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New-York tribune., 1877-09-03

In its general result the engagement at Pc
lischad on Fnday last does not alter materially
the position of the combatants at and around
Plevna. The scene of conflict Is diroctly
east of Plevna on the road to Tirnova. 1t is
a few miles from RadisOya where there was
desperate fighting mt the second battle Of Plcv-
na The affair renders it clear that neither
bellgerent is disposed to retire from his pres
ent uOSitlOn.
New-York tribune., 1877-09-03

The British rihemen made better scores in
their Saturday practice than they have made
before anywhere, three of them reaching, in
the one day, shooting, the highest average on
four days shooting made 10y the American
Team. 1t is noticeable, however, that the
average of the British Team, taking three
days shooting, is still considerably below that
of the American marksmen.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-07-21

"A correspondent, writing TO the
Miners Journal (Pottsville), takes
occasion to comment severely upon the
low standard of commercial honor pre-
vailing among the business men of that
section of country. Referring to the
fact that large number of affidavits of
defence, averring usury, have been filed
in suits brought by banks upon promis-
sorry notes, he says that for business
concerns, who have been kept adoat for
the past three or four years by aid ex-
tended to them by the local banks, to
attempt, now that the financial institu-
tions themselves have in many cases
gone into the hands Of receivers, to
shirk their liability by putting in pleas
Ct usurious interest charged, may be
legal, but it is scarcely honorable. This
is particularly true, he says, when it is
considered that the rates of interest de-
manded by the banks were neither OBJ
jected to by nor compulsory upon the
borrowers when the money was loaned.
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Washington Letter.
From our special Correspondent.
WaQ1iuUtnu II q Iu1

From our special Correspondent.
Washington, d. O., July is, 1877.
The city of Washington has hitherto
been exclusively political capital, and
not, like the European seats of govern
ment, the centre of the nations intel
lect and culture. This is hardly as it
should be, and there is really no good
reason why our city should not be the
New York of America. Indeed, steps
have been taken of late for the accom-
plishment of such results, and as the
patriotic sentiment of the country grows
and increases, the movement is being
talked up by prominent and thinking
men so, without doubt, the future cap
ital of our Republic will be It's intellec-
tual as well as political centre.
The Congressional Library, which
grows with such amazing rapidity, is
already one of the largest and most
comprehensive in the world the Smith.
sonian Institute, which contains yalua.
bic scientific and artistic specimens the
Art Gallery, with its Invaluable halls of
modern and ancient statuary, its fine
collection of bronzes and its beautiful
paintings the Army Medical Museum
and various other similarly attractive
institutions are drawing the attention of
cultured persons to our city as a most
desirable place Of permanent residence.
Because the business of the place is
mostly governmental, and the changes
continually going on make constant
changes in the officers employed, it is
true that we have here no "abiding
| city," as far as its personnel Is con,
cerned, but We are seeking Zone to
come !" and among other helps We have
the proposed civil service reform, which,
if carried out, cannot fail to exercise Il
favorable influence in that direction. !
can do no better than to quote from a
person of note in the intellectual and
scientific world, who says upon this
same subject: A." If the Government
adopts the policy of appointing its ser
wants in the civil service for life, or dur
ing good behavior, with promotions for
merit, the whole character of official
life in Washington will be changed for
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-07-21

So far as the money borrowed is so in
vested in profitable industry as to yield
interest after paying all expenses, it is
no burden at all. The money earns its
OWE interest, besides giving work and
wages to many employees. SO far as
the money borrowed is sunk in unre-
munerative enterprises, it pays no in
terest. Lenders take their risk just as
merchant does, and in some cases lose
just as he does. The debts of the ma
ton and of the various States and
municipalities stand on a different, and
yet not very different, footing from
those of railroads, factories, mines,
furnaces. buildings, ships, &C., &c. The
money in every case was considered
worth the interest when it was borrow
ed, and in most cases turned out to be
so.
One other thought concerning debt is
that the interest on our various debts is
largely payable to ourselves, and so lar
as this is the case, it only changes from
one national pocket to another, so that
the country does not feel the burden.
The interest that goes abroad is paid
for by our breadstuffs, provisions, pe-
troleum, cotton, gold and silver, all of
which have been, more or less, produc-
ed and brought to market by means of
the morey borrowed abroad.
The amount of interest paid for capit-
al used is appalling, but the amount of
wages paid to our working population
would be still more appalling. Yet the
combination of the capital and the la
Dor produces the results which remuner.
ate both and enrich the country, and
those results could not be produced
without that combination.
The prospects for the future are what
chiefly concern us, and these the cir
cular represents as very fair in view of
the excellent prospects Of the crops
throughout th e country.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-07-21

