The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-12-12

and the result is perfectly satisfactory.
And we have got rid Of Maplcson.
Everybody is delighted at the prospect
of seeing him no more. We would
glory in an Opera of Choctaw or Fegee
rather than another dose of Italian
Opera administered by Colonel Maple
son of Her Maiesty's.
A dreadful shock to New York was
the arrest OF General Alexander Shaler
for bribery. Gen. Shaler has been a
top sawyer in the National Guard for
| twenty-five years, and as he walked the
streets he looked right over the heads
of other men. The humble stonc-cutter
of thirty years ago was lost sight of in
| the military hero who won his spurs on
the hardest battle-iields Of the Rebellion.
and stood at the head of the National
Guard Of a State that had given nearly
/ half million of men to the defence of
| the Union. He received the emolu-
/ mcnts of dozen Offices, and IL is now
asserted that he sold himself and his
I high office for paltry $1,000. The ur-
earthing of this matter is brought about
| by duel which is now going on be-
| tween two factions of the Democratic
/ party, each of which appears intent on
destroying the other. Mayor Edison
| helped to make Gen. Shaler President
of the Board Of Health just previous to
/ his retirement. Gen. Shaler is a Re
| publican, and the appointment gave
mortal offence to the Democrats. and to
| no one more than the incoming Mayor
| Grace, who wanted the place for one of
his own henchmen. Mayor Grace had
hardly got warm in his seat. when The
war on Shaler commenced. Shalers
! friends retorted by calling attention to
| Mayor Grace's connection with Ferdi-
nand Ward. The II'orld threw its tre-
mcndous influence against Mayor Grace
and published the transcript of his pro
fits of $4,000. Al this has resulted
in deadly hatred and bitterness, which
| will not be satisfied short of the des-
tructiOn of one party or the other. The
| position of General Shalcr is not an en-
viable one. His rather ovcrbearing
manner, and his tendency to look down
on everybody he considered beneath
I him land that was about nineteen
twenteths of the community. has
caused him to be heartily hated by most
of his suhordnates, and there are few to
grieyo, outside of his own immediate
family, and many to rejoice al his down
fall. lie was one of a considerable
number of men in these United States
who found it difficult to forget that the
war is over; he brought his military
habits back into civil life, and seemed
to think that citizens who were every
way his equal, and many of them his
| superior, should pay him the same def
erence that a private soldier would have
to pay him at the head of his brigade.
For the honor of the city it is to be
hoped that Gen. Shaler may be able to
clear his character of the charges made
by the broker Wilson, For if it shall be
| proven that man of such high charac-
ter, and enjoying such public trusts. can
be bought for such a paltry bribe, then
where can we look for honesty?
If the World is to be believed, the
character of our Mayor is not untainted.
1t may be that another popular uprising
| may be necessary, like that which sent
Tweed to the PenitentiaIy and Connolly
and Sweeney ino exile. Hew to the
line, no matter who is hit, and where
the offence is, there let the great axe
fall.
Our sister city, Brooklyn, is greatly
exercised about wild man of the sea.
which, il the story is to be believed,
would show that the marmen of the sea
are not all dead. For ten days past Il
man has been seen on Coney Island
beach, disporting himself in the briny
waves as if they We're his native ele-
nent. The hair on his head reaches to
| his waist, and the yellow hair on his
| body is as long as n horses name.
| Many people have seen him at night
walking along the sand, but as soon rs
he was approached he dashed into the
| breakers, and no one has seen him come
| out. But That he does come out is evil
dent, for he has been seen by many,
men and women. Towards night men
| go armed with hatchets and clubs for
fear the wild man might grab them up
and carry them into the sea. Women
and children keep close indoors, and a
| reign of terror of this submarine hairy
man has shaken New Nork's favorite
| watering place from turret to foundation
| stone. People are afraid to shoot him
for fear they might possibly be indicted
! for killing a harmless lunatic. Hun
| dredS are watching for the wild man of
| the sea, and [ should not be surprised
! when he Is caught to find that il was
| another ingenious device of that aquatic
blatberskite, Captain Paul Boyton, to
advertise his life-saving suit. If it is
not RoyioH it is the -
/ There is a rapid and remarkable
| change going on in the two cities Of
New York and Brooklyn. Ten years
ago the permits to build were about a
thousand; in 1880 they were nearly five
thousand, and the amount of money
employed in building about thirteen
millions of dollars. At that time
wrote that forty thousand people daily
| crossed over the different ferries. Now
/ one hundred and seventy thousand cross
daily on the bridge and ferry boats, and
the street cars of Brooklyn carried in
the year over lfty-siX millions Of people
| more people than there are inhabi-
| tants OF the United States. Efforts are
made from time to time to have the two
cities under one municipality; but the
only way that cam be accomplished ac-
| cording to our Brooklyn neighbors will
be to sink the name OF New York, which
has always been offensive to our Dutch
| friends on the other side of the river:
and either cali it by its original name.
/ New Amsterdam, or else the United
Municipality Of Brucklyn"-(yide old
| chrOnicles).
The weather has been fine but wintry.
The stores are in their gayest holiday
attire, and the streets and shops are
crowded with ladies', who appear to
have nothing to do but to lay ont their
spare cash. BROADBRIM.
Washington News and Gossip.