The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-03-28
Current Items.

"Remopunabliquearchie" is suggest
ed as fitting name for The French re-
public.
Small feather fans are said to be TAX
ing the place OF the gigantic wind sails
Of last summer.
II Is stated that the wife of Senator
Sargent, of California, is a strong advo-
cate of woman suffrage.
H. d. Rouse, Of Weatherly, has a
colt, under three years old, 'Sorrel Pet
which he is willing to back against
anything in this or Luzerne county.
The Office of the Treasurer of Elk
county, Pa, was broken into one
day last week and the contents of tie
safe carried off, consisting of ten cent
county order.
Michigan ought to be happy. A re-
solution has been offered in the Senate
that in view of the large balance in the
State treasury no tax be levied for the
year 1874.
Mr.. Beecher says says, In recent
sermon: "To fall from high position
socially by reason OF misfortune In
business, or by loss nf wealth, Is to tho
lower sort of men degradation, but to
tie higher it is coronation"
The lumber dealers of Williamsport
have shipped during January and Feb
uary %, 900, 900 feet OF lumber. an in
crease of 100000 feet over the
amount for the corresponding period of
1878.
The girls of Virginia City have taken
to wearing single braids of hair dang
ling down their backs. The Chinese
residents believe that the mode Is inten-
ded as an imitation of pigtails, and are
elated.
The whole number of hogs packed
during the regular season at Chicago is
stated at l,520,024. The average net
weight has been 216 pounds, and aver
age yield of lard 81 pounds. The total
number of cattle packed was 2l, ,7l2.
A little girl of our acquaintance was
not at all grateful for pair OF boots to
which she took great dislike. After
enumerating their many faults, she ad-
ded, "And they don't even squeak"
What a horrible idea is the following:
Ifever marry wife,
III marry landlords daughter;
And then can sit at the bar,
Anu drink old Bourbon and water.
The Sultan Abdul Aziz, it is said,
was most graceful in lis bearing to.
wards the Empress Eugene during her
stay at Constantinople, his labitual
brusqueness giving place to an unwon.
ted amiability. After her departure he
actually ,noped.
A Lady lecturer, who ha' the right
toput M. d. after her name, argues
that "because American women are
enthusiastic, they are the handsomest
In the world. Foreign women, as q
rule, become too stout, ale too phleg-
matte, too expressionless."
The county Fairs in this region will
be held as follows Lehigh County Fair,
September Goth to October End. Berks
County Fair, September 9th to l1th.
Montgomery County Fair, Sept. 22nd
to 25th. Kutztown Fair, October 9Th
to 10th. State Fair September Goth to
October End. No place fixed.
Pottsville, March 21 While the mine
car, holding ten men at the tune, was
descending the slope OF Lloyd, Glover
Il Co.'S collier, at Phoenix Park, this
morning, the rope broke, and the cal
fell, instantly killing John McCabe,
John Davis and Archie McMchael, the
other seven receiving injuries, but 1t is
thought not serious.
A young lady In Fond du Lac, while
out walking with her lover, was attack
ed by q savage dog, who seized her by
the breast aud tore it from her body
The lover tainted with horror at the
sight but the young lady, much NORTH
cd, went for the dog with picket, re-
marking "that ere cost a dollar and {
half, and want made for no dog Il
chaw up"
A temperance society in San Fral .
cisco arrays itself against that habit o.
saying, "What'll you have?" "Come
let's take drink" or anything of IT,,
kind. The members do not approve o
total abstinence: they only solemnly
pledge themselves not to pay for AM
other mans drink, nor to drink ut ba
with anybody. The society Is seriOu
In its intentions, believes that the con
VITALITY Of baIrooms IL the cause o.
most iDtemperance, and has a member
ship Of standing and influence.
There is an old gentleman now liv
ing at Butler, Butler county, Pa, VIII,
was born In 1776, and who says he In
tends to 60 to Philadelphia In 1875 h
attend the Centennial. This centen
arian, Mr.. David Dougless, is well
known citizen of Butler, who moved +
that place when IL was wilderness
prior to 1900. He saw General Wash
ington In the West, after the close o
his term as President. He lives by him
self in little old shanty on the main
street, refusing to sell any OF his prop
erty or to improve 1t, and isperhaps til
Oldest man west of the mountains.
The thirty young ladies who are t
carry the temperance war to the Pdclh
coast will leave Washington, Ind, thi
week for Omaha. After singing to th
whiskey sellers there, they will Wis
Reno, Virginia City, Sacramento, Sa
Francisco and lesser places. AS the
are all young and robably pretty, I'll
bachelors of tine Pacific are awaitln
the raid with eager anxiety. One Cal
fUrnia editor fears that they will all /
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