The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-12-15
THE NEWS.

Bears are unusually numerous this fall
in Dauphin and Perry counties.
The "National Steamboat Association of
the United States represents capital OF
SjOO,0OO,OOO.
"A religious revival, with meetings every
evening, has lasted four years in Columbia,
Kentucky.
"A man in Louisiana married five times
in eleven months, and snapped his last wife
for shotgun.
Extensive arrangements are being made
in Washington for a baby show. which is
to be held in that city some time in Janu-
ary.
Life is but short, but we should do all
we can to prolong it. Check a cough or cold
at once and use an old reliable remedy such
as DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup.
The temperance folks of Yarmouth, n.
S., few days ago, attended a sale at the
custom house, bought up all the liquor and
emptied it into the sewers.
More than $50, 900 boxes of clothespins
are annually shipped from this country 10
England, and great quantities to New Zea-
land, the Sandwich Islands, and Australia.
The Moflat bell-punch, in use in
Virginia barrooms, is "A good collector of
statistics for the temperance retormers. The
Richmond bell-punches registered in seven
teen days 255,0OO drinks.
The largest mass of gold yet discovered
in Nevada was found near Osceola. 1t
weighed twenty-tour pounds and fifteen
ounces,and,G Gs it contained very little quartz,
its coin value was not far from $4,000.
The Philadelphia and Reading rolling
mill, in Reading, is now engaged on the
contract to manufacture $4,000 tons of rails
for the new railroad in Brazil. The rails
are to be finished within two years from the
date Of the contract.
The German Colonization Society of
Cincinnati has sent one of its members to
Washington TO join delegation from Pitts
burg and Baltimore, TO try to induce Con-
gress to aid in the colonization by the socie-
ties of the west and South.
Mr. HOmlin is the oldest Senator now
serving-he is siXty-eight. Mr.. Dorsey is
the youngest he entered the Senate when
only thirty years old, and has served five
years. Mr.. Edmunds, who is forty-nine, is
the Senator who looks the oldest.
Parents cannot be too careful in guard
ing the health Of their babies. Only a good
and reliable medicine should be given to
them. DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup is known not
to contain anything injurious. Price 25
cents.
An Auburn, Oregon, miner fitted out
his boy with implements for mining. The
boy turned some waste roadside water into
slulces and began TO wash earth. To every
bodys surprise he panned out few dollars
worth oofgold and thereby attracted attention
to valuable lead.
"A Berlin paper says that Germany in
1850 viii have a fleet which, although
inferior in the number of vessels to those of
either France or England, will be superior
IN the quality Of material and artillery. in
the education OF officers, and in the com
pleteness Gifts equipment The construction
oi vessels proceeds rapidly.
Hon. Adam Woolever, of this citv. ex-
representative in the Legislature from his
county, ex-clerk Of the House of Representa-
tlyes, and author of that noted book of refer
ence, "The Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and
Humor," is about to enter the lecture field
with the following subjects: "Politics and
Politicians" and party Spirit as am Fle.
ment Of Civilization, ,'-AHeRtqra Depocrgt.