"A curious but important case. one
involving a question of considerable in
terest TO makers of prOmssory notes,
was recently decided by the Supreme
Judicial Court of Massachusetts. A man
who had made a note for two thousand
dollars, secured by mortgage of the
same amount, was notified by Boston
bank that this latter institution held his
obligation and accompanying collateral,
and wanted settlement. This request
was acceded to. and the note was taken
up by its maker. Some days later this
latter discovered that the note he had
paid had been forged by the real estate
agent he had given the original obliga-
tion to, and that lis own genuine note
and accompanying mortgage were in
another financial institution, and We're
still unpaid. Thereupon he brought
suit against the Eliot National Bank,
the former holder of the forged note,
to recover back the amount he had paid.
The defence was that the plaintiff, hav-
ing paid the note, was estopped from
denying the genuineness of his own sig
nature to it and, furthermore, that he
was bound by the act of his agent, who
had fraudulently negotiated two obliga-
ti0ns of the same amount and with pre-
cisely SIMILAR collateral. The Supreme
Court oVerrules the defence, and, hold
ing that the agent of an undisclosed
principal may be treated as the princiO
pal, decides further that an individual
is not estopped in law to deny the gem
uineness of note which he has paid by
a mistake of fact in supposing it to be
his genuine signature.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-07-21

The Pittsburg Sunday Leader says :
The friends of Hon. Vim. P. Schell, of
Bedford, claim that he has now one hun
dred and twenty six delegates for the
democratic nomination for auditor gen.
eral outside of Philadelphia and Alle-
gheny. There are two hundred and
fifty.one delegates in full convention,
so that # the calculations of Schell's
friends are correct he has already sufl-
cient to secure him the nomination."
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-07-21

There is an extraordinary demand
just now in the markets of New York
for our new crop of wheat. Within
two or three days past cable dispatches
have been received ordering purchases
for all that can be had at current fig
hres, and the transactions last week
amounted to the unwOnted aggregate
of two millions bushels. One steam
ship line has let all its available grain
room for two months ahead, and other
lines decline to enter into similar con-
tracts except at an advance on current
rates. The reason of this special de.
mand is subject of much speculation
among those interested. AS there can
not be any apprehension in regard to
our Western crops, the prospects for
these being fully up to the average, it
Is believed that the foreign purchasers
have some information tending to con-
vince them that the war is going to be
protracted, and that England will not
long be able to keep out of it, This
demaud for our grain will greatly stim>
ulate business throughout the country,
Tie war in part OF the grain growing
region of the Black Sea and the block.
ade of Russian ports there may partly
account for IL.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-07-21

