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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23
BTOadbrimS New York Letter.

Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
The festival of Yom Kippur, or The
Day of Atonement, the most sacred of
all the Jewish holidays, fitly closed the
week.
1t is not bad thing, to have one day
i'll the year, when the Jew and the Gem
tile recognize the fact that there is a
God somewhere. Our Jewish commun.
ity is made up very much like our Chris
tian community: of very good and very
bad and middling. Yom Kippur is the
day that brings these extremes togeth-
er; the orthodox Jew recognizing its
sacred character by fasting strictly from
setting sun of the evening before to the
setting sun on the evening of the festi-
val, and if the night is clear, there are
many who will not touch food, till the
stars appear in the sky.
On Saturday all the places of Jewish
worship were crowded-men and wo-
men whose faces had not been seen in
side of the Synagogue since last Yom
Kippur, were there once more to pro-
claim to the world that there is a God
iii Israel. On this day the rich and
worldly man forgets his worldliness :the
money lender thinks no more about his
cent. per cent; his only thought on
The Day of Atonement is how to earn a
blessing, and how to do some good and
charitable deed, which shall help to
balance the shortcomings of the year
Our Jewish community is divided
some of the most influential congrega-
tions in the city clinglng to the ancient
forms and orthodox faith; willie one of
the richest congregations recognizes the
fact, that we live in a progressive age,
and that Judaism to retain its influence
must keep up with the times. What
Easter is to the Christian, Yom Kippur
is the Jew-the poor and the suffering
are sought out, and as far as bountiful
charity can do it, they are made to for
get their sorrow. There are no better
conducted charities in the land than
those conducted by the Jews of New
York, and l suppose the same praise
may be accorded to the Jewish charities
all over the land. There is one point
that speaks volumes for their honesty in
this respect: that there trusts are seldom
if ever dishonOred; such a thing as
Jewish defaulter of a charitable trust
being almost unknown. Never in my
memory has there been such a general
observance of The Day of Atonement-
the only thing to be regretted is that
there are not more such HOLIDAYS.
The lambs got lesson last week not
that expect it will be of much service
to them; but it is one of the lesson that
Wall Street gives those who venture on
the gilded sea of stocks. In a month
New York and New England went up
oyer thirty points. Reading took a
jump that turned the head Of more than
one Plymouth Deacon, and other rail
road collalerals were booming. Since
the syndicate added fifteen millions TO
the cost of the poor mans coal. all the
coal stocks were supposed to be a bonanza
so the cautious fellows who have
been holding back their guilders, waiting
for the good time cOming-thought that
that blessed season had at last arrived,
and that Il would be a good time to
unlock the strong box and go in. On
FRIDAY New York and New England
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23
TIVE ouTl.ooK IN THIS srATE.

