The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-12-08
J. T. NUsBAUM & Sol

An entertainment will be held in the
old school house, at Packerton, on Monday
evening next, doors open at 1880, and the
entertainment to commence at o'clock.
Admission rs cents, children 10 cents.
BY purchasing your wall paper of f.
F. Luckenbach, Mauch Chunk, you will be
able to do better than anywhere else in the
county, as his stock is much larger than the
stock usually kept
1t comes to us It grapples with us u
hangs on like grim death and away we q
in moment, like flash OF tightening, to
destruction, What is it A cold ? The pre-
ventive DR.. Haas Expectorant.
The election of schalk, Democratic can
didate for District Attorney of Schuylkill
county, will be contested by Whitehaven,
the Republican candidate, on the ground of
fraud, schalk's official majority was III.
In the report of the trial in the U. S.
District court, at Philadelphia, of Peter S.
Haintz, charged with purloining registered
letter, which appeared on our outside last
week, we were made to say "the jury rem
dered verdict of guilty"-it should have
been not guilty.
The little brook that dances to the music
of its own ripplings over its pebbed bed
flows on until lost in the deep, boundess
sea. DIR. Coxes Wild Cherry and Seneka
has already become indispensable to the
great sea of humanity, only 25 and 80 cents
per bottle.
Detective Sommers, of the Lehigh Val
ley railroad company, last week arrested
number of men and women at Hokendauuua
for stealing coak They were given hear
ing before Squire Koons, at Catasauqua and
bound over to answer at January term of
Court.
Mrs. Mitchell, residing near Gibralter,
below Reading, who recently vomited a
lizard from her stomach in Markley's drug
store, Reading, emitted two more a short
time since, making nine which have been
elected from her stomach during the past
few years.
"A coal train ran of the track OF the
Reading Railroad at Lost Creek Station,
Schuylkill co., Tuesday afternoon. Twenty
cars were wrecked, the passenger station was
demolished, the freight depot and storehouse
were badly damaged, the telegraph lines
were torn dawn, and several persons were
injured.
The president of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company has authorized
payment of miners wages for December at
not less than 80 per cent under basis, though
the average of prices requires a reduction of
81 or 32. The men are also notified that
during nest year for every 25 cents advance
in tolls and freights the minimum of wages
will be advanced 10 per cent.
Frank Meyers, of Easton, was arrested
and committed to Jail Saturday afternoon,
charged with committing an outrage upon
his step-dat9hter, only twelve years old.
After he had committed the assault he
threatened to beat the girl if she should ex-
pose him Meyers came to Easton about
three months ago. and married the mother
OF the girl. Their married life has not run
smoothly, his wife having had him arrested
several times for assault and battery.
GERMAN sYRUP."-No other medi-
cine in the world was ever given such test
ofits curative qualities as Boschee's German
Syrup. In three years two million four
hundred thousand small bottles of this MED
icne were distributed free Of charge by drug
gsts in this country to those afflicted With
consumption, asthma, Group. severe coughs,
pneumonia and other diseases of the throat
and lungs, giving the American people tin
deniable proof that German Syrup will cure
them. The result has been that druggists
in every town and village in the United
States are recommending it to their custom
ers. Go to your druggist, and ask what they
know about it, Sample bottles 10 cents.
Regular size IS cents. Three doses will re-
lieve any case. For sale by A. j. Durling
Judge D. B. Green, of Pottsville, still
retains his seat upon the bench of the
Schuylkill Court, though some members of
the bar contend that his term of Office closed
the first Monday of this month. Others
contend that it will not close until his sue
cessor, o. P. Becthel, is sworn in, which
should be January s, 1878. Ex-Judge
James Hyon, who has written letter to
Governor Hartranft on the subject, insists
that Judge Green was merely commissioned
by the Governor for an unexpired term
that a commission does not create an office
hat neither Green nor Bechtel is entitled to
the office and that even if Bechtel should
receive commission from the Governor he
could be prevented from taking his seat by
a.quo warranto from Attorney General Lear,
and the case would be thrown into the Su-
preme Court for decision.-Ex.