The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-12-28
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During the academic year of 1878 there
were 5,035 students at the Medical School Of
Paris.
Exports of Great Britain to the United
States have decreased from G37 900, 900 in
1873 to little over $50 10000 in 1877, and
are still slowly declining.
There are in Moore county, N. c., twenty
eight gold mines, six silver mines, eight
copper mines, nine or ten iron mines, and a
general assortment of other mineral "fnds."
The Gloucester fishermen follow perlous
business. The report for the last year shows
loss of 35 lives and eight vessels, which is
below the average, the figures Of 1876 being
2l2 and 27.
William Brown, Sr, aged 7G years, well
known citizen of Rockdale, near Chester,
Pa, Monday morning drank two ounces of
tincture OF aconite in mistake for whisky,
and died instantly.
A public works loan for f5,00O,OOO has
been authorized by the Victoria Parliament,
and the London banking syndicate tele-
graphs that it can place 93,OO0,0 900 in Eng
land if the Government will promise to
borrow no more for year.
The Millinery Trade ReuietO says: at
is estimated that one-fiith of the territory
tributary to Chicago has suffered an almost
total loss of crops which detracts from our
sales this fall. q To say that the
trade is in good condition is to repeat an un-
truth"
The value Of silk ribbons annually export
ed hither from Switzerland has fallen from
four million to one million dollars since
1878. Paterson silk mills are running on
full time and employ eight thousand to ten
thousand hands, and the greatest demand is
for ribbons and scarfs.
To beautify the coats of eight horses
valued at $4,000, and also four oxen, q
Cambridgeshire (England) laborer put SC
much arsenic in their food that they all
died. Sentence; q months hard labor
This treatment of horses is common al
Vienna. 1t makes them foam at the mouth
too, or is supposed to do so.
The Secret Service division of the Trea
sury will, on the LIST of January next, bC
placed under direction of Assistant Secretary
Hawley. The change will not affect tn,
personnel of the office; it will simply make
the Assistant Secretary the approving officer
instead Of the Solicitor, as heretofore.
Representative Williams of the First Dis
trict of Michigan, had a severe attack o
vertigo with premonitions of apopleXy, il
Washington, 10th inst. Serious results wer,
averted for the time by vigorous treatment
but his physicians declared that the DANCE
would not be entirely past until twenty fou
hours from the first attack.
The Government of Honduras is makinj
great efforts to develop the agricultural re
sources of the country. Coffee planting ha
been vigorously carried on, and the Govern
ment make free grants of land TO all person
desirous Of undertaking the cultivation q
coffee, or sugar, or Of cocoa, and give FIRE
transport Of the necessary material and labo
to the site of the grant. Besides these ad
vantages, planters are exempt from militar
service, and all implements and material
necessary for the use or formation of planta
tions are admitted into the country free
duty. Strangers are admitted to the sam
privileges as citizens of the republic.
A boy ran into a church in Addiso
county, VT, and. told woman that he
baby had been kidnapped. She screamed
and the eommo6on that followed broke u
the sefviees, This incident brought int
pnblieity a scandal, and gave rise to sever,
lawsuits. The woman was married iy
years previously, to young farmer, and Ii
couple went to live with the husband
uncle. II was not long before the uncle an
tbe wife fell in love with each other, turne
The husband out Of doors, and had kind
marriage ceremony performed betwee
themselves The nephew sorrowed for h
wife, and would gladly have taken h
back, but she refused to speak 10 him, an
the uncle kept gun always at hand to shO
him if he entered the house, A few montl
ago baby was born 10 her, and il was tn
child thai was carried off, the nephew beir
the lcidnapper. The lawsuits are for
vorOe, for the custody Of the baby, and &
assault.