The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-06-09
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tion has existed in India for 5000
years.
-Woollen manufacturers in Rhode
Island report more encouraging pros
poets than at any time in the last three
years. Nearly all the mills are working
on advance orders.
,-"Well, boys, here's for perdtionl"
said AlOnzo Leister; and he coOlly lay
down on barroom floor in Yulo, Ne.
vada, AID shot himself through the
head.
Bob Mccullough stole money from
his father, in Louisville, and gambled
1t away: and, when reproved for it, he
took club and broke So, 900 worth OF
mirrors in the fathers furniture store.
A Spanish monk, the Marquis de
Vlllarasan. has been condemned by one
of the Paris tribunals to two years i'm
prisOnment for fraudulent bankruptcy,
in connection with company known
as the "Catholic Federation" The
company was under the Iatr0nage Of
several Catholic notabiities and priests.
Tile Transvaal (South African) re-
ish empire, contains ia, 900 square
miles, just double. the area Of England
and Wales. The white population,
chiefly Beers, is believed to be about
80 900, the blacks 2j0,0O0. 1t is rich
but undeveIoped country. The repuO-
lie was almost bankrupt.
Railroads have done wonders in
India. Tie garrison of Peshawar, l..
500 miles from Calcutta, can be re-
lieved and strengthened with greater
certainty and speed than places only
tenth of that distance 30 or 40 years
ago, and British rule is considered more
secure with $4,000 European troops
and the railroad than with double that
humber before 1t was made.
The upper classes of Strasburg
didn't smile on the old Emperor William
when he visited them lately, but the
rest were very cordial. The Cathedral
was exquisitely illuminated, and stand.
ing out amid the darkness, with black
sky above, presented splended spec
tacle. At Metz there was no enthu-
siasm, but, though the Town Council
refused money for illumination, the
Cathedral caught fire, and Emperor,
Crown Prince, and Moltke tried to put
it out, The roof was destroyed.
-Vancouvet's Island furnishes
tragic love story. a savage native
courted girl belonging to his tribe, and
gave her blankets, according to custom.
She was cool, but she gave him to un-
derstand that more blankets would be
effective. The lover Brought them, yet
she demanded more. He hunted, ish~
ed, and stole from the white settlers un-
til he had acquired the number of
blankets that she had mentioned, and
brought them to her. She again ad-
vanced the figure. Then lie set upon
her with a knife and killed her.
Several hundred night editors. says
the Atlanta Constitution, have heard
with grOan that the Poles are think
ing of taking hand in the European
unpleasantness. That is all that Is
needed to complete the confusion. just
fancy that while Tootrokopitz Pasha is
holding the line of the Xcsviw river
from Tchignuy to the Serbian frontier,
opposite Schukmol, his antagonist, Gen.
igsoalenkateifski, who Is confronting
him with the regiments of PetrOpaulov-
ski aud Ekaterinersly, and awaiting re-
enforcements being brought up from
PlOOtki by Col. Nicholas NichOlaieffo.
vch, is taken In flank by an army Of
Polish insurgent led by Prince PrOty-
cOlapschiminSki, Count Crinmicslave-
tezzinnigsziuski, and the vetereu Gem
etal and hero OF 1913, Misezwyesl
The first of the drink-registering
apparatuses, which a new law says
must be used in all Virginia barrOoms,
has been put in operation IN Richmond.
1t is wooden box, about cubic foot
in size. On one side Is crank, and
on another dials like those OF a gas me-
ter. The barkeeper turns the crank
once round at every sale of drink, a
bell strikes, and the dial registers one.
The Obiact of the device Is to determine
the amount of tax to be collected, at
the rate OF one cent on every drink.
Although heavy fine may be Imposed
! for neglect to use these machines pro-
perly, or for the tampering with them
| in any way-and there are officers
whose duty it is to detect such offences
the belief is that they will not an.
| swer the purpose, because drinkers will
generally connive at violations OF the
law.
--Hawley, Pa. June l.-Mrs. Daniel
| Zimmerman cut her throat with BUTCH
er knife between the hours of two aud
three O'Clock yesterday morning. On
the evening peyious, while lady callers
were at her house, Mrs. Zimmerman
complained Of her head feeling strange
| ly. At their usual time the family 10.
tired and were soon lest in sleep. AT
about three o'clock Mr.. KunIerman
was awakened by their little child, and
reaching to the opposite side of the bed
20 waken his wife, he discovered that
she was not in usual place. The bed
was cold, showing that she had been
up some time. Mr.. Kunzernan i'm
diately arose and went to search for her.
lie soon ascertained that the outside
doors we're all locked, but that the door
leading to the pantry was open. At
the foot of the cellar steps he found his
wife in sitting position, with cash
across her throat nearly six inches In
length, entirely severlng the wiudpipe,
and large butcher knife by her side,