The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-07-07
From Mauoh Chunk.

From MRuoh Chunk
Mr.. Milton Dimmick contemplates
a trip to Colorado.
Mrs. Robert Klotz and son are So
journing at Ocean Grove.
Court, which commenced on Mon
day, adjourned on Tuesday evening.
The hands and employees of the i.
g. W. Coal company received the wages
and salaries due them for May on Mon
day.
The national anniversary passed
very quietly here. Picnic parties were
plenty, but naught else worthy of note
transpired.
The most expensive Fourth of July
celebration was that of East Mauch
Chunk, where they had three thou
sand dollar bonfire and mule roast, at
about O'Clock on the morning of that
day, the expenses for which will be
borne jointly by, Mr., Thomas Kuehner
and some fire Insurance companies.
The hearing on Monday evening. in the
Daniel FRITZ shooting case, was the most re-
markaDle lea ure OF the week. Respecting the
Just trble homicide verdict OF the C0rOner's
Jury, great div ers1tY OF opinion exists but, on
The whole, not uniaVoTable 20 Fritz, the shoot,
ist.
Under the present administration more i'm
provements have been made in the borough OF
East Maucn Chunx, and at less cost than un.
uet any previous one All this is undoubtedly
owing TO the fact mat political chickering's are
not suffered to disturb the harmony of Council.
Most of the shipping offices being closed. IL
Will hardy Oe necessary to expatiate upon The
present state of the coal traffic, as there Is next
10 nothing doing by canal, and but little m ore
by rail,
The Fourth of July picnic for the beheft of
the BrOtlerho0d of Brak kesmen is said to have
been the most successful affair ialelY gotten 10
here The visiting j eTsevmen appeared to nave
lots of sponduitx and spent 1t literally.
The Marion Hose Company's picnic, in
MOxheimer's Garden was probably the most
unTemuneratiYe one they have ever held. In
de ID, but Tor an abundant display of cheap
bunting and u profuslon Of hreclhcKers, one
wOud hatdiy have known that last Wedne sday
really was the fourth day OF JuIvj not even q
salute having been fired in commemoration OF
| the nations birth. True the cnimes of st
| Marks dlscOursed national airs, but people
hereabOuts are by this time so accustomed tC
| hearing these chimes that they may chime
awav all Gay without beng notlo d. In fact
| these chimes are rapidly becoming thing
| which nobody admt eS,
Business over the Switch Back is slowly
improving; so it Is at the Mansion House and
| other hotels about town, but 1t would be vanity
to expect anything like the season OF yeal
| ago. .t....
1T may be claimed for District Attorney
| Siewers that since his succession to the District
Attorney hlp he mas been engaged in the pros
| ecutlOn of more capital cases than anv OF hi
predecessors. Indeed 1t appears as II there
were to be no end to homicide cases, since
sensation of the kind is already provided fo
| next term, with the Kate Leinbach and Smitf
murder cases vet TO be cleared up.
The exterior of the Lutheran Church o
Upper Mauch Chunk is rapidly nearing com
pleuon ............
"A demented boatmen named Armbruster
| who ella ms 10 Oe in direct communication will
! Omnpotence. Is now engaged dispensing bless
ings ana curses among the toilers OF The "raginl
| canawl."