The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-09-07
News Items.

The sum OF $3.50 has just been received in
Washington as conscience money"
Frost continues to be reported in Erie,
Crawford, Warren and Mercer counties. o..
Tho fall term of Dickinson College, at
Carlisle, Pa, will begin on September l2.
A farmer near Ayoca, Iowa, has lost over
5000 worth of hogs in the past few weeks
from cholera.
Bishop Simpson is in Utah presiding over
the Territorial Conference now in session.
His family are with him.
The Lick monument, near Fredericks-
burg, Lebanon county, Pa, is visited daily
by large crowds of people.
A green caterpillar is doing much damage
to the ounce trees along the Cumberland
Valley, in this State.
The California newspapers begin to com
plain of the tramp nuisance, and are con-
sidering means for relief
Senator Gordon is taking advantage ofhis
vacation to improve and stock his extensive
sheep farm in Georgia.
The delinquent taxpayers in Hartford,
Conn, number 1872, and the total amount
of taxes in arrears is $2S5,S0l 81.
According TO official reports there are in
New York City S759 places where malt and
spirituous liquors are sold at retail.
The fall fashions announces great change
in the shape of ladies' hats. Broader brims
will be worn, with much larger crowns.
The yearly revenue Of Denmark is about
| Sl2,92O,OOO, and its expenditure 81 ,445 900.
Its public debt in 1877 was $5l.97O 900.
Governor Wade Hampton's physician has
forbidden his taking part in the opening
meetings of the South Carolina campaign.
Governor Mcclellan, Of New Jersey, has
| gone TO the White Mountains, where he will
! spend several weeks. Instantly accompany
him.
According to the accounts just presented
to parliament, it cost $500 to keep Lord
Beaconsield in good health at the Berlin
Congress.
A Washington paper SAYS the total coin
age of the standard silver dollars up TO the
close of business on Saturday last was $l3,-
44S, 500.
The Homeopathic Medical Society o
Pennsylvania will hold its annual session a
the Monongahela House, in Pittsburg, or
September Gath and 25th.
The engraving and printing bureau a
Washington now employs It's plate printer
and nearly 800 girls, besides numerous
SANiA9g "HNsAAiSht ihNsoShbSio NNs
The twentieth annual fair and exhibition
of the Warren County IN. J.) Agriculture
Society will be held at Belvidere on the 18th
18th and 18th of the present month.
An artesan well $3.50 feet deep has beer
bored in Pesth, Hungary. II is the deepes
in the world, being nearly twice the deptl
Of that in Paris. II sends up jet Of nearl,
boiling water forty y-two feet high.
Some idea may be formed of the extraor
dinary development of the cooperative sys
tenn in London from the fact that during tn
/ half year ending June SOth, the profits {
the Civil Service Supply Association amount
ed to sos, 900.
A Sioux City man blew down the chime
OF his kerosene lamp every night for fv
years and never had an accident The e1
ploson which burned the shirt off his bac
/ and the hair of his head occurred on III
! occasion Of the first blow of the sixth year.
( Judge Jere. Black was asked in Calilorni
r few days ago whether he agreed with Gel
T Buffers views as to the power Of State
0 make legal provision against the evils appn
; hended from Chinese immigration. He r