The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-09-01

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In a Nursery wherein all is life and
laugh instead OF crying and frettiug,
there is sure to be found DR.. Bulls
Baby Syrup. Price 25 cents per bottle
Services in the NJ. E. Church, to.
morrow Sunday at 1890, A. NJ,
7:30, =. VI. Subject for morning: The
Christian Sabbath" by Rev. L. b.
Brown. The public is respectfully in-
vited.
BRO. Whitney s better.half present.
ed him with young (ten. .pounder) son
few days ago, and he was very smil-
ing thereat. Mr.. Dan. Graver was also
made happy an evening or two ago by
the birth of daughter.
Now is a good time to put In your
winter coal, the price now being fully
as low as it will be. Semmel & Gabel
have Just received 200 tons, which they
are selling very low. Call and leave
your order and learn prices.
THE Labor Protection Party has
fstruck Lehlglton. If you should place
its present membership in line on
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end up and down you would find their
strength to be from 2 to 2 or 8.
Our young friend, P. j. Meehan,
ESQ, of Mauch Chunk, was In town
Thursday and dropped into our sane.
tum. He represents his prospects for
the nomination for District Attorney to
be very fiattering. Mr.. NJ. is an indus
trious and persevering young lawyer
and deserves success.
~The first railway iron imported in
3to this country was for the Lehigh CON-
pany's coal road, from Mauch Chunk
to Summit Hill, in 1927. 1t was rolled
iron one half inch thick, and one and a
half inches vide, ten feet long, spiked
to four by six inch scantling. The
iron cost $95 per ton in England.
Considerable excitement was Great.
4 ed around the office of Esq. Beck, on
Wednesday afternoon by large party
from Lehigh Gap who had come up to
witness a trial for trespass between
Charles Prutzman and Albert Meendsen
vs.. Reuben Rehrig and nine others.
The decision will be given Monday
next. Albright " Freyman for plain
tiffs; W. NJ. Rapsher for defendents.
~-J. Hervey Dobbs, the Murphy
n temperance lecturer, was In town
Thursday. He has been in number
of places since April 1st, and has en-
rolled about 5000 persons in the temper
ance cause. He is now on his way
home to Erie City, to recruit his health
previous to beginning the winter cam
paign. While in Lehighton he was the
guest of F. H. Longstreet, Esq.
ION Wednesday last VIC visited, In
fcompany with DR. j. G.. Zern, the la
boratory of DR.. Hall, on Samuel Evert's
place, in Beaver Run. The Doctor re-
ports the shaft to be 80 feet In depth,
and that the presence of gold exhibits
itself in larger proportions the deeper
they go. He estimates the present yield
at about four ounces of pure solid meta
to the ton, exclusive of platinum and
nickel. The Doctor is very enthusiastic
In his profession andsfeels confident of
success. May his most sanguine expec
tations be fully realized. ..-.
5 Mem. from Society Journal. "Mis!
S. appeared to positive disadvant
age because of clOudiness of complexion
and must we write it ?-Pimples spoil
ing an otherwise beautiful counte-
mace" [She should by all means pro
cure aud use DR.. Bulls Blood Mixture
Rep.
-IMPoRTANT TO PENsoNERs.-Dr
N. B Reber, Pension Surgeon in lie
highton, will commence examining pen
sioners on the 4th of September. Thi
Is the biennial examination. All pen
3 sioners must be examined before the,
can draw their next pay unless thei
Q certificates contain the words mo bien
b nlal examination required" Pension
ers must not neglect to bring their Ger
!. tiicates and vouchers with them.
It "A tain from Carbondale, on tn
Delaware and Hudson Gravity Rail
t road, was thrown from the track nea
g HUnesdale, Monday morning, by tn
spiking Of a switch. A parlor ca
tumbled twenty feet down an embank
meut, but William Muir, engineer @
the train, is the only person reporte
injured. 1t is supposed that the villain
j. who spiked the switch intended to In
u jure General Morrow, commander {
the regulars at Scranton, and a part
i OF State militia officers, who were o
70 the train.
:, 1t Is understood that the meetin
~ of railroad firemen and brakemen, he
!, in Scranton on Friday of last week Ina
IL no reference to strike, but was for Il
purpose of raising funds to meet Il
'h expenses incurred through the stril
Id which ended recently. Several fremG
IL and bIakemen are In iail, needing bal
their families are in want. and nut
IN ber of men who lost their situation
G. by the strike are asking relief. II
r. result Of the meeting is not definite
known, but 1t is believed the men a
u dissatisfied with their organizations al
va that many of them refused 70 be hour
l. by these organizations or furnish an
20 more funds. ....
Monday evening man walking
CHI the up track about three miles belC
X Penn Haven and hearing a train col
nd ing jumped to the other track in time
be killed by train No. 6, bound tor NJ
#. York, which came laundering arOu
1is curve. He had the name Of G
lin pricked upon his arm in India ink. T
body was taken to Mauch Chunk, a
an inaupSt held a yardict h,4inU rRndl