The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1875-05-08

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Postmaster at Shamokin, Pa, was
signed Tuesday by the President.
The proprietor of hotel at Corning,
N. Y, has had to pay $500 aud costs
to married woman of that place, Nor
selling liquor to her husband
The Milesburg foundry, machine
shops. grist mill and wagon shops at
Milesburg, 10 Centre county, Pa, we're
burned Wednesday. Loss, $4,000.
Later reports from the interior of
Michigan represent the prospects for
an abundance wheat harvest is much
better than three weeks ago, and really
good.
Nearly so clerks, mostly women, were
discharged from the Treasury Depart
ment in Washington on Saturday, on
account of the exhaustion of an appro-
priatiop.
At Lexington, KY, few days ago,
the Court of Common Pleas was ad-
journed by the Judge for thirty minutes
to witness the entry into the town of
Bailey's circuse procession.
The internal revenue receipts for
April were s7,D22,33l. The receipts
for the first fou; months of this year
were 1880, ,09l in EXCESS of the receipts
for the corresponding period of 1874.
The Secretary OF the treasury will
sell So, 900, 900 In gold during the month
of May as follows: $1,000, 900 on, the
first and third Thursdays. and 81 ,0Q0,-
| 600 on the second and fourth Thurs
days respectively.
Plymouth Church had great acces-
sion Of new converts on Sunday. There
were one hundred and five of them by
count; and of this large number eighty
two were women and only twenty
three were men.
At Lebanon, Pa, the jury in the
case of Daniel Dougherty. charged
with the murder of George Major, Chief
burgess of Mahanoy City, on October
3lst, t,came into couit on Saturday morn
ing with verdict of not guilty.
The delegation of Sioux chiefs who
are to negotiate for the surrender oft he
Black Hills reservation, are expected
almost daily in Washington. All the
principal chiefs of the nation, including
Red Cloud and Spotted tail, are ip the
party. ....
General Spinner. in reply to letter
asking him for a contribution in aid Of
the Mecklenberg Centennial, has sen t
a check for ten dollars. with q note,
stating that he leaves his otiice,a poor
man, which is the reason he cannot
send mole suitable amount. s,5...
A woman died in Philad elphla re-
Gently who weighed more than six hun.
dred pounds. For thirteen years she
has been hed-ridden, being unable to
carry her weight around. Dying in a
room in an upper floor, it was with
great difficulty that tho body was re-
moved. 5Fir
The frost has done very little per-
ceptible damage to the crops In the
West, but it has, it is thought dimin-
ished the possibility of grass. hopper
plague such as was experienced last
year. The severe weather of the past
season has been productive of good, es.
pecially in Kansas. There is always
silver linging to the darkest cloud.
A convention to favor a speedy
union between the Uuited States and
Canada is to be held in Buffalo on the
4th of July this year. 1t is anticipated
by those who are moving in the mat,
ter that such arrangements may be
made as shall bring about the amalga,
nation before Centennial day 10 1876
To any one, however acquainted with
the temper of popular opinion on thi:
subject in the most influential sections
of Canada, the scheme for a political
union must appear hopeless, at least
tor many years.
A despatch from Pottsville says there
is no prospect of any settlement between
the miners and operators by the 18th Of
this month, as reported. The mines
show no signs of yielding. Special po
llcemen continue to guard the miners
pumps and branch railroads, but, though
occasional trouble Is reported, it is no
of serious nature. 1t Is said that the
Scranton and Wilkesbarre miners, who
have been working for q long time
will this week send 100000 tor dis
tribpsion among the strikers in the
Sehuylkill region.
, Pottsville, May 5.-Last night at l.
O'Clock the breaker Ben Franklin, a col
lierY at Doutyville, near Shamokin, wa!
destroyed by FIRE. The colliery wa
owned and worked by Douty & Bonn
r gardner. AS it has been working dur.
ing the strike, it is supposed to be tn
> work Of incendiares. The loss is 500,
900. Two hundred men and boys ar
> thrown out of employment, which will
: be severely felt by them, as 1t is one O
: a few in the region giving employment
: and no work is to be had elseware. rhi
Is the first instance of a colliery belnl
i burned since the strike was inaugural
? ed At GlrardvllIe a special engine
1 with Superintendent Alhausen, of Ma
. hanoy Branch Railroad, aboard, wa
0 stoned, the windows broken, and th
engineer had q narrow escape.
SOLDIERS ORPHANs.-During the
: present year there will be discharged
, IRON the soldiers orphan school in til,
state 527 children by reason of sucl
: scholars having reached, the age o
!, sixteen years, at which tine the Law