The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-07-07

CLOSE Oh Jne season last year. CIlll Olu
ocean is there with his roaring waves, the
merry go-rounder, the hobby the man
with the Little Joker, and the benefactor
who supplies you with Frankfurt sausage
and big hunk of bread, all for ten cents.
Then there is the Lady Snake-charmer,
and the calf with two heads, and the Fat
Woman, the White Elephant, and the Tall
Tower, and other delights too numerous to
mention. But with thes alluring attractions
comes the festive pick-pocket and his
nameess friend, who do not by any means
add to the attractiveness of this otherwise
lovely spot. One of the first victims of the
season, was all the way from Lunnon, ye
know. He had been all through Ramsgate
and Margate, and had escaped the perils of
his own sweet Brighton; he had eaten
whitebait at Greenwich and wrestled with
the toughs of Whitechapel and Mayfair,
and he had even attacked single-handed
an entire division of the Salvation Army.
and come off without a scratch, and he
was missionary who did not fear the
d..
On Wednesday evening he got up on u
soap box ON the beach, and after singing a
hymn in a voice like cracked basoon, he
gave out his text, "And the way of the
transgressor is hard" While he proceeded
a pious-looking brother in the rearrelieyed
| him of his pocket handkerchief. Then
young men, who looked like pillars of the
Young Mems Christian Association pressed
around him in front, and when he went to
look at the time, he discovered that his
watch was gone. The announcement that
his watch was gone produced general
stampede, and as further misfortune he
found that his pocket-book was gone, and
as he was about leaving the island he was
arrested for preaching in public without a
permit, and had to sleep in the station
house all night. On his release next morn
| ing with the nominal fine of a dollar, which
the Court remitted as he had no money to
country, and declared his intention tc
shake the dust of America from his feet
and make straight shoot for Haustralia.
1t was gratifying piece of foreign news
last week the arrest Of Billy Porter. Thii
superfine rascal is well known in New Yorl
and Brooklyn as one Of the smartest banl
burglars in the world In company will
his pal Johnny Irving and two or thre'
others, he became terror to banks all owe
the country. One of the gang named Geo
Leslie made an especial study of banl
locks; he gave the boys all the points abou
getting into safe. Leslie could not pick
and on a certain occasion when the cashie
J of prominent New York bank was strick
, en- down by apoplexy and the combination
J was lost, Leslie was sent for, and in twent.
J minutes in the presence of the Police In
l spector and the bank officials he opene
; the safe. Porter, Irving and Leslie quarre,e
, over the division of some plunder and the
: were afraid that Leslie would give ther
t away to the police. They lured him into
r lonely place on the outskirts of the city an
5 killed him. Then Porter killed Johnn
t Ewing and Johnny the Mick his pals, bu
since that time he has never been the sam
!. man. If the English government delive
: him up to the Swiss goodbye Mr.. Porte
t for twenty years at least. And this r,
e minds ME that old Mother Mandlebaum
tired of her exile and is anxious to get bac
to New York. She was for thirty years Il
most notorious receiver of stolen goods
the United States if not in the world.
|, the time Billy Porter and Johnny Irvir
got into trouble, Mother Mandlebaum, wi
IS had been the receiver of the plunder Fl
), years, stood by them and supplied the
b with funds for their defense, and helpt
n them out of harmsway when they brol
n jail in Brooklyn. She has scores of polit
II and detectives in her pay; she present,
?; the police on her beat with diamond shi
)r studs, and camel's hair. shawls and ses
,e skin sacques for their wives; and it w
e. even whispered that she had pull in Il
ID Office of the District Attorney, and it was
Of fact that 1t took years to get Grand Ju
'e to indict her. She made million of dc
b, lars, and her dingY store was stocked wi
=. the rarest silks ard cloths, watches, di
10 monds and silverware. At last justice oYe
" took her, and with States Prison stariI
At her in the face, while out on bail she fl,
le to Canada; and the fun of it was that h
bail was straw, and when her bonds we
ot declared forfeited the Sheriff's return W
In ''Nou cumatibus in swampo." The o
y, fence is tired of her exile and wants
e, come back. Her son Julius, who w
to jointly indicated with her returned fro
d, Germany and gave himself up, declariI
e. his willingness to stand trial. He expects
at to be let out on bail, but as he had jump,
Sc his bail when he ran away with his mothe
ly the Court committed him without bail. /
es no Coney Island along wild Rachel Jacob
Of No Wild West along wild Rebecca Isaac
er He will lie in the Tombs till the Graz
~ Jury sits In September; and If the the
lg mometer continues at 100 degrees, Juli
to will wish that he had not come back.
ID Wonderful are the discoveries OF the Su
n rogate's Court. Wait til! you are dead
a you want to know anything about you
n self. We have had a startling surprise du
ne ing the past week. The credulouG peop
k of New York supposed that Cornella Stev
he art, the widow of the late A. II. Stewal
IN was very rich woman when she die
es Bless your heart, she was nothing of h
he sort; for 1t now appears that when she Fl
ly ally balanced her ledger she owed II
i'll thrifty Judge Hilton, who managed h
n estate, a trifiing matter of three millions
is dollars! Not bad that, for a single womi
it. living alone with lap-dog and a mai
od Then it appears that the Judge bought
IS, piece OF property from Mrs. Stewart al
es several thousand dollars in repairs on Il
be property after the purchase, and charg