The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-01-22

MONDAY morning az S'OU clOck,
q bonny wee lassie, and we are happy.
Weight 10 lbs.
According to the e.adjustment OF
post offices tue L. NJ. at Mauch Chunk
receives salary of $4,000 Catasau-
qua, 81 500 Slatington, 81 900 Allen
town, $500 Tamauqua, $4,000 I;
Stvoudsburg, I,700 White Haven,
81, 100 and Hazleton, $4,000.
-Tllton lectures at MAuch Chunk
next month.
Centennial stockings, patterned
after the stars and stripes, are the
prettiest things out.
The roads are in q bad condition,
but that don't affect the gait of David
Ebbert's horses. His teams are cons
sanity in demand, and no wonder, for
his terms are very low.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company announces dividend of five
per cent, payable February 1.
The Locust Gap Company announ-
ces a dividend of two per cent, payable
on the Goth inst.
The Fulton Coal Company announ.
ces a dividend Of six per cent, payable
on the Goth inst.
If you wish to cast a vote at the
spring election, on Tuesday, February
10Th, you had better fork over" the
amount of your borough and county
tax to our friend, Joe, before that date,
If you have not done 80 within the past
two years.
WIN. II. Sayre, will please accept
our thanks for copy of the second an
nual report of st. Luke's Hospital, to.
gether with the reports Of the treasurer,
Medical Board, the chaplain, and the
Ladies' Aid Society. The report shows
that the hospital is ia fiourlshing con-
iition, which fact is due to the able
Board of Trustees under which it is con-
Quoted.
We are in receipt of the Philadel-
phia Times Almanac, compiled and
arranged by Alex. X. Mcclure and A.
Wilson Norris, Esqs., expressly for dis
tributon to the subscribers of that
thoroughly popular and widely read
journal. The almanac is neatly print
ed and is full of very interesting histori"
cal, statistical and other matters.
Hon. A, J. Durling will accept
our thanks for Legislative Record and
other State papers.
The Mount Carbon ard Port Car
bon Railroad Company announces a
dividend of six per cent, payable on de-
mand.
Mr.. S F. Virgins is now in town
selling a very useful little article, Cape
wells Little Giant Tack Hammer,
which for putting down and taking up
carpets has no equal. 1t pulls, drives
and sets tacks with geral rapidity. Buy
one.
There was considerable excitement
among the members OF the Lehigh
Building & Loan Association at their
meeting on Monday evening last, it be-
ing the first night for drafting shares
not sod. The first name drawn was
l.. w. S3hoonover, of Packerton for
one share, followed by the name of Jas.
Long, of PackeIton for one share,
Charles Seibert, of Lehigl ton, one
share, and DR.. n. b. Reber for five
shares. The share, thus drawn OF
awarded draw the amount paid in with
10 per cent interest.
"A very interesting and successful
revival of religion is in progress at the
First Presbyterian Church of this bor-
Ough, Rev. j. Darlington, pastor.
The usual quarterly meeting ser
vices will be held in the Evangelical
Church of this borough on Sunday next.
I'VE have noticed few loads of
tolerably fine ice passing our office du>
ring the past week.
Another new lot of groceries and
provisions Just received at Fatzinger's
store, on Bank Street, which they are
offering at remarkably low prices. All
goods warranted of best quality.
We met Mr.. w. Lafferty, formerly
cutter with Laury & Peters, on Thurs
day last. Mr.. l.. is now travelling for
New York house.
Farmers and others intending to
sell out this winter or next spring Can
secure bills of all sizes at this office, at
short notice.
The Thomas Iron Company has re-
sumed work in some of its ore banks
along the South Mountain, in Cumber-
land county.
st. Peters Lutheran Church, Eas-
ton, Pa, was dedicated on January 10th.
Rev. f. w. Conrad, d. D., preached
the dedieatory sermon.
Out in Maxataway township fid-
dler got so drunk that he could not
walk, when the kind. hearted beer sel>
Ter put him out in the wood shed, where
he was found next morning-Sunday-
stiff in the embrace of death. This hap.
pened last Sunday morning a week.
The Board of Directors of the Le-
high Slate Company, of Slatington, at
their last regular meeting declared
semi-anuual dividend Of per cent. on
the capital stock of the company, now
payable.
Last week the Coplay Cement
Company, shipped fourteen car loads Of
cement to Perth Amboy, on Gevern-
ment order, to be sent thence by steam
or to Fort Sumter.
Some miscreants entered the office
of Rex & HON, and Jacob Dintinger' s
tailoring shop, at the upper end of
Bank street, on Thursday night, and