The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-05-11
The Carbon Adrpfate.
SATURDAY, MAY IL, 1878.
Local and Personal.


Vests liver pills cure dyspepsia
The late rains caused the Lehigh to rise.
Fan up your patriotism for Decoration
Day.
The grass plots are starred with dande-
lions.
There are twelve wholesale liquor stores
in Shenandoah.
-"After the Shower" is thesname of a
new brocade silk.
The early mornings are melodious with
the songs of birds.
The collectors of internal revenue were
in town Saturday.
Clean up your yards, and have the air
free from noxious odors.
The switchback Railroad will be
opened next Wednesday.
Read Tilghman Arner's new advertise
ment in another column.
Local correspondence from all sections
will be thankfully received.
Alligator hides are tanned in large lots
in the vicinity of Kutztown.
The freight business of the Lehigh
Valley Road is on the increase.
The phenomenon of a rainbow after
dark was witnessed here Sunday night.
Spring and summer styles of gents and
youths hats, at T. D. Clauss' at low prices.
The HaEleton SentineI advises its read
ers to lay in their Winter supply of produce
The anthracite furnaces of Lebanon and
6chuylkill Valleys are filling large orders.
The bill prohibiting the sale of goods in
the vicinity Of camp-meetings is now law.
"A full line of boots and shoes, gents
furnishing goods, &C., at T. D. Clauss,' very
cheap.
Since W. II. Zeller's connection with
The Courier, of Tamaqua, that paper has I'M
proved.
Almost everybody believes in the moral
law, but very few believe in the necessity OF
practicing it
Tho grain fields look very wavy and
green, and the prospects are first-rate for a
good wheat crop.
Jesse Newlin was reelected superin-
tendent of Schuylkill County's public
schools on Tuesday,
AT Locust Gap Wednesday Frank Miller
died from injuries received while attempting
TO board a coal train.
William Minehold, of Audenried, died
Monday from injuries received in the mines
the Saturday previous.
"A district Sunday school convention
will be held in the Evangelical Church in
the early part Of June.
The Bee Hive store Of D. Graver, on
Bank street. is the place to buy queenswarei
dry goods, and provisions.
A three months old child of Benjamin
Haskey, of Shenandoah, was smothered tc
death Monday afternoon.
Go to Daniel Gnver's Bee Hive store
Bank street, for ladies' dress goods,oil cloths
carpets, aud good groceries.
The arrival of summer dress goods &c.
at the Original Cheap Cash Store are an
hounced in another column.
This is the season for oil cloth, I have
u fine line, all widths. Call and see. Z. F
Luckenbaoh, Mauch Chunk.
Before purchasing elsewhere, go to D
Graver's Bee Hive store, Bank street, enc
learn the prices Of his groceries.
The yung man ov the period skratchei
his he'd and wondereth wich taylor will
trust him fur hiz spring suit ov close.
As was anticipated, the transit of Mer
curry took place Monday but the price o
beef in Lehighton has not come down.
Since the macadamising of Bankway
the Emall boy takes the middle of the street
We saw him do it Wednesday morning.
Good &c mounted buggy harness only
8I5, and good nickel mounted harness $25
AZ N. PloIey's, Weissport, Pa. 2S-tf
The employees in the Weatherly machine
shops sre still working but hours per day
Those in the fOunGry work about half time
TO the American boy there is an awfu
"a Observation-Disclosures in weight 6etweel
the bStt-epd Of S fsh pole Hnda hoe handle
Thomas Norris, arrested at Plttston
Pa, few days ago. has confessed that h
murdered his wife in Kansas City last Jan
uary.
-Mieh&el McGaghaH, after a hearing be
fore Squire Sehutter, of Hazleton, was takei
TO the Wilkes-Bayre Jail, to await bis tria
for perjury.
John Daley, a miner, was fatally injur
ed by a fall Of coal in the Plank Ridg
mines, at atshenandoah, Pa, Friday mornin.
of last week.
The Scranton school teachers have no
been pald for six months. They are oblige
10 self their orders at a discount Oi from 2
10 80 per cent
Levi Transue, Of South Bethlehem, wa
arrested last week on a charge of embezzlC
ment, and bound over in $3.50 bail for hi
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