The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-01-01


and beware Of tramps.
Scarlet fever still continues 1t:
ravages at South Bethlehem.
-Thd usual services will be held in
the ". e. Church this (Friday) night
Edward Dreher. of Ha2leton, ha,
been a stage driver for nearly 80 years
Our Public Schools will reopen
on Monday morning next. January 3rd
There will be five Sundays and
five Saturdays in the month of Janu
airy, 1876.
Hon. A. j. Durlng, member Of
the State Legislature, will leave for
Harrisburg on Monday next.
Ed. Miller and w. w. Rcher, re
turned to Philadelphia or Thursday
! last.
Prof, Barnett, formerly Of our pub.
lie schools, spent Christmas with his
friends in this place.
lion. u, II, Long will please accent
our thanks for bottle of very fine
French mustard, sent us as Christmas
present
During the last boating season
1000 loaded boats passed down the Le-
high Canal, nearly all of which were
ircighted with coal or iron.
Ladies', thi, being leap year, vou
have the privilege OF popping the mo
mentOus question " Marriage notices
inserted in the ADVOCATE free.
OF the eighteen anthracite iron fur
naces in Bcrks county eleven are out
of blast, and seven are working along,
but not turning out their full capa
cities.
Mr.. VIM. Seabold, the gcntlemanly
agent of the H. V. r.. r., at this place,
has been severely indisposed during the
past week. We are pleased to state he
is on duty again.
"A drunken woman was run over
on the Lehigh Valley railroad a
few days ago The wheel struck her
in the centre Of the body, throwing one
portion of it fifteen feet from the other.
AT Wilkesbarre, Friday of last week,
Patrick Ryan was convicted of murder
in the second degree, for killing j.
Tooley, and was sentenced to imprison.
ment fer eleven years and ten months.
The IrOna Loan and Building AS
ISOLATION, of Parryville will hold its ith
annual meeting on Saturday next, Jan
uary Sth, 1876, at Z O'Clock, at which
time new board of directors will be
elected.
We are in receipt Of very hand,
some Centennial and Historical Cal
ander, for 1876, from Thomas w. Price
Co, the popular paper d,aler of 505
Minor street, Philadelphia. 1t is a
credit to their establishment.
David Ebbcrt, in wishing his
friends "a Happy New Year." desires
to state that his arrangements for sup |
plying them with teams at low prices
during 1876 will fully equal, if not sur.
pass those OF the past year.
The carrier of the ADVOCATE will |
wait upon his friends this Saturday .
morning with his third annual greeting,
He desires us to state that "small dUna.
ions will be thankfully received and
arGer ones in exact proportion"
Our churches gave their respective
sunday Schools very fine entertain
neats on Christmas Eve and Night,
md we are glad to know that the
scholars all expressed their satisfac-
ion with the presents they received
md the amusement afforded.
TUESDAY evening Mr.. Ell. Syndef \
vas very suddenly attacked with se/
,ere sickness, which tor time cauT
erious alarm among his friends. /Ve
re pleased to state that he has So tar
covered as to be able to be in his
tore.
AT Milford, on Thursday of last
week, Daniel Decker, obtained ver-
ict for $51G2 against the Erie Railway
company for the burning of his hotel
t SEohola, in March, 1872, by o spark
rom a locomotive. The company will
robably appeal to the Supreme Court.
Henry Beckendorf is now prepared
0 supply the people of Lehighton and
icinity with the very best of coal,
f all sizes, including chestnut
nd stove, at prices lower than any
ther dealer in town. Orders can be
eft at his residence in rear of Catholic
hurch, or at the ADVOCATE Office.
Mr.. j. P. Rowland, of Parryville,
as organized an evening class, to COM
renee the first week in January. The
ranches he proposes to teach, are Eo-
uton, Penmanship, Mathematics and
rammar. School evenings: Tuesday,
thursday and Saturday. His charges
ill be, for gentlemen, $3.50; ladies,
per month. 1t promises to be sue
ass.
Now is the time to call at T. d.
lauss Merchant Tailoring establish
lent to buy for cash. He will astonish
on with the remarkably low figures he
SKIS for really first,class made and fit
ng garments. He has also marked
own prices in the boot, shoe, hat, cap
ld glove departments, to such low /
CURES that it is impossible for you to
,e the goods and learn the price with
ut making purchase.
w. Z. Carter & Co., of Beaver
-eadow, the Spring Mountain colliery
Jeansville, A. L. Numper 81 Co., Of {
orktown, and the l.. ~ w. b. Co., of !
udenried and Tresckow, have given ;
Otice to their employees, that they
i'll continue paying the same wages
I'd work on the same terms, for next s
ear, as has been done since July 1879, ,
Ie employees to call at the respective