The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-04-07
From nIauch Chunk.

From NIauch Chunk.
Counselor Lvelle was in town on Tuesday.
The new stay law does not exactly suit our
Sheriff.
AT both OF our foundries business continues
unusually dull
Mr.. Homer A. Clute continues practising
with The electric pen.
-RememOer that Court cenvenes on Monday,
the 9th inst at p. m.
The railroad mems prayer meetings con.
tinue to be well patronized
Mr., c. NJ Gear, of MOntrose, is visiting at
his sons on Race street.
If YOU snOuld have any of those superfiuous
| muzzles, please se1d them along
| The Phoenix COrnet Bands grand concert is
| to take place on the 25th and 26th INST.
"A carriage load of distinguished Summit
| Killers visited tie county seat on Tuesday.
| Mr.. WIN. Mullen is about buying ont ]. II.
| Millers grocery store in Upper Mauch Chunk.
| -Pasterers are now engaged at the fine frame
| dwelling erected by Mr. Jonn Fldler on West
| Broadway,
The presence in town, on Monday. of r. A.
| Packer, is by many interpreted to mean COM
| blnatlOn.
John schabo. hitherto landlord of the Mauch
| Chunk HOTEL an family, departed for Shamo&ln
on Tuesday.
with the Athena Literary Association mat.
tiers are SAID not to be as lovely as they appear
| on the surface.
| Shippers complain of the almost total alb.
/ btllIc VI lh6-uChhuu lOl SOdls duN dullSlpobo
| dull season.
| VIII the Jersey Centrql Railroad Company
| relnquish the Lehigh Canal3 IS question now
| asked by nearly everybody
| baseball playing and gymDastic exercises
| are again the outdoor pastimes most in vogue
| among our young men.
The furniture of the Recorders Office has
| lately been increased by very convenient desk
| OF Mr. Sam. KTelder's make.
Mr.. Alex. RObinson's family are now snug
| ly at the premises lately vacated by MIR. ]. W.
| Hyndman, on Broadway.
MIR. Thomas C.rr, part owner of the Colum.
| bia House. now dispenses the h0spltalitles OF
that wellknown stand.
Mr.. James Mcguire. an employe of the
| Packerton shops, lies seriously i'll at his resi-.
| dence in East Mauch Chunk
| Mr.. Eugene Blakesee and family are now
| at hOme," at what used TO be the Kocher r9sl-
dence, East Mauch Chunk.
p ]. Meehau, Esq. state assessor of banks
| for this district, has finished his task and tor
| warded his returns to Harrisburg.
| And now 30 per cent. OF the back wages due
| the Jersey Cent al employees has been distribu-
| ted among the parties entitled Thereto.
| On looking over the Commonwealth docket
| l find that but one case has been added to the
trial list published some time ago.
Owing to the difficulties experienced by tax
collectors in gathering tlxes outstanding, the
county treasury is neHrlY depleted OF funds.
Mr.. Robert CALVIN is busily engaged at al
terng and improving the Holly property, on
West Broadway, ately purchased Dv him.
Il am sorry to state that on last Wednesday
l found Mr.. James Kerrigan somewhat ndis-
posed, and anXiOusly inquiring for DrDeYOung.
Rev. Edsall Ferrer was. on Tuesday even.
ing. suddenly taken ill, while supeTintendlng a
prayer-meetng at the lst PRESBYTERIAN church.
Mr.. John Corgon, fatherin-law of Recorder
Philips, died at West NanticOke on last Friday.
Deceased lett ~ children and As grandchildren.
Since MANY of our young men are devoting
their leisure hours to the manufacture OF brack-
cts, Mr: Sam. Tacy s doing quite trade in all
SORTS of veneer.
A merry. making at Pat. Rushs Carbon
HoIel, East Mauch Chunk on last Monday
night. is very highly spoken OF by those tnat
were present.
On Wednesday morning one VIM. Cahoon
was run over, while walking the L. V. Il. r
track: near Penn Haven Junction, and instant
ly killed.
Mr.. George Wolf, the tObncconist and fami
", having quit boarding at the Maueh Chunk
: ing on Race street.
"A party of nine from Buck Mountain, seve
] raj from summit Hill and one from NesduehOn
I | ing left on Monday for the Black Hill region
Others are preparing TO follow soon.
Mr.. o. b. Keser. sample clerk of the Broad
3 way, after rusticating for several days in the
: snowbanks OF Berks county. returned to bi'
post on Monday evening.
The total of freight (other than coaD carried
. | over the Lehlgh Valley Railroad during thu
month of March is sad to be heavier than the
: treighuDg done in any one month since the roaC
a has been In existence
q -Bentzen the artist. continues busily en-
. gagged at frescWng the residences of some of Ou
q more opulent citizens Bentzen Is first-clas
" mechanic, and with those that have employed
hun once, another would stand but slim
: chance for jOO.
i Chief BURGESS elect, Henry Beinemau. ant
Il COuncumen Hartman and ShillingeT, OF Eas
a Mauch Chunk, te, on Tuesday evening last
u sworn into office, in place of Burgess Ross ant
= COuncllmen lWlning and MEG Geady, who retire
The new rules and regulations in force a
' the county Jall have had tendency to COnsid
= erablv diminish the number of visitors on visit
| Ing days. Heieltter none viii be admitted OK
cept at the express desire of the prisoners. Thi
q Is as II should be.
, Tho failure of a recent fOrnicatlOn and ba 81
:, tardy case, IN which bOth the justice and anX
Il Gus prosecutor We're most egreglously fooled
"A caused con siderable amusement among the gO'
I, sips OF East Aauch Chunk on last Tuesday
u And naughty Dan. dld II all. Business, eh
]. MIR. August Keenan, cold California") ha
., left the employ of MI. Joseph Laciar, and MHuc
Chunk. on Monday. Aurustus. who is a yer
II proficient apOth"cary had hosts OF friends herr
:. by all OF whom hts departure IL greatly II
GREETED He Is succeeded bv MI. Henry j. Ii
D. ar late of Edward lhOmDsOns drug slOr
T. Philadelphia.
I. Hugh DugOn. married man, aged about
= years, resident of Upper Mauch ChunN, wa
u on "wednesday forenoon, run down while eros
A. ing the L. aud 5. Il, r. track at the round hOus
: ABOVE this place, and had both of his legs a
z, most severed from hls BODY. He survived bI
4. a few hours.
n. The celebration of the Easter festival at S
Mark's p +, church, Is by all conceded 10 has
been grand an iir especially the floral displa
. which enHnated, principally. from the greel
% house OF A. W. Leisennng, Esd., and tastetul
ly ARRANGED by his experienced florist Mr.. d.