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

who used TO bs the life of society avoid.
ed his old friends, he felt the circles
closing around him, and last week he
rose from his breakfast table, went mp tc
bis bath room and cut his throat. The
other groom married an heiress, whose
father was wealthy manufacturer; the
father approved Of the match and took
the young man into partnership, install
ling him and his daughter in beautiful
house in the most fashionab BILE portion OF
the town. The young wife's health
failed, and her husband attended heI
with the greatest devotion till she died
about two years ago; he then went to
board with fascinating widow, and af.
ter a proper season of mourning
married her. The father of his first wife
took offence at this, and the partnership
between them was dissolved; he seemed
to be utterly prostrated by the blow
which had swept away his prospects in
an hour, and last week he threw himself
under the wheels of passing train and
so ended life from which all hope had
gone forever.
II you want to see New York as Mr..
Barnum would say, "As the greatest
show on earth," you must zee it when it
turns out for spectacle. 1t does not
take much to bring them out, but when
they do come they are a sight to see.
The marriage of the midgets was one of
these occasions, aud the only mistake
was that they were not married in Madi-
son Square Garden instead of Trinit ~
Church. The marriage was not nm or
dinary one. The matronly bride had
undergone tho same ordeal at the same
altar over twenty years ago. She kept
her marriage VOWS. and is admitted on
all hands to have made O model wife and
mother. General Tom Thumb, her first
husband, rest his soul-was inclined to
be little fast; be ran through big
fortune, and did lots of things that no
doubt cost Mrs. Thumb a good deal of
grief, but as far as known she never
kicked up q row about it, nor eloped
with any other fellow or sued for di-
vorce, or did any of the nine hundred
and ninety-nine things which wives in
her situation usually do. She SO de
ported herself as maiden, wife and widow
that the breath of scandal never touched
her, although she has lived in prblic for
over thirty years. and has proved herself
worthy, if not of the GREATEST. at least,
of the smallest nobleman in Italy. Mt
withstandipg the care that was exercise d
in issuing the Invitations. both ends of
society came together. as it is eminently
tit they should do in this Republican
country of ours. The Astors, the De-
Laneys, the DeGroots, the Van Rensel-
laers, and others of the old blue blood,
touched elbows with sans cullotes from
the Bowery and Bleecker street, who,
disguised in clean shirts and swallow
tailed coats passed muster without
question as they were in possession OF
the magic pasteboard which admitted
them to the church. The master hand
of Barnum was hidden beneath pair OF
lavender kids, and the crowning glory OF
the wedding was that the next day the
happy couple vas one of the principal
attractions of "The greatest show on
earih.' All happiness to them. He is
lucky fellow this Count Magri; titles
like his can be purchased any day in
Italy for few thousand forms, but wo.
men like the countess are scarce, and ]
trust that this cousin of the Guelphs and
the Ghibelines will make her as good a
husband as she deserves TO have.
The villainy of the wrecking of the
Marine Bank by Mr.. Fish, the fnan cial
partner of Ferdinand Ward, grows black.
er and blacker every day. When I spoke
of it a week ago it looked bad enough
but At looks worse now, This immacu.
late Bank President loans $40, 900 on
the note OF the solored porter, who swept
out Mr.. Wards Office and emptied the
spittoons, and never asked for an en-.
dorsement II never seemed to occur to
this astute fuancier that $40, 900 was a
considerable sum to loan to a fellow who
was sweeping ont offices at forty or fifty
dollars month. Things looked sus,
picious and thlevish, and he being a good
and piors churchman thought it best moi
to inquire abont them, be WAS afraid be
might find out something that he ought
not to know, so he pocketed the swag
and said nothing about it. Hundreds OF
thousands of dollars we're tossed about
like shuttlecocks, and a goodly portion
of the banks funds seem to have found
their way into the pockets of Mr.. Fish.
The bold operator who cracks your
safe at night or knocks you down with a
sandbag is a gentleman and an honest
man when compared with these ,ancti
monious rascals, who with white cravat
and long face drag religion in the mire,
and bring disgrace upon the church.
The misery and ruin brought on this
community by these hypocritical rascals
will never be fully known; the two sui
cides of which spoke were directly
traceable to the financial collapse in Wal
street; and if the whole of the appalling
list couId be published, it would De on,
Of the most terrible chapters in our his
tory.
Henry Irving left us on Monday with
good deal of fame, and large bag O.
American Eagles-EIgles which will b,
domesticated in England and which ]
fear will not fly back to us again. Il
may be difficult matter with some ex
cellent judges of acting to FIX the statul
Of Mr.. Irving in the dramatic hemis
phere, but whether he Is a great actor O.
n poor one there is no denying the fact
that he has raised the standard of hi