The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-04-18

road passengers in this country, is now dis.
putting England's supremacy in the matter
Of speed. The trains ou the Great Western
Railway, from London and Liverpool,
annihilste the distance at the rate Of finy
miles an hour, exclusive Of stops, but what
will Mr.. Bull and the rest of the world say
when they learn that the Penn sylvania
Central Road whirls its passengers from
New York City to Chicago, Ia good thous.
and miles) in twenty four hours-including
stoPs2 By the schedule that went into effect
las Sunday, the great cities of The East are
thus placed within twenty-four hours with
the metropolis of the West, and this won
deriul achievement is accompanied by The
most positiYe guarantees of comfort as well
as perfect safety. Neither pains nor ex-
pense have been spared in the adoption Of
every possible means to insure passengers
against accident, so that the Inauguration
Of this new enterprise is destined 10 secure
for this line the con ntipuance of that popu.
larity that its admirable management in
the past has won from the whole travelling
public.
In view Of the enormous frauds that
have been committed in the preemption Of
the public lands throughout the codntry,
the Commissioner of the General Land Of
flee has suspend ded the issuance of any
more land patents in the greater portion OF
the public land States west of the Mis-
souri,, and has absolutely aud indefinitely
suspended patents for the desert and tim
Der culture entries everywhere. Under this
order of the new Commissioner, it would
seem that the only legal way to get hold
Of the public domain is by the instrument
tality Of scrip, for which there must OF
course follow a very lively demand. There
are several classes of scrip which can thus
be used for locating public lands in any
quantities and in all localities where lands
nre subject 10 homestead or preemptiou en-.
try, the principal of which is the Soldiers
Additional Homestead Scrip, which is also
the cheapest and best for locating purposes.
There is but little of this scrip ahoat now,
and this little is limited to the hands of a
very few dealers in Washington city, who
anticipate a bountiful harvest.
The Senatorial junke,ng parties for the
summer that had been laid out under the
miserable pretense that they are for the
promotion of the public interests, have
come to naught through the instrumental
ity Of old man Van Wyck who has lately
been stirring up the Republican galoots Of
The Senate with very pointed stick. Mr..
Van Wyck is a yeritable Miss Nancy IN
appearance, but he has abundantlv shown
his ability to hold his own in lip utest
with some of the best men in t be Senate.
The grand army of political hacks and
dead beats that have found their way into
the Treasury Department in the capacity
OF special agents, is to he completely broken
up and scattered. Secretary Manning's at
tention was called early in the bours of
the new administ traton to the useless and
expensive host Of scalawags who for years
have done nothing under Heaven but dra W
their salaries and play into the hands OF
the very men they were sci to watch In
fact these fellows had SO much influence
with the last administration that neither
Arthur nor bis Secretary of the Treasury
could find it possible to lop them off.