The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-02
BTOadbrim'S New York Letter.
Special to the CARBON ADvooArE.

| lem Bridge, but has q tour laid out for
the melting days of summer, which will
CO anywhere from 81. 600 to So 600. Iu
this respect the BROOKLYN clergy are not
a whit behind our own. The Reverend
DR.. OuyleE goes to Europe with his wife.
The Rev. Dewitt Talmage goes with bis
entire family. Mr.. Beecher would no
mere thiuk of breathing the atmosphere
of Brooklyn in July, August and Sep
tember than he would of voting for Mr..
Blaine. 1t seems to. be pretty we'll
settled tlat the mir Of New York
or Brooklyn is fatal TO O tirst-class
minister in the two last months of sum-
mer and the first month Of the fall. and
it is somewhat singular that the richer
the congregation the more dangerous it
becomes Tor the clergy. often wonder
how editors live through il; no summer
vacation for them. ] walk down by the
great newspaper Offices night after night
or rather morning after morning. aud
at twelve, one and two o'clock I see the
men coming out looking over-worked
and weary, and don't wonder that they
drop of at thirty-hve, forty aud forty
five, not many Of them reaching fifty or
over. Now that all the great dailies are
publishing Sunday edition there is no
respite for them. Toll. hard and unre-
lentinR, from one years end to the other.
| This is the fate of the Scribes-the
Pbarisees fare better. When the summer
comes, instead of having to pay their
own fare, as an editor does, the conere-
gaticn makes them up a good fat purse,
and for three months they baye nothing
to do but enjoy themselves. Take, for
instance, Mr.. Beecher. Up to quite re-
Gently his salary was $50, 900 year, and,
as ministers go, be was worth it. BIT
tor three months he never goes near his
church, and for the other nine months it
is safe 10 say that he will be absent from
his pulpit three months more-so that
he receives, or did receive $40 900 for
which be rendered no equivalent except
his name; and during that period of his
absence he usually fills mp bis time lee.
turing his terms being from $500 TO $500
per night. But il the congregation,
which pays the piper, don't grumble. l
don't see why should, only when the
reflection forces itself upon mo at times
tbiuk that perhaps have mistaken my
calling, and il l had c3Itiyated my tai.
ents iu another direction. think that [
IN ght have had better time. The New
York editor has Coney Island and Long
Branch as an unfailing resource, and
Rockaway Beach promises to become
favorlte resort this summer. The great
hotel. which cost over million and
which proved the ruin OF its projectors
has been bought by new company, aud
Notwithstanding lis immense size it can
be filled Mt popular prices.
Tue terrible storms of the past winter
ha ho n IA cia al.
lar watering place, altering 1t in places
50 that 1t can he hardly recognized; but
money works wonders, and hundreds of
men are now ousily employed in patch
ing up the ravages Of the sea.
After all my grumbllng we at last haye
had solar weather which has brought us
to the melting mood. 1t would require
the constitution of a rhinoceros to stand
the weather that we have gone through
IN the past week. Last Sunday the
thermometer stood about As in the sun;
on Wed ,esday it registered 80 in the
shade; and this sudden change added
but little to the comfort of the uufortun
ate people who were compelled to move:
for you must know that lully one-thIrd,
If not one-half of the people of New
York and Brooklyn move on the first OF
May. L have searched ancient history
and mythology in vain for the origin OF
this internal custom. but can find DO
clue to it, The genuine old New Yorker
would not feel comfortable il he did no,
move at least once q year. Tue disease
Is chronic and the moving general. For
the next few days there will be more cuss
words IN use than in any other three
months in the year. The first of May is
one scene of universal ruin broken
looking-glasses, dislocsted tables, frac-
tured chairs, sofas and bureaus in the
last stages Of pneumonia, and every
thing out of sorts generally. Still it is
tue law. and they will haYe to figure on
the profits.
A case occurred here last week, which
one would scarcely expect to hear outside
oI band OF savages. IT, Brooklyn lives
woman BY the name of Dora b. Eaton
or Frances, Now, have never seen the
ID, | never expect to see him, GER
taiuly don't want TO see Lin, bnt tbs
Eaton woman comes as near fieDd as II
Is possible ior human being to be. A
woman, by the Iame of REYNOLDS, had
little girl banned Sarah Nelson. the child
OF former husband. On leaving the
city, Mrs Reynolds entrusted her child |
to the care OF Mrs Eaton, who wac |
pro iueut member OF the johnson Street |
NJ. T. Churcb-a class leader and Sun |
day school teacher? The child was VERY
young; but her helplessuess did net |
touch the stony heart Of this finale |
monster She tiei the little creature 10
AIR time and again, aud with n thick |
leather strap, and sometimes with a rope, |
literally cut ber little back To pieces. |
Her screams were heard all over the
neigbbOrhOod, yet 1obudy seems to have
stretched ont a hand to save her At
last the chlld's mother came to town aud |
st first little Sarah vas no terrified BY
her torturer, that she dared not tell her
mother, though the fostering fiesb was
hanging in strips on her back The
mother took ber home aud undrt ssed
her aud iben for the first time realized |
the sickening horror. She FASTENED tn
the agent of The Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty IT, Children. and he had
the woman arrested. The child's back
wa9 exhibited in conri. and the sight
filled the judge with snch horror aud iu-
diguation- that on her conviction, he
dared not trust himself to sentences her;
several days tltpsed befrre tie iu ice
ttlt sufiiclenily calm TO administer jus
uce iminriially. Iu the meantime all
the members of her church were busy
trying to influence the Judge not to sen.
tence her to prison. but to let her of
with fine, but be was infexible, and he
sent her to prison aud imposed ii fine of
one huudred dollars. She ought to have
been imprisoned for life.
The sale of the IF cts of the gigantic
swindler, Ferdinand Ward brought to-
ge.her an immense crowd. Everybody
seemed anxious to get some eURIo Of one
of the biggest rascals OF the century. He
was luxurious scoundrel. and before
the bubble burst Jared snmptunusly
The furniture was costly, bnt the chairs
the tables, the sofas. the bric-bric. rep.
resented other peoples money Every
article represented theft: in fact they
were stolen. and suppose that is what
made the people 80 anxions TO get them.
Unhappy are politicians. New York
and Brooklyn, which saved the President
bis election, have not been remembered
among the rank and file. Almost two
mOnIhS have naEQad Sinaa tha Drasidanf