The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-09

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ing, but the other day in the absence of
the president a license was smuggled
through, and now he is again legally in
full blast, though the absence of a H.
cense never made much difference to
Mr.. Hill, for under the name of Mrs.
Winsiow's Soothing Syrup or Doctor
Browns Elixir of Life, you could get
anything from Sour Mash to Piper Held
sick.
To show how we manage things in
this blessed city: lot of Socialists had
a picnic on Sunday at one of our uptown
parks, where they could have a good
time cursing the government and be-
wailing the fate of their brethren in
Chicago; but your genuine socialist to be
thoroughly primed for good solid work,
must be full of beer or whskey. An
empty socialist or one filed only with
cold water, might just as well be Demo-
crat or a Republican, and he would not
be very heavy weight at that. The
Sunday before at a similar meeting, a
hundred kegs of lager were provided by
the committee on Saturday, and were
given away gratis; but no such provision
had been made last Sunday, and there
seemed to be nothing but to die of
drought or satisfy the socialist craving
on Weiss bier. Now Weiss bier chemi-
cally is seventeen parts water, with the
eighteenth part water added. The mo-
mcnt this base alternative was forced
upon the crowd there was blood in their
eyes, and the whole mass surged and
seethed with the signs of lncipient re-
volution. The constitution was pro-
nounced fraud; our so called liberties
a sham; and our starry flag a rag, fit
only to shelter slaves. The police were
denounced, the landlord was threatened
with vengeance, and just as matters were
coming to climaX-the landlord sent
down in his cellar, Weiss bier labels were
put on forty kegs of a No. Lager, and
the socialist picnic was one of the
greatest successes of the season-the
only drawback being that they all got so
glorious on that last instalment of Weiss
bier, that they forgot to take up a COL
lection for their suffering brethren in
Chicago; and would further add that
six blue coated policemen and two detec-
tives witnessed this violation of law, but
there were no complaints and no arrests.
The Court of Sessions Oh Monday in
Brooklyn saw one of the saddest scenes
ever witnessed in court of justice. Six
years ago Nelly Babcocll was married,
and her wedding was one of the events
of the town; the church was brilliantly
Illuminated, and the altar decked with |
costly flowers. There were bridesmaids |
and groomSmen, and after the wedding |
a splendid reception was given at the
home of the BRIDES parents, and amid |
Godspeeds and showers of rice and |
Gowers, the young bride started off on
her wedding tour. All was sunshine, |
no cloud, no shadow. 1t seemed as if |
their gilded bark might float down life's |
stream without ripple. This week the |
glorious sun of that fair young bride set
in night so hopeless and dark, that no
ray of light will ever break through it
till the dawn OF the judgement morning.
No romance could picture a more ter
rible fall. The girl was a born thief:
she stole not from necessity but from
choice, and often ran great risks to steal |
things for which she had not the slight
est need. For minor crimes she had |
served several terms in the peniteptiary,
and while there by some means had made
the acquaintance of desperate burglar
and thief, with whom she linked her
fortune. Her robberies were all of the |
boldest and most extraordinary charac-
ter, and the offense for which she now |
stands committed savors so much of |
madness that the chances are she NAV
be committed to the Asylum as klepto-
maniac, instead of the penitentiary as a
thief. One fine Sunday morning. she
and her husband, both just out of prison. |
were walking along one of our most
public thoroughfares, when it suddenly
occurred to the girl that she wanted
new pair of shoes; arriving in front Of |
shoe store which was closed, the hus-
band kicked in one of the lower panels |
OF the door, and through the entrance
the girl crawled, and began trying on
shoes, while the man kept watch on the
outside. She was in the store an hour |
and at last being suited with fine new
pair she left her old ones dehind, and
packing up ten pairs of the best she |
could find, crawled out to run into the
arms of policeman. Husband and wife
plead guilty, and will be sentenced next
week.
The city was stirred over a smuggling
case, which is one of the most remark
able that has come under investigation
for some time. The new political broom
has been doing some very clean sweep
ing, and if it only keeps on, the anti
quaran who desires flrst-class sample
Republican will have to look for him
elsewhere than in the New York Custom
House. The new Collector detected
subordinate passing dutlable baggage,
and he was bounced so suddenly that it
made his head swim. He then alleged
that Gen. Williams had passed large
amount of silverware for the wife of
Mayor Grace, and swore to the fact.
Mayor Grace. however, came down with
a clincher when he swore that his wife
had not been in Europe for twelve years,
and the most astonishing part of the
was that the Mayor of New
York, gentleman who counts his dol
lars 10y millions, had no article Of silver