The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-08-11
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Petersburg about the 18th Of August.
According to the new Constitution,
lobbying will hereafter be a crime in
Georgia.
Two granddaughters of Danton,
the famous French reyolutionist, were
married lately in Paris.
Sofia Cimarosa, the last descendant
of the famous composer, died in hos
pital at Milan on July 10.
"A man in Chambersburg, ILL.,, has
been sued for destroying property by
splitting tobacco juice on the floor of
church.
In Constantinople shops and bazars
placrads bearing the cOnsecrated fOrmu-
la, "English spoken here" were never
before SO plentiful.
The Liberian Immigration Society
of South Carolina proposes to purchase
vessel for $50, 900, large enough to
carry 500 passengers at time.
"A number of Spaniards are in
southern Florida purchasing beef cattle
for the Cuban market. They are well
provided with money, and pay liberal
prices.
The canal at Augusta, Ca, is now
navigable by boats propelled by steam,
and there is every evidence that the old
system of canal Eoat propulsion is at
an end.
Prof. Won Angel, a well-known
German artist, has painted, by order of
Queen Victoria. a portrait of Disraeli
1t Is now on exhibition in London, and
is to be engraved.
-Garibaldi complains that Italy is
not yet entirely united, and says that
:he people of Trieste cannot remain
much laDger the subjects Of foreign
sovereign.
Two girls who work in the laundry
OF the Rose Standish House, bingham,
have succeeded in tanning two seals by
feeding them, so that they come regu-
larly up to the wharf to be fed.
Those who travel at this season
need not fear being Overcrowded. Hard
times aud the money spent last year in
going to Philadelphia haze reduced the
pleasure travellers this year to very
small number.
Burlington, Iowa. is trying to get
rid of the tramp harvester nuisance by
prosecuting the steamboat Off GERS who
land them. 1t is said that fine of $500
was imposed on a steamboat company
for putting tramps ashore at that point.
The Countess of Cardigan has an
nounced by public advertisement, to all
whom it may concern that she will no
longer be responsible for any debts
retrospective or prospective, of her sec.
ond husband, the Comte de Lancashire.
"A carrier pigeon, carrying a mes
sage to the. French Ambassador in Lon
don, won race against train going
sixty miles an hour. The bird was lib
Grated as soon as the steamer reached
Dover, whence it flew to its dovecote
in London, seventy miles in sixty min.
utes
The Spanish papers say it has been
so hot in Spain this summer that the
birds have refused to sing, and only
took contracts for flying short distances.
In Seville the bituminous pavements
have been on steady strike, or vOlun-
tary liquidation regardless of cost.
"A very strange proposition was
made last month to the Vienna Museum.
A Hungarian family of Macy Mihaly
offered to sell 1t an eleven year.Old fe.
male baby with head as big as a
mans fist and face covered with be- ard !;
she doesn't talk, but eats, jumps, and
generally behaves like q monkey.
The Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany is now paying its train, yard, and
office men exclusively in silver. Men
who had few hundred dollars due
them were loaded with coin on the last
pay day, and, for once, had more money
than they could conveniently carry.
while bhe company, without the sane
tlOn OF Congress, has made silver coin
legal tender for all amounts due en-
plOyees, with that inconsistency for
which powerful corporations are be
coming notorious, they refuse to receive
sAch coin for any amount over five dol
laIs,
"A marriage was arranged between
two young people living some distance
apart, near Bengal, India, but who
had never seen one another. The BRIDE
groom dnly arrived at the BRIDES viii
lage, and the ceremonies had actually
begun, when report reached the bride
and her mother that the intended hus-
band was an ineaTable cripple. They
both declared that they would commit
suicide rather than complete the cere.
mony, and as 1t was fact that the
wOuld-be- bridegroom was cripple, he
was dismissed. But, according to the
prevailing superstition, eternal disgrace
would have attended the bride If she
hal not heen married on that daS when
matters had progressed SO far. So, an =
other bridegroom hadrtO be sought, and
after searching the highways and by
ways boy was captured and duly
married in the place of the cripple. The
latter being In the sans plight, had
also to provide himself with bride be-
fore the day closed, and thus there were
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