The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-01-19
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The city debt of Lancaster is stated at
about $563.25S.
Kansas farmers estimate corn at fifteen
cents bushel, at which price it is cheaper
fuel than coal or wood.
1t is remarked of the average Chicago
couple: "TWo souls with but single thought
how to get rid of each other.,'
The lumber business has been prosper
GUS in Clarion county this year. One firm
shipped 100000 feet without losing board.
Mr.. Wilton, member of the Virginia
House of Delegates from Tazewell county,
is the father of sixteen children, including
five pairs of twins.
Harvard College is making money.
The receipts of the year 1877, exclusive of
gifts and legacies, were nearly 100000 in
excess of the expenses.
The business men of Louisville have
petitioned the Kentucky Legislature for
money with which to carry out plans for i'm
proving the Kentucky river.
The Boston Board of Health has decid-
ed that diphtheria is "a disease dangerous
to public health" within the meaning of the
law, and it requires physicians to report all
cases occurring in their practice.
Under the poetic title, "Murmurs Of the
Tied" San Francisco paper recounts
years wreck on the shoals of married life.
There were 243 divorces granted in that city
during 1877. On the other hand there were
1000 marriages.
-Jackson's Day was celebrated in New
Orleans by a grand military parade Les
Gardes Lafayette carried the remnants of
flag that passed through the battle of New
Orleans-"a king of shreds and patches, but
still king"
"A train on a Florida railroad the other
day passed a man on horseback, and there
was great hurrahing among the passengers
until they discovered that the animal was
tied to the fence.
The Rev. Mr.. Harrington preached a
sermon in Lancaster, N. Lin support of the
doctrine bfeverlasting punishment. Deacon
Holton stood up and argued on the other
side of the question.
Adds MacVeagh, cousin of the Hon.
Wayne MacVeagh, and leading citizen of
Williamsport, Pa, died several days ago.
Two years ago he was the Democratic can
didate for Mayor of Williamsport,
"A Telephone Company, with a capital
Of $4,000, has just been incorporated at
Baltimore "for the construction, owning and
operating the telephone on telegraph wires
in the State of Maryland"
John Griiiiths ofGirardville, Schuylkill
county, Pa, has wife and daughter who
for many years saved all the money it was
possible, and finally built block of houses
in Pottsville, which they presented to Mr..
Griliiths, who had been kept in total ignor-
anee of what they were doing, while none of
his every day home comforts had been de-
MED him.
-Messrs. Alsopp & Sons pump 100000
gallons Gaily from thirty three-ineh wells,
and Messrs. Bass & Co., 500, 900 gallons from
twenty-fve-tube wells at Burton on Trent.
Thus two breweries consume enough water
to supply town of 10000 inhabitants. Al
though some of these Burton wells are with
in stones throw of the Trent the quality,
level, and temperature of the water differ
from those of the river water.
Capt. Roudaire, who has been survey
ing for several years, by order of the French
Government the desert Of Sahara region, has
discovered that between Chegga, at the south
of the province of Constantine, and Gabes,
on the coast of Tunis, a depression of
8 3,25O feet exists. This depression is divided
by only two barriers and the hillocks are but
LAG feet high and 65 wide at their highest
points The question of creating a sea in
the great desert, from the waters Of the Med
iterranean is thus assumed 70 b practicable.