While there is no sign that the labor
element of this State will have tickets
in the field, or that distinctively labor
candidates will be named for any of the
Offices to be filled, it is clear that the
workingmen will exercise a potent in
fuence in the coming election. There
are in the State fully 100000 men con-
nected with labor organizations. These
include Knights of LaOo-, the miners
organizations of various kinds, the rail-
road men connected with protective as
sociations, the iron workers, and others
properly belonging to the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers,
the textile workers, and mixed trades,
mainly organized as Knights of Labor.
of the coal miners there are in various
organizations 10000. OF these $4,000
work in the anthracite region and 35,-
600 in the btuminous field. The rail-
readers number 10 900, the iron workers
$1,000, the textile workers 10000, and
the mixed trades $4,000.
1t goes without saying that so strong
body Of men, acting in unison, can
exercise an important innuence on cleo
tions. Politically, these men are divid-
ed about equally, but this year they will
vote almost as a unit. The influencing
cause of their action will be the store
order business. On that question the
workingmen have a deep feeling. Cen
eral Master Workman Powderly has de-
clared his apprehension Of the system
in the most emphatic terms. The re-
cent declaration of the Supreme Court,
pronouncing the law forbidding the
issue of store orders constitutional, has
excited the greatest interest in the sub
iect on the part of the workingmen
throughout the State. Those likely to
be affected by return of the pernicious
system naturally desire new legislation
on the subject, and they begin to realize
that with Gen. Beaver in the executive
Office there would be no possible chance
Of securing such legislation. Beaver
has through corporation of which he
is President, constantly evated the law
by issuing what are called trade coupons,
while Chauncey F. Black, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor, has al
ways been outspoken in opposition to
any method of compensating labor 9TH
er than by money payment.
When the Greenback Labor party
held its State Convention in Harrisburg
there was a strong labor influence in
the body which was directed toward the
formation of strictly labor ticket, but
the convention was captured by the
emlssaries of the Republican ring, and
a greenback instead of a labor ticket
was nominated. The labor men wanted
to endorse part of the Democratic
ticket, but that was also prevented.
However, the textile workers Of
Philadelphia in an organization known
as the Labor League, have endorsed
the nomination of Maxwell Stevenson.
the Democratic candidate for Congress
at large, and the bituminous miners
have endorsed the candidacy of w. j.
Bremen, the Democratic nominee for
Auditor-General. With the feeling
favorable TO the election of Mr.. Black
prevailing all the labor associations, and
these seperate movements for Stevenson
and Bremen, it seems as though the
labor votes would be thrown generally
for the Democrats.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

THE adoption of resolution by the
Knights OF Labor in convention at
Richmond, appealing for mercy for the
convicted Chicago Anarchists, is I'M
questionably an ill-advised procedure
The Chicago anarchists have been
found guilty, by twelve good men and
true, of committing a most atrocious
crime, one Nhich is disgrace to Am
erican history. 1t is specially ill-adyised
for the high tribunal of the Knights of
Labor to make formal plea for the
lawless, ruflianly, and eowardly anarch
ists, for while ii does not exactly indi-
cate that they indorse yagabohdism, it
may be plausibly construed as declaring
bond of sympathy between labor and
vAgabOndism which Is to the honest la
borer an insult 10 his integrity and in
telligenee.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

ACCORDING to latest adyices from
Tennessee the Taylor brothers are still
"fiddling for votes" Political matters
In Tennessee during the past six weeks
have been exciting, while the grotesque
proceedings Of the two brothers who
are candidates for the Chief Magistracy
OF the State have been more or less
novel and laughable. Both the candi-
dates are said to be able orators, grace
full and atfable in manners.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

The report of First Assistant Post
master General Stevenson shows that
3,S42 new Offices were established dur
ing the year ending June 30 and 1,12O
discontinued. The whole number of of
fees is 59,6l4, of which 2,244 are filled
by appointments by the President and
81 ,3I9 by the Postmaster General. Dur
ing the year 22,74S appointments were
made, distributed as follows: Resigna-
tlons and commissions expired, 9,1l2;
removals and suspensions, 0,566; deaths
Of postmasters, 5S7; establishment of
new offices, S,4S2. The six States hay
ing the largest number of post offices
June 30, 1886, were as follows: Penn
sylvania, 4,0Ol; New York, 3,2l5; Ohio,
2,763; Virginia, 2,2sl; Illinois, 1929,
and Missouri, 2,057.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

SAMUEL j. TILDEN and Thomas A.
Hendricks both died childless. Both
were able lawyers; both accumulated
considerable property; both made wills
when in the full vigor of their mental
powers, and both have lot of collateral
relatives who propose to contest their
wills. There ought to be some easy
method OF trading off such relatives for
worthless yellow dog and then shoot
the doc
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

THE Prohibitiorists say that high Ii
cense will make respectable saloon, a
respectable man respectable company. a
respectable drink, a respectable drunk,
which will wind up with respectable
fight and make the respectability of the
social world demoralizing. But what
are you going to do about It?
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

