The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-02-04
From Washington. News Notes.
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
WASHINGTON d q Ian 90 Is

MR., EDITOR: The weather during the
past week has been extremely cold. The
river is covered with sheet of ice several
inches in thickness, and navigation has
been entirely suspended. Early in the
week heavy fall of snow furnished us
with the best of sleighing and every avail
able vehicle upon runners has been brought
into requistion. Sleighing in Washing.
ton is so unusual an event that few are
prepared to enjoy it when 1t comes, and
lucky indeed are the liverymen who chance
to own cutters or in fact sleighs of any de-
scrlption. Ten dollars per hour Is high
price to pay for the use of a horse and
cutter, but that price has been readily
paid during the past week, and the livery
men have been unable to supply the de-
mand. Those who have either been un-
willing or unable to pay the prices charged
by the liverymen and yet have been deter
mined to enjoy the sleighlng have resorted
to every immaginable expedient to accomp-
lish their purpose. Some of the vehicles
that have appeared upon the Avenue dur
Ing the past week haye been both novel
and unique in construction. The fayorte
vehicle seems to be large sized dry goods
box mounted upon bert gas pipes for run
large sized crockery cate, with straw
neatly braided in and out among the meshes.
Some of the sleighs of this kind are extre-
mely handsome and fully as comfortable as
the more expensive vehicles.
Washington seems to be fostering new
industry, which at the present rate pro-
misses to assume startling proportions. 1t
is thai of grave robblng. 1t has been dis
covered that large number of graves in
the several colored cemeteries IN the neigh
borhood of the city haYe been robbed dur
ing the past few DAYS, and an intense ex-
citement among the colored people has
been engendered by the publication of the
facts. 1t is thought that the work has
been carried on by professionals, and that
most of the bodies have been sent to
medical colleges at distant points. The
robberies have not, however, been confined
entirely to the colored cemeteries, as the
body of white lady who was buried in
Mount Olivet Cemetery last week was
found a dey or two later on the dissecting
table of one of the medical colleges in the
city. y
The District Republican Convention for
the selection of delegates to the National
Convention in Chicago, assembled in Will
ards Hall, on Tuesday last. AS there
were contesting delegations, and as a large
majority Of those present were negroes,
the liyeliest kind OF time endued. Not
withstanding the efforts of Frederick
Douglass, and other prominent colored
men present, who counseled harmony and
order, the Convention resolved itself into a
mob, in which each of the rival-factions
contended fiercely for the possession OF
the stage. The services of the police were
finally required to prevent further disorder
and the hall was cleared. 1t will be re-
membered that four years ago just such a
distuI bance followed the attempt made by
the colored people to select delegates to the
National Convention. As the people OF
Washington have no voice in the delibera-
tions of the Convention, the idea OF select
ing delegates and and sending them to
Chicago is to say the least amusing.
Representative White, of Indiana,is to be
unseated on the petition of his opponent at
the last election, Representative Lowry.
The Committee on Elections of the House
reported that White, who is Republican,
polled more votes than his opponent; but
as 1t appears that although he has resided
IN America since before the war, he has
never been naturalized, and as the Con.
stitution of the United States declares that
a man must have been a citizen of the
United States for at least seven years be
fore being eligible for election to Congress
he cannot hold the office. The elector
will therefore be declared void and the sea
vacant. In a case of this kind, in which
the man who received the greatest numbe
of votes is ousted it is not customary I,
give the election to the candidate Wit
stood second, and hence Mr.. Lowry will
gain nothing; the success of his efforts t,
unseat Mr., White. The election will
simply be declared void and new one vii
be ordered. Although most of the legislat
ion during the past week has not been o
general public interest, still the Committee
having charge of the several appropriation
bills have been making rapid progress; an
it is expected that the General Dehcienc
Bill will be reported to the House durin
the coming week.
One who has visited the Capitol durln
the time that Congress is in session woul
suppose that lady could walk through tn
the building without danger of molestatior
and yet on Wednesday last lady Will
passing through one of the corridors of th
building was improperly addressed by a
: elderly man, and she only escaped froi
her tormentor 10 fall into the hands {
: another. The Capitol is the resort OF
class of loafers, many of whom are know
to the police, who should exercise the
I authority In keeping them out ofthe bull,
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