The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1875-09-18

Godfrey Peter, Of Mahonlng, will
please accept our thanks for dish ol
very fine Concord" grapes, raised
upon his place.
We have as yet failed to observe
any Improvement in the condition OF
our pavements. The order of Council
to VIM. Miller TO the contrary. Why
is this thusly2
Ladies' dress goods, dry goods,
groceries aud provisions can be found
In endless variety and at very low
prices at Dan Graver's Bee Hive Store.
"A trotting match will come off TO-
day <Saturday) at 2 O'Clock, on the
Fair Ground track, for purse of $50.
IL the weather Is favorable some fine
sport may be expected.
Read the premium list Of the Car
bon county Industrial Society, printed
on our first page, and then prepare
something for exhibition.
Why don't our young men start a
Literary Society There is instruction
and amusement combined in these in
stitutions. Some one make start !
Prof. John DeHass will exhibit his
tableaux of Paradise Lost, at Catasau-
qua, for the benefit of the Band, on
Friday and Saturday evenings next.
Query? Has the editor OF the Sla-
tington News found that FIVE legged
calf yet2
On Tuesday morning. Mrs. Kratz-
er, who resides at Lehigh Gap, while
walking on the track of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad, near the station at
that place was struck by passing train
causing the fracture of the collar bone
and severely cutting and bruising her
about the head. DR.. Wilson was sent
for who administered the proper rene,
dies for the unfortunate woman.
Our old friend, Dan Rex, will go
to New Jersey on Tuesday and return
toward the end Of the week, with lot
of Shoats--Jersey whites, which he will
sell low for the money only.
~ Jake ALner, of franklin, had his
right hand caught in a threshing ma
chine, on Monday last, and very badly
mashed. The fOre-inger was amputa-
ted at the second Joint, DR.. j. G. Zern
performed the operation.
If you want nice dish of New
York Bay Oysters go to Brady's Cen
tennial news, cigar and tobacco en-
porium, Bank Street.
The many friends of Rev. G. W.
Townsend will be pleased to learn that
he returned to Packerton on Tuesday
of this week from Delaware, and that
he is now able to perform his minis
terial duties. No doubt he will be
pleased to meet his people after his
long absence.
When one makes a narrow escape,
it is usual to say that he saved him
self "by the skin of his teeth" In
the most splendid of all compositions
(see Book of Job, chapter xix, verse
co. it is written "My bone cleaveth
to my skin and to my flesh, and am
escaped with the skin of my teeth"
The people of Siegfried's Bridge
are loud in their calls for watchman
on the L. g. s. r. X. at that point, in
order to make the crossing of the track
by vehicles more secure. Several serious
accidents have already occurred, and
the people ask the company to place
watchman at the crossing.
Rev. E, A. Bauer, of Hazleton,
was in town on Tuedsay morning. The
rev. gentleman was on his way to Csta-
sauQua to attend the conference of the
Lutheran Ministerium of the Second
District of East Penna.
Josh Billings says he will take the
stage this winter also, the railroad
cars. when they run his way" Our
people will do nothing of the sort, while
they can get handsome teams at low
prices at David Ebbert's popular livery
New potatoes are selling at 40 cts,
bushel at various points in the State.
The supply of potatoes and corn never
was so good as this year.
Some Allegheny county township
auditors have been fined for neglectlng
to publish the annual statement of the
financial condition of their township, A
word to the wise Is said to be sufficient.
The Car wheel Works of Mckee,
Fuller & Co., at Ferndale, have resum-
ed operations. though only for a short
spell, there being but few orders on
hand.
"A tramp attempted to abduct two
children from Bowers station, on the
East Pennsylvania Railroad, on Mon
day week. They were between and
4 years of age, and the man succeeded
in coaxing them mile away from their
homes, when, fortunately, the neigh
bors got wind of the affair and sue
ceeded in recapturing the little ones.
AT the sale of the real estate of the
late Jacob Singmaster, at Stroudsburg,
at few days since, the homestead of the
said deceased, which is said to be one OF
the finest private residences in North-
eastern Pennsylvania, and to have cost
no less than Sl25, 900, was sold to
Samuel Singmaster, of Iowa, q brother
OF the deceased, for s25, 900.
The final survey for the Lehigh
and Eastern Railroad, which is to ex-
tend from Hazleton, Pa, TO a eonnec-
tion with the Erie Railway one mile
east of Port Jervis, has Just been COM
pleted. The proposed road will cross
the POcono Mountain west of Strouds-
burs, thence pass up the Delaware VAL