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WenIherIy AIcnlS.

N-The address delivered by Grand Sire
Nicholson in the interests of |. o. o. F., was
not only interesting but likewise instru0tiPo.
Monroe Steigerwat is nursing a very
sore hand, which was accidentally soaldeG.
Aaron Biting, after several weeks i'll
ness, has so far recovered that he can be
about, but is not yet able to attend to his
work.
DARING RoBBERY.-During last night bur
glars entered the tailoring establishment of
Joseph Verzi in the basement of the Gilbert
House, and carried Off some $500 worth OF
clothing, jewelry, 80. Mr.. Verzi has en-
ployed competent officers who will use every
means to ierrit out the guilty parties.
Amongst the goods stolen were five eXpen-
sive suite, made to order ready for delivery
before Christmas.
"TRYING TO MAKE THEM HAPrY." All
the different Sunday schools of tho town
will have Christmas entertainments for the
benefit of the children
The Presbyterian will be on Tuesday
evening, while the others will come off on
Christmas night.
In connection with the usual distribution
of gifts, candies, ETC., the NJ. +. School prom
ises new features. The singing will be in
charge of the pastor, and will be inquest
ionably good. RoCKAwAY.
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End of the Coal combination.

Messrs. Dickson and Gowen, the Commit
tee of the Board of Control, have written a
letter to J. II. Swoyer, Chairman of the Com
mttee Of the Lehigh Valley Operators, in
reply to Mr.. Swoyer's letter, which we pub
lished last week, in which he stated that the
committee had no power to make more than
a temporary arrangement before January l.
The position taken by Messrs. Dickson and
Gowen is still aintained-namely, that no
negotiations can be carried on until Mr..
Swoyer's committee obtain the requisite
power to represent authoritively the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company. When this author
ity is secured the committee of the Board of
Control is prepared to consider any PROPOSE
ton for the formation of a new combination
for 1879, provided the matter can be settled
before December 81; and should the Lehigh
Valley committee, when clothed with the
proper power,desire an extension of the time
allowed for the conclusion ofa definite agree
ment it would readily be granted. This let
ter is regarded among coal men as a virtual
end of negotiation looking TO a harmonious
result.
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More CrOOkedness.

Tax Collector Howard Mellick Phillips
burg, N. j., was arrested Saturday morning
on warrant sworn out by the Mayor,
charging him with altering and oblterating
a" duplicate" of 900 on which a tax of$7O
had been paid. The duplicate" in question
for the above amount was all right at the
time the tax was paid and the receipt given
therefor, but now there are no traces of any
thing to show that it is all right. Mr.. Mel
lick gave bail in the sum of 81 900 for his
appearance at Court. 1t is alleged that ex-
Tax Collector Jesse F. Carhart made set
tlement with the Citizens Committee Friday
evening at Mr.. Dumonts Office. Mr.. Car
hart a short time ago gave back several hun
dred dollars worth of coupons, and he still
was indebted TO the town in the sum of 81,
200, for which mortgage was given on his
property.
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NEWS GsRSSIP.


