The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-01-12

OF mllllOnR 70 Do lhlu out on Jne new hcQuo-
duct At one time IL seemed as If the
political power Of Tammany was shattered.
John Kelley was dead. The County |
Democracy was recognized by the State
Committee as the only regular organization.
and many prominent politicians thought
that Tammany should be denied all politi- |
cal representation. How changed all this
appears with the opening of 1880. The
The forces Of the County Democracy ale
scattered and broken, many OF Its ablest
supporters have gone over TO Tammapy,
feeing the wrath TO come, and it is safe to
say that In the next Democratic Stete Con-
vention, II the Comfy Democracy gains an
entrance At all 1t will by the sufferance of
their foes on whose necks they planted
thesr heels three years ago. A new set of
faces will appear ir most of the public
offices, and the silver-tongued OGrady,
who aroused Cleyelandis ire when he was
Governor, by defeating all his nominations,
and who opposed Cleyelsnd's nomination
for President four years ago and stumped
the State for General Butler, has now been
reelected to his old post in the Senate by
the efforts Of TammanY. The prodigal has
returned, the fatted calf has been killed,
and as white as wool. and from this time
forth he becomes the mouthpiece Of the
triumphant Sachems-Io Iol Iol Tam.
many.
The present holiday season, so joyous to
thousands, has not been unmarked by sor-
row and disaster A Young husband kills
his wife and then himself, the ostensibls
cause being prospective poverty. Then
comes the revelation Of life so shocking,
that the heart grows sick to think of it.
The dead man leaves broad wake of ruin
behind him, entailing sorrow untold and
death. A year ago and DeBaun, the pay
ing teller of the National Park Bank, was
one of the most trusted bank officials In
the city; a leader of society, a man honored
and esteemed by a | who knew him. His
house las; New Years day was the scene of
} generous hospitality. To-da, his family is
homeless, and he himself peers through
prison bars awaiting the sentence which
will consign him to prison, perhaps for the
remainder of bis life. A most pitiful case
was that Of the teller of the Nineteenth
: Ward Bank, who last week confessed to a
theft of seventeen hundred dollars. This
D man, handling millions, was expected to
! live and keep family on twenty dollars q
+ week. The stockholders drew big divi-
= dends, but they ,yave this trusted servant
5 less than the wages of a mason or brick
v layer. he was sorely tempted by poverty,
S and in an evil hour he fell: the first steI
/. was his ruin-the money he took he ex'
d pected to replace; he found it impossible tc
save 1t from his scanty salary, so he took
more and gambed lin lottery, policy and
other games, which led him down to ruin
tarv confession; he had been sixteen year.
trusted servant of the bank, and ha
g never made mistake till q year ago. Oh
: this New Year think Of IL, We gentlemen
who control finance; look oyer the salar,
list Of your clerks and subordinates, ant
;, see II they can live as they ought to live oil
:, what you pay them. Let their hearts re
=. joice ~ the opening year, and when yol
= wish them Happy New Year, let 1t hav
!, a substantial meaning to them. Let tn
~ Happ New Year mean something mor'
than words. Let IL leave Joy and blessin
in its train. Do this, and when this Yea
shall wither and die as the centuries hav
: before II, men will rise up and call blessed
What YOU have got you soon must pal
r with. while you 1--we then, use it wisely.
Another bow OF promise in the sky fc
10 1889 is found in the fact that the Ma ors
III New York and Brook are determined I
e sop the brutal prize. fighting exhibition
'H which have disgraced both cities for h
II past few years. To such pass has
\. come that every newspaper In the city e,
-, cept The Mail and Express has its sportir
editor, whose business 1t Is exclusively
" report prize.fghts Notwithstanding Il
TACT that 1t is penal offense to make
match, or to go out of the Stale to igh
n matches are made every day in the wee
X and every hour In the day. And all yC
have to do is to put up couple of we
'sS known pugs and toughs 1.-THE fact OF the
itl having served a term or two In the Sta
fol prison Is nothing 10 their Disadvantage, al
ien you can draw to any of the public ran
viii from 5000 TO 10000 people, at from o.
db dollar 10 ten collars = head. For SOL
ot reason, the Fancy" as they are calle
irSl selected the city Of Brookl, for the INC
ark celebrated of these encounters; and inste
'ws Of prize fights they have called them AT
the etic exhibitions" the fee for which W
nes twenty dollars. The "Brooklyn Eagle
the the principal local paper, has fought touG
and theiI friends Lut, as the Board of
ere dermen was composed of q tough elenel
the some Of whom had graduated in the pri
ltry ring, its efforts were futile, and aim
iad, every night several OF these brutal enco,
,en ters took place. The Mayor of Brook
Two is young man who has grown raipdl.
the politics; though scarcely oyer thirty he
b n been Assemblyman, Comptroller Of st
my twice and is now Mayor Of the third cly
oui the Union. He is an honest and ambtl,
Young man, who looks anIiously towa
re- the possibilities Of the future, and he
d in the natural instincts of gentleman,
,nce pAndering TO the politicians he has alov
alb these brutal exhibitions to go Oh till he
ma startled by the reports of the "Brook
fee, Eagle" The eagle" conceived the
ting that the best way to awaken the C,
re- munity TO the eDormity of the crime,
ome to furnish full and graphic reports
every encounter To that end, sew
iern Of the smarlest and brightest ct its S
ively were put upon the work, and the re
the was such shocking revelation that the
z to tire community felt as if IL had
was struck by lightning. One would scar
,s{va | think that nhris,iau aanaidara,Ions ,,,,