The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-03-24
From Mauch Chunk.

From Mauch Chunk.
The next regular term of Quarter
Session will open on Monday the 9th of
April.
Owing to the interference of Jack
| Frost, canal navigation didn't open on
the Goth inst as contemplated.
Mr.. James Sheridan and family ,on
Tuesday morning left Coaldale for Ore
gon, where they intend to settle.
Small paper books in the various
Molly appeal-cases are now preparing
for next weeks session of the Supreme
Court.
Our friend Oliver Crilly is in bad
way, ,and his indisposition such as to pre-
vent him from giving business the at
tentOn he used to bestow upon it.
The lecture of G. e. A. McGeachly,
late of the Danbury News, who enter.
on Friday evening of last week, is very
highly spoken of.
Most of our more prominent legal
lights contemplate being present at next
weeks session Of the Supreme Court,
some for the transaction of business,
and some to learn by looking on.
After an absence of nearly six
months, Miss Mary McGeady returned
home on Saturday, no doubt as greatly
to the delight of her many friends In
our midst as TO her parents.
The paper.book for submission to
the Supreme Court in Aleck Campbell's
case has left the hands of the printer
and been received by his counsel Eere.
1t is lengthy document, covering 267
pages.
The captains of the East Mauch
Chunk fleet are now intensly on the
alert for coal fleights, and anxious
to know who will be the first to pass
the locks. Last year it was Captain
Lenner to whom this honor belonged.
Rev. 1. w. Yeakel, who has been
reappointed pastor of the Evangelical
congregation of Upper Mauch Chunk,
met with a very hearty reception on
the part of his parishioners on his re-
turn to their midst,
Rev. Young, of the East Mauch
day to attend the annual conference.
The Rev. gentleman having proven
himself the right man in the right place,
1t is hoped that he will be returned to
his charge.
Sheriff Raudenbnsh appears to have
a not very exalted idea of reporters, and
some of the craft find it hard Job to
gain admittance. The Shenandoah
Herald man, for instance, would hardly
be admitted though he should have
every member of the bar to intercede
for him.
The roads being in good condition
for the purpose on Monday morning,
Messrs. N. NJ. and Cbas. Belford, the
venerable Pap" Painter, Jas, Miller
and Chas. Armbruster, enjoyed what
they claim to be the last slegh.ride of
the season, in Zellner's big bus sleigh.
Judging from the tenor of the vari.
GUS sentences impose upon Milton
Deibert and Geo. Boyer, they will not
be able TO commute much on their re-
spectve terms of imprisonment, as the
term for which they are separately SEN
fenced on each successive indictment
is but a year or so and consequently
not much, if any, commutation will be
possible. At any rate the community
will for a long time be exempt from the
depredatiOns of Deibert.
Gen.. Fitz, John Porter, accom-.
panied by Sup't. Moore and Assistant
Sup't. Strauss, passed up the L. & S.
Division on Thursday morning OH a
tour of inspection. If they had only
brought the overdue and much needed |
back pay along, they would have been
greeted with perfect ovation. But un.
this they didn't, and the |
employees will therefore
have to patiently endure little while
longer.
The three Mauch Chunk lads who
are now detained In limbo for the nom |
payment of costs incurred in their late
prosecution by an outraged minister of |
the gospel, are certainly the heppIest |
party in jail, They occupy one cell, are
full of the Old Scratch as can be, and IL |
so it be that they should have to stay
long, promise fair to beat anything in
the gymnastic line ever witnessed here,
johnny Boyle, of East Mauch
whose term of imprisonment to
which he was sentenced last January a
year ago, has long since expired, is still
held in castle Raudenbush for costs.
which he is neither able to pay nor like
Iy to earn at the county jail. There's
radically wrong in all this,
now that taxes are becoming
a grievOus burden. /, at least, can see
neither sense nor justice in it, but as
here may be those who can, l should
be glad to hear from them.
Mr.. NJ. NJ. L'Velle, of Ashland, a
prominent member of the Schuylkill
county bar, was in town on Wednesday,
Turing the afternoon OF which he had a
engthy conference with Yellow Jack,
whose case, iU was rumored, he is to
'rgue before the Supreme Court. Mr.,
4'Velle will also act as counsel in the
wo Molly Mcguire cases yet to be
Gied in the Courts here.
In consequence of the troubles In
he Wyoming region but little coal was
arried over the L.. & S. Division du-
ing the week. Excessive dullness also
continues the most prominent feature
n shipping circles here, and notwith-