The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-11-27
BrOaQbrin'S New York Letter.

Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
In my last letter announced that public
reception had been rendered the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher on his return from Europe.
by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Brooklyn, and that he had accepted. was
"a little too previous" he has not accepted
and thereby hangs tale, which must be
my apology for the mistake. When Mr.
Beecher returned from Europe everybody
wanted to see him and shake hands with
him, and tell him how glad they were to
see him safely back he is just as much
of favorite with Father Malone, of the
Catholic church, as he is with the Rabbi
Gotheil, of the Jewish synagogue. Staunch
Republicans who followed James G. Blaine
to defeat, forget that he ever was a mug
wump; and Democrats who remember his
imperial service to Democracy in the last
Presidential election, are proud to do him
honor and ready to pardon the fact that he
ever was Republican. Immediately after
his return the general desire of the entire
community to welcome him took definite
shape and a resolution was introduced into
the Common Council to give him a public
reception. 1t was promptly passed by the
Board of Aldermen, and as readily signed
by the Mayor. After all this had been
done, and there was no doubt on the minds
of anyone, not even Mr.. Beecher himself,
about his acceptance, the Mayor discovered
the important fact, that there was no money
available to nay the bills. He quibbled and
turned and twisted. The Aldermen declar-
ed themselves ready to vote the requisite
amount, bat the Mayor declared he could
find no warrant for the expenditure. Just
in the nick of time public spirited citizen
declared himself ready to foot all the bills
but when it came to pIanking down the
cash the public spirited citizen was nowhere
to be found, and they had to make the re-
turn of the Southern Sheriff, mon cum
atibus in swampo." 1t was disgraceful
Acknowledgment to the Mayor, disgrace
full to the City of Brooklyn. What render
ed the action more particularly offensive
was the fact that the empty invitation was
forwarded to Mr.. Beecher, who at the last
moment very properly declined it. forgot
Solon Shingles advice, "Never prophecy
onless your sure" and suffered accord
ingly.
For good old, solid, brass cheek the
American claimant to the Tichborne estates,
of whom spoke last week, can give Arthur
OrtOn, his English cousin, 200 points in a
game of 250 and beat him. He had a second
examination. He was confronted with all
sorts of relations who had known him all
his life. His daughter was presents; man
Of his own age. who had known him from
boyhood up, met him face to face; in the
witness box but he never blanched or
winked, but stood to the Tichbome story
with brazenness and persistence which
crowns him beyond all question as the monu-
mental liar Of the nineteenth century.
A remarkable case has just been decided
here, which illustrates more potently than
words the perils of city life, and the pernici-
Gus and yilainous detective system which
is one of the crying evils of our time. The
wife OF a gentleman named Sears was
anxious for a divorce and she employed
detectives to watch her husband, and they
not being able to trap the unsuspectlng
gentleman, took the villianous method of