THE petroleum export for the current
year promises to be nearly or quite
equal to that Of any former year, despite
unprecedentedly low prices and the in
creased consumption of Russian petro-
leum. The total export of mineral oils
for the first nine months of the year, as
given by the Bureau of Statistics at
Washington, was 433, 23G, ,06S gallons, the
export price of which reached S35, ,546,-
2l3. as against 5,OS6, ,23S gallons, val
ned at s37, 1922, 2,s4S, for the first nine
months of 1885,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

In Persia the marriage of first cousins
is the iavorite union. The reason is that
cousins have been acquairtances and
friends from childhood, while to the rest
of the world, save their brothers and sis
ters, the young girl is veled mystery
so that, unless there is mutual disincli-
nation or too great disparity ofage, the
Persian youth looks forward to the
daughter Of my uncle" MS his future
wife. Often the cousins are betrothea
from childhood As rule, Glasses do
not mingle in marriage. The sons Of
merchants wed merchants daa. h ers;
the Young tradesman mates with his like,
and so with the members of the scryant
and soldier classes
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23
All in the Family.

We hope that the reported appoint
ment of Mrs. Cleveland's cousin, Mr..
Benjamin Folsom, to be United States
Consul at sheffield, is tue. Having
become satisfied of this yang mans fit
ness for the post the President acted like
u Democrat and husband in appointing
him without reference to the feelings of
the Mngwumps. To the victors belong
the snnils.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23
Not Irishmen But Policemen.
rom a Western Exchange.

lie shot his head in at the police sta
ton and asked "Any smart men hcreY
" Yes, sir" replied Officer Malloy, be-
tween Havana whifis. 81 am.at you sar-
vice" ooh, you are; well, | want to
ask you this question: Germans in Ger
many are Germans. When they come to
Chicago, what are they ?' "Germans
still" "And TtaliansY Italians still
" And Irishmen ?" Irishmcn still"
"Pll bet you dollar they ain t." "Ain't
Well; then, what are they p "Police-
men p Officer Malloy whistled quietly
TO himself, and took a spin around the
block.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

ABRAHAM II. HEWITT, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Mayor of New York
City, represents the cardinal principles of
simon pure Democracy and has received
the unanimous endorsement of both
factions of city and county Democracy.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

THE salary of Grand Master Work
man Powderly has been increased from
$500 to $4,000 a year. This makes
Powderly's position somewhat enviable
from financial standpoint, considering
the fact that he also has a secretary
who draws 50. 900 a year.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

JAMES G. BLAINE will tell the an
thracite coal miners of Luzerne and
Schuylkill counties how a protective
tariff has given them three cents advance
out of the late increase of fifty cents per
ton in coal prices. sometime this month.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

THE pork packers workmen strike at
Chicago has ended. And as usual the
strikers are the ones who have lost by the
deal. How long will the senseless strike
and boycott be the mears of misleading
American laborers.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

BETWEEN dyspepsia and the demise
of favorite mare he rode during the
Franco Prussian war Prince Bismarck
Is said to be "as irritable as a man can
be and liye,n
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23
The Ups" aud Downs" of Life.
From the Hal ton Plain speaker.

T IVIII ITIN II9-FI -EVTI T IfTTIT 'TVfTNFTs
The mi rket reports show that whiskey
is Going UP. The fighting and pure Gus
sedness shown on our streets nights, leads
lis to conclude that great deal Of 1t is CO.
ing DOWN in this town.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

GOVERNOR PATTIsoN's effort to
break up the illegal coal combination of
Pennsylvania has received the hearty
endorsement of all the leading journals
In the State.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23
All for Love Of Party.
From the Philadelphia Times.

FROM tne Inliauelphla ZINES.
If the tariff has any gratitude at all, it
ought tu feel perfectly safe after all the
trouble Blaine has taken, and not require
any more saving during this campaign.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23
No Use for the Dude till Spring.

The season is over, thank heaven, when
the weak young man at the picnic puts
on girls best hat and tries to be funny.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

THE Oleomargarine tax law goes into
effect on November 1. Another monu-
mental fraud to leave grease marks on
the administration
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

MEssRs. LORD &c THOMAS, the we'll
known newspaper advertising firm of
Chicago, have just issued in very neat
pamphlet form, a list of the best country
newspapers, our own included. This
list they have very appropriately named
"Our High Grade List" Advertisers
who wish to cover any section at a mod
crate outlay, should send for this list.
Messrs. Lord & Thomas are one of the
leading firms in the country in their
line, and have the largest office on the
continent. We take pleasure in speak
Ing good word for them.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

SEVERE floods visited Texas this
week causing great devastation of prop
erty and loss of life. Local relief com
mittees have been formed and every
thing possible done to alleviate the suf-
ferings of the afflicted. 1t is pleasing
to note with what spontaneous liberali-
ty the whole nation responds to the call
of the unfortunate in any part of the
land. Everything is forgotten sec
tional strlfes, political grievances. &c
all fade as dew on an autumn morn, by
the generous action of man to man.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

From the New orleans States.
a colicy baby causes u man to learn a
great deal about nights Of labor.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

NEW YORK CITY politics is down TO
solid bottom Hewitt, George and
Roosevelt are pronounced free-traders.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23

ENTERED AT THEIEHtGHToN PosT-oFFICE
AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-12-23
MIsCELL4NEOUs STATE MATTERS.

RED CLOUD is promised a $65, 900 depot.
lied at Grand Island.
THERE is talk OF a toboggan club and a
toboggan slide in Beatrice.
THERE are about 200 men at work on
the several pieces OF railroad Improvements
now being made in and near Beatrice.
THE Lincoln Democrat says that Mrs.
Matthewson claims all the flowers in the
insane hospital conservatory as her private
property. She bases her claim on the allie
CATION that when the conservatory was
built five years ago she bought or begged
all the plants from which the start was
made. She makes no account of the labor
OF the gardener employed by the state at a
salary of $50 per month, nor OF the heat
and room furnished by the commonwealth.
One littla obstacle to her claim is that when
DR.. Matthewson made his report in 1885
he listed the flowers land plants among the
property OF the state, giving their value as
assets at S345.95
A Jewish rabbi, numed Rappaport, claims
to have been robbed OF $4s by a Mexican pc
liceman at chihuahua, after being arrested as
Q revolutionist
HASTINGS is laboring under a great deal
of disadvantage by the burning OF its
school building some time ago.
Ar Hastings Henry Frieling was fined $50
and costs for selling liquor to o. NJ. Ollard,
an habitual %drunkard.
Ak effort is being made to have the Tree
postal delivery system adopted in Ere
mont.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-12-23
COMPLAINING OF RITES.

Lincoln special to the Omaha Herald:
The first complaint which has ever come in
to the railroad commission alleging secret
rates and rebates to favored shippers was
filed in the office of the commission this
morning. The complainant is 2. A. Bar
ret, of Cass county, and after stating the
residence and status OF the parties to the
case the complainant alleges that the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway charged for the trans
%portation OF hogs and cattle from Weeping
Water to Omaha $40 per car, the distance
being about forty miles, and the complain
ant alleges that the charge is excessive and
unreasonable, and that a reasonable rate
for such transportation would be the sum
OF SO per car. 1t is charged that the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway company discrimi-
mates against Omaha in favor OF Kansas
City, and in support thereof, says that the
rate from Weeping Water to Kansas City
for the transportation of hogs and cattle
is S32 per car, and that the charge from
Weeping Water to Omaha, a distance Of
forty miles, for such transportation is $40
per car. 1t is also charged that the
discriminates against Weep
ing Water in favor of the live stock
shippers who ship from Eagle and Elm
wood stations to and from Omaha at the
same rate per car as charged to shippers OF
live stock, who ship between Weeping
Water and Omaha, the distance being eigh-
teen and twelve miles greater. It's charged
that the company indirectly and secretly
discriminates between persons who ship be-
tween the city of Kansas City and Weeping
Water by charging the usual high rate and
giving a rebate of $40 per car to certain
shippers, and that during the fall OF 1885
the company for a time made a special rate
to shippers of live stock between Omaha
and Weeping Water at the rate Of S11.50
per car, but said rate was soon adj
vanced to a public charge of SO per car
between said place.. The complaint
further alleges that he shipped over said
road within one year last past thirty car
loads of live stock from Weeping Water to
Omaha and paid to the railway company
$40 per car, and it is prayed that the COM
pany be compelled to refund to him the
sum of 50 for each car so shipped. The
complaint is signed by P. A. Barrett, and
is sworn to before J.. H. Haldeman, a
notary public.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-12-23
Il .HOTFIER'S DIRE 4CT.

CHICAGO, ILL, Dee. 16.-When Joseph
Rosa, a cutter employed in a Clark street
tailor shop, returned to his home tonight lie
found the door leading to his fiat locked ami
barred. Vigorous knocking brought no re-
Spouse, and when the door was finally forced
the bodies of his wife, Antonio, and his IL
months-old child were seen dangling from the
transom of the bed room door, suspended by
pieces of a shawl strap.
III dead woman was a native of SaXOnv,
and "a years old. She married Rosa less than
two years ago, and their domestic relations
are said to have been pleasant, but Mrs. Rosa
became nearly crazed when her child took sick
recently. 1t is supposed that she committed
the deed when temporarily insane.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-12-23
RUINED BY STRONG DRINK.

New York special: The WorldsSt John
IN. b. special says: Episcopal circles in
New Brunswick are agitated over the fall
from grace OF the Rev. William Almo Des-
brissay, rector OF st. Martins. He is one
OF a family of preachers and lawyers, all
brilliant and eloquent men. William is the
ablest OF the family, but he contracted an
unconquerable appetite for drink. Some
years ago he WAS relieved from his appoint
ment in the provinces and banished to
Sable Island as Il missionary in charge OF
that desolate grave yard of the North At
lantic ocean. the dismal scene OF SO many
great catastrophies. His congregation
consisted of twenty persons attached to
the l~ifc-saving service. Absolute prohibit
ton reigns there, except when "A vessel il
wrecked with liquors on board, when all
hands are sad to help themselves. The
reverend gentleman spent some years i'll ex-
lie in this lonely spot, and 1T was fondly
hoped had conquered his appetite. Two
years ago he came back to civilization and
delivered :, series OF. exceedingly interesting
lectures in Halifax ON the wierd story OF
Sable Island. Subsequently he was APP
pointed to the rectorship of st. Martins.
where he for months captivated his coigre-
ga tion by his eloquence. One Sunday
morning he left the pulpit i'll what his
audience supposed was Il state of intoxica-
ton. Next Sunday he was too drunk to
preach. Then lie came to st. Johns on a
regular spree. He will be tried eccIesiast-
ically.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-12-23
GEyERAI MfLEs Hoy0RED.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 16.-The order of
IL resident annexing southern California to
t,r apartment of Arizona, under command of
Gtl, raj Nelson A. Miles. and removing his
lca quarters from Prescott, Ariz., to Los An
cl :, Cal, gives him the command of the whole
lIcN can frontier from Texas to the Pacific.
Tn: territorial extension of the limits
of Ills command is said BY General Miles
fri ids to be a sufficient answer to the charge
vii III has been made that he disobeyed
or itrs in the Apache campaign.
Upon being asked tonight whether the ex-
tension of the limits of his command might
not be regarded as equivalent to a promotion,
the general said: ''Ihe fact speaks for itself
| don't care to say anything about it,"