The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-12-28

fore embrace this opportunity ofwishine our
friends and patrons A HAPPY NEW YEAR,
and trust that during the coming year all
things with them may be more prosperous
than in the past
Iron has gone up about 81 per ton. The
Millerstown Furnace the other day refused
an offer of $3.50.
The several Sunday school exhibitions
in this borough and Weissport, passed off
very pleasantly to teachers, scholars and
people.
wednesday next New Years day),will
be holiday, and the bank will be closed.
If you have a note due on that day, see to it
the day previous.
Thomas r. Bannon, n prominent law
yer of schuylkill county, died in Pottsville,
Wednesday evening, of paralysis He was
member of the last Constitutional Conven-
tion.
Edward Brooke, Sr., of the Berks coun-
ty iron manufacturing firm of L. & G. Brooke,
died at his residence in Birdsboro, Wednes-
day, of pneumonia. He was about 60 years
of age.
Our young friend, Ed. Dollenmayer was
married to Miss Yarnall, at Weatherly, on
Christmas eve. We wish the happy pair a
successful and happy pilgrimage through
life.
Two tramps known as Rilander and
Fink, were arrested at stemton on Friday
by the authorities there, and committed to
Jail at Easton. They belong to a gang of
tramps wanted for several robberies in
Northampton.
AT Treicher's, Lehigh county, on
Thursday of last week, the clothing of a
child of Mrs. Minich was accidentally set
on fire, and in an attempt to extinguish the
flames the mother and child were burned to
death.
"A gentleman named Hyde, said to be a
wealthy citizen of Canada, was killed ON a
train near Bethlehem, Friday morning. He
was stepping from one car to another while
the train was in motion, and fell off. He
had been visiting in Philadelphia.
-Four men named Barnes, Holland,
FReiey and Nipple, were arrested at Allen
town, on Friday last, for robbing the store
of Jos. verzi, at Weatherly on the previous
Wednesday, and sent to Mauch Chunk Jail.
They are supposed to have committed sever
al other robberies.
When you sit down, suddenly, on your
neighbor's pavement, let no profane remark
escape your lips or even enter your thoughts
for It's the wicked only "that stand on slip
perry places ?" Perhaps your own pave
ment is icy tool
The Teacher is a new educational jour.
nal published monthly by Eldredge & Bro.
of Philadelphia. It's title is an indication o
the topics to which il gives special attention
The first issue contains articles by prominen
educators giving suggestions ofvalue to thosC
whose business it is to teach the young.
The Governor of Illinois Tuesday las
ordered the discharge, at Springfield, o
Merrick and GofIaghan, recently arrested
on a requ sition from the Governor Of thi
State, for a murder alleged to have beer
committed by them in schuylkill county
fifteen years ago.
Allen c. Laros, the parricde, who re
Gently escaped from the State Lunatic Asy
lum at Harrisburg, has been captured il
Arkansas, and will be returned to the Asy
lum. He poisoned his father and mothe
and a man named Schug, near Easton, i
1876, and was sentenced to be hanged, bu
was subsequently pronounced insane.
DIR. j. G. Zern, of Weissport, has mad
arrangements with Dr. John II. MacCrear
to attend to his patients while absent in at
tendance at the Sessions of the State Legi:
lature. The DR.. will be at home himse
from Friday evening till Monday iorenoo
of each week. The hon. gentleman wi
leave for Harrisburg on Monday, Jan. 9th.
"A freight engine on the Lehigh Vale
, Railroad was thrown from the track Will
, rounding a sharp curve near Tomhicke
Thursday morning. 1t fell on its side, xii
: ing Dominic o'Donnell, the fremen, an
John Bainbridge, the brakeman, and badl
t scalding two other train hands.
Owen Jones, ex-Congressman from IL
Fifth Pennsylvania District, and formerl
Lieutenant Colonel of the First Pennsylv;
= MIA Cavalry, died suddenly of apoplex,
while going to visit a neighbor, near Winn
wood Station, on Wednesday evening Il
= was SO years of age
= Governor elect Hoyt, of Pennsylvani
accompanied by NJ. S. Quay, Jas. M'Mean
William R. Leeds and other prominei
Pennsylvanians,called upon President Hay
Monday to urge the appointment of Cove
of the members of the delegation feel sati
r fed that their petition will receive lavorab
consideration from Mr.. Hayes.
Christmas day was fully enjoyed by o,
people, from early morning till late at nigl
the merry jingle of the sleigh bells filled Il
air. The Lehighton Cornet Band visit,
Packerton during the day, and the Youi
America Band, of Weissport, made a sho
visit to our borough, but the day was h
: :, cold for them to discourse. their lively strai
Of music.
On Thursday afternoon of last week,
Easton, Lizzie Thomas a girl aged ten yeal
), was amusing her younger sisters, when h
clothes caught fire from the stove. She W
i so badly burned that her injuries will pro
fatal Her mother was absent from hon
9 at the time, and the child's clothes we
nearly burned of before assistance arrived
y The great banquet to Lord DufIern
Belfast was, as he said in his speech, Il
greatest compliment ever offered in Ulste
!, 1t was attended by all the Tory as well
Liberal peers, and by the Protestant al
Roman Catholic bishops and men of all pa
r ties. No other man in Ireland could ha'
brought together such conflicting element
. And right here we may add, that Dav
Ebbert, is the only one that hires teams
low prices in Carbon county. Livery
North street, this borough.