The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-09-21
We have tho School renort for the past

We have the School report for the past
month. 1t will appear in our next.
We were pleased to see E. R. Brown,
Esq, out riding on Thursday last, after his
severe illness.
VIM. Zehner, of Lahsford, and Thos. W.
Renshaw, the popular druggist, Of Summit
Hill, were in town Thursday evening.
AT Pottsville, on Saturday, John Dean
and James Noon, accused of the murder of
Patrick Stanton, in 1869, were discharged on
a writ ofhabeas corpus. Anthony Mulney
and Anthony Carey, in custody on the same
charge, were each held in $4,000 bail.
The concert held in the Reformed Church
Of this borough, under the direction of Prof.
II. a. Kline, was well patronized by our
people, there being present between 500 and
400 persons. The music and singing is very
highly spoken of by those who had the
pleasure of being present.
"Wednesday morning John Gill, Of Bow
mans Patch, near Mahanoy City, while try
ing to get loaded gun from under n bench,
had the contents discharged into his body,
owing to the hammer catching on the end
of the bench. Part Of his hip was blown
away, and quantity of shot was extracted
llOhl ulS bbhNs lAI NtilliNN iNNONNAs
-BEfrrR THAN FoRE1Gy PoRT.-Speer's
Port Grape Wine is better than Imported
Port, and since the adultemtion of the Hat
ter, it must take its place. 1t is pure and
really excellent and health giving.-TroY
Times. The most select 9Th Avenue families
use this wine at their evening entertain
mehts. Our Druggists have some diredt
from Mr.. Speer.
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john Becker, farther, living in Cata-
wissa Valley, while returning home Wednes-
day evening, over the mountain from Shen-
andoah, fell into pit sixty feet deep. His
skull was crushed. lie sustained other in
iurcs, which will prove fatal. These noun
tains abound in air holes, caused by old
mine workings sinking
On Saturday afternoon boy aged scyeh
years, named Edward Costello, was killed on
the railroad at the Rarpahannock, on the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. lie
was standing on the track as the passenger
train CAME Around sharp curve, and, be-
fore he could make his escape, the engine
ran over him. Besides being shockingly
mutiated his bach and both arms We're
broken.
In the neighborhood of Pottsville, as
Margaret Bolser, girl fourteen years Of age,
was returning from berry picking Wednes-
day morning man, named Frank McIIugh,
attempted TO commit an assault upon her.
She screamed, and when several men ran to
her aid she was found in a semi-nude con-
dltion, her assailant having torn her cloth
ing. At Pine Grove an assault of similar
character was made upon girl ten years OF
age, the child being so roughly used that her
life is despaired Of. Both assailants are in
custody.
The William Penn Colliery near Shen-
andoah was the scene of thrilling accident
on Saturday. A number of BOYS, engaged
as slate pullers, Were amusing themselves by
riding down a long TELEGRAPH used to convey
the coal from the screen to the chutes. AT
the same time the men under the breaker
outside were drawing the coal out of the
chute into the cars. The boys, unmindlul
of theif danger, kept sliding the telegraph
into the chute. Suddenly the suction made
by the coal being drawn from under into
the cars caught three boys, and in a twink
ling they disappeared from sight. One OF
them, John Rice, was smotherea to death
The other two were badly bruised
a painful story comes from Pals Alto, q
small mining village two miles from Potts;
vile. A Mrs. Falls confessed that when a
child was born to hec short time ago she
took it into the woods, strangled and buried
it. When the child was sought for it wa.
found that some animal had scratched the
earth off the shallow grave and dreadfully
mutilated the body. The woman had left
her husband and Had been acting as house.
keeper for man at Plato Alto, and the
child murder was perpetrated to save hersel
from shaine. Neighbdrs who had noticed
her condition Were instrumental in discov
ering the crime.
Rev. W. G. Laitzei, of Trinity Evan
gelical Lutheran church, on Sunday morn.
ing last preached his Harvest Home Sermon
after which collection was taken up in aC
Of the Orphans Home, Philadelphia, which
amounted to $lS.92. In the afternoon; the
Sunday School decided to foregU the hold
ing of their annual picnic, and in liet
thereof contributed IN the aid of the yellow
fever sufferers of the South; and realizel
SlS.92, and ut the services iii tile church il
the evening Sl2:2S Was substtIbed for tn,
same laudable purpose. The pastor tool
for his text in the evening Job MIX, ,l3
| IA, 10 and l6 verses, from which he preached
a most eloquent sermon in the English Ian
guage: