The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-09-05


For sale, No. 1 colt, a little over
five months old. He will be disposed OF
on reasonable terms. Apply at the AD-
voCATE Office.
Work was resumed Tuesday in all
the coal mines of the Wyoming and
Lackawarna valleys, and there, as in
Schuylkill region, no further stoppage
is expected this season. Besides the re-
sumptions, operations were begun in
two new mines-that of the Erie bralS-
er, near Carbondale, and one of the
Pennsylvania Coal Company at Spring
Brook.
THE LATEST DIRGE !-"Oh where
oh! where are the gentlemen gone?'-as
chanted on the evening of the end inst,
by the ladies of the Lehighton Croqnet
Club, as they homeward plod their
weary way.
"A fine st. Charles bay horse, six
years old, sound all over, for sale at l..
F. Kleppinger's, livery stable. Will
trot his mile in 3 minutes, and has never
been under training. Apply soon
You can get neat carriage and
splendid trotting holse at David Ebbert' S
livery, any time for small amount of
money. His stock is all first class.
-Newhard & Fehnel visit Lehighton
and vicinity, every Friday, with fresh
butter and eggs, at lowest market
prices. Leave orders at Valley House.
"A very happy family reunion took
place at the residence of Mr.. w. M.
DuFour, in this borough, Oh Tuesday
last. The occasion being the celebration
of his mothers birthday. The entire
family met for the first time in twelve
years.
h Politicians in this borough are NOV.
ling among their friends seeking to rep.
resent the dear people in the next Leg
islature. The most prominent aspir-
ants are on the Democratic side L. II.
Snyder, A. j. Durling and Jos. Fest;
and 7. S. Beck, Republican. III
while the colored man who felon-
iously assaulted and murdered little
girl near Canton, Pa, last week, was
being taken to Towanda to be lodged
IN Jail, the wagon was overtaken by
masked men, who shot him dead. The
culprit is said to have been "an active
member of Sunday school, and quite
favorite with the children"
Two Philadelphia white washers
have contracted for the whitewashlng
of the inside of the new rolling mill at
Phenixville, for SO, 200. 1t will require
6O6 bushels of lime, and fifteen hands
three months to do the work.
On Sabbath evening last, the pas.
tor of the Methodist Church of this
place, delivered the first of series OF
sermons, which he purposes prea ching,
on the chief doctrines of the Bible. The
subject of next Sunday evenings dis.
course will be Natural Depravity."
Col. W. ". Shore has resigned his
position as editor of the Allentown
News. Mr.. Greena valid, one of the
proprietors, will succeed him.
The editor OF the Slatington News
pays our friend j. w. Raudenbush the
following well deserved compliment;
"The Valley House, at Lehighton, is 6
first, class hotel, Sheriff Raudenbush
the gentlemanly proprietor, fully de,
serves the success with which he i.
meeting. If you go to Lehighton stol
at the Valley House."
The Republicans of Schuylkill Co
at PottsVille, on Monday last, nomna-
ted Theodore Garrattson for Congress
-Threemen named James Haggerty
Charles Price and Barney Williams los
their lives at the Summit Hill mines, OF
Saturday last, by the breaking of {
rope while deceuding the slope.
.=NVilliam Kistler, of Monroe, ha,
announced himself as cauaiate for re
election.