The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-09-15

Read the new advertisements and
all the old ones too in to-day's paper.
1t will pay you. ...
-Unremittng application willinduce
disease unless the blood be kept con-
stantly pure and rich. For all hard.
workers the remedy to keep the blood
in the best condition is DR.. BUll's Blood
Mixture, ~
The miners of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal Company at Mosque
honing resumed work Monday morning.
The miners at Summit Hill, who have
been idle since July, resumed work
Wednesday.
Things in the First National Bank
of Allentown don't look very encour-
aging for the stock holders. 1t is said
that they will have to enlarge the assets
out of their individual pockets in order
that creditors may be satisfied.
Promises kept inspire confidence; and
DR.. Bull Baby Syrup never promised
relief in the diseases of childhood with
out at once effecting it. Hence the
popular reliance upon it. Price 20
cents bottle.
Jimmy Kerrigan, the notorious
Mollie Mcguire, was in Pottsvllle the
other day for his witness fees in the
several murder trials. Frank Hughes
gave him letter recommending their
payment.
We have on our table sweet po-
vtato, raised by VIM. II, Helman, of
Mahoning Valley, and presented to us
by DR.. Derhamer weighing 81 ounces.
II any of our farmers or gardeners can
beat this potato let 'em trot 'em this
way
All the latest cOlOTs Ofcloth shading
on hand also, various styles of shade
fixtures for less money than the same
can be bought in the city, at Lucken-
bach's, doors below Broadway House,
Mauch Chunk.
"A passenger train ran over COW
near Hazleton, Tuesday morning, and
the baggage and passenger cars were
thrown from the track. William Mer-
rick, baggage master, Joseph COrbley,
express messenger, aud William Ward,
ii passenger, were seriously injured.
Several passengers received slight in
juTies,
.%-The three young men, two by the
name of Kern and one by the name of
Fisher, who were charged with turning
the switch on the Lehigh Valley rail,
road, last spring, at Cherryford, about
two miles above Laury's station there
by running of a coal train and causing
considerable damage to the engine and
number of cars, were on trial at Al
lentOwn last week. The evidence not
being sufficient to convict them, the jury
rendered verdict of not guilty.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pany announces quarterly dividend Of
one per cent. or fifty cents per share,
payable October 10. This last dividend
makes the amount divided for the four
quarters of the current year five and
half per cent. 1t was expected at the
last quarterly period to make the Oc-
tober quarterly dividend one and half
per cent, the same As that made in
April, which would have made the an
nual dividend per cent, but the long
delay in getting the men at the mines
at work has disappointed the expecta.
tiOB. 1t is, however, hoped and Deliey-
ed that the difference viii be made up,
or more, before the half of the next
year is over,
1t is reported at Wilkes Barre that
the executive committee of the miners
organization are now more or less con-
trolled by prominent politicians aud
candidates for office, so much so, that
the men are losing confidence, and if
allowed N irt
les, with ballots, would vote to resume.
The fact that Schuylkill and Lehigh
are liable to supply the demanI for
coal with advancing prices materially,
Is making mining less hopeful for better
prices, as it is believed a general re-
sumption Of work will put down the
price of coal. Much discussion and
feeling are shown in and around Scran.
ton, as well as at Wilkes Barre tending
to break the present control of the
committee, some of whom are known
as working for political objects only.
-REsPoNsIBILITY OF RELATIVES
Here Is fact not generally known: An
net of the legislature Of Prnns\ lyania
passed June l3, 1886, says "The
| father and grandfather, aud the mother
er and grandmother, and the children
and grandchildren of every poor person
1 unable to work, shall at their own
/ charge, having sufficient ability, relieve
ana maintain such pnOr persons at such
rate as the quarter sessions Of the coun.
| ty where such poor persons reside shall
order and direct" This, it will be seen,
makes children and grandchildren re-
sponslble for the support of their par
entS and grandparents, it the latter are
unable 10 maintain themselves, while it
also makes parents and grandparents
liable for the support OF their children
and grandchildren in case the latter are
destitute aud unable to work.
= This being the year Tor making an
enumeration Of taxable inhabitants un.
der the provisions of the act of January
d, 1871, eatitled IAN act to provide for
the enumeration of taxable inhabitant,
aud slaves within this common wealth. -
the question whether said act is not re
pealed or supplied 10y the provisions OF
the new constitution was submitted
to Attorney General Lear for his npin.
ion thereon, and he has Just decided that
the act is not Repealed but rendered
useless, aud no harm can come noul
not taking the census provided for
The object OF this law WAS TO afford a
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