The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-08-18
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The university of LelpsIc has SO
students from the United States.
Senator David Davis, of Illinois, Is
seriously i'll of cancer of the stomach,
at his home in Bloomington. .
Within a month Pennsylvania oil
spectators have recorded $50 leases of
land in Rockcastle county, Indiana.
During the Grover Senatorial in.
vestigation, out of 1913 witnesses SUBJ
penaed IT'S were examined at cost of
$2.625.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
of North Carolina has establ ished, q
museum for the exhibition of the re-
sources of the State.
There are now in Philadelphia 450
cooperative, and building and loan as
sociatiOns in which workingmen have
nearly $40, 900, 900 invested. ..r
Fashionable ladies in Paris have
begun 10 wear dresses that permit the
feet to be seen, and there are rumors
that the day of long trails is over.
The formation of new volcano in
Finland is expected. A hill near the
river Tana is emmitting smoke, and the
snow in the nelghborhood has sudden
ly melted. - ..... ...s. .tr.4.
-Apropos of the Prince Of Wales un-
yelling a statue of King Alfred, q
gentleman writes to the Times that the
prince Is that monarch's thlrty-third
great grandson. ......
The American Board of Foreign
Missions has received $50, 900 less in
denotlons this year than last, and ap-
peals for money to save itself from IAN
embarrassing debt"
"A woman in Cynthiana, KY, ,murd-
cred her baby, and was not suspected
| of the crime; but remorse compelled her
| to confess, and she furnished uldoubt-
ed proofs of her guilt. t...-..,
The proposed exodus of South Car
olna negroes to Liberia is said to more
and more enlist the attention of people
in that State. The negroes are geneI-
ally infatuated with the project.
Piece goods from the Lonsdale
Mills, in New York, are now sold in
every town in England at lower price
and of better qaullty than English
goods of nominally corresponding
grade. ..... .s
MANY of the old citizens of Louis
lana who left the State in the disastrous
period between 1865 and 1876 and set
tied elsewhere, are now returning, at.
tracted by the present prosperity and
the indication of bright future.
"A number of lads have been ap-
pointed "whipping boys" to the young
Emperor of China, who for valuable
| idarofinno 70 n nd 70 Mi
lies, receive the hagellation which the
sovereign earns by his sins of ommis-
sion and commission. ...., ......r.-
"A swarm of bees escaped from a
hive ia commune of the Aube. France,
and established itself in letter box.
When the pOstman went to the box the
next morning the bees rushed out of
the slit and so blinded him that he could
not insert his key. The bees had to he
smoked out before the letters could be
removed.
The capital involved in the banks
Of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zea-
land may be put down at $50, 600, 900.
The bulk of it is owned in London.
The great bank managers of Sydney
and Melbourne are absolutely pOten-
tates, to whom all the world there does
homage. Nothing can be done without
the yea of these magnates.
1t Is estimated that bet ween 1S48
and 1876 British aud Irish emigrants to
the United States and the colonies sent
to their friends at home about 500, ,000,-
900. An Iiish Protestant clergyman
of long experience says that he grieves
to have to admit that to one Protestant
emigrant who remembers the old folks
at home at least three Roman Catholics
do. .... ..#...
Mr.. Walter stated recently In the
the House OF Commons that the mortal
ity in the great criminal lunatic asylum
at BroadmoOr was only "a per cent,
and that there was no Institution OF
that class in The kingdom which could
show anything like so small q mortality.
"In fact, it seemed TO be q place to
which people who wished to live long
should be sent" ..F
AT letting for the building of the
new Columbia county jail on last We'd
nesday, the commissioners made the
following awards: The iron work to
Cruikshank, Meyer & Co., of Danville,
So, ,90S. IS; the stone and mason work to
John S. Sterner & Eli Jones, OF Blooms
burg, for $50, 900; and the steam heat
ing, gas fitting. plumbing, etc., to
Rollins & Holmes for Sc, 465 90, The
painting, plasterlng, wood and carpen-
ter work was not to let
.-one Of the greatest changes which
have taken place in New York of late
years has been In the matter of mar
rlage. Thirty years ago the money
question entered comparatively little
into consideration, hut now among the
upper twenty thousand, OF those who
consider themselves so, it has very great
weight. Mothers keep their girls as
much as possible out of the way OF
pleasant but pOOryoung men, and many
( girls are quite disposed to discourage
the attentions OF men who could not
, even afford house in the city. This
. number OF splnsters in the higher class
/ here, and more especially In Bos-
| ton, goes ON increasing, and early mar
! Tiiges become fewer every year. 1t is
the penalty paid for more highly civil.
! lied aud artificial existence.