The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-08-08

Tuesday. August ii, and will continue
for three days. On Wednesday, the
18th, there will be a grand parade of
the order in that city, which will be
participated in by the camps and com
mauderes of that and surrounding
counties.
lin accordance with the announce
ment in last weeks Advocate" the
great Chicago Circus and Menagerie
visited this borough on Thursday last.
Immense crowds of persons came in
from the surrounding country to /" see
the show" which proved TO be fully
equal to any of its predecessors, and far
nearer the "bil 4" than many of the
concerns bearing more elaborate titles.
"A young lady in Mauch Chunk put
piece of wedding cake under her
pillow, and went TO bed with the happy
belief that she would dream of seeing
her future husband. That evening,
however, she had eaten two plates of ice
cream, about pint of strawberries,
several sweet cakes, and two large
pickles, and she now says she would
rather remain single all her life than
marry the man she saw in her dream.
William A. Belts, a freight conduc
tor on the Pennsylvania Railroad, was
instantly killed on Monday night by
falling under the cars while they were
being shifted at the Harrisburg depot.
Five cars passed over him.
In Lehightou the license for cir
Gus and menagerie is $50; Allentown,
s35; Reading, $50; Easton, $40; and
Doylestown, $15
On the 10th of August a camp meet
ing will be held in Mayors woods, near
Coopersburg, on the road leading to
Pleasant Valley.
Rev. Leighton Coleman, formerly
of Mauch Chunk, but now of Toledo,
Ohio, has accepted Presidency of the
Lehigh University at Bethlehem, in
place of Prof. Coppee, resigned.
Peaches are for sale at our fruit
stands. They are not large, but then
the price is large enough to make up
for all other deficiencies.
The Allentown Iron Co. have de-
cided to reduce the rents of those of their
employees occupying company houses
20 per cent. This is as it should be.
With wages reduced rents should fall
correspondingly.
The Vulcan Iron Works of Wilkes
Barre last week decided to reduce their
workingmen's wages 10 per cent. and
so announced. The employees at once
quit work, and Monday they received
notice that If they did not resume worl;
before Wednesday they would be paid
the wages due to them and discharged.
Monday they held a meeting, and re-
solved not to go to work as long as the
reduction was insisted on. About a
dozen of the men refuse to quit work.
but they have been in no manner mo-
Tested by the strikers.
lj--"Tired Natures Sweet Restorer,
Balmy Sleep. But there are times
when this "Renewer Of Strength" is
denied lis, times when our minds and
bodies have been so overworked and are
SO worn out that we "woo the drowsy
god in vain" The Peruvian Syrup Gan
Iron Tonic) renews our strength and
makes our rest sweet and refreshing.
Business men expect the fall trade
to open early. ..
Bring along your orders for job
printing and advertising.
The Danyille, Hazleton and Wilkes
barre railroad is advertised at sheriff's
sale. .-
The circus was not advertised in
the Mauch Chunk papers, nevertheless
very large number of Mauch Chunkers
were on hand to see the ''show."
--Slates very cheap at the ADVOCATE
Office.
IT. w. Renshaw has closed his drug
store in this borough, and removed to
Summit Hill, to take charge of the drug
store in that place.
A gentleman who writes the perfix
"Rev." before the name of q. W. Fris-
bee, predicts that Titusville will, on the
10th of August, be swallowed up as
we're Sodom and Gomorrah. 1t is true
in Mr. Frlsbee's case, as in that of other
prophets, that he has not been honored
in his own country, where i:reverent
people call him fraud. FIX.
The Monroe County Agricultural
Society have concluded to hold fair
this fall, commencing on 22d and con-
tinuing until the 25th of September.
-Dunmore, Luzerne county, has two
remarkable men. One weighs three
hundred and thirteen pounds; the other
| sixty. four pounds .. .H..