The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1875-07-31


The Rev. Common Thrlwan, Bishop of st.
Davds, 10 dead.
Fifty mills have been closed in Ashton.
England eight thousand operators were thrown
out OF employment
Leslie Hulse jumped in front of an Erie
freight train at Goshen tuesday AFTERNOON, and
was instantly killed.
Tho Manchester Guardian says that an
alarming state Of things prevails at oldham
only six ont Of the l62 mills belonging to the
EMPLOYERS Association are working.
MIR. Pendletons panacea for commercial
trouble Is at least simple" Produce more and
consume less"
Tho Democrats claim that Col. Amos G,
Moves II nominated for Governor will beat
Hartrenft by majority of 50 GOO TO 100000 votes.
The st. LOUIS Globe conRratuiates Ohio on
the variety OF the political fare afforded II. II
can pay its oney and take ats choice, II the ef-
fort of choosing lie not too soulperpleNlng.
Reading posons her stray dogs with cyau.
ide OF potassium.
"A machine that p1Pts 600 Venetian bin
slats an nour IL out
Politicians are getting tangled up like
basket OF eels on the currency.
When the speakerHhip is mentioned Fer.
napdo Wood gives knowing winx.
When six hundred people will pack them.
selyes into freight cars and ride twenty miles
Tor the sake Of eating a cold lunch IN stme old
pasture, IL Is not for any journalist 10 dlng in.
suits at the game of base ball
-shamoSin. Pa had another inceudiary fire
Tuesday.
-Ducan, Sherman & Co., ban kers, New York
allied Tuesday. Liabilities about 50 00J.00O.
"A Northern Pacific train fell through
bridge over the Mississippi at BraIneEd, Tues
day. Five persons were killed
1t Is thoue ht that the disagreement between
the union printers. Of Washington. and their
employers will lead 70 sJrihe.
The Turks claim to be wading right through
Herzegovina. Perhaps they are, ang then per-
haps they are not.
"A telegram from Cincinnati says thai about
the 18th Of AUGUST the Baltimore and Ohio and
Pennsylvania Railroad Com panies will put fast
fruit trains on their roads 10 carry peaches and
other fruit from Delaware and New Jersey co
the West.
A meeting OF ministers and others was held
Monday IN Washington TO consider the pro
prlety of inviting Aessrs. Moody and Sankey to
hold series OF meetings IN the capital. A COM
mittee was appointed to lay the matter before
the churches and request them TO send dele
gates to another meeting on Monday next.
when the invitation wall be formally extended,
and arr arrangements for the erection OF p suitable
building be made.
John II ship was arrested at Avon, in Le-
banon county Monday for attempting'to com
init felonious assault upon girl nIne years
od. He confessed his guilt. He is married
ana 25 years OF age
The dead body of William Ison aged 2i,was
found in the woods near Glen Rock Station: ~
miles from Baltimore on SUNDAY morning. His
death resulted from a stab In the lett brenst,
near che heart. sunday school picnic which
Ison attended Was held ut G en- Rock the day
BEFORE
YESTERDAY Mrs Jane Alsfet, wife of Fran.
els Alsfelt, tODacconst Of No. 20 south Third
street, qnoeremonl9nsly and without notice
valuables belonging TO him. the sum or value
OF which cannot now be positively stated, Mr.
5000. 1t IS supposed that Mrs. < lsfelt has gone
to Scranton, where some OF her relatives re.
side.-Easton Li5patch, July IL
The trial of John d. Lee for participating in
the Mountain Meadow massacre. the evidence
4 eiyan Inv philp Smith "a Mormnu In wi bnc
noue prosequt has been entered, is of q dread
full nature. 1t was res lived at Sunday COuu-
Gil to attack and destroy the em.grants who
numbered more thau hundred persons. old
ana mitdle.aged men and wOmen,and children
Lee conducted the attack, but after h9h ing for
The description of the Outchery of the enigrnnts
| after they had surrendered TO their teacheTous
| foes is siesenlnF. The wounded, the women and
the children were shot down in cold blood. anl
| tho who were not killed outright were after.
| wards bnrbarousy slaughtered bv the NJ ornons.
| None of the emf grants escaped Indians were
| al les of the Mormons IN TIE hideous deed. WO
meu appealing tor mercy was horribly treated
and Lher throats wa then cut. It is said that
the excitement in the court v. most intense
No wonde", Lees face durinr the time smith
| WAS stlfying, turbed lv d. Whether the law
| will be able to b ing the miscIe nts TO st
| doom, when the facts are al known, the Nor.
| mons Will have reason TO fear the WRATH of tho
| people. Time has not deadened the fet tlings of
| dire indignation at the foil dee1.
| -PMLADELPHIA,J July 29.--At a special meet.
| ing OF tle United States centennial Board OF
| Finance TO day, the board ado )ted n statement
10 the effect that the contracts for all the build
Jugs for the Centennial Exhibition required
| them Go be COMPLETED bv the Ist of Jsnuary
Hext and that they are now In a condition OF
| forwardness far beyond that OF any ipternatIOn-
oil exhibition at the SAM ret,ive time and are
making progress at a rate faster than the fund
| to pay for them Is beng aCcumul ted 4 he
board thus fur have been enabled TO adhere to
the policy OF paying their building bills and ali
| other expenses as they become due. aud in or.
der to adhere TO this policy additional sources
viii need TO be supplied With 81, 900 80 ADDITION
al for huilding purposes alone on the last four
months OF this year TO pay the contractors wi at
| November and December This is exclusive OF
| the amount that Will be necessary fol the prep.
| aratiOn and completion Of the grounds the dec
Grafton of the buildings. and the expenditures
OF the administration, which VIII be payable In
the first month Of 1875, The boTd make an
| truest appeal to their fellow.citiZens In Phila
| delpha, where a comparatively few persons
have done 20 much as well as throughout the
country at large, to come forward now TO the
! and OF The board
BANKERS CONVENTION. There were two hun.
DIRE d and fifty delegates at convention Of
| banks were not largely represented. Mr.. Chas
| B. Hall, of Boston, was chosen chairman and
in his opening address touched upon some
MINOR monetary grievances, sucl as the two
| cent stamp, the old war tax, the tax of onehal
! OF one per cent, on deposits and capital. THE
deposits" said Mr., Hall, are mostly checks
| deposited by business men making their cOlec-
| tons all through the country. The banks take
the risk aud responsibility OF their COLLECTION,
! while the checks are ON the way for collection,
and then pay the Government, for the privilege
| OF doing II, between three and half ana four
millions year" on the subject OF specie pay.
ments he observed; I'VE all want To go to
| specie payment as soon as we can, without dis
! tressIng the business community OF bringing
| ruin on the country generally. But I am not
one OF that class who think that the prosperity
| of this country depends entirely upOI hurryng
| 10 specie payment You will reoollept that
| after her great war England. country that
| owed nobody, took, i think, twenty. seven
! years before she resumed permanent sDecie
| payments and we have taken only about half
| that tlma yet. This Is great country. We are
| growing ana expanding The business OF the
country is growing, Without any material IN.
| crease of the eli oulating medium, which it ap-