The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-09-25

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you, sir; case dismissed" The next
case called was of policeman who had
gone into saloon on Sunday and saw
six men drinking at table. The bar
was attended by a woman, and she drew
the beer from an ordinary beer keg and
set 1t before the men. The same Com
missioner, looking the policeman square
ly in the eye: $50 you saw the woman
draw the beer?' Eyes, sir" care
you sure it was beer?" "Well, think
it was" ooh, you only think it was
beer; why did you think SOP" "Well,
it was drawn from beer keg, and il
| looked like beer "Now, sir, did YOU
taste it2' mo, sir" ''You didn't?"
mo, sir" ",Then it might have been
molasses and water for anything you
know?' at might have been, but /
| don't think it was" ave don't want
| to know your thoughts, sir. A worthy
citizen has been dragged from his bust
ness and subjected to annoyance. and
we wish to inform you. sir, that if you
have no better proof than this, you had
better leave respectable citizens alone" 3"
All the side doors are open: the family
entrances were never more popular than
now; drunken men, and am sorry to
say drunken women, are no longer
strange sights in the street, and only last
week, while taking a ride to Prospect
Park in Brooklyn, | saw two boys, neither
OF them over sixteen, fall helplessly
down under the very shadow of the
Penitentiary wall.
What complicates the matter is, that
there is very bitter feeling between
rival factions of the Prohibition party.
which will send them into the battle
with a divided front. Gen. b. f. Con-
way has been regarded as a leading
temperance advocate for years. lie is
the same gentleman who had charge of
the temperance meetings in Brother
Fulton's Tabernacle, and between whom
and Brother Fulton there was a lively
exchange of compliments about two
years ago. Gen. Conway was a promi-
ncnt speaker for the Republicans in the
last Presidential election, and he accused
a member of the Prohibition Executive
Committee of accepting some hundreds
OF dollars, nominaIly subscribed by the
whiskey interest to defeat the Republi-
can candidate. There was no doubt
about the money being received, but
when the Executive Committee met.
they promptly bounced Gen. Conway
and read him out of meeting. But Gen.
Conway is not so easily disposed of, and
he is making it exceedingly uncomfort-
able for those who took the rumsellers'
bribe.
In Brooklyn the Democrats will sweep
the city; but in New York things are
much more complicated. In the Demo-
cratic party the three factions still face
each other, but at the present time
Tammany, although the strongest every
way, is the under dog in the fight. The
County Democracy has all the patronage,
and Iammanyites are being rapidly
bounced from every department of the
city government. War to the knife and
the knife TO the hilt is the motto.
Irving Hall thinks it holds the balance
of power between the two Now comes
the Labor element, which it will not do
for any party to ignore in its calculations
of success. Henry George is their candi-
date, and almost every vote that is cast
for Mr.. George is vote lost to the
regular Democratic nominee, and herein
the Republicans think they see a chance
for the candidate of the Republican
party. The present government is so
thoroughly corrupt in every branch,
that nothing short of cremation will ever
purify it. If some man like young Corne-
Illus Vanderbilt or " illiam Wald or Astor
could be induced to run, it would lift
the politics of New York out of the
slough of despond. When property
Valuedat between twoald three thousand
millions has to be taxed from two to two
and half per cent. for our city govern
ment, and a government bond only
brings three per cent, it is enough to
raise a revolution. While thousands of
worthy people want food, vulgar rascal
like Bill Maloney can travel with his |
iamily all oyer Europe, on the proceeds
of his plunder, and as he smokes his
fifty cent cigars, and moistens his
parched throat with Veuve Cliouot at
five dollars a bottle, | can almost hear
him eXclaim, like his great prototype
Tweed, "What are you going to do
about it,"
Though we have yet had no serious
we have had a thunder
storm, which for the time it lasted gave
us a pretty lively shaking up. 1t came
up almost like cyclone. The sky sud
denly grew dark in the west, and the
storm came rapidly on with the wild
sweep Of whirlwind, accompanied by
IA low rumb!ing thunder. 1t was sort
OF a Srowl like that of a savage beast:
suddenly there came a crash and awful |
roar, and then all was still. There was
only one explosion, but every man in
New York and Brooklyn is willing to
swear that the thunder crashed Iight !
over his house. 1t was terrible ey-
perience, and one that will not soon be
forgotten by those who heard it.
The Rev. Richard NJ. Storrs, of the
Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, in
1856 completes the fortieth year of his
Pastorate. Among American Christian
iivines, there is not one who stands
nearer to God and the people. A man
Of such pure life that the tongue of
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