The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-04-11

the Gulf, was not less than forty miles
and some places it reached sixty miles.
Humbert, negro county treasurer
OF Sounth Carolina, could not have
learned much faster If he had graduated
in the Pennsylvania school of addition,
and silence. He has added up $50, 900,
and Is under arrest as a defaulter.
Harrisburg, April 9.-The Senate bill
approprating one million dollars to
erect the Centennial building in Phila-
delphia, passed the House to-day by a
vote of 60 to "a. 1t now goes back to
the Senate for concurrence on an im-
portant amendment bill.
A clergyman at Clarinda, Ohio, WAS
away from home when the crusade
began. He returned in the evening,
and saw his wife standing at the bar of
a saloon, singing as loud as she could
yell. He supposed she was drunk, and
entering the saloon, the tears rolling
down his face, he said: Come home,
wife, you have ruined me-drunk-
drunk-drunk.
South Bethlehem, April 7. Two
boilers used in driving the machinery
at Musconetcon Tunnel, on the Eastern
and Amboy Railroad, exploded at 6
o'clock tonight, killing the Master Me-
chanic, foreman and helper, and
wounding the engineer. The boilers
were comparatively new, and the cause
OF the explosion has not yet been ascer-
tanned.
Willlamsport, April 1.-THE temper
ance movement increases in interest in
this city. A mass meeting is in pro-
mendous out pouring of the people.
The saloons are very nearly all ciuSed,
and the ladies are out in force daily.
Four men, named Cation, Flynn, Hen
messy and O'Brien. were overpowered
by gas while repairinga a still in the Bis
bee Chemical Roofing Works at Hunt
er's Point, L. l., Monday. They we're
thrown into commissions, and O'Brien
and Flynn died after being taken out.
Hennessy was not expected to recover.
The monthly meeting of the Metho-
dist ministers in Boston Monday adopt
ed resolutions iavoring the anti.linuor
crusade. The resolutions include re,
port that 81 towns and cities have been
freed by the crusade from the LIQUOR
traffic, that 1761 liquor saloons in Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois have been closed,
and that 500 liquor sellers have been
mot only reformed, but hopefully con-
verted to God"
The troops serving on the Texas from
tier seem to be adopting the practice of
tne saVages. Sixteen indians recently
Killed by party of soldiers under COM
mand OF Lieut.. Col. Buel of Fort Grif-
fin. were all scalped. Among the slain
was squaw aged eighteen, whose ear
was taken off along with the hair. The
coal black hair, almost a foot long, and
the ear with silver pendant, are on ex-
hipition in Texas fancy goods store.
Thd 27.h of March was the anniver-
sary of the blooddiest tragedy in Amer
ican history. On that day, SO years
ago, Col. w. Fannin and four hundred
and forty-five men were slot to death
by the 4Hexicans under Urea in the port
at Goliad, Texas. A week before, Fan
nian and force, being surrounded by
the enemy and at the mercy of their ar
tillery, surrendered and wele takin to
Goiad. Major Ward, whom Fannin had
sent with one hundred men TO escort
Irish families, was also captured, and
the Americans were massacred together
on a Sunday morning.
How it pays. The Star Spangled
Banner for April, contains i've columns
of fine type, exposing the swindling
concerns of the day. 1t gives an ac-
count of the collapse of the notorious
Union Furnishing Co., of Chicago, the
arrest and closing up of the Magnolia,
Iowa, Gift Swindle, full expose of the
Tricks and Traps of America, and in
Vulnerable Other ventllations of the
Quacks, Swipdlers aud IIumbugs that
prey upon the public, The Banner has
long stood at the head of the press as
an expositor of Swindling, and this
number is worthy the attention of
everybody. Six cents buys it of any
news'man or it will be sent by address
ing. Banner, Hinsdale, N. II.
New York, April Sd ooney Harri f.
the well-known puglist, was shot las
night twice in the shoulder and once in
the stomach by another rough during a
drinking saloon quarrel. Harris, whose
| "DhhNS ny oNAAOaSj "oo tohCu w lllt nus
pital,
New Orleans, April S.-A special dis
patch from San Antonio, Texas, to
the Galveston News, says that on the
night of the 27th ult., a party of In
dians from the Reservation fired into
company of soldiers near Fort Sill. The
troops returned the fire, and from the
bloody trail and bonnet found the
next day, it is believed that several In
dians were seriously wounded. General
Augur and part of his staff will leave
for the Rio Grande frontier to- morrow,
on an extended tour of inspection.
Austin, April S.-Last night, about
dusk, the stage carrying the mail and
eleven passengers, of whom three were
ladies, was stopped about twenty. three
miles from here by three armed men,
who cut the fronth horse from the traces,
and took all the passengers money and
jewlery, and gutted the mail bags, TAX
Ing of one of them. Among the passen-
gers were Bishop Gregg and Mr.. Breck-
inrldge, President of the National Bank
Of San Antonio, from whom they look