The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-01-17

sugar for years TO como to the people OF the
United States. "Tberes millions ia it,.
for the ring if it passcs-but 1t won't pass.
II is never tafe to prophesy unloss you are
sure, but think will venture this pre-
detiou in advance OF the action Of the Sen
ate. II won't pass and ii ought not to pass.
Tuesday YVES quite rcd letter day. There
were number OF interesting events on
Tuesday. A virgin OF thirty five got 3d..
500 as balm for wounded heart A brute
Of u baker promised to marry her. lie
gave her an engagement ring imposing in
size and gorgeous 20 look upon, which cost
seventy fye cents. lie took her around
(the snvage) aud introduced her as his
future wife The minister was twice en-
gagged, but the wedding postponed each
time. At last the sauguinary rulIian showed
his hand and went off dnd married lat
widow with $4,000 and a brick house, but
Nemesis was ou his track. The law whose
majesty he had offended, struck him with
baker is s., 500 poorer-and the young ana
innocent creature of thirty Ave, whopo
heart he had cracked, il not broken, is s2,-
500 richer.
The streets swarm with hoodlums, male
and female, wild arabs, unkempt and god.
less, which no proYision of our society
seems aJlc to grapple, A little girl OF u
was taken up in the streets in state of
beastly intoxication, and the investigation
revealed the fact that she had stolen her
fathers whisky jug, and that two Of her
brothers were in the Penitentiary and one
in States prison, while the father was re-
juicing in the society of his fourth wif'.
People in the country who read this will be
horrihed, and ask, how can such things be-
Why, my dear friend, it is as easy as lying
The father liyed at 65 Caiham street; he
was surrounded by fences the slong word
for receivers of stolen goods. Here came
the thieves and crooks after night Of sue
cesstul plunder. The children grew up
among thieves; the Five Points and Bax.
ter street are not stones throw away.
Mott street, with its Chinese opium Joints
and vile Italian dens, is within pistol shot
Whatever there is ievilish or wicked in
New York lle centered about the home of
these children, so what wonder that they
grew up drunksrds and theYes. How to
meet this problem we hardly know. Will
our new city Fathers help us? Speaking OF
our new city FathCrs, it is pretty apparent
that in the deal which made an unknown
politician named Squire Commissioner Of
Public Works, poor Tammany gets left.
Alas for human greatness, but yesterday
and the word of John Kelly might have
stood against the world, to. day aud "none
so poor to do him reverence" Tammany
is routed horse and foot; the cohesion Of
public punder no longer holds it together.
Squire, who has the patronage Of millions,
has turned his back square on Tammany
enemy.
There was fun on the Produce Exchange,
a few of the shnrps got caught short on De-
cember corn, and for twenty four hours at
least there was an awful squeeze. Lame
ducks were everywhere, and by the way
side were few dead geese. One or two
important firms were forced into lquida
ton. Many came out with exceedingly
lean bank accounts. and there was rejuic
ing nowhere except among the little clique
who engineered tho deal. That was a
week ago. This week the bears ca mo back
at them, and can tell you this in advance
that the chaps who bulled the market on
the day before the new year will not buy
any steam yachts or brown stone houses
with the plGnder.
Our new Mayor ia fairly in his seat. Be.
fore the election Tammany proposed to raise
the question if Mr.. Graco w:s a clizsn of
the United States. AZ high citizen as
Judge Dorshue called his ctizrn7nip in
question, but Grace SAYS it was not until he
and the Judge had had fight abnut tho
appointment OF some Of tho Ju ig-'s
| friends to some fat Offices, to which Mr..
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Mr.. Grace was born in Ireland. He claim,
that no came here while yet minor. He
claims his citizenship nuder the Minor
| provisions of the NaturalIza tiOn Act. and
| after being nnturalIzeh ne spent the next
twenty five years Of his life in England and
South America. HA certainly was much
more Of South American than he was OF n
| North American, but south or North he is
now Mayor oi New York. and it will puzzle
Tammany to get him ont. We have passed
through one cola Tidal wave aud expert.
onced sort Of January thaw. The thaw
has not extended to the purse strings nt the
Wall street nngnales, every one of which
is us sight as drum. No selling, no buy
Ing-Rll chaifa and chin,
One half of Brnrklyn is jubilant that
De.cher got slap in the face in having his
pew rents pulled down 5000. and the 9th
er half are Anging up there hats to think
it is no worse, considering anything short
OF loss Of 100000 Beecher victory. l.
was highly edifying TO sec Brother CmAin
aud Deacon White walk into the pulpit to
gether. hu the bidding fur the pews lacked
this old time vim. 81 they had IN be content
with what they could get, Many faces
were ab, ent which have been at every sale
for the past twenty or thirty years; but with
al the losses tho Plymouth pastor viii n't
have To preach to empty benches for many
} years to CONS,
Business was never ha'ter. II you ask n
merchant how iS business, you ge. nothing
back but an angry growl.
Hopns that we may thaw out socn. aud
that may be ablo to give a batter report
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Y.urs truly,
b OADBRlM.