The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-07-11

" '"''i''A' VNuliJlts' you were Cdlleu
smart. To lie and cozzen and cheat,
was to be keen in business: to be rich
was to be great and successful: TO be
poor was worthy of social and financial
damnation. Halt, haiti Young man
take n round turn and fetch up. Ii is
not disgraceful to be poor after straight
forward honest endeavor. 1t is not
honorable to be rich if the riches are cot
by dishonesty and theft. The one may
mean an humble home with honor, self
respect and peace, and the other end
with the execrations of your fellow men
and convict's cell
The late New York appointments fell
like wet blanket on Brooklyn. Every
body on the East side of the Big Bridge,
thought Brooklyn man would get the
rich plum Of the Collectorship; or fail
ing that, at least, the Surveyor of the
Port. Itwas said with apparent reason,
If Kings County had done as New York
County did, that Mr.. Cleveland would
still have been Governor of New York
with small chance of reelection, hut
Kings County reeled off between l., 900
and 1900 majority, and that in a city
with Republican mayor, and a maiori-
ty of Republican officers. BROOKLYN
nominated Mr.. Cleveland for Governor;
for it was only by the sacrifice of her
favorite son, General Slocrm, that the
nomination Of Mr.. Cleveland was OBJ
tanned. Brooklyn claims that the
President has forgotten his obligation to
the CITY of Churches, and there is much
grumbling thereat. What good things
there may be in store for them, only the
President knows; the realizations, so
far, have not been satisfactory, and un-
less some of the patriots are provided
for, it is safe to say, if Mr.. Cleveland
runs again, he win not get Il, 600 maiori-
ty in the County of Kings.
The shameful inefliciency of our
criminal laws finds a notable illustration
in the case of Carpenter, the wife mur-
derer. This miserable wretch has been
saved from the gallows for over year.
and yet more deserving ruffian never
stretched halter. He has always been
brute and an outlaw; as a boy he was
in with the worst gangs in the city. and
he eliminated life of crime and shame
by numbering his own brother. BY a
technicality which never should have
been allowed he was permitted to plead
guilty to manslaughter in the third de-
gree, and got off with few years i'm
prisonmcnt. On the trial his wife was
a witness against him, and while in
prison he swore he would kill her.
When he got out he followed woman
whom he mlstook for his wife into
church, and stabbed her in the back
right in The midst of the congregation.
He was again imprisoned, and as soon
as he was out, found his wife and
butchered her in open day. The poor
creature, attacked by this fend in the
street, ran into saloon bleeding from a
dozen wounds. The barroom was filled
with cowardly men who stood by while
he chopped her to pieces. 1t is an out
rage on justice that such wretch should
be allowed to live-his worthless neck
is not worth the rope that breaks it; land
after every resort has failed-the Su-
preme Court, the Court of Appeals and
Executive clemency, they are trying to
prove him insane. 1t is safe to hang
just such lunatics as Carpenter every
time; he has already killed two, and
that he did not kill the third is not his
FAULT, for he left the knife sticking in
her back as he ran out of the church.
Nobody ever thought Carpenter was in
sane before, and it is too late to begin
now. But the last hope of this desper-
ate criminal is gone. The jury have
declared he was sane, and he was again
sentenced to be hung.
We are getting on nicely with cur
fashions, and as an evidence of our per-
feet Republican simplicity, see adver-
tised on the fences Her Majestys Cor
sets, Princess of Wales Bustles, Lady
Churchill Slippers and Duchess of Edin-
burgh Hats-no wonder we are forget
ting all about the Fourth of July. BY
the way, it passed off very quietly this
year. Fireworks were tabooed, pistols
and guns were under edict. No noise.
no hurrah, no soldiers, no nothing, /
wonder if We ever did have a revolution
and it there ever was such man as G.
Washington, I'll try and find out be.
tween this and the rext 4th of July,
BROADBRIAl.