The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-02-28
Current items.


Ing 10000 acres has been bought for a
party Of French emigrants, who are
about to settle there.
The Indians have invented new
mo'hcd If soalpirg victims, so that now
q bald headed man stands no more
show than any one else. This is as 1t
should be.
A solution Of gutta percha in ether
thrown on charcoal or crayon drawing,
In the shape of spray, will soon form
transparent and durable coating which
sionally with wet cloth without dam
ging the drawing.
The President has ordered that the
Court Of Inquiry in the case of Gen.
Howard becOmposed ofGens. Sherman,
Mcdowell, Pope, Meiggs, and Colt,
Mai. A. B. Gardner, Judge Advocate.
The court will meet in Washington on
the Sd of March hext.
A Mississippi paper says: "Should
this issue of our paper fall in the way of
the villain WHO defaced Admiral Sem
mee's book, the property Of citizen
of this town, we say that no one but
liar and sneak would pronounce that
gentleman, distinguished sailor and
soldier "a scoundre,' or that his book
was the blackeSt of lies ever uttered by
man or devil These are the words
that deface the book: and we say
again, be who wrote them is himself
liar, scoundre. and sneak, and,
II he is not to coward!y to give his name.
will receive the reward he SO justly
merits"
O;egon has wisely resolved to protect
by law the game remaining in its val
leys. For years past it has been the
custom to make extensive raids upon
the elk, moose, and deer to get their
skins, the bodies being left on the
ground. An act of the Legislature
makes it unlawful to kill or offer for
sale any deer moose, or elk during the
months of February, March, April,
May, and June, and making it unlaw-
full to take or kill at any time elk or
deer for the sole purpose of obtaining
their horns and skins.
The proprietors of hote! in Iowa
brought an action against the editor
of their villages paper to recover a
certain amount for meals and cigars.
The editor contests the suit, inasmuch
as in return for the said dinners and
Gil ars he had set forth the virtues of
the proprietOrs and the excellence of
their viands all worth thousand dol
lars, for which he should have claimed
no compensation had he not been
charged for the dinners. The editor
pleaded his own case, and the jury re-
turned verdict throwing the costs on
the hotel keepers.
A Paris physician relates the particu-
lars of curious case he has under his
charge. 1t is that of young girl,
eighteen years of age, who is afflicted
with what is termed nychatopia, that is
to say, she loses the faculty of sight in
daylight and recovers it in darkness.
Although her eyes do not present any
special morbid character, she is forced
to keep her eyellds closed during the
day and to cover her head with thick
veil. On the other hand, when the
shutters OF room are Theoretically fast
ened she reads and writes perfectly in
the deepest darkness. She feels no pain
beyond slightlassitude when the solar
light strike her visual organs.
Some time since the steamer Dhoolla
was wrecked In the Red Sea. Among
the wreckage, sold for mere song,
was box, supposing to contain moth
ing valuable, but afterward discovered
by Egyptians to contain damaged ln-
dian lostage stamps to the value of GAO,
000) The stamps had been manufactured
In England for the Indian Post Office,
and sent out as cargo with no proper
description or declaration of value.
These stamps are finding their way to
India through various channels: they
would be no loss to the country if at
the bottom of the ocean, but, being
found and sold, are likely to cost the
Government of India little short of $40.
900.
A daring and successful robbery was
perpetrated on the First National Bank
of Quincy ILL.,, Thursday night Of last
week. BURGLARS cut through the floor
of the second story over the vault, cut
the rivets OF the sheet-iron boiler an
inch thick, and decended into the vault.
They charged the money safes with
powder, carrying the train to the top
by small rubber tube. They fastened
pistol thereto, to which they attached
String in the street and fired it, blowing
open the safe. They then carried OF
about 500, 600 currency, besides valua'
BILE papers and special deposits. One
Mccoy has been arrested on suspicion
The officers of the bank say the los:
will.not affect the the banks response
bility. A reward of 500, 900 has beer
offered for the restoration Of the stoler
property and the capture Of the thieves
Among the bonds stolen were 800, 00(
of Adams county bonds, numbered
from 22l to 400 inclusive.
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