The funeral of Hackett, killed in
the recent riot, took place in Montreal
Monday, with Orange hon ors. All the
Protestant societies were represented in
the procession, and the military were
out in force. There were some slight
demonstrations" but nothing serious
occurred until evening, when party of
Orangemen, on their way home, in one
of the suburbs, were attacked by a mob,
and young man was mortally wounded,
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the better. 1t will present attractions
for quiet men Of letters, which it did not
possess under the wTetched system
which has hitherto prevailed. If the
civil service of the nation is truly re-
formed and placed upon a footing of
fidelity and integrity, situations in it
will be particularly desirable for itera-
ry men on account of the fact that they
can thereby secure incomes which will
be certain if not large, and at the same
time secure a reasonable amount of leis-
ure for literary work. But the encour-
argement of literature should by no
means end with opening its civil service
to scholars. The duty which the Gov.
ernment owes to learning in America
can never be fully and properly dis.
charged except by establishing great
national university at Washington.
just at present the Mexican question
is paramount in political circles here
partly for want of subject of more
moment and partly from the presence
in our midst of Senior Mata, insisting
upon being recognized by the United
States as the lawful representive of the
Mexican Republic. The matters re-
quiring special attention are not so
much regarding the annexation of Mex
ican territory to our domain as the stop
ping of the border troubles, against
which the present Administration has
taken bold stand. They have done it
none too soon, for the patience of the
brave Texans is well-nigh gone, and the
marauding 6rtgands of Northern MeXl-
co have carried on their thieving and
pillaging SO long that they are getting
to be time hOnOred custom"
President Hayes has as yet passed
but little time in the White House since
the removal of his family to ther sum.
mer home. For brief season, at least,
the executive family are enjoying a Sc.
clusion that to them must be the great
est Of luXuries. Strange to say, the
people had consideration enough to
allow few days to elapse after the
Presidents return from the east, before
crOwding into his presence at all times
and in all places. One thing il would
be well if office seekers could under,
stand, that by carrying their grievan-
ces, complaints, and petitions into the
sanctity of the retreat at Soldiers Home
(where President Hayes has encOnsed
himself purpOsely to be free from them)
they accrue to themselves no benefit,
but, on the contrary, doom their causes.
If presented at the White House they
are at least noticed and filed and secure
a bare possibility, in all cases, of atten-
ton and success.
"All quiet along tho Potomac" and
the weather is hot, hotter, hottest
MARTHA NJ. WHITNEY.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-07-21

lob PRINTING at the very lowest price az
y THE CARBON ADVcCAT OFFICE.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-07-21

The contested election case of the
Third legislative district of Schuylkill
county has been decided in favor of
w. c. Felthoff, democrat, and against
NJ. 2. Fowler, the republican contest
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-07-21

CLEAR thought and vigorous action
depend upon that perfect condition of
system resulting from pure blood
When symptoms provocative of dullness
and inactivity present themselves, then
use at once DR.. Bulls Blood Mixture.
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LEHIGHToN, PA:
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY q, 1877.

-lGovernor Hartranft and party of
twelve friends left Harrisburg Monde
for a trip TO California. They will be
absent month or six weeks.
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A GARD from +. L. PRUSSING 4 co.

We beg leave TO notify the public that, as
many unurincpled persons are clrCulatlng the
story that the Vinegar recently cOnGemned by
the Board of Health OF Washington, ID. C., was
OF our manufacture, we are obi geo to publish
the following correspondence winch explains
itself
WaslIinPton, ID. C.-SIR; Has any vinegar
manufactured by us been COnhsCated or con
demned by your Board An early reply VIII
greatly Obhge h l.. PEU SSING q co.
BOARD OF HEALTH, WASHINGTON. Jnne 9,
ls77.-E, J.. PRUss NG & co, CnicagO-Gente-
mrn Iu reply L. yuul communicating OF TINS
date, um instructed TO inform You that me
Board OF Heath has never condemned any Vim
egaP Of YOUR manufacture, nor has compliant
ever been made Of the lmpuritY Of The same.
Very respectfully, G. G. cox, NJ. -,
We would also submit the following from Dr.
Alhen of Marylana Hnu De. Maha Of CmclgO;
UNIVERSITY OF MAINLAND June 0, ls7l.-l
heYc tAls cay maur OheuiCal Analysis OF an
a free from all trace OF mineral acids aAd me-
tallic Impurities. and therefore PURE. Free
sulphuTc acid, "A very injurious Hdultel at on
often found m the commercial arllclt, Is not
WILLIAM f.. A. AIKEN.
Prof. Chem. ana thar.
Requested bv Mr. Pussing. 1 subjected a
sample OF ms Vinegar TO Chemical Analvsis
and metallic substances with which CONNER
Clai vinegar Is 50 frequently q IA teraied. can
recommend IL therefore, as au entirely pure
ana " ho esome article, f. MAHLA, PA. Dr..
Iu CONCLUSION, We Will add that our wei.
known brands OF Vinegar have stood the test OF
pub ic opinion for twenty mne years besides
Fair, me l. niJed states falr, the Illinois State
Falr. the Chicago city fair, &C
E.L.PRUssING d co, CHICAGO.
TOB PRINTING at the very lowest price AZ
y TuFa0ARRON ADVCCAp OFFICF.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-07-21