The Princess Louise carries small cane
when she walks in Ottawa.
Endorsed by the people as a safe, reliable,
harmless and cheap remedy. DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup.
Governor IIartranft, 10th inst, rcfrievcd
Alexander Z. Sayre until the l4th of Jan
uary next
A bullet in pistol that should have been
loaded with blank cartridge killed George
Coles, an amateur actor in Vandalia Ill,
A man hanged in Indiana nodded to the
chaplain as the drop fell and said: "Pu
sec you later"
From all sections abundant evidence comes
that DR.. Haas EXpectorant is Appreciated
aud priced, and in spite of all opposition has
won its way into favor as the best cough
medicine, 25 cents bottle.
During the first three of the ten years
Presidency Of DR.. McCosh at Princeton, he
received gifts of money for the college
amounting to about 81 900 per week. After
that, subscriptions rose to SO 900 at time (:
and, altogether, there has been received 81
10000.
The body of Christiana Hermann, muir
dered in York county on the 9TH inst, has
been exhumed by the coroner, and bullet
hole found in the skull, the bopes of which
were crushed. Suspicion still rests on SnY-
der, who is in Jail.
WEAKLY PERsoNs' WGNE.-Old and mtirm
persons need some mild tonic or gentle
stimulant, especially in warm weather. The
wine made at Speer's Mount Prospect Vine
yards in New Jersey, called Speer's Port
Grape Wine, is used in the Atlantic States as
the best tonic wine known, and is regarded
as pure, and is very popular among physi-
clans.
The Evangelical Ministers of Cleveland,
Ohio, at a meeting 10th inst, unanimously
approved the proposal Of Mr.. Moody and the
Ministers of Baltimore, for ga united effort
by all the churches in the United States, in
the month of January, following the week
of prayer, towards general revival through
out the land"
A Coop ACCOUNT" To sum it up, six
long years Of bed-ridden sickpess and suffer
ing, costing 5000 per year, total 81 ,20O-all
of which was stopped by three bottles Of Hop
Bitters, taken by my wife, who has done her
own housework for year since, without the
loss of day, and want everybody to know
it for their benefit"
If. JoHN WEEKS, Butler, \. !.
On recent trip the steamship City of
Sydney made the fastest stcaming time on
record between Sydney and San Francisco.
She was just G2S hours en- route, including
stoppages, and landed the mails two and a
half days ahead of time,
REMEDY FOR HARD TIMEs.-Stop spending
so much on fine clothes, rich food and style.
Buy good healthy food, cheaper and better
clothing; get more real and substantial
things Of life everyway, and especially stop
the foolish habit of running after expensive
and quack doctors or using so much of the
vile humbug medicine that does you only
harm, and makes the proprictors rich, but
put your trust in the greatest of all simple,
pure remedies, Hop Bitters, that cures always
at trifng cost, and you will see better
times and good health. Try it once. Read
of it in another column. If.
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Echoes from Beaver Meadow.

A great many places are idle this week
on account Of the late rains.
We are happy to state that j. ]. Roberts
is on the recovery,
The Song Bird Troupe, wish to return
their thanks to the kind people of Weather
ly, for the many compliments paid to them
since their last visit to that phase.
j. D. NJ. Curley, was made happy on
Friday last, by the birth of daughter
Past Grand Sire Nicholson, thinks him
self one of the Song Birds, by having his
name so often associated with the troupe, and
says he is most happy to meet with them on
all occasions.
The teachers of the NJ. E. Sunday school
have decided, as being the only religious
body in town, to have a Christmas tree in
their church on Christmas day.
f. B. Ely is away from home on i'm
portant business.
They say that pork and chicken thieves
are plentiful in the mining regions.
Dec. 18th. OBSERVER.
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Mcdonnell and sharpe Rcspitcd. :

Mcdonnell and sharpe RespiIcd.
+ James Mcdonnell and Charles Sharpes
Molly Maguires, were respited on last Mon
day until the Nth of January by Governor
1Iartranft, who had issued warrants for their
execution at Mauch Chunk on the 18th inst
At the last meeting of the Board of Pardons
an application Tor the commutatiOn of Nc
Donnell's death sentence to Imprisonment
for life was adversely considered, and subse-
quently writs of error in his and Sharpc's
case were refused by the Supreme Court.
Sharpc's counsel had meanwhile made an
appeal to Judge Dreher, who sentenced both
culprits, and he prepared communication
which was forwarded to the Governor, stating
that if the after discovered evidence in favor
of Sharpe had been before the Court in the
present form at the argument for a new trial
he would have continued the case to afford
the defendant an opportunity to 'sumbt the
testimony, and if the case was in his control
he would do so now. The only way, he
says, is for an appeal to the Governor for a
respite, so that Sharpe can bring his case
again before the Board of Pardons. McDon-
nell and Sharpe were convicted of the muir
der of'George X. Smith in 1868, and both
owe the verdict to the testimony of self-con-
iessed murderers, who swore that the ac-
cused had confessed their connection with
the crime. The new testimony conflicts
materially with that on which verdict of
murder in the first degree was based in the
Sharpe case. AS the men are under sentence
of death for the same crime Governor Hart
ranft has respited both. The probabilities
now are that Sharpe will go to prison for life.
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" Couldn't See IT."

