The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-01-15
-.wasbinoton's birthday. this year

wages reduced from 10 to 10 per cent.
The Northampton County Savings
Bank, at Easton, has declared semi
annual dividend Of 10 per cent.
The blast furnaces and rail mills
of the Old National Iron Company, at
Danvile, we're sold last week to Mr.,
John Roach, the ship builder.
-Thos. S. Beck, ESQ, of this bor-
rough, has been appointed by the Gov
ernor, notary public, and is pre-
pared to transact all business pretain-
ing to the office.
The Reading Railroad depot and
telegraph office, at Tuscarora, In
Schuylkill county, were destroyed by
fire Sunday morning. 1t Is supposed
they were fred by an incendiary.
Found, q manure fork. The own
er can have it by calling upon Thos.
S. Beck, 5. P, proving property and
paying charges. JACOB CURFER, Ma
hoDing.
During the year 1875 the Court of
Common Pleas of Northampton county
severed ties matrimonial for no less than
sixteen applicants for divorce.
The other night che smoke house
Of Mr.. Reuben Boyer, in Catasauaua,
was broken open and robbed of a large
lot of meat which had only the day be-
fore been placed therein to undergo
smoking.
-" Marcutio" will please accept our
thanks for copy of Hongkong, China,
Daily Press" Il is very fine
specimen of daily for that latitude
in fact compares very favorably with
some of our own dailies.
Hon. A. j. Durling will please ac-
cept our thanks for a number of pub
lie documents, Mr.. Durling requests us
to state that persons desiring to procure
public documents, will call at his drug
store in Lehighton, and ask for what
they want, and if they wish anything
that he has not got he will procure it
for them.
Dan. Rex, the jovial hog dealer,
started for New Jersey, Monday, to
get another lot of Jersey white shoats.
He exI ects to be back with them to-
day. So take your pocket book and re-
pair to the drove yard of Rex & Hon
on the upper end of Bank street, and
buy. Dan. sells only for the money
now.
The Post office Department was
advised Monday of the death Of John
Sieberling. postmaster at Lynnville, in
Lehigh county, Pa. Mr.. Siebering
was appointed postmaster in February
1920, and held the Office continuously
until his death.
The Schuylkill Navigation Com
pany announces dividend of sixty
cents per share on the preferred stock
and of thirty cents per share on the
common stock, payable In script on the
1st day of February, 1876, to the stock
holders as registered December 81, 1875.
Said script will be convertible on the
4th of March, 1876, into the six per
cent mortgage loan of 1S72.1897 in
sums of one hundred dollars and up.
ward. Script for twenty dollars and
under will be payable in cash.
There are not to be any st. Pat
rick's parades in Pennsylvania this
year. The order has gone forth from
the heads of the various Irish societies
that out of love for American liberty
and desire to render the one hun
dredth anniversary of the Declaration
of Independence all the honor due to
the occasion, and to make the Fourth
of July parade memorable one in the
history of the Irish organizations, that
there be no general parade upon the
18th of March.
-MeSsrs. Yeakel & Albright, of
Weissport, have commenced tearing
down their old saw mill preparatory to
commencingthe erection of large plan
ing mill, sash and blind factory. They
propose to have their buildings ready
to commence operations for the spring
trade. Parties about to build will
stick pin right here.
y On the Sd inst, DR.. W. A. Der
hamer, of this borough, removed a
large tumor from the left side of the
neck of Mrs. d. Gouldner, of Summit
Hill. The operation has proved en-
tirely successful, as stated by the DIR.
who visited her on Thursday of this
week. We are pleased to note that DR..
Derhamer is meeting with quite a sue
cessful practice since his location in
this borough.
We are pleased to see q lively >Afs-
position on the part of our business
men to patronize home industry. Mr..
II. @. Levanway informs us that al
ready number of orr merchants have
given him orders for the really excel
lent brooms being manufactured at his
establishment, recently opened in the
basement of the Valley House, near the
l.. V. depot, in this borough.
A" You mean to say you won't do it9"
exclaimed the excited agent, You
won't insure in a company that guar
antees ten per cent. annual dividend !;
gives away camel's hair shawl to
your wife the second year, and plants
you in S15 rosewood coffin when you
die? Do you mean to say that you
won't take out a policy like that %
No." returned the individual, coldly,
honesty is the best policy" and he
might have added David Ebbert's is the
most popular livery in Carbon county.
On Friday of last week the scholars
in our High School organized a Literary
Society, and elected the Principal, W.
e. Smith as president, Gid. Kosten-
bader, Secretary, G. Ii. Mantz, Treas
urer, A. Dollenmayer, Editor. They
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