The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-06-23


was not to be opened till after her death in
which she told for the first time the story
Of her romantic marriage. Mr.. Rentz who
had brought the son up, who was now a
man of thirty-seven, always felt that there
was something mysterious about him. He
heard Of the confession of Mary Schopprell,
and concluded that the boy was none other
than the child who was supposed to have
died thirtys seven years before. He took
him to his father in Newark, and confront
ed him in his church. Overwhelmed with
the disgrace the father fed affrighted from
Newark, and a short time after he died In
the West Of broken heart. His son then
sought for the proofs Of his mothers
marriage, he found the certificate, and the
clergyman who married her; he has fully
established his identity, and this week the
Court of Appeals handed down decision
which restores TO him all of his dead
mothers property.
It is a matter of profound congratulation
that the ruffaan John l.. Sulliyan has at
last found his level. -Four years ago at the
Madison Square Garden, in company with
lot of other plugs he drew $4,000; the
great body of the brutes who attended the
exhibition expected to see him kill Tug
Wilson in the ring. twenty-five dollars
was paid for eligible seats, and ten dollars
was considered dog cheap for a standee.
When he was ADVERTISED to box with Mitch
ell there was $4,000 in the house. Later
still five or six thousand dollars was not
considered big. Just after his reception in
Boston he came on here, but the day Of his
glory had departed. No crowds met him
at the railway stations, and even the news.
boys failed to give him an old time greeting
. His fugleman got up a grand testimonial
at the Academy; 1t was said to be undel
the patronage Of all the athletic clubs ir
, the city. AS soon as the New Yorl
/ Athletic Club heard 1t they were howlinl
: mad, and they straightway pitched hin
} overheard. The Manhattan would hay
; nothing to do with him; his managers thei
! gave away tickets right and left, and the
$ did not get enough paying people in to pa.
0 for the gas. For grand testimonial 1t wa
a most dismal failure. Exit, John L. Sui
llyan.
We are now in the height OF the races
and whether it be wrong or whether 1t b
!. right, very few men, and / may add yer
few women, can go upon a race course on
first-class race day, and not feel that ther
Is considerable of the Old Adam left !
$ them after all. On Saturday when S
II Dixon passed under the string ahead {
VI Prince Royal, an uninterested observe
IL might haye thought himself in the midst
all the lunatics in the Uuited States. Me
d and women jumped up and screamed, an
yelled as if Bedlam had broken loos
~ only one man that saw remained impertu
K able and unmoyed. His was boyish fac
clean shayen, cold and colorless as ma
10 ble-not lip qniYered, not muscle moY
re ed, not an emotion was visible. Why al
+ all eyes turned towards him? What can
" mean? People nod and whisper to eaC
" other That's Pittsburg Phil. No sho
/" rises from his throat; no sign tells of b
III winning, yet on the race decided that i
'e stant, he had won twenty thousand dollar
70 1t would have been exactly the same if
III had lost. There is gambling taint in o
80 blood, inherited perhaps from some o
~ savage thousands of years ago, which GRO
&c out from time to time in spite of our be
y intentions. Everybody goes to the lac
" here; clergymen who love a good horse, al
aS there are lots of hsm, often look as thouI
u they would like to take flyer on the wi
90 ners. / don't say they do, but they look s
he and story is told of a colporteur fro
Philadelphia who lost twenty dollars wor
70 of bibles, and forty-two of Moody a
ey Sankey's hymn books on Norfolk's Ii
Wy race. begin 10 think that next TO prl;
'n lighting, jockeying is about one the mt
Vi respectable kinds of business in the COUNT
ad Jimmy Mclaughlin makes at least TWEEN
nv thousand year, aud Snapper Garris
hu full as much. The other day l was passi
'sS a jewellers window, and saw magn
IK- cent whip made of gold and silver and
W with diamonds, it was for Jockey McLauf
w lin as token of the high estimation
'k' was held by his friends. AS / looked
ce' this splendid tribute to genius, ! said
ny myself, "Fool that you are, Broadbri
why did not you practice on the pigskln
OF then you might have got whip or p
po- haps landed in the penitentiary AL
~" alas alas, who can tell
-. The trial of Madam Diss Debarr VIII
n- is now going on has not shaken the faith
IN Mr.. Marsh in her mystic powers one |
80 what he saw he saw, and all the lie
quibbles and quiddities can't knock IL
of him. The acquaintance has cost b
m some thousands of dollars, but Mr. Ma
-. does not regret it; and to-day, notwi
~ standing his experience, he regards her
~ a. the most wonderful spiritual medium
80 the world. Like Hamlet, "He is but IN
- nor NOR west; he knows hawk from
hand saw" Marsh knows that th
- pictures were painted by the spirits.
49, has paid between twenty and thirty tho
~ and dollars for the privilege of knowi
.,u, and he is perfectly satisfied with the {
a.. lay. Madam Diss is hard nut to era
a.. and from the drift of the trial, am pre-
~, we'll assured that they never will be abb,
49, convict her.
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