The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1875-04-17

erfeiter, mas Deen recaptured.
Treasurer Spinner Monday. received
an autograph letter from the President
accepting his resignation.
Another large expedition, consisting
of eight hundred men, Is being fitted
out for the Black Hills.
Revels of Mississippi, the first colored
Senator, has becone u. d. and Is pas
tor of Methodist Church.
The Ere in Stockton mine Is still burn
ipg, and, In connection with adjacent
mines, will have to be flooded. The loss
will be 100000.
The troops at the Cheyenne Agency
had a fight with the hostile Cheyennes
on the 9th inst. The Indians lied, and
a large body OF cavalry and infantry
was sent in pursuit.
The Roman Catholic bishops Of Prus-
sia have addressed a petition to Emper-
or Wilhelm, demonstrating against their
treatment at the hands of the govern
ment.
The three cent tax on coal mined in
Pennsylvania by Incorporated companies
is involved at Harrisburg in six suits
against so many companies, which deny
the constitutionality Of the tax.
Hereafter insurance companies doing
business In Delaware will be required
to publish an annual statement once a
week for three weeks in at least two
newspapers Of that State.
Both house of the New Jersey Lee
gislature have passed the bill taking
from the New York and Long Bran ch
Railroad Company its power to unite
with the Balttm ore and Ohio.
At the Atlas Work, Pittsburgh, Pa,
they are making the largest shears ever
constructed in this country, They will
weigh 40 tons, and will ahear cold iron
five inches thick. y
At the performance of "Ahmed" in
the Grand Opera House one evening last
week, one of the married lady assistants
gave birth to q Chi lid behind the scenes
while the tournament act was on, and
the delighted father named him Ahmed
on the spot.
The Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania,
at Its decent session, reversed the reiis.
ion Of the Pike County Court of Com
mon Pleas in the case of Decker VS.. the
Erie Railway Company, in which the
plaintiff had received a verdict In his IA
yor of 81, 900 for the burning sf his no.
tel at Shohola.
An aionap,a,t sn (;lihurr Ma,
had no novel feature, but it called at
tention TO a strangely complicated fami-
ly. The wife who eloped was twenty
one-years Old, having beep married
seven years. and tie husband whom she
left was sixty-seven. The husband 8
two sons by previous wife are married
to his recrant wife's two older sisters,
and her brother is the husband OF her
husbands daughter. ..
Another circumstantial account oil
further gold discoveries in the Black
Hills comes from Yankton, Dakota
The Owens brothers, who are reported
as bringing In the news. are well known
on the border, and are men whose
statements can be relied upon. Being
out on hunt with party, and meet-
ing some of the Black Hills prospector'
they were induced to venture on 9
prospecting tour, though lacking ex-
perience, and without tools. Camping
some thirty miles south of General Gus
ter's line, they found gold within thret
days in such qualities that, leaving theil
companions to guard the spot, the Ow-
ems boys returned for supplies and o.
quipment. They have no fears of th'
Indians, having met both Bruel ant
Teton, Sioux, and maintained friendly
relations with them.
Pottsyille, Ba., April 12.-Messrs
Morton & Bros, coal operators, a
Mount Carmel, having signed the 1874
basis demanded by the miners for 1875
are now shipping oil their coal west b!
the Northern Central Railroad. At Sha
mokin the colleries which recently sus-
pended work, comprising three LEASED
colleries Of the Pennsylvania and Read
ing Railroad Company, and one of tn,
Northern Central Railroad Compan.
have again started, employing 800 mel
and boys. The men of two collerle
near Tamaqua did not vote to-day as an
tlclpated. They still refuse to accep
the reduction or the bases of 1875. N
immediate trouble from them is appre
hended. The impression generally pre-
walls that the strike is nearly ended.
The Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows Of Eastern Pennsylvania is abou
TO take measures to establish an Oh
Mans home for the benefit Of the mem
bers of the order. This organization
beneficial in its objects, and efforts hav
hitherto been given to the support Q
the sick, the burial Of the dead and th
relief OF widows and orphans. Thes
objects are very extensive, and the
. have been maintained and carried ou
in this country for fifty years. TIL
membership of the order is very large
The amounts contributed, althoug
moderate for each individual, make u
, Q large sum of money, and the dlsper
sation of relief has been liberal al
generous. The present effort will TAX
! the Order step further In the gran
i work of benevolence. The idea OF Ell
tabllshlng homes for old men who hay
struggled through life with earnestnes
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