A few days since gentleman stepped in
to CRITTENTON's, No, Z Sixth avenue, New
York, and stated that he had used lIALE's
HONEY OF lIOREHOuND AND TARin his fami-
lv for the last four months, to the entire sat
isfaction of them all, for the cure of Coughs,
Colds, Influenza, Hoarseess, Difficult Breath
ing; or any other Affections of the Throat,
Bronchial Tubes and Lungs, leading to Con.
sumption but moving to the east side of
town, he went to the nearest druggist for a
bottle of this article, when the druggist at
tempted TO palm off some article of his own
manufacture in place Of iti and using here
the gentlemah's language, he told the drdg=
gist he "Couldn't see it !" or, in other words,
he was satisfied with HALE's HoNEY OF
HoREHoUND AND TAR" and he wanted
nothing else; as he had already used this,
and knew by experience that this article
would give almost imm0liate relief, and in
short time would effect permanent cure
of any or all the lurgong complaints. We
have our eve upon the above mentioned
druggist, and trust should he read this it
would be lesson to him, and to all other
druggists to furnish "IIALEs HoNEY OF
HoREHoUND AND TAR" when called for, and
retain their customers, for the reason that
any ono who uses this article once will have
nothing else. Sold by all respectable drug
gsts at so cents and 81 per bottle. Great
saving to buy large size.
FLoRENcE, Mass, Oct. 80, 1878.
Mr.. CHAs. n. CRTTENToN.-DEAR SIR:
Your circular is received, and can truly
say that | doom your HALES HONEY or
HoREHouND Am Tan one of the very best
medicines in the market. took a hard
cold, it settled on my lungs; tried almost
everything, but received no benefit until
tried your HALE's HONEY OF IoREHouND
AND TAR. feel that | am now well from
using the above, after trying almost every
thing else for two years. Please send the
circulars, and oblige, NELSON A. DAVIS.
PrKK's TooEHAOHE DROrs cure in one
minute. 3--6
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Allentown Rolling will.

1t is frequent graduation to our citizens
that despite the depression in the furnace
business and consequent dearth of orders, the
Allentown Rolling Mill is enabled to keep
going with force of some 700 men, and that
the hands are makingvery fair wages. Pud-
dlers earn as high as S2.sO day, helpers
$3.50 to slice, and ordinary laborers from
81 to Sl,lo. In other years, or at least the
last few, the mill at about this season always
stood idle, but with it in operation now the
recent stoppago Of several Of the furnaces Of
the Allentown Iron Company is not making
itself 30 largely ielt in that section OF the city
as would otherwise have been the case,-
.iNetiggH pCugcrGf,
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NIahoning TwinkIIngs.
Monday was a cold day.

Monday was a cold day.
The farmers are busily engaged hauling
coal for the winter.
D. A, X. and j. C.. expect to spend
Christmas ON the other side of the Blue
Mountain.
"A. S. Miller is taking music lessons Of
d. Nothstein.
The Pleasant Corner Sno0te Band was
out again, on Monday night
Allen Fritz left for Calnown last week
A. Kistler and n, Ballet were out hunt
ing on the Blue Mountain last week, and
captured two rabbits and one wild turkey,
the latter weighed ldl pounds.
The singing school at Centre Square is
pncticing for their christmas entertainment
~. CARRIER shot II muskrats last week.
RIpFAIH,
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Anna Maria Horn, widow of Abraham
Horn, died at the residence of her son, A.
W. Horn, on Lehigh street, this borough, on
Thursday night. Deceased was born on the
S0th Of March, 1889, i'm Bethlehem township,
Northampton county, and with her husband
moved 10 this place on the 5Oth of March,
ls4o. She was an aiiectionate parent,a warm
friend, and devoted christian. The funeral
will take place on Monday next at one o'clock.
Services in Trinity Lutheran church. Inter
ment in Gnaden Huetten Cemetery. Friends
and IelalIyes ave invited % attend,
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Penn Van Mystery 7

