The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-02-12

vote for the best men.
nominations for borough ofioera
VIII be made at Mantz's Hotel. thia
lfIuayl evening, and Saturday eve
nhg at hoons' hotel on Second street,
Trot out good men. '''o"'
We have choice lot OF fancy and
comic valentines, which we can seIl a.
q very low price. Call and see them
John Christ, Lehigh county farm
etr, committed suicide on Tuesday. bv
hanging himself in his barn. M
Ohrlst owned large farm. No oanss
Is assigned for the deed.
=, d. X. Rickert has nearly completed
tne erection OF dwelling bouse in
hlcksrtstown, for Mr.. Alex. Grave,
ne shortly expects TO commence one n,
Two more houses In the same locality.
A meeting of the Stockholders NJ
the Carbon county Industrial Soe,ota
VIII % held at the Exchange Hotel. In
thls place, on Wednesday afternoon
lOth INST, at O'Clock, for the transae.
ton of important business.
-The employees at the Allentown
Furnaces and Allentown Rolling Mill
were last week notified that from and
after the 18th inst. next Mondsy-~
they would have to submit to anotbar
reduction of 10 per cent.in their Wages.
The other day a passenger train nm
the Lehigb Valley Railroad made tba
distahce between Easton and Allentown
tlo mlies) In "a minutes. Taking Off
the time consumed in making a stop.
pag5 at Bethlehem the run was eoual
to mile a minute.
On Saturday last the Dime Savinos
Bank property, now occupied nv the
Slatington National bank, was sold at
sssignee's sale to Robert MoDoveII
Esq, for SO, 500 cash.
The propuction of pig iron in the
United States in 1875 was about Q. 100.
600 tons net, falling off of 600 OOn
tons as compared with the previous
year. ........
The gift distribution of COMPANY
II, at Catasauqua, is to come of Oh
the 22d inst.
-Four hundred and forty-three
tranps took shelter In the Catasauoua
station house during the month of JanuS
ary.
There is man in Lower Macun-
gle who has eleven daughters at home.
1t takes one hundred and ninety. eight
yards OF calico to go round.
"A COW belonging to Mr.. David
Sheradin, residing near KutztowD, re-
Gently cast a calf, which at the age of
four weeks weighed 1881 pounds.
| NJ W., uTn;sz
ed Secretary of the 1ehigh Valley Fire
Insurance Company, vice L. d. Krause,
who resigned to connect himself with
the shoe factory of Roney & Levan.
$500 is the highest fine that can be-
imposed under the new liquor law for
violation of its provisions.
We are again under obligations to
our member of the Legislature, Hon. A,
j. Durlng, for public documents.
-Protracted meetings have been
held in the NJ. f. church, of this bor-
ough, during the past week. The
meetings of the Evangelical Associa,
tion are also continued with much sue.
cess.
Nazareth has forty-6ve widows.
Husbands don't have half chance at
that place.
j. w. Freeman, editor Of the Pitts,
ton Comet, convicted OF libel In De,
cember last and sentenced to seven
months imprisonment, was pardoned
and released from prison on Saturday.
st. Valentines Day-Monday next,
the 14th inst. We have nice stock of
Valentines to select from. Very cheap.
Our ice men have mostly secured a
stock OF very fine ice, ranging from @
to II inches in thickness.
Mr.. NJ. N. Bernhardt, of the AL,
lentown Morning Herald, was in town
thursday evening. He reports the
Herald In thriving condition. .r
ON the evening of the 9th inst,
two more OF the Mollie Maguires, Chas.
McAllister and Patrick Munley were
arrested near Mahanoy City, for the
double murder, in September last, of
Thomas Sanger, and William Uran, the
former mining boss and the latter a
miner at Heaton's Colliery.
To-day, Saturday., has been ixed
for the habeas corpus hearing in the
case of the men charged with the mur-
der of Policeman Yost at Tamaaua
some months ago.
The eldest son of Henry Geisel fell
from the rear platform of one of the
PaekertOn trucks, on Tuesday evening,
and was run over by another truck
following, and was rather seriously ine
jured. Luckily the trucks were running
very slowly at the time, or the accident
would have no doubt proved fatal.
"A young man named Fritzinger,
residing at ParryVille, had his leg
caught between two trucks Wednesday
evening, and badly bruised.
AT hotel in Luzerne county the
night watchman was alarmed by the
simultaneous ringing of all the bells.
An examination revealed a rat on the
box in which was located the battery.
The rodent had been attracted by the
composition placed around the wires to
keep them apart, which it gnawed away
giving the electricity full play. and so
frightning the watchman almost out of
his wits, as he thought 1t was the work
Of some evil spirit.
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