of the christian sisterhood, an
Institution of learning viii rise which /.
will he an honor and a blessing to the |
land. we, therefore, join in the Te Deum, |
Laudsmus and Gloria in Excelsis Dec,
that the bread thus cast upon the waters
hath returned after many days.
Watchman, tell us of the night. The
watchman may not be good Judge of
the weather, and so his opinion may be
of little value. Oh. for some prophet
who could give us some forecast of the
political sky. The President was in
town on Monday, but did not call on
Gen. Grant; Governor Hill was in town
on Sunday, and found time to call on
Hugh Mclaughlin in Brooklyn. Muir
murs fill the air--the clans are hungry
The Navy Yard has been cleaned out
preparatory TO a new deal; but the
tempting prize of the District-Attorney-
ship, made vacant by the retirement of
Mr.. Tenny, is still untitled, and a dozen
self-sacrihcing patriots are fighting for
the place. The Collectorship of Inter
nal Revenue, another rich plum, hangs
like Mohammed's S coffin between heaven
and earth, but nobody seems to have
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content among the politicians, and fifty
applicants for every office. Some of the
| faithful are bound to be among the outs.
Another bank cashier skipped--de-
cidedly conservative and elninently re-
| spectacle. Is there such thing as an
honest man? How are we to judge of
men2 If long and faithful service and a
knowledge of mans daily life, of his
outgoings and incomings, are not TO be
our guides In our judgment of character,
what are we to go by? Mr.. Scott the
paying teller of the Manhattan Com
pany's Bank had been in its employ
twenty-five years; he had grown up in
the institution from a boy, and had
worked his way up by straightforward
honest endeavor from the lowest round
of the ladder to the highest: his honesty
was unquestioned, and yet in an evil
hour he yielded to temptation, and till
the grave closes over him he will live
branded as thief and rascal, and as
the meanest kind of a rascal who robbed
his confiding friends, and left them tc
suffer the consequences of his crime
This eminently respectable person got
away with 100000 in three months; il
he had continued at the same rate for G
year he would have bagged the respect
able sum of $640, 900; but 100000 il
, not bad haul for the times: fortunate
ly for the public and the bank, the in
stitution is an old one and can stand it
! after putting the loss on the proper sid,
/, of the balance sheet they have nearly {
million in reserve. For wonder, NJ
poor man suffers by the larceny of thi
, monumental thief, and the respectable
old fogies who pocket the loss, have onl,
, to curse their own folly that they did no
I count their cash more frequently.
, The mystery Of the drug clerks mur
i der is still as cloudy as ever. There ap
pears to be an unwillingness on the par
/, of everybody connected with him to sa,
anything about his former history. Al
t, far as at present known, the man wa
i entirely correct in his habits, trusted
+ implicitly by his employer, who hat
, known him for many years, kind hus
{ band, an aifectionate father and a gool
, citizen. The only reasonable theory i
, that the man was murdered by robber
i and the cutting of his throat was an af
! ter act to give the appearance of suicide
4 few days work by the reporters ma,
! drag the mystery to light.
= The air reverberates with the sounC
{ of wedding bells. More marriages hay,
taken place within the last thirty day
than in the previous six months, Th
! floral decorations have been the mos
costly and lavish that we have seen TO
many years. Fifty thousand dollar
. would hardly pay for the flowers tina
: have been used in New York and Brook
, lyn, in the past week.
. The weather continues cool and til
. tidal sweep for Europe is tremendous
!, brides and bridegrooms, widows an,
y widowers, husbands and others,
BROADBRIM,