The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-09-12

An I'D man took his life in despair
last week, who thirty years ago was al
most ifnot quite millionaire. He was
brought of in luxury, and was scarcely
Of age when he inherited largo fortune
by the death of his father. A series of
lucky speculations doubled his capital
and made him a stock gambler, for that
was his.tr name. For years whatever
he touched turned to gold, and men
spoke his luck as phenomenal. When
Black Friday involved almost every
one else in ruin he made thousands by
the disaster. When he bought stock
It went up,--when he sold it went down,
and hoalways sold in time. He married
and his good luck seemed to fellow him
for he got one of New York's most beau
tifnl bellies and handsome addition to
his fortune. But the turning point came
at last, and the fast man who had ex-
hausted all the pleasures of all thecapi-
tails of Europe, made but an indifferent
husband. He spent his evenings at his
club and left his young wife to amuse
herself as best she could. She found
friends who were only too glad of her
society, and one morning the city was
startled by the announcement Of the
elopement of Mrs. -. The husband,
when apprised of his wife's fight, wns in
Boston in company with notorious wo-
man. He started in pursuit, however,
and overlook them at St. Louis, where
he killed his man. He was tried for the
crime and sentenced for manslaughter to
States Prison, though the case was plain
ly murder. When he came out he was
Il ruined and broken hearted man. His
money was gone, his friends were gone,
and maddeRed by his misfortunes he took
10 drink. Step by step he went down
till he wandered these streets a wretched
ragged vagrant. Five years of this life
left him bloated unsightly sot, and last
week he jumped from ferry-boat and
ended his miserable life in the turbid
waters of the river. Many a miserable
wretch takes the same course; too poor
to buy pistol or poison, they seek the
waters of the river.
Another frantic wretch asks a woman
to marry him. He has no claim upon
her love whatever. She refuses, and he
attempts to assassinate her and fails, but
succeeds in killing himself. The world
is better without him, and the young
woman has had lucky escape. Such a
husband could only have made her life
miserable, and in the words of Shakes
peare: Nothing in his life so well became
him as the leaving of it.
The rush home this week has been
tremendous. The streets are full of ex-
press wagons piled three stories high
with Saratoga trunks and furniture from
the cottages at the different watering
places. Returned tourists, brown as
berries and lively as crickets, fill the
streets, and as they pass they look down
with supreme contempt on us poor iel-
lows who were compelled to stop at
home.
Once more the theatres are in full
blast, and the opening week has been
most propitious. Steele Mackaye bobs
up again at the Lyceum, notwithstanding
the ruin of the original stockholders.
Perhaps some one else has $4,000 or
100000 that he wants to lose; he can
sink it in the model Actors College as
quick as any place that know Of am
not going to prophecy, but | think before
that prolihc author BARLEY Campbell
gets through with his season at the l4th
street theatre, he will wish he had stuck
to play-writing and left management
alone.
AS remarked, the theatres are all in
full blast, but while actors are plenty
clergymen are scarce. Early in the
week the wife of a gentleman in Brook
lyn died. He had not resided there long
and was a comparative stranger. The
morning after her death he started to
find a clergyman to perform the last
G,porol r;tos l,t mana copId lao fnunJ
lie went to church after chErch and
residence after residence, but the minis
ters.were all off enjoying themselves in
the country, and it seemed as if the poor
woman's remains must be consigned to
the grave without any ceremony. At
last grocers boy saw a country minis
ter whom he knew on the street, and the
husband informed him of his sad dilem-
ma. The minister. excused himself as he
had another engagement, but at last was
prevailed on TO read few words and
hurried off. This was poor woman
who had led virtuous and upright life.
The day that Tom Davis, the notorious
crook and swindler, was buried, who was
followed TO his grave by thietes like
himself, there was not the slightest diff
Guilty in finding a clergyman to read the
funeral service over his remains. The
clergyman, who was left behind by the
crooks, got special train and caught the
funeral just in time.
The weather is cool and bracing, aud
the revival OF business is sharp.
BROADBRIM.
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