Dun, Barlow e Cos Business Cir.
cular gives the failures in the United
States for the first half of 1877 as conf
pared with the same months of two
previous years, from which it will be
seen that hard times have continued till
now. This, however, is only very
imperfect index of the business of the
country, seeing that the failures were
the result of past losses, whereas there
may have been good business going on
among those who did not fail, which
we believe was pretty generally the
case. The comparison stands as under:
No, OF Failures. Liabilities
Flsrt half of 1877 ,,..,.,4,1i0 g3,6OlUOo
First half OF 1876 .......4,GOO l0s4t50,O
First huit of ls75.. ....3563 5675i2c6
The great burden under which the
country is laboring is shown to be debt.
The circular say;
The figures most accessible show that the
national debt, as compared with "a millions m
1860, amounts TO ? 200 millions IN ls77i thAt the
States debt amounts TO 3i5 millions, tle NUM-
clpal debt to l,OOJ miltiOns, the railway debt to
1900 millions the discounts and loans OF Nalon,
al ana other banks 90 another co. miillOus anC
the loans by insur. nee and other MORTGAGE ma
Chlnrry may be safely estimated at another SO
millions Grouping all these roughly tOgeiher,
the visible Indebtedness, OF watch some hnan.
Ciul conception may Oe formed amounts to The
vast sum OF 8, 5,OOO.tOV. Tao curious can cal
cuate how far the interest on tins sum, II reg IL
larry pad would absorb the yearly product OF
the natural and other resources OF the cOuntTy
The interest on this vast amount OF
debt is estimated at S43O, 100000, or
more than our surplus cotton and grain
crops combined.
There are some consideration, says
the New York Witness, concerning this
debt which are worthy Of consideration.
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VO Whom 1t May Concern.


All persons are hereby forbid meddlug witt
the Growing Crops Forming implements one
Horse, one Cow two Hogs, tao sets Harness
one spring Wagon, one Truck Wauun one
sleigh. one Buggy, ten II lives OF Bees sc, now
ia possess ON at James r. Smita, OF Fran I'm
tOvnshtp. Carbon county, Pa, the sama beng
my property. SELINDA SMITH,
FIan6l.n Twp, July "A, ls7.-w3
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In DIVORCE.

Emelue RehriP, by her next) No. II, April
friend, II. w. steigerwald, Te m 1877
as. (Sur LiDel Tor Di,
Alfred Rehrig vOrCe.
SIR:-Nou will please take notice that the un
defsIgned has been appointed Commissioner by
the Court of Common Pleas of CARBON County,
t. take testimony i'll sur above libel case for
Divorce, and will n tend to SAID duties, at his
Office IN Nauch Chunk, on FRIDA Y. the Bird
day OF August 1877. at 10 O'Clock a. NJ. when
and where you and ali other persons interested
may attend.
p. j. MEEHAN, Com.
June 3l.iM.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-12-21

Among the numerous accounts gwen by eve wit
nesscs that James r. Wright, who got his leg broken
Is one Of the most interesting. He i gentleman OF
about sixty years age and In the glass business
at No 225 Greenwich street. He gong up Bar
clay street the time Of the ACCIDENT and mad just
turned the when he was thrown or his feet.
He says he did not feel anything touch him
any shaking Of tho earth until no found himself
came conscious OF the concussion and heard
tho report Nor did he feel hurt by tho fall out when
ne attempted to rise he found that he unable to
his lett limb. On being helped INTO drug store
and examined It found that he had sustained
compound fracture OF the two principal bones OF the
left log below the knee They are broken in no less
than seven places, aud though tho patient did not
appear TO be suffering much pain last evening the
fracture Is considered rather a dangerous one. He
was thankful, however, that his worse
Ono Of the Grm OF w. H. Montague a. Co., whose
stores just opposite the building in which the
plosion occurred, and who was an eyewitness 10 the
scene, gave tho following account to a HERALD re-
porter:"we were just preparing 10 leave the store.
and i've or SIX OF us were standing IN the Office The
first thing heard was duh roar, and then the
flames SHOT up at once and in Ices than tho
whole building was in a sheet OF name. IL was,
apparently as quick US gunpowder. Casting
my eyes across to the building saw that the whole
side was blown out, through which sheet
oil fame issued, which, Tor a moment, subsidod. To
my Consideration next observed Two girls, followed
by three Others come right OF where this sheet Of
fame had protruded moment bofore, run rapidly
down ladder and escape In moment aiterward
the flames niied the whole interior oil tho bulldog"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-12-21
OBITUARY.
RIA PACHA.

