The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1873-11-29
Che Carbon Sarrrate.
sATuRpAY MORNING, NOVEMBER %, ls7s.
Local and Personal.


The Doylestown Bank has declared
a semi.annual dividend of ten per cent.
The works of the Bethlehem Iron
Company resumed operations Tuesday.
Candles, wholesale and retail, at
Hausman g. Kuhns'.
The total indebtedness of the Eas-
ton school district as shown by the
books of the Board of Control, is $780,
529,67.
Rents are too high. Labor having
sustained depreciation of from twenty
five to fifty per cent, cannot afford to
pay the onerous and exorbitant rents Of
the past ten years.
On Wednesday night of last week
a party of thieves entered the ale boat
of Sietz & Bro, from Easton, which was
lying in the canal at Catasauqua, and
took therefrom about $40 worth of
porter, ale and beer.
Three tailoresses, on custom pants,
wanted Immediately at T. S. Beck's
merchant tailoring establishment, Le-
highton, Pa.
-Hausman & Kuhns are already
making great preparations for the holi-
days. Their store is literally crammed
with every description of toys, suitable
for presents for young and old, rich
and poor.
Beware ofthieves during the present
winter. Keeping large sums of money
about the house is dangerous, both to
life and property. If the professional
thieves ascertain that money is boarded
In the houses of citizens, they will find
out where it is and put it in circulation
themselves.
The employees of the Lehigh Valley
railroad, in the machine shops at South
Easton, have been reduced to nine
hours work per day. AS yet no one has
been discharged, but it is apprehended
that the force will be lessened.
. The wages of the laborers employed
p, by the Thomas Iron Company, at Pine
Grove, have been reduced to 81 day.
:, For the well-known and genuine
Cucumber Pump 60 to F. p. Semmel,
Lehighton, Pa.
For family flour, of the very best
quality go to j. K. Rickert, East Weiss
: port. Lumber and coal in large or
small quantities at lowest market rates.
A few lots in Rickertown still unsold-
buy at once.
Il. F. Kleppinger, the livery man,
has now got one of the very best lots OF
horses and buggies in this section,
which he will hire out at the very low.
est terms.
The Lebigh Canal is in constant
use now,-day and night, and Sun.
days. This is owing to the near ap.
proach of wiRter, and the anxiety OF
boatmen to fulfil all orders on hand.
j. Boyd Henri, the architect, OF
Allentown, was in town on Monday
last, and dropped in to see us. He
states that work on the new school
house will probably be continued right
along till finished. He also states that
he finds things in business much more
lively here than in Allentown. Good
Our friend, Mr.. James Long, o
Packerton, was slightly burned in ar
eye last week. We are pleased to say
that no serious consequence is likely
to result from the accident.
The General Teachers Institute O
Ldhigh and Northampton counties will
meet in the Slatington school ho use oil
Saturday, December Goth. 1878.
2. H. Long is Offering extraordi
nary inducements 10 purchasers of dr.!
goods, groceries, provisions and Queens
ware. Call and inspect his immens
stock.
Charles Trainer, corner of Lehigl
and Iron streets, will supply you will
-four and feed, plow your gardens o
do your hauling at reasonable rates.
For paints, linseed oil, glass, whit
lead, &C., go to F. P. Semmel's hard
ware store, Bank street, Lehighton. =
Cheap as the cheapest-good as tn
best.
Mr.. Ami D. Gilchrlst has sold hi
Mansion House hotel property. Il
Hazleton, to Mr.. E. G. Vincent, proprle
tor Of the Jeanesville hotel.
Dyspepsia is q Hydra Headed
Monster, from which nearly all "the III
the human fiesh is heir to" originate
The Peruvian Syrup protected solution
OF the protoxide OF Iron, is long. trie
and well-established remedy for this dis
tfessing complaint; 1t has cured thous
Ands when other remedies have failed
"A miner at the new slope at Auden
ried, on Friday evening of last week
met with serious accident, by whic
helost his left arm.