The New ILLU STRATED FAMILY NEWS.
PAPER OF LEON aud HARRIET LEWIS,
SPACES, containing
STORIES-Lady RedwOOde's DAUGHTER by
Mrs. Harriet Lewis Count of MOute CristO
by Alex. Dumas Sir AllYn's EnemV, bV Leon
Lewis, etc. Portrait of Dumas and other Il
iustrationS.
VOYAGES and TRAVELS-A Ride Through
ca, by Lady Barker, SIX Months in the sand.
Wich Islands Around the World, by Mrs
BTassY, etc. Illustrated.
EOGRAPHICAL-Vesti OF Atlantis, the
Continent That existed 1900 years ago be-
tCOlumbus Current Explorations etc, with
Map of Atlantis,
SCIENCE.-1he Religion Of the Great Pyrp-
mld Discovery OF Ndlcan The Moons Of
Mars.
HISTORY-Lake Dwellings Of Switzerland and
other parts OF Europe Glimpse at Babylon.
LEADING ARTICLES Tho Real Business cf
Existence True capital and True kichas: the
Relations OF tins Life to the Life 10 Come; Ia
an Age OF Miracles" at hand
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Address,
LEON and HARRIET LEWIS.
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U n. SEWERS,
Local and Personal.
r., sntnSCnIREms.

Subscribers to the CARBON ADVOCATE will
take special notice that our terms are one
dollar year strictly in advance, if not SO
paid $I.25 will be charged in every instance.
Subscribers getting their papers by mail will
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Promises kept inspire confidence; and Or.
Bull Baby Syrup never promised relief in
the diseases OF childhood without at once
etiectng il. HePoe the popular reliance
upon il. Pgiee IS cents a bottle,
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PETITION FILED, Nor ACcoRDING TO LAW.
On the 5th inst, petition, contesting the
election of Charles Meendsen, for Associate
Judge, was placed in the hands of Hon. S. S.
Dreher, President-Judge, at Stroudsburg,a and
filed in the Prothonotary's office of this
county, on the fth inst.
Tho petition sets forth and alleges illegal
votes polled for Mr.. Meendsen as follows
East Penn, 10 Lehigh, s Lower Towa-
mensing, As; Towamensng, 20; Lausanne,
3; Pockerton, q Parryvlle, 6 Penn For
cst, 2; Weissport; 70; also, lunatic in
Lower Towamonsing, and a number OF pau
pers.
The petition is ssgned by the following
persons:
+. NJ. Mulhearn, Charles Scheubel,
+. B. Albright, J. II. Hyndman,
ii. Brelsford, Robert b. Beahm,
J. o. Kline, Jas. II. lIandwcrk,
w. II. StrUh, VIM. Butler,
VIM. c. Morris, /. Flentje,
Albin Stole, Elias Shicl,
Amos Stroh, Samuel B. ITeist,
Geo. w. Bcrtsch, George +. Painter,
Jacob Sauber, Gabriel Schinke,
John Miner, . O, f. Lippencott.
Jacob Sendel, Y. b. Bretz,
The alleged facts are sworn to as true to
the best of knowledge and belief, by the fol-
lowing named petitioners;
George F. Painter, Gabriel Shinke,
j. y. Kline, Albiu Stole,
Amos Stroh.
On the back Of the document is tho fol-
lowing endorsement in the handwriting of
Judge Drcher:
December jth, 1878 The within petition
was presented to me at Chambers, but de-
cline to act in the matter, because the alli-
davlt is not in conformity to the Act of AS
sembly.
Signed, SAM'L S. DREHER,
President Judge.
What these proceedings will amount to
remains to be seen. We, says the Carbon
Democrat, venture to guess that it will prove
a very small fizzle.
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sIXrY-sIX ACRES AND FIVE PERp4as,


more or leSe.
All that certain tr9Ot Of land situate In Lower
IOwamensipg, Carbon county, Pa- bounded and
described as follows to wit ;-Beginning at stour,
corner CT land b. longing to the said Charles
klotz thence along the same aud partly along
lands of John ID. Greensweig south one and one
halt degrees, east twenty four percheR 10 = SaIs
ling; t'ence along lands Of said John D. Greens.
weiE, south eishty7six and onn-lsIf degrees, west
twenty-s tx perches to = stone; nor:h eighty-six
and onealf degrees, east twenty y.fGur .rches toA
pine; thence partly along Rawrs land and tho
Chas Klotz land north eighty six and "no,halr de-
grees, east tweniYsiX and half pc rehss to the
place of beginning, and containing
THREE ACRES AND ONE HUNDRED ANQ
FURrY-F0UR PEEClIES.
be the same more or less.
The improvements thereon are
ONE AND A HALF STORY STONE DWELLING,
twelve bv thirty two feet; Frame Kitchen attach.
ed, ten ly fifteen feet Stable sixteen by twenty
four feet, and one building.
Seized and taken t. TO executi az the proper
ty Of Samuel Greensweig.
J. RAUDBNBUSH, Sheriff.
Sh riffs Office
Mauch CHUNK. December Q. 1873.
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THIRTY.RoUR ACRES,

