The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-09-14

pitched into Shadrach, and bis other son |
the minister out west, and he gave them
Hail Columbia, and it was resolved that
the congregation would take care of Uncle |
Silas Babcock as long as he lived, and
then the minister and a committee went
out to the poorhouse and they brought old
Uncle Silas back, and when the train got
into Sag Harbor it seemed as If the whole
town was down at the depot except his
wicked son Shadrach. There was a beau
tiful carriage waiting for Uncle Silas at the
depot, and flags were flying everywhere,
and he rode in triumph through the town.
and the people all hurrahed as Uncle Silas
rode past, and they took him back to the
old cottage, and Uncle Silas will never
leave it again as long as he lives. There
are some live Methodists down at Sag
Harbor, and if the Lord should eyer think
Of destroying it on account of its wicked
ness, 1 have no doubt there are enough of
good Methodists in that one congregation
to save not only Sag Harbor, but the whole
of Long Island, and perhaps the rest of the
State OF New York thrown in.
1t was rumored about town that Harry
Genet was dead. He is almost one of the
last Of the great Lying members of the
celebrated Tweed ring. When the ring
was in its zenith, Harry Genet was pow
er. He was a splendid looking fellow with
an immense political pull, and was re-
,,.1a al AZ.
fell to pieces he fed with the rest, escap-
ing from a deputy sheriff, but he could
not stay away from New York, so he re-
turned and took his punishment. But his
punishment was not ended with his free
dom from prison. His ill gotten fortune
melted away, and two years ago he was
attacked with cancer in the mouth. The
indescribable agony of those two years no
and deaths. Magnificent in dress, in ex-
penditure and diamonds, his confreres fond
ly call him Prince Hal, but his sceptre and
crown are in the dust, death is the small
est evil that can befall him now.
The Seidl Club had an elegant time
down at Coney Island last week, and dear
old Susan B. Anthony addressed the men,
bers, many of whom are among the repre-
sentative women of the land. 1t was the
custom.in years gone by for al lot of paper
headed ninnies who write cheap Jokes
about mothers-in-law to fire their paper
bullets at Susan B. She has lived to see
about one half of them 90 down to drunk
ards graves, and the other half are either
dead or forgotten, while she to-day stands
as one of the brightest, cheeriest women,
young or DID, to be found in our own OF
any other land. What tremendous battle
she has fought, what blameless lite she
has led, rejoicing in the strength that en-
abled her to mingle with the weak and
erring of her sex when necessary without
even the smell of smoke upon her gar
ments. She made an address to the mem.
bers of the Seidl Club of ladies, named in
honor of Anton Seidl, the great German
leader. And what an address it was, will
more good, sound, hard sense in it thar
you would find in fifty Congressiona
speeches, and how the women applaudet
her till they made the roof ring. She wa!
followed by sweet-faced Mrs. Thomas
president of the Sorosis, and her speech OIL
domestic life and women's proper spher,
ought to be printed in letters of gold. Th,
women had grand time, and everyon,
enjoyed 1t thoroughly. Susan b. Anthon,
was by all odds the lioness of the day.
A young man was arrested here las
week for kissing his girl in the street, bu
the magistrate was leyel-headed Judge
and instead of holding the lovers for
breach of the peace he discharged them a
once, and gave the policeman a sever
reprimand. That judge ought to reacl
the Supreme Court.
This week Dan Lamont, ex-Presiden
Cleveland's late private secretary, bough
the franchise of the Broadway Railroad 70
twenty-five thousand dollars. There is n
more valuable bit of railroad property i
: tide United States than that same Broad
way Railroad. AS Colonel Sellers re
marked, "There's millions in it," Blu
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: cash to the Doodle Aldermen-the ruin q
the entire board with two exceptions
then the arrest and Imprisonment of th
millionaire Jacob Sharp, who came nea
dying behind prison bars and was only re
leased by Bourke Cochran just in time t
die in his own home. How many reputa
uons were smirched, how many lives wer
ruined, and yet to day there is not ma
or woman in New York who would de.
: troy it, New York has little to DO wit
it, except to ride in Its cars, the stock bt
ing mostly owned in Philadelphia. Th
) road proper is three miles long and the +,
: ceipts are about eight thousand dollars
day, or an average of forty-two dollars DC
3 daY for every running car.
A widow in Brooklyn has Just had a r,
markaole experience with ghost whic
led her to apply to the courts fol relie
One evening several months ago her hu,
S band, with whom she had been living III
happily, stepped down to the door an
that was the last seen of him alive.
i iew weeks after body was picked up /
n the river. the widow was notified .by III
ponce, ana going TO the Morgue there sh
= Identified her lost husband. There conf
a be no mistake about it, he had a pocuIia
IS scar on the side of his head, and long Chi
Il whiskers which the widow cut off ard cal
= rlsd away in her satchel. His life was ir
. sured for four hundred and fifty dollal
/ Which the widow got, then she bought
d nice o-aeS dress, sweet Widows cap an
!. stunning ven yard and half long, an
: she returnished her rooms and was or
d Ioying herself as thoroughly as any wiao,
7, could, when last week who should turn II
!. but the ghost who had been safely plante
n eight weeks before. "WhO are youP'
said the widow. 81 am your husband.
u said the ghost. "My husband is dead an
IS BURIED said the widow; there is the We
a and here is the insurance Certificate. so
: don want YOU; get out" But the gho.
wouldn't go, so she called In a poiicema