The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-04-15
Matters OF ErtCEeSt.

"A girl in NORTHAMPTON county aged ten
yea weighs lSJ pounGs,
Fifty ynino thousand barrels of potrocum
wro shipped from the oil regions during
March
The mother of Hon. Myor Stroud, OF sjchuy.
kill county, died on Saturday aged sevontytouu
years.
The Philadelphia IN int coined eco, Gao pieces
OF SI,52h0l0.
Miss Emma Ritner, eldest daughter OF the
late Governor Ritner, died in Cumberland
county recently.
suicide in Baltimore on saturday while temper
a1ly insane
The revenue of the Dominion Of Canada for
the nine months ending on the lst OF Apiil was
S7,22r ,546 the expenditure, Sl6.4s9,s2S.
The census OF Philadelphia, taken on the Sd
Inst shows n population OF Si74iS The pupu.
lation IN ls7Oaccording to the Federal census.
was 674,J-2.
from constable, who fired 70 him The ball
lodged III The leg, and few days ago tine man
died from the effects of the injury
George W. Jones, of Brandon, VT. was
lodged in Jail at Rutland on saturday, on the
charge OF havlnp killed an lllegltlmaoe child OF
his daughter, who is ouly fifteen years of age
Eastern capitalists are said to be protecting
scheme to carry oil in plpos from tho Butter
regions 10 New York. There are to be thirty
pumping stations TO force the oil on its way.
The wife Of General b. F. Butter died in the
| General Hospital ut Boston, on aturtiiIy morn
| ing. aged So Years She was aflc ed with cancer
OF the throat and had been taken to the hospital
| for an operation.
The Secretary OF the State Board of Agri
| culture OF OHIO SAYS that owing to the recent
severe weather lot more than one eighth OF a
crop OF peaches may be expected. Half pe6I
| crop may be looked for, ana q falr yield Of up
| plies is promised. .H...
AT Potosi. No. on Saturday I. G. Settle
shot and killed Samuel Cowell and then shot
himself inftctlng fatal wound. Settle was
station agent but had been dismissed at the in
| stlRatlOn Ot COweil. #. .... .. ~
| The house of Christopher Ward,in Caledonu
| township, Ontario, was burned on Friday, ant
| Mrs. Ward persisted IN the tlanes. \ cOrUner'S
| jury has rendered verdict that Ward murder
| ed his wife and set fire to the hO1se.
In the neighborhood of Noristown ant
| throughout montgomery county III general
| there is SAID to be an alarming increase of ca
| nine hydrophObia. one night last week nine
dogs were Killed near Matsu k ana SwedesDurl
all having been pitten by one dog.
David Fisher, OF Berks county, is an un
fortunate Individual On last Wednesday 4ii
| SWISS barn was burned with al its contents
including tiVe horses, seven cows and Il number
Of caves and sheep. The barn was new one
| built 10 replace one destroyed by tightening
| little over Il year ago with all its contents,
The bridge belonging to the Delaware, Lack
aWanna, and Western Railroad Company, neal
Little Falls, n. j., Is two hundred feet high. i
| is weak and uestlework Is being erected be
! meath. Monday an omlnOus Crac King wal
heard, and before all the men could save them
selves DY ehlging 70 the top beam aud climbing
on 10 the bridge Itself. the trestlewoik fed. car
l. rying i've mon with 1t TO the river bed, whert
| their lilnbs we're bl oxen and mangled bv the
sharp rOcks and fragments OF timber Two Wer
instantly killed. and the ON ca three are dylng
All were horribly mangled. .rfI-