And the other tract beginning at q stone line
late John Hose, north eighty.seven degrees, east
one hundred and thirty -four aud half perrhCs
10 n stone; thence by land of said J ID. Greeh.
sweig north three degrees, west eighty.fnur paish
es u stone; south eighty six degrees, east QUO
hundred and thirty perches to . post thpuce
south one degree, east one hundred aud eighty
ginning, containing
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sncInfr NIaaflnrs.

SFrSIro oAsrLE, No. rs, "A. o. X. OF THE NJ. c
aud and 4th Monday Of each mouth, in Re
ber'a Hall. Ilehighton, at 1880 O'Clock p NJ
John Gagsas, s. X. CT sam. H. Gilham'
=. X, RS.
aNAnRH HuTrRN LoDaE. No, csc, ]. @, Q. y,
meets every Tuesday evening, at SO'ciOck'
in Reber's Hall. II. ROstenbader, sci NJ
u. Reber, Secretary.
LpHIaHToH LoDGB, No, 2ai. X, OF II, meets
on Friday evenings. in Reher's Hall' az ,;.O
O'Clock. w. il. Bachman, CO l.. A. Miller,
X. Of II. and S.
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Rampagious small boys stonius the tsle-
grsPh w.Tus cod England sjO,OOO last year
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ny virtue Of writ Of vENmTDoS1 E4PeNAs, q
thOse three adjoining
TRACTS OR PIECES OF I,ANn

situate In the Township Of Lower TowameRstnaa
in the County Of Carbon, and State Of Penusyi-
vaniai the one beginning at Il stone, thence hy
land pf said j. D. Greenswei5 north one dsgrsa
west hfty'pue perches to q stone thence by land
Of homas kuehner north eighty six and or e-halr
degrees, east twenty-six percheS tn stona; t~ur,,
by the saWe north one degree, west four perchrs
to stonei thence by land late Apps land north
seventysix aud three-tnurths degrees. east TWEEN
ty-nine and thrRe-fnprtbs perchrs to q stone;
thence by the same north srvcnty-two degrees,
East twenty perches TO stone; south eighty five
degrees, east ten perches TO II hemlock; $ nth
twenty five and one-hglf degrees, east niue and
three iourths perches to stone; south eight aud
one-half degrees, eat twelve and three-fpurths
perches to a stone; south one degree. east f0rt,-
four aud One-halt lerehes ~ stone; thence by
the hereinafter described I, act south righty,six
and one'lalf degrees, west lIinety pvrrhes TO tho
place of ltuiI
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What these proceedings will amount to
remains to be seen. We, says the Carbon
Democrat, venture to guess that it will prove
a very small fzzle.
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LLVN ahu HAHNIEE IEWIs-
deo'liW6 Publishers. PCnu Nau, \. y.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-01
HORSE MARKET.

The arrivals the past have been somewhat larger and
as general tnng Of much oetter class Of Horses than or
several weeks past load Of Mixed Horses from Ohio came
csptay "a notice The owner spent about ree weeks
i'm Ohio Illinois Indiana endeavofing 70 purchase car
load 81 Work HoTss not for heavy DRAFT poss
but for days aud snch as could DO sold mere TOT
ia 10 5000 per head. He claims that IL ~ alnOst
impssibe 20 Obtain this class Of Horses mainly OWING
to their scarcity when no dld come across one
nine ten the animal Was the property ei
do farmer who valued him entirely too hgh 70 ADMIT
X si, him for this market lie also says mat buyers nav
travelled over nearly all the Western states ~ sss1n o.
iIorses for the English Market nhtl the lAlto ,
ear barliy be induced 10 cell thor sioox AZ q
reasonable price. II was almost inTtsrlLt iy5 hnh
snd he was Compelled add few inferior farm animals;
e expeence Of this Od and well known horse der aiees
IN ey.T esrena point with hundreds OF others ana gwen
IA an example the difficulty N procuring desirable s hos
only Tor fba market supply the oXport trade 30 i ~
eity trade IA there Is yet no 70
soe dealers beginning 10 think the expected reYIFa d