The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-06-17

money are being looked after in Stating
ton.
Brady, Of the Centennial Cigar
and Tobacco store spells it-khms 80
cents per ZOE.
If you want to collect the borough
school tax, put in your proposal before
Monday next, at noon.
Even q nine penny calico can be
made to look neat and tasty by using
the " Domestic Fashions"
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pany announces q quarterly dividend
or two and half per cent, payssle
July Is.
The Tamaqus schoo, board at q
late meeting reduced the Salaries Of ell
the teachers an average of about ten
per cent.
The present session Of the Key
stone Normal School will close this
month. The commencement will take
place on the 22d inst.
The house Of DR.. J,D. McQuirk,
In Phillipsburg, Pa, was burned Mon
day morning. 1t is supposed the fire
was iHcendiary. The los is $50, 900.
"A certain slate firm at Slatington
the other day received cash remittance
of $4,000 from London, England, on a
recent shipment made to that country.
Don't you forget that David Eb-
bert keeps the finest lot Of livery horses
and carriages to be found in this county
and that his prices are down to the low
est figure.
The contract for furnishing the
flooring, doors, sash, &C., for the New
Reformed church 10 this place, has
been awarded the Wsissport Planning
Mill & Lumber Co.
"A janitor for the school house will
be chosen next week. If you want the
job send in your proposal to A. G.
Dollenmayer, on or before Monday
next, 10Th inst.
lillian Welsh was killed and three
other men were seriously injured by
the caving Of bank on the Perkio-
men Valley branch Of the Reading
Railroad Monday.
Henry Smith, who was serving out
a sentence of 8 eight years for arson in
the Northampton county Jail at Easton,
committed suicide by hanging himself
in his cell, on Tuesday morning last.
"A tract of unseatei land in Schuyl-
kill county containing 431 acres was
sold for taxes on Monday, bringing
s41 900. The back tax was s1S0.34,
due from the Schuylkin coal company.
Lost, between Welssport and Geo.
Leuckel's, on Tuesday last, yellow
linen lap cloth with red binding. The
finder will be rewarded on leaving it at
L. F. Kleppinger's livery, Lehighton.
The Swedes Of Bethlehem invite
their fellow countrymen to join them at
Philadelphia, on the 26th Of August, to
celebrate the four hundredth anniver-
sary Of their own and the centennial Of
their adopted country.
AT Reading, Pa, Monday morning,
Thos. Elliott aud john Edwards were
suffocated to death while tapping q
cess pool, and a colored man named
George Dorsey, who endeavored to res
cue them, came near perishing from the
same cause.
"A strawberry festival will be held
in the First Presbyterian church, of
this borough, commencing on Thurs
day evening next. the 22nd inst, and
Friday and Saturday, the
proceeds to be applied for the benefit
of the Sabbath school.
Prof. J. p. Rowland, of Parryyille,
has been in town several days during
the past week. He is taking life in
surance risks for the Metropolitan, Of
N. Y, and endesvoring to establish
Council of the Prudential League in
connection with that company.
If you have = small amount Of
the Ready John, next Monday, you can
have an opportunity Of investing 1t very
prohtably by attending the County
Tressurer's sale of unseated lands,
which will take place at tho Court
House, in Msuch Chunk, at 10 O'Clock
in the forenoon Of that day.
THE Weissport Borough Council
has instructed the constable, G. H.
Macdaniels, to shoot all dogs running
at large without muzzles. Right We
udNc % lot vi tuoLl ia thio uoiou6h ohds
should be served the same way-we
mean dogs not councilmen.
The Weissport Planning Mill &
Lumber Co. have completed their large
and handsome mill in Weissport, and
are now prepared to receive orders for
any and all descriptions Of dressed
lumber, which they are prepared to
furnish at prices fully as low as any
establishment in the valley. See their
advertisement In another column.
The attention of our readers is d.
rected to the advertisement Of Chas K,
Lands in to-day's paper. The lots Of
fered in Landisville, suburb of Vine
land, N. j., are most eligibly located,
and are being sold rapidly at prices
within the reach of all. Parties desir-
ing to secure homestead should ad-
dress Chas K. Lands, at Vineland, N.
j., for further particulars.
REV. J. S. Erb, q gentlemen well
known among our people, who has been
q student in the Lutheran Theological
Seminary at Philadelphia for three years
past, and who has for year or longer
been supplying the pulpit Of the Luth-
eran congregation OF Slatington, was
Installed as o Minister of the Gospel by
the Lutheran Synod at Reading, few