The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-11-24
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"A Mennonite school has been opened in
Lafayette county.
-Harrisburg has one physician to every
400 of her inhabitants.
Reading agriculturists have resolved to
enter into the business ofgrowing sugar beet.
AT an Allegheny (Pa.) variety theatre
the admission fee is ten cehts or two pieces
of soap.
In distance of four squares on one of
the main streets of Lancaster there are no
less than thirty-four drinking saloons.
"A number of residents of Johnstown
and adjacent country are about to emigrate
to Kansas, where they will take up land un-
der the Homestead laws.
Work on the breakwater at Atlantic
City, n. D., has been resumed. Stone are
being hauled in front of the lighthouse, and
it is the design of the officials this time it is
said, to build something that will be a per-
manent protection to the upper end ofthe
beach.
by the bequest of Wright A. Bringhurst,
of Montgomery county, Nofristown has re-
ceived SOS, Alb 3S, Pottstown $25, ,O93 81, and
Upper Providence $l9,4TS 10. The money
will be invested in dwelling houses to be
rented at low rates. The deceased beaueath-
ed only small amounts TO his relatives, who
unsuccessfully contested the legality of the
will.
1t takes bright-eyed Western Yankee,
to do something very small. A workman
in gainesville, Wis, has engraved on one
side of a gold dollar the Lords Prayer, the
Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, a
text from St. Paul, his own name and the
date. A man with strong eyes can read
every word without the aid of magnifying
lens.
AT Coopersburg, Lehigh cO1nty, ,Wednes-
day night twelve tramps were arrested bY
citizens of that town. They made stout re-
sistance, firing a number Of pistol shots at
the citizens who invested the old house in
which they had taken refuge Large guam
titles of stolen goods were found in the house.
The desperadoes were lodged in the jail at
Doylestown.
Owing to the disarrangement Of the
ropes bearing the cage used in transferring
miners from the bottom to the top of the
Pottsville coal shafts, the inen who entered
the mines at seven on Tuesday morning
were compelled TO stay there without food
until the same hour Wednesday morning,
when they were brought 10 the surface in a
half famished condition.
"A year ago Reading lawyer success
fully defended friendless German brought
up ON a charge of larceny. Last week the
same gentleman received letter from Ger
many from his client, enclosing a fee Of
twenty guldens (about Sl2O,) and hearty
invitation to visit Germany. As the lawyer
had entirely forgotten the matter of his de-
iense of the poor German, the evidence of
the latter's gratitude was very welcome.
The Fort Scott (Kansas) Monitor de-
scribes this remarkable instance of presence
of mind When NJ. V. Donley, Superin-
tendent of Bridges on the Fort Scott and L.
l.. and G. roads, fell from the scafiolding al
the Marnaton bridge disaster, distance Of
6S feet, he had the presence Of mind and all
most superhuman nerve, notwithstanding
his broken bones and lacerated limbs, TO say,
Flag No. J., boys = and so saved the express
train that was laundering around the curve
but half mile away"
p. F. Connell, Of Plymouth. was one Of
the two men arrested in Philadelphia on the
3lst ult., charged with passing counterfeit
money. sos in counterfeit Tamaqua Fives
were found in the possession Of his eOmpan-
ion, one Wolf, of Montgomery county. Con-
nell is one of the family living in Plymouth
who held possession of house in Poke Hol-
low, the attempt to dispossess whom cost the
life Of Officer Rebsemen,a a few years ago and
the brother who fired the fatal shot is now
serving out a sentence in the State prison
Lu-crAe Union.