The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-16

pened in New York IL is out of this
unsavory matter that his Lordship and
his manager expect to coin money. It
remains to be seen If this purient scan
dal will crowd the Casino. We have a
large malodorous population in our sa-
looms, our gambling houses and other
questionable places, which will 90 to
get a look at this English person and
her so-called noble manager, but it is
pretty generally understood that respec-
table people will give them a wide berth
and leave them to the patronage of that
class which a recent writer has defined
as the speckled FOUNDERS and soiled
doves.
The chances of fate were wonderfully
illustrated in the case of Pug Mccarthy.
Pug was for twenty years the terror of
ninetenths of the sluggers and pugs
that range the saloons from the Battery
to the Five Points. Pug Mccarthy was
born to fight;as soon as he could toddle
he battered all the children of his age in
the ward. As boy he was terror,
and as he approached manhood he took
a hand in politics, from that to the prize
ring is only a step, and Pug took that
step In two years from the time when
he entered the prize ring, he was cham
pion feather weight of America, and
the pride of the Sixth Ward. Bnt fame
like Pug McCarthy's was not purchased
without price, and the consequence of
several ring encounters was that he was
not comely to look upon, unless he was
viewed from a strictly scientific stand
point, just as you would view bull
terrier. Fighting was as necessary to
his health as breathing, and his appetite
was never good unless he had a knock
down before breakfast. But last week
Pug Mccarthy met his match. He was
taking drink in the saloon of his
friend Phil Kelly, and Mike Donovan
was in there taking a drink too. Mike
asked Pug if he would take some whisky.
Pug said no; he would take a Pussy
Kaffa. Mike said that dat want de
pernunshiation NV it. 1t waz Puss Koffe.
Mike saw blood in Pug's eve, and tried
to get out but Pug got hold of his coat
and divided it in halves; by this time
they were on the sidewalk, when Mike
gave Pug shove and down he went
with a cracked skull and broken neck.
Result, coroner's inquest. Verdict in
five minutes: Served him right. A big
wake and tremendous funeral. Exit
Pug Mccarthy.
A bitter and indignant cry went up
from Brother Talmage at his Friday
night meeting, when he heard that
wretched lunatic had been handcuffed
and boiled to death in one of the baths
at the Flatbush Asylum, by a brutal
attendant, who went off and left the
madman tied with the hot water running
on him. Then came the further intelli-
gence, that fourteen hundred of these
miserable ones were crowded into the
cells originally intended for eight hun
dred; to this was superadded the horror,
that Brooklyn, the city of churches,
the home of Henry Ward Beecher and
DR.. Talmage, was feeding its lunatics
on thirteen cents a day. The price of
keeping one policeman was the cost of
twenty madmen; no wonder a cry of
horror went up when the terrible rcvela-
ton was made. Some good missionary
work might be done with profit in
Brooklyn.
The political cauldron begins to seeth,
and the clans are gathering. Who is
going to be elected? | don't know, and
although can see as deep into a mill
stone as any of my neighbors, l am all
afloat on the coming election. Tammany
will run its candidate, sink or swim; so
will the County Democracy. Henry
George grows stronger every day, his
followers say 10000 votes are pledged to
him; If there are shat number of votes
with bona tide pledge, which will make
them walk up to the scratch on election
day, somebody is going to get hurt. Mr..
George will not be elected, but he will
make the Democratic candidate wish
that he had never been born, for 9S per
cent. of the George or labor vote, is a
dead loss to the Democracy-just as 0S
per cent. of the prohibition vote is
dead loss to the Republicans.
The town is filled with English actors
and,actresses ;the Jersey Lily is scoring a
success at the Fifth avenue theater, and
the latest arrival being Miss Fortescue
affanced of Lord Garmoyle, the present
Earl of Cairns, from whom she recover
ed S50,000. In regard TO Miss Fortescue,
whatever the public may decide in regard
to her ability as an actress, there is not
a breath against her as a women. She
has a head and a good one; she is abund-
antly able to take care of her money
and her reputation, and she comes to
New York sans reprOdche. She missed
by a hair beirg the wife of am Earl, only
two removes from the throne, but she
got $4,000 and got rid of a very worth
less and Insignificant husband; and after
her American success, for she will I'M
questionably be success, she can settle
in this free land with the man OF her
choice, and be a far happier woman
than if she haG married dissipated ana
worthless noblenan.
The weather is cool and bracing, and
the business boom general and cheerful
The World is after Mayor Grace with
a sharp stick, and from recent develop
ments of his dealings with the American
Squadron in Peru-he deserves it.
BROADBRIM.
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