The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-01-31

IammanY. NOllin NJ. Squire was selected
as the only man who could give satisfaction
to all parties. Everybody had triumphed. e.
Temmauy had succeeded. The County
Democracy was vindicated, and Irving
Hall knew that il was not left out in the
cold. Satisfaction was general everywhere,
for all agreed that we had an honest man.
CO which makes us wish that q mllstone
had been tied about our necks, and that we
had been drowned in the sea before we so
lected our present commissioner. If one
half Of what is said Of him is true, we will!
pray for the return Of the old Tweed gang.
We are in hopes, however, that the -
is not half so black as he is painted, and
that at the close Of the present Commits
sioner's term Of Office, the City Hal, Central
Park, Broadway, the Battery, and the Big
Bridge will still be loft as testimonials Of
his official integrity.
owney Goohegan has crossed the styx-
and the Grand Army Of Roughs and Plug
cult for an outsider 10 imagine a rufian in
large city with well organized police
living outside the pale of the law. Yet
this did 0wney Geohegan for years, and in
the Old House al Home on the Bowery, he
bid defiance to the authorities. To see the
Old House at Home in all its glory you
had to visit it about midnght-then the
place was full OF rufiians and thieves who
felt quite secure from the intrusion OF the
police. A man who had not served n term
or two IN States Prison was regarded as Of
no account, and there were plenty in the
crowd who were able to boast of having
passed half their lives behind stone walls.
Respectable burglars, like Jim Irving, Por-
ter and Dan Lynch, never dropped into
owney's; it was sacred to the rufians who
knock unsuspectiug travellers oyer the head
with a sandbng, or perpetrate a masked
robbery at midnight. Brutes who pound
each other into mummy for twenty @ We
dollars and q champions belt, found here
congenial friends and hackers; and yet
strange figure was he who sometimes stood
behind the bar, ana Of whom the whole OF
that desperate crowd stood in dread. He
dealt out the deadly poison at his own bar,
but he never drank himself; the place was
dense with smoke, but no tobacco crossed
the lips of 0wney Geohegan. lie was not
man of many words and was seldom
seen TO smile-ho had 70 friends or conf
ways neatly dressed, if you met him on the
BowerY, you might have imagined him
some respectable merchant or bank clerk.
1t was an understood thing with all thieves
at owney's that they were not to exercise
their peculiar talents inside the limits OF
his bailiw ick; aud it was his constant boast
that mans watch or purse was more se-
cure in the Old House at Homo than it
would be in bank or church, 0wney was
politician and power in his ward, SO
that the police, whom he fed handsomely
for their silence, were not inclined to make
a complaint. Savage assaults were ofnight
ly occurrence, and many men were killed
there; hut owney still held the fort against
all comers. At last after yeara Of successful
rufIianism- owney fell into the clutches Of
the law, and being convicted was sent to
Blsckwell's Island. The sentence broke
after. Disease set in and the gladiator wLo
could have whipped his weight in wild
cats, became a wretched driyeller rolled
about by a black boy in chair; the muscles
that were once like ironbecame soft and fab
by as a child's; his mind broke, and SO with
no living soul to mourn him, with no hope
here or hereafter, the ruffiau died. We
haYe another sample brick, Billy McGlory
l am in hopes before long to write hi.
obituary.
The sensation Of the week in fashionable
circles has been the arrival OF Lord Jar
moylc. All New York is in a hutter,
meap that portion Of il who only live by
the light of "a reflected nobility. What {
thing it is to he !ordl If 1t were not fol
title-there is not a second class grocer o.
drygoods clerk who would notice him. Es
scntially snob. of snobs, he seems 10 yalu'
himself for HIMSELF and to look down OF
the plebian world as though it wOs diff
cult thing for him 10 live i'll it. Miss For
tescue is to be congratulated in getting fifty
thousand dollars in exchange for his Lord
shi7i for he is about the dearest fifty thou
sand dollars worth to be found in He
Msjesty's dominions. We haye seen Gar
moylo, and now for Fol oitescue-she will b.
worth golden ducats to him who bring
her here. From financial standpoint
would sooner have ona Fortescue than
dozen Garmoyles, and from the very hand
s,me endorsement which his Lordship has
given the lady there is no good ressol
why she should not be social as well as al
artistic success.
The enterprise and genius ofthe NeN
York reporter and his thorough reliabilit.
were admirably illustrated last week b,
one of the minor city journals. On Nor
day night the sluggcr Sullivan met th
sluGger Ryan, and eleven thousand dollar
hard cash was the financial result. 1t wa
not much of mill, and it is with grie
that state neither got his ne ok brokei nt
not even black eye or a battered nose
but they got away with the money all th
samei two days after, the enterprising re
porter got up an account OF private NEE
, when they came together TO divide tn
funds-"RYan rushed at Sullivan and hi
him on the nose. Sullivan countere o
, Ryan-they elinched aud wrestled a
around the room, smashing the furnltul
and completely wrecking he place. Padd
seehan and a number of friends rushed /
+ and parted them after desperate strugg
3 when each, badly used up, was carried
his hotel. That is not bad for a circun
n stantisl account, but the fact is that NJ
= Ryan and Mr.. Sullivan never saw eac
II other that day-they did not meet to diYiC
; the funds; it was done by personal friend
. and the renort of the hattlo ia lteraI