The once prominent figure in Turkish political life,
Ria Pacha, whose death, at about seventy years OF
age, Is announced by mail from Consta ntiaople was
OF the lew rem aiming Inks attaching the Turkey
OF the present 10 the Turkey OF the past-men whose
early lives were romance, and who
from nothing 10 power, fame and great riches.
A little Arab slave boy. brought from Egypt
in the early years Of the present century by
high functonary OF the Turkish palace aud fairly ed
ucatcd by his MASTER Turkish education then won't,
he attracted the attention OF Sultan Manmoud, the
lalher Of Abdul-Mediid and Of The late sultan ABDUL
Az q and grandfather of The present Sollan-the ia
nous Sultan Mahmoud. who crushed tho Janissaries
and was in his way one OF ..the worla's workers. -
Young Rizas up fortunes ladder thereafter
rapid, Tor to good luck he ADDED good guidance and
snrewd and capable as well as favored man.
He man o. mark having been, In all, six times
Minister oil War; thrice Minister OF Marine and thrice
Grand Master OF Artillery. He was head OF the War
oface a. several critical periods n. Of turkish
6,s'orynaae1 ne Sven rurSev Kos
suth and his co-lugt,ves caused . European
commotion--durng the Crimean war-durlng the
the nsurrecon IN Crete On state occasions his breast
bore not only the highest turkish Orders OF tho
Osmanie and Inc Medjidie, aud The Persian Order Of
The Lion and the sun, but the Order OF the Bath
and OF tho Legion OF Honor, OF the Austrian 81
Leopold, and OF the Iron crown OF Italy. Of late
yeafs RIA Pachs has not boon SO prominent public
ngure he Of yore, though he was more or less
in to the last, having died Senator and .
member Of tho Imperial Divan as Minister without
p0rtfolio. He died IN the mansion At kadikeui,
wncre no mas lived for long years past-over-
looking the Bosphorus and the Sea OF Mar
mora, and the minarets and domes OF STEAMBOAT.
kza Pacha has iet several children one oil his
sons being connected by marriage with the per ,al
family. He always exercised great infuencc-at any
rate until the present Sultans tme--at the palace,
both among the male and female inmates OF IT'S gded
saloons He enjoyed the reputation Of being one OF
the in Turkey like many men OF his stamp
be was not osentatious III point OF charity and has
endured many rcproaches on that score but he Is un
der stood TO have done many quiet acts Of good
hearted ben evidence and TO have lent heplng hand
TO many necesstious families IN an unoDtrusive but
not less cfoctual way.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-12-21
JAMES BEAKEs COLEMAN, NJ. D.

DR. James Bcakes Coleman, an eminent physician
and surgeon, died IN Trenton last night IN the
seventy-second year OF his age He was widely
known not only in New Jersey, but throughout the
country Tor his surgical skill He was born on iarm
near Trenton and his ancestors lineal descend.
ants OF Revolutionary stock. He began the study OF
medicine when nineteen years OF age under DR..
Nicholas Believile, In Trenton, and aiterward at
tended Yale College Besides beng q surgeon and
physician he was an author poet, painter and IN
vonlor. He was well versed in nearly all
branches oi literature, and always took q
prominent part IN matters that concerned the
welfare OF the community. his memory was
remarkably good, aud he was possessed o: AN mex
hauslIbie iund OF anecdote and humor No man
New Jersey was better known for MS philanthropic
spirit: he was COCO friend Of the poor. He resided
Trenton Tor nearly bali century, during which he
performed many successful operations IN surgery.
He never was politician, yet he always endeavored
TO that good men were elected 10 office, irrespec
tive oil party he held various honorable positions IN
medical societies, and was esteemed by the members
OF the profession, many oil whom oil late years looked
10 him Tor advice His death leaves void In So
cety which cannot be easily 6led. HIS funeral takes
place ~ Trenton to-day.