The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-07-31

called the brains of the Rlng-certain IL
is that he survived all the principal
members of the Ring-and with the ex-
ception of $3.50, 900 which he restored to
the city to purchase immunity, he sue
ceeded in keeping the great body of his
plumber. He married the divorced wife
of William Page the artist, but the
marriage was unhappy from the start.
The lady abandoned him in Paris, and
it is understood that both parties are
satisfied with the arrangement. Mrs.
Sweeney is to be pitied-young, beauti-
full, talented, courted, flattered, she
opened life brilliantly, and failing mis-
erably in both her matrimonial ven
lures, she finds herself at middle age
almost utterly and hopelessly ship
wrecked.
1t was a surprise to fashionable circles
to Learn that Klunder had gone into
bankruptcy. Klunder is our swell for
ist Did Dives die? Klunder had to
supply the mortuary flowers. If a new
heir was born, Klunder's floral offerings
were among the choicest natal gifts.
Ladies who dashed along the mall in
their pony phaetons wore Klunder's s
bouquets upon their breasts. The
queen of the ballet looked her divinest
as one of Klunder's choicest baskets
was passed over the orchestra, and'the
wedding bell that hung above the daugh-
ter of Croesus drained the choicest fiow-
ers from Klunder's rare conservatory
and the dude who strolled down the
sunny side of Broadway of an afternoon
ogling the girls, paid Klunder fifty cents
for rose to stick in his button hole.
Some of Klunder's bills were enormous,
amounting at times to thousands of dol
lars; but 1t now appears that it was
more fashionable to order flowers than
to pay for them, one of Klunder's debt
Ors figuring in his books for $1,000.
| Twenty-Five thousand dollars ale owing
Klunder for flowers, and his assets are a
glass house and few flower pots. A
month ago and he was the envy of half
the florists in the United States; to-day
and none so poor as do him reverence.
He will join the great army of ''has
beens," and as factor in our fashion
able life that is the last of Klunder.
The solar wave that has been roasting
us all through the week has been disas.
trous to business, for everybody who
could get away has fled from the city
Those who were compelled by business
necessities to remain sought consolation
in the music, sea breezes and electric
lights of Coney Island, which every
night this week has been like monster
jubilee. 1t has been a week of full
moon or enough so to make it very de
lightful, and all the young lovers anC
old ones for matter of that, make thu
most of the opportunity.
In few weeks the unsightly telegraph
poles will be removed, and the wires
which have almost darkened the SIX,
will be buried. The fight has been {
long one but the new Commissioner
Mr.. Flower, has taught the Western
Union Telegraph Company lesson tha
it will not soon forget. Speaking of til,
Western Union, the war between it ant
the Mackay Gable Company grows NOR
bitter every day. Up to the presen
time, those whom they could not bu,
they crushed; but in John w. Macka,
Mr.. Gould has found man whom h
could neither buy nor crush, and ever,
month has added new strength to tn
new cable company. As an evidenc
of the difference between the Western
Unions charges, where it has monop
oily and in places where it is met by al
opposing company, over the lines of tn
Baltimore and Ohio you can telegraph
/, to Newport, Rhode Island, from thi
city, ten words for ten cents-over tw,
hundred miles. To a village OF tow
/. fifteen miles out of Brooklyn, wher
there is no opposition, you have to pa.
twenty-five cents.
Most of the big Churches are closed
and but few of the theatres open. Des
pte the torrid heat Erminie still runs a
the Casino, and Richard Mansfield fill
the Madison Square with his amusing
and artistic performance OF Prince Karl
: Buffalo Bill has taken the town by storm
with his Wild West Show, and all TIL
small boys in town are determined t.
devote the rest of their days to robbins
coaches and killing Indians.
BROADBRIM.