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

NlJntIH NHIiBIdntS ara hlleT clsIk-
ships.
There only two women in the Con
necticut State Prison, Lydia Sherman
and a colored woman.
II is stated that the population of
New Orleans has greatly decreased
during the last two years.
The photographers ofAlbsny, N. Y.
lave. T, solved, with three exceptions. to
close their galleries on Sunday.
1t is said that the young Prince
Napoleon obtained the highest number
of marks at at the recent Woolwich ex-
animation.
BIanx cats, imported from the Isle of
Man, are amongthe newest of household
luxuries. Their popularity is that they
have no tails.
One hundred and twenty newspapers
and periodicals have been suppressed in
France since MacMahon became Presi-
dent.
About forty tons of greenback paper
Is the quantity expressed from Glen
Mills, Chester county, TO Washington
New York per month.
The recent cold and wet weather in
the Western Territories have been very
destructive 10 the sheep. which are re-
ported to be dying by thousands.
The total number of votes polled IL
the recent general election in Great liri-
tain AMI Ireland, was about 2, ,50O,0 900
The saloon keepers of Chicog) have
10 al. f,,..
and many citizens will now have to 90
to work.
The Michigan Changers propose to
establish market days in each county of
the State, upon which certain kinds Of
grain or products shall be sold, and no
other.
II arithmetic were better taught in
our public schools, says the Richmond
Enquirer there might not be so many
public officers who cant balance thcir
accounts.
The Chicago Tribune says that large
quantities of macaroniand vermicli ara
made In that city, and sold as imported
articles.
Tie annual announcement has again
been made that this year the hotel
keepers at Niagara are positively going
to put an end to sNindling and ex-
tJrtion.
The world uses $50, 900, 900 pounds of
tea and 7lS,000, 900 pounds of coffee
every year. China furnishes nearly all
the lea. and Brazil more than half the
coffee.
Never lay a stumbling block in Il o
way of man who is tryin to advance
himself in the world honestly and up
rightly, for he is likely to walk over it
and laugh at you aiteIward.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., re-
celves s2S,UO year for carrying the
MALI, and the North Pennsylvania
Railroad Co., S6,195.
The Temperance crusade has accom-
piished Something in Cincinnati The
brewers sales decreased Sl40,00 last
month.
james Russell Lowell says: "Put a
Yankee On Juan Fernandez, and he
Nuuid make n spelling book first and a
salt pan afterward
a party of men in New York who
have been advertising grand gilt
concert in aid of the Masonic Relief As
sOclatl0n, OF Norfolk, Va, were recent
" arrested, as it was discovered they
wele swindleis.
A correspondent of the st. Louis Des-
paich has beenin.rrviewing the Moducs
on their reSerVatiunin Indian Territory
lie reports that their general conduct
Is satliaciory and their advance in civil
izatiOn rapid.
The remains of DR.. Livingstone, the
great missionary aud explorer, lett
Hden, Africa, on the 23d ull., on board
ihe steamship Malwa for England. The
DOdy vas preserved in salt and incased
IN coffin of lead.
The Supreme Court, in the case of
william :. Jones of Luzerne county,
convicted of murder in the first
degree, have reversed the decision of
Tue Court below. Jones will now be
sentenced for murder in the second
degree. lie killed his mother in.law.
Bowles, Mississippi negro, is said to
banker after social equality distuIban-
ceS. lie goes around on steamboats,
asking for bridal chambers, and things
which he knows he can't Get, and then
prosecutcs the captains for not giving
them to him..
Bishop Whelan of West Virginia ad-
viSes the Roman Catholics 20 abandon
the use ard sale of liquor. lie say,
that the word of God does not real,
forbid the iraffc when used with mod
eration and with reason, but these con
d.lions are seldom complied with.
They have new epidemic in Naples
WHICH, snNs a corrcsr rondent, threaten,
to make a tour of tho world as supple.
mental s"uurge 10 the cholera 1t is
spasmodic, intermittent fever in tn,
outset, lapsing aiterward into con,
tInu0us lever, and again becoming in
teimitteht 1t is accompanied with in
ilammatiOn of the spleen and brain
lhere'ls also comatous stupor, sue
ceeded by what seems to be recover
OF health, but next day the patient
attacked again, sinks into a coma, an
dies.
a Boston paper relates that IN Charles
town, recently, a large dog gave chas
tlapOor little "black and tan" who.
hind leg had been injured but, faiIif
to overtuke him, turned about and tro