The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-02-16
The Carbon Sdrufate.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1878.
Local and Personal.
-Bethlehem IS $4,000 in debt.

-Bethlehem is $40 900 in debt. 4
The city debt of Lancaster is stated at
$552,26S.
The debt of Allentown, city and school;
is $945, ,6O5.59.
The collieries at Eckley resumed work
last Monday.
Read Nusbaum & Sons special an
nouncement in another column.
When you go to the polls next Tuesday
don't fail to deposit your ballot in .tdror Of a
poor house.
Many consumptives are now using DR.
Frazier's Root Btters and Cough Syrup with
remarkable success.
The friends OF Rev. j. B. Whitton, of
Packerton, rendered him a donation on
Tuesday last.
We understand that Joe Lynn, of the
Mauch Chunk Democrat, is looking after
the Bank Assessorship.
The next Fair of the Lehigh County
Agricultural Society will be held on Sept.
oath, 25th, 26th and 9th
We would like to see a Burgess elected
who would a. fill the bill" himself, not hSfe
his duties performed by deputy +
The miners of Yorktown and Honey
brook resumed work Wednesday morning,
after a stoppage of about three weeks.
Read and remember the wonderful, but
true announcement A. j. Durling, proprie-
ter of the Peoples Drug store, makes in
another column.
John Grosscup, who formerly worked
ut Ferndale Rolling Mill, was among those
lost by the wreck of the steamer Metropolis.
If a mans religion is pretentious on
Sunday and obscure on week days you had
better do business with him on cash basis.
-"The wicked stand in slippery places"
said clergyman when he stepped ON bit
of ice and fell, and then added, "but can't
do it,"
Since the discovery of DIR. Williams's
Indian Ointment there is certainly no ex-
cuse for any one to suffer with the Piles.
See Advertisement,
-Clcrgymen, public speakers and singers
unite in their praise of DR.. CoXe's Wild
Cherry and Seneka. 1t renders the voice
clear and strong. Price, % and so cents.
When you want box large size writ
ing paper and envelopes for l0c., call on
Luckenbach's, . doors below the Broadway
House, Mauch Chunk.
Variety may be the spice of life, but
advertising is the pepper and salt of news
paper, and the bread and butter of the ad-
vertiser. The customer gets the cream.
1t is too often the case; when a man is
lookiig seriously toward matrimony, that
the deciding vote is not cast by the beauty
of the lady, but by the bank account of her
father,
j. X. Rickert has still a few ofthose eli
gible Tots in Rickertstown to dispose of. If
you feel like securing a good home call and
see him. He is also supplying -four feed,
lumber and coal at the lowest rates
Pleasant as honey, the old folks like il, the
young people like It and the babies cry for
tive mean DR. Frazier's Cough Syrup,
rel Extra copies of the CARBoN ADvo-
CATE can be obtained at Inkmann's News
Agency, on Susquehanna street, Mauch
Chunk. Price, Three cents.
There are many who spend what they
have and take no thought for a rainy day.
The prudent father and mother always keeps
a bottle of DR.. CoXe's Wild Cherry and
Seneka in the house. 2j and so cents per
bottle.
The mule is musical animal. His
voice has remarkable volume, and its hind
legs are full of shoe fly. But this fact docs
not interfere with David Ebbert, our livery
man, in his determination to hire teams al
low rates.
FOR CASH.-M. Florey, having adop,
ted the cash system in his business, an
nounces to the public that he is selling har,
ness, collars, &c, at very reduced prices fol
ready money. Gall, examine and be con,
WINGED. Manufaetory near the Canal Bridge
East Weissport, Pa.
No stagnation in busi-
ness at the Original Cheap
Cash Store of J. T. Nusbaum
& Son, Power Of low prices
will tell.
A GENTLE HINT.-In our style o
climate, with its sudden changes Of tempera
ture,-rain, wind and sunshine often inter
mingled N 9 single. day,-it is no wonde
that our children friends and relatives ar
so frequently taken from us by neglected
colds, half the deaths resulting directly from
this cause. A hottie of Boschee's German
Syrup kept about your home for immediate
use will prevent serious sickness, larg
doctors bill, and perhaps death, by the us
of three or four doses. For curing consump
tion, hemoirhages, ,pneumonia, severe coughs
Group or any disease Of the throat or lungs
its success is simply wonderful, as your drug
gist will tell you, German Syrup is nov
sold in every town and village on this con
tinent. Sample bottles for trial, lOc.; reglla
SIN, 7Se, For sale by A, J. Durling.