The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-01-06
Subscribers out of County, S1,2O
VARIETIES.

--Oil wells recently struck in Ken
lucky are yieldin fair returns.
What nation produces the most
maria ges7 Fascination. 49,. ..
-Latge deposits of copperas have
been discovered In Cherokee county,
Georgia.
The new way to avoid suffering
from corns is to have bay windows on
your boots. .. ..s..
Western Massachusetts farmers, to
a considerable number, talk of settling
in North Carolina.
"A recently discovered gold mine
near Jimtown, Colorado, has been
christsned "Spotted Tail" '
--Kentucky distilleries are resuming
operations, and Bourbon is flowing in
unprecedented quantities.
;-Iowa's staticticians have figured il
out that II, 900 Iowans visited the Cen
tennial Exhibition aud spent at it s2,-
100000.
According to a Boston exchange
the "mince pie season" has caused VI
brisk advance in the spice market of
that city. ......
The University OF Syracuse, New
York, has Just received from one of its
alumni the gift of silver watch over
900 years old.
The whale fisheries are looking up.
1t is reported that more new whale
ships are to be built for ehterprising
merchants of New Bedford.
Mr. John Eliot, the preacher to the
Indians, is to have monument built
on the spot where he gave the red man
his first discourse.
During the year just closed, nearly
forty lives have been lost in the Penn.
sylvania oil regions through careless
handling of nitro-glycerine.
Time to put on our best party man
ners again, for rumor has it that Grand
Duke Alexis is about to revisit this
great and glorious country. ......
"A despondihg New York paper
sadly sums up the business situation by
saying "The pawnbrokers are the only
people who are doing big business"
"A Kansas paper plaintively ex~
claims, zone might as well attempt an
aerial voyage without balloon or
wings as to attempt to secure freight
car in Atcheson.'
-"Here, John, ",said an irats moth
er. that's twice you have come home
and forgotten that lardp' Claw, moth
err" explained the young dutiful, sit
is so greasy that it slipped my mind"
The Lord Chamberlain of London
has refused to allow the "Passion Play"
to be given in that city next year. The
representation is promised in Paris in
1873.
Confederate bonds sell at 80 cents
on the dollar in the London market, or
about 80 cents higher than some Wes-
tern railroad bonds also quoted In the
same market. ..
One of the New York passenger
railway cOmpa nies is trying the expert
ment of running its cars without con-
dnctors, depending upon turnstlle at
the rear end to collect and register tho
fares.
Chicago has most dangerous
counterfeit silver half dollar. This bogus
coin is composed of block tin and other
ingredients, has the ring of the genuine
metal, and Is not affected by acids.
The success of the 100, ton gun
manufactured by Sir William Arm
strong, for the italian Government, has
led the King To create the eminent gun
maker grand officer of the Order of SITS.
Maurice and Lazarus.
--Ez-Governor Horatio Seymour has
been chosen President of new Histori-
cal Association, which is to be called
"phe Oneida Historical Association of
Utica" Senators Conkling and Herman
are also Officers of the association. r
by a modification just made in
the German penal code, 1t is provided
that no one connected with newspaper
shall be compelled to give evidence in
court when the responsible editor holds
himself ready to answer for an alleged
"A wolf which lad deVasted the
counties of Irwin and Coffee, in 4eor-
gla. having in two years destroyed over
FIVE hundred sheep, was lately killed
by j. Fennell, for this service he will
receive reward Of $500 from the SUate.
The Superintendent of the South
Caloihuh Luhato Asylum HAS gwen Do
tice to the regents that unless something
Ia, immediately done for their mainten.
anoe, he will be compelled to discharge
all patients. While S34, 600 is due from
.he State, only $1,000 has been paid
since last spring.
"A Mrs. Hays, of West Bloomfield,
Y. j., accompanied by her infant child,
went to visit some friends near Pater-
son, the other eVHning, and on getting
,ut of the sleigh she found that her
,hild had ceased to breathe Ii is sup.
posed that in wrapping the little one ia
he buffalo robe all air was excluded
md the little one was sutfocated.
Among the abundant vegetable
,roductions of California the olive ia
ia claim attention as a pro-
liable crop. The manufacture OF the
Ill costs about 81 per gallon, and its
net value is SO per gallon, being $500 to
he acre. The San Francisco Alta en-
,ourages emigration to California, by
that there is now a good
opening In that State for one million
white men with very scanty capital, in
he cultivation oSthe olive, almond aAd