The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-01-27
THE NEWS.

lous hssautt upon the person OF a little girl aged
last week.
The Danvi1e Interligencer saws several OF
the churches In that town are in a bad financial
sold by the sheriff.
John A. Jenkins, wlfe and six children, 70.
siding near Honesdale, were recently poisoned
by eating pie that had been cooked in an i'm. |
perfectly glazed plate.
Kate stemler, nged u, was arrested in Har.
Gi6sOSSps RS S Monday on SUSPICION Of having poison
patents are expected to recover.
Tho Delaware and Hudson Canal Company |
has 1 removed all the machinery from It's shops |
atGreen Ridge tOCarbOndae where repairs to its |
rolling stock will be made hereafter
The tax collector Of Archibald. Luzerne |
County, stays so long in Canada that his bonds |
men are becoming anxious about him. He is |
defauter in the round sum of $4,000
| -Four sisters named Stark are imprisoned at
| Snnbury charged with stealing bacon ana sau
| story of the court house where they are perched
awaiting Justice.
The EastOn Sentinel says the chemical anal.
ysis OF the stomachs Of the murderer Laros cost
the county $500. This sum was awarded by ex.
perts, and the county commissioners regard IL
as high-priced knOlwege.
Tho supreme court Of this state has recent.
| ~ decided that the son has an interest which
may he Insured in the life Of his father. on the
ground that under the law of the state, as OF
| support
"A man named Thomas Farrell while intOx-
tcated was fatally stabbed bv a man named
rell had wandered INTO tae wong house, and
scared Mrs Foreacre, and her husband killed
| the intruder.
The county commissions of Luzerne coun-
| W nave instructed the assessors to increase the
valuation OF all taxable property twenty-five
per cent. How the assessors may do this and
anybody but an assessor.
Tho Sunbury Gazette saws two Northum
berlsna county farmers had a dispute about
torneys they hired to assist them, cost them
elH apiece. IL is lucky that litigation Is SO
oft
The Tamaqua Courier says the TamaQua
rolling mill Is to go into operation again with
force OF eighty men, on the manufacture of
cotton bale hoop iron, nine tons of which 1t is
proposed TO turn out daily. One billet train
Tlll be employed single turn, aud hoop tram
double turn.
The Dickson manufacturing company of
scranton, Pennsylvnnla, are building six loco
motives for the Michigan Central railroad COM
pany, and are also rebuilding seventeen for the
Deleware, Lackawsnna and Western and four
for the Albany aud Susquehanna roads. This
VIII Keep their force employed until spring.
"A woman at West Pittston, named Parish.
assisted by her servant girl Bridget Martin.
| was gui " OF the horrible CRIME of putting the
bare body Of child, four years old, upon red
hot stove in punishment for some trivial fault.
Tho two brutisn creatures have been arrested
and VIII be tired and punished for their mon
strOus CRIME.
|
thorough streaR of economy. Manager WOot.
ten no longer wipes his locomotives. He dis.
to purchase cotton waste Alter q trial OF two
ana quarter millions mileage he finds his en-
gnes are in good working condition as usual
and he has saved s23o per day.
During the celebration OF mass at st. Johns
church. PittstOn, oil sunday, Michael BOnau
fell ftlntinr ana died almost Immediately at the
pastoral residence adjoining, where he was
r1ed. The services proceeded without inter-
rupllOn, lew of the congregation being aware
nj nf hn nNtn mar hoh QNNAh nn1
summoned to the unseen world.
, Tho Miners Journal says a sharp Schuvlkill
, county farmer allowed taxes to accumulate on
tract OF land he owned until they amounted to
7 SO. When the commissioners sold the iand in
) default OF payment, ne bought u In for $40.
= again on "wednesday. but an envious ueighOor
bid his land uD to s40U. thus compelling him TO
= pay the full amount OF his delinquency.
-Ephraim Huschelpeck OF Upper Pittston
4 named May Finnegan which she resented with
proper spirit: wnen the scOundrel drew his re-
vOlver and fired upon her The ball from the
a pistol entered her chm making frtghtful
wound. II does not speak weiI Tor the neigh
= bOrhOOd that Husche peck still goes around un.
: injured and INHALED. ..
Practice makes perfect-witness Schuylklll
. county criminal practce; January 4, Oscar
8 N'COrd struck Joseph BOkaru with q club
n Bokarn died the same day. Jan. s, NJ Cord Sur,
rendered himself and was jailed. jan. 7, trIlS
= bill was found against him for murder. jan 2:
: in 05 mlnutes the lawyers occupied about
Z hours pro and conf the jury took one hour, an(
lt made IT mauslaughter.
a An unnatural wretch named Myer turned
y his two children boys aged 10 ana l3 yeats, int
n the streets OF scranton shelterless. He has jus
a been released from a term IN prison for crueltl
to them, and evidently ueeds TO be put 4
& his pursatlon with some more potent medicine
With ali the talk about the pillOry and WhlI
ping post as inefficient method OF administer
ing penal justice there Is great doubt whethe
any pun shment could be more exactly adapte
70 q case Of tins KIND.
The Pottsyille Chronicle says "Mra Uor
n, ora Lynch, for the last thirty years residen
VI " Of Ieckschersvilie, died at that place on SUI
le- day. at the very Old age OF ninety mine YEAR
a Her husband was British soldier and partlC
nv ipated Iu the battle of Waterloo. Mrs Lyme
III proved the downfall Of Napoleon. The old i
at an6 many were the tales she could relate ,
y that campaign, She leaves forty-two grei
on grand children"
or The Mercer county grand Jury recent
"a, made the following terrible IepOlI; ave hay
At visited the county poor house III body and tiu
oW eight y-nve inmates therein without sufiicieI
=, being bus four or five good beds IN the hOus
II and two OF the best reserved for the director
ict The prison department ls in a terribly tiltf
nd. and unhealthy condition The idiotic depaT
= menL Is in q still worse and more filthy COn(
!. / tanate human beings. We Therefore recommeI Ii
Ial our honorable Judges 70 appoint committee
80, five good citizens TO investigate the cOn0itiC
lo1 and report the same TO tine court"
ne We have received the January number
LEISURE HOURS, a handsome mammoth Ia pas
(Oi columns) family paper, filled with literitu
-seTlai and short stories, sketches poetry, WI
humOr Sc, &c. It's entertaining, amusing al
instructive, and is one of the cheapest pagers
tul the amount ana quality OF matter considered
OF. that we have seen, Inc price Is l.2O per yea
, of including as premium genuine hne,line ste
VI enaraVinR called"The Mitherless BARN, ,'pTtf
the ed on 22X2S plate paper, which the publishe
be Gaim superior In point of merit aud art CITY
- ness TO any premium ever offered by any Oth
Dhe paper IN the country. ana is alone worth d
les money Rsked for both. lbe publishers, ]
M Patten 4 Co., 1872 William ST., New York, authC
en- ner M tbis Vicinity thew make sDeeiI oifer
ell every Que OF our readers TO send them the pap
"a trial trip Of four months, stpaid, CO.
,h mencing with the January number-tOr 25 el
'ho our readers who avail themselves OF this On
will, we feel certain, thank us for having call
NV their attention 10 it, The publishers Of LEIsU
-. HOURS would like TO employ some one IN eve
'tef place to canvass for this paper.
it's
b |"