The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-02-10
The Uazleton Daily Sentinel. in nd.

-Ile l1aLletOn DAILY sentinel, III ad
dtlon to being the most neatly printed
is the spiciest little daily outside of the
large cities. Factl
.4In the items from Weissport it will
be seen that Rev. S. Neitz will preach
sermon on ".The Millennium" to.
morroM (Snuday) at 3 p. M, in the
Evangelical church.
The old Bethlehem Lehigh Bridge
Co. pays yearly dividend Of 33 per
cent. The par value of the stock is
s120, and it recently sold as high as
R555 per share. ....
y. Mr.. Alexander Jacobs, of Reading,
the other day purchased a half interest
in the extensive slate quarry of Mr..
Henry Kuntz, of SlatingtOn, for &12,-
600.
| The store of Hidreth & Co. and
four other buildings in East Nantlcoke,
near Wilksbarre were burned Wednes-
day morning, Loss $4,000, it is sup
posed the fire was incendiary.
e. F. Luckenbachs stock OF wall
papers and window blinds beats all in
this section of the state. If you go to
Mauch Chunk, call and inspect his
stock. See card in another column.
" Some half dozen young men (?)
we're before Esq. Beck on Thursday,
charged by VIM. Leuckel with purloin>
ing sausage &C., from his butcher
wagon. William not wishing to push
the matter, the Squire read them
iecture and dismissed them with costs.
-"Bertie," Neutrality-suspicious. COM
munication received. We cannot pub
lish letters unless accompanied by real
name of writer, not for publication, but
for our own safety and as a guarantee
of good faith.
Bread hereafter is to be sold in
Reading by the pound instead of the
loaf. Those failing to comply with the
ordinance will be fined $40, and those
found using improper or unwholesome
material in preparing bread will be
fined S25.
1t is believed that that portion of
the proposed new South Mountain rail-
road running through Lehigh, North
amptOn and Berks counties will be put
under contract for grading next sum-
mer. The officers of the company
passed over the route last week.
Nathan Ullman, late bartender at
the American Hotel in Slatington, was
arrested one day last week by consta-
BILE from Reading on charge OF having
issued fraudulent bank checks. He |
and taken to the county seat of Berks,
was after hearing was committed to
prison in default of $1,000 bail.-Allen.
town Democrat.
We have received from G.. W.
Childs, ESQ.,, of the Philadelphia Led
ger, his almanac for 1877. Like its
predecessors 1t is chock-fuIl of good and
useful things-statistical, ,and historical.
Mr.. q. presents one of these very use
full Almanacs to every one of his sub
scribers, not forgetting the press of the
country.
The Miners in the Stanton Coli
liery, at Mahony Plane, in SchuyIkil
county, struck Tuesday against slight
reduction in their wages. Eleven hun
dred men are idle from the strike. 1t
is stated that for some time past many
men have been leaving
Schuylkill county to seek work else
where.
"A man who will take and read
paper for two or three years and then
decline to pay for it, is about as mean
as member of the Louisiana Return
ing. Board, so says the Allentown Dem
ocrat. We have few of this kind,
and before long we are going to print
their names and the amount due us by
each.
Joseph f. Dengler, ex- x-cashier of
the Pennsylvania National Bank of
Pottsville, convicted of embezzlement,
was sentenced on Saturday to impris-
for two wears and two months
N the penitentiary. When asked if he
lad anything to say before rece Giving
sentence, he burst into tears. The
amount embezzled was about $4,000, of
which $4,000 has been paid back by
Oenger's friends.
There are in Pennsylvania twenty
hree incorporated cities, as follows - ]
Pittsburg, Allegheney,
Scranton, Reading, Harrisburg, Lam |
,aster, Erie, Wilkesbarre, Williamsport,
Allentown, Altoona, Chester, Titus. ]
'ille, Meadville, Lock Haven, CORY,
Jarbondale, New Castle. Oil CITY, ;
franklin, Parker, and Monongahela !
.ity.
Patrick Butler, convicted with sew :
N other Molly Maguires, of conspiracy !
M abetting murder, was released /,
rom jail, at Pottsville, Monday, on his :
'wn recogniZance. He has given the =
tate much information in regard to |,
lis associates, and will be used as a y
witness against Patrick Hester on tri. .
! at Bloomsbury, Columbia County for =
he murder of Alexander Rea. :
AT Wilkes Barre, on Saturday /,
ames M. Cortwright, Republican Cuun- :
Treasurer, convicted of embezzle- :
neat, was sentenced to two years and :
TX months Imprisonment in the county :
all. His default was nearly $50, 900. :
\. j. Williams, a Democratic County .
convicted Of extortion I
vas hned SlOO and the costs of prosecu.
lon. I. NJ. Sagle and Patrick Lynch,
lte Clerks ia the Commissioner OF &
ce, who plead guilty of four indictments u
I conspiracy to defraud, were each SEN 8
enced to four months mprisOnment in /,
be county jail and pay fine of 81, ,625 =
nd costs. The court also passed sem
nf gna 4, a