The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-02-10
Our PHILADELPHIA Letter.

| PHILADELPHIA, PA, Feb. 9Th, 1877.
DEAR ADvoCATE-Here am again with nv
budget of items for the ADVOCATE. I'm glad
to hear your excellent paper is increasing in
circulation and only hope you'll not blister your
fingers in counting and handling the stamps
and specie as the same comes pouring in over
your Editorial mahoGonyf
| On Arch street last Monday thief and his
pal" cabbaged the caba of au elderly lady and
were making of with it, when she made so Wig.
orous an outcry that the roughs were soon cab.
baged ana the caba was found in their posses
sion. They will now do the state some ser.
wee"
The latest thing out, IS O pocket gymnasium
sometimes called finskj you just unscrew the
top and apply the opening TO your mouth and If
| the apparatus has been properly charged. it will
noe be long before youn be able to stand oil
| your head, take up the whole of tue sidewalk
| and have nice little circus all to yourself
John Staver, Of Pine Run. Lycommg county
| is busy putting 10000 feet into the water, (I
mean that number of feet of boards and logsD
Jack Frost, Esq, expects soon to leave us for
trip 70 the North Pole. The coal men will
miss him sadly.
Strawberries, luscious strawberries will be
here-when IL is time for them to come.
There Is much depression in Ghe Ice creeper''
business at present and the markeI for slelghs
rom far to niddling. Furs, below par.
All Wung and All Fung, two Chinese gentle.
men, quatreled in New YOrK the other night |
and An Wung killed All Fung. Now iT is |
Thought that All Wung will be hung for the |
murder Of All Fung
Out in Western city drunken loafer called |
sai0On PROPRIETOR IA liar" and the saloon man |
responded by calling the rough, "a gentleman" |
whereupon the saloon man was shot dead Dy the |
rowdy This shall make US all careful as TO |
whOm we address as gentlemen.
"a al O rI,,
given waV to" The mud upon the hoOf"
- some old topers never drink their Blue
SIass except out OF blue glass. They say 1t
Is uhhealthY TO drink WHISKY otherwise.
than cost.
Black eve artists are always Joyful at the near
approach of an election, for then shelr business
optics to paint
Gold has fallen considerably of late. have
not been able to PICK any of 1t up as yet
They had .' little unpleasantness" during
Dall DID Liza Jane Johnson ana Amanda Ellis,
Two cOiOreu damses, and after Liza had strnCk
Amanda in the head with Stove plate Manda
arew dirk and cut Llza severely ON the side of
her mead. The one who survives will dOubtIess
nave 10 stand tral Tor murder.
" Ground nOg day" is supposed to be the dov
on Whlch sausages are served
A fortune awaits the inventor who will get
dren at night. '
Thls week you could have gone Across the
Continent" at the Arch Street TheatTe Tro
: our Boarding House" at the Chestnut, OF
Like 1t" ut ting Walnut. 'N
$4,000 viii buy 1900 pounds of malachite
Messfs. Betanelly & Co, OF our city have such !
lump Tor sale. hope all Of your readers will |
not speak for 1t at once. "
An assistant editor is often addressed as
cutting remark. ~
The tTadesmen OF Washington have been con.
slueIh1ly worried not knOwing whether To nd. |
~ utes5 tnslI circulars to Samuel j. or Ruthe ford
b' InOugh suppose Ia some instances ench !
candidate has been solicited for the custom or
the White House. "'''iAi vi /
The Evening Telegraph Of Feb. 9th published
nearly we've pages OF sLeiif Sa.us, Ims
vi all kinds !
Murderers whose victims cry for mercy but
LocelNe ~ nor, are always the very ones who ex.
peot W., 4. most themselves. For in-taure, in New l
7 VI Aa low morning s since James Flood rlnspI
ms WIe through the ST. eets and HAVING cn,nsr h
"a @ neI ln uOoI-waY he needless of her cry Tor s
i merry NY rtor the love OF God James don't stIlke
me y stabbed her 10 the heart Yet M this vtlt I
wretch Is cauent, as is hoped soon will Oe the Z
y lsl thlug he Wlil eXDect Will be anercU or what
% Dettef an acqultal on the pea of Insanity {
BIRTH. .
OH the ~ INST, ut Germantown, Pa. the ele. ! Z
phans Betsey" of FOrepaugnis Clrcus, Of n
DaOY elephant. Both doing well '
sS2 clubs and belts used BY the Centennial y
polioe Wele sold on Monday last, for seven cents II
saeh, They were knOc xed down ~ insticrNnot | = :
Nalss Justice who holds Jle scales but 10 n gen 4
.emsn who has the cOSDomen OF Justice. aud =
WIN "hou' al present, eluOs must be trumps
it seems only few weeks since that the good L
ci ., uR y, country" We're saying HUw's the b
sThe presidential question NAV be settled be. :
ore my next letter, but .
Yours, patiently, 4
MARouHo, S