The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-12-14
From the County Seat.

lore lne ISL OF january, please auNlSe me.
(Signed) j. II. SwoYER, Chairman.
From the County Seat.
A GREAT MUSICAL EVENT IN 1LAUoH
CHuNH.-For u week past, great topic of
interest III town is the promised appearance
of " Americas Favorite Vlolinist," Madame
Camilla Urso, in grand concert on Monday
evening, 10th inst, in the large dining hail
of the Mansion House. For those uniamil-
lar with her reputation, we will say that
Camilla Urso IS a lady performer on the
violin, who has become one Of the greatest
musical celebrities of the age. Her name is
familiar all over this country and in Europe;
and wherever she goes there seems to be but
one result-the most unbounded admiration
and applause. She performed in San Fran
cisco before an audience numbering over
fifteen thousand people, and the musical
people of the city gave her Il serenade at the
Occidental Hotel, accompanied by hundreds
of the most prominent citizens. In London
she performed with such success that the
Royal Society Of Musicians, the Duke of
Edinburgh presiding, the Duchess of
Buccleuh and many members of the
Royal Family sent requests for her to play
again. In Paris and the other principal
cities of France her success was uneXampled.
Last month she gave concert at Music
Hall, Boston, before an audience numbering
over three thousand people. The N. Y.
| Times says, eve have no hesitation in pac-
| ing her among the foremost of the living
| violinists." Besides this remarkable artistic,
Miss Ivy Wanderlorde, soprano, w. C..
Tower, tenor, |. +. Rudolphsen, baritone,
and Herr Bermo Scherek, pianist, are an
nOunccd. These persons are very highly
praised, and the Philadelphia Press says,
" RudOlphsen has a baritone voice which we
have never heard eXcelled," while Tower,
says the Montreal Herald, " has a magni
/ ficcnt tenor voice of great power and com
pass, and under excellent cultivation"
This concert is given under the manage
ment of the local literary society of this
place, the Athenmum; and through an ex-
ceptionally fortunate chain of circumstances,
they are enabled to offer tickets at fifty
cents, with reserved chair without extra
charge For many people in and around
Mauch Chunk, this is probably the one op-
portunity of a life time TO hear the far
famed Camilla Urso.
Why cannot the many Ihusic-loving people
of Lehighton and neighborhood get up O
party and come up ON Monday evening
The concert will begin about eight and will
probably be over by ten, and we doubt
whether our people in this region will ever
| again have as favorable an opportunity. 1t
will doubtless be worth the entire price of
admission TO hear her play the "Last Rose
of Summer" a piece she is said always
to reserve for the final encore.
STARTLING RUI0R.-While the water was
leaping and ioaming over the dams in the
Lehigh, on Tuesday afternoon, and the rain
was still descending, a startling rumor was
circulated that there was a serious danger
of Dreshbach's dam breaking, which is To-
Gated between Mauch Chunk and Summit
Hill, and holds back large body of water.
If this dam subseryes no public good, it
might be disposed OF, before some serious
disaster from that source does happen,
During Tuesday nightmue uneaslness was
felt here on account Of the ireshet.
Council MEETING.-At the council meet
ing on Saturday evening, moneys amount
ing 70 S92.30 were received from different
sources, and bills amounting TO about $500
were ordered paid. The salary of the keeper
of the lookup was fixed at S. per month
and three lamps were ordered to be placed
in the market house; delnquents on ac
count of the Susquehanna street drain wer,
notified that all bills remaining unpaid aftel
the 10th inst, will DO placed in the hands
of an attorney for collection. The cost o
lighting the streets in both wards for tn,
month Of November was SSS 25.
WAR VETERAN REWARDED. - Patricl
; Gallagher, Of East Mauch Chunk, who serv
ed during the late war in Co. L, 2sth Reg
, aud afterwards in Co. c., ll6th Reg, ha
; just received a pension certificate. He viii
be allowed back pension at the rate OF 5;
per month from July 1865, to Oct. 1878
. amounting to S49j, which will be renitteC
in short time. From now forward he viii
draw $40 per month. II is said that Pat
, was a good and faithful soldier, and all VIII,
know him rejoice at his being thus rewarded
COAL OrERAToRs CoNsULTAToS.-Anu mum
: Der of prominent coal operators, amonl
whom was President Deano, of the lhddl
Lehigh Coal Co., j. f. Hitch, also of tina
company, and James S. Coke, expression
= Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., held a con
+ sultation at the Mansion House here ol
! Monday evening, 1t is believed that som
= arrangement will be made to protect the Goa
? trade after the expiration of the combination
The CouRTs.-The courts will convene oi
= the 18th of January. The criminal docke
p is unusually large, among which is a pros
pect of the rather famous Klotz- Lynn new:
paper libel suit. The defendant in this cas-,
It Is understood, has secured the services {
Hon. Frank W. Hughes, Of Pottsville, Will
several wealthy citizens Of Mauch Chun
have volunteered the sinews of war, if need
ed, 20 fight the case to the bitter end. It
It believed by the wiseacres, however, that tl
s suit will never come TO issue. So that thos
who expect peep behind the scene-polit
.r next month are likely to be disappointed.
A SINGULAR CoINCIDENCE.-Last Sunda
- morning while p. j. Murray, shoe deale
aud whose store was recently broken int
and robbed, was taking a walk around III
a Mauch Chunk mountain road, he stoppc
to rest, near PackertOn, aud while sitting O
d a stone, his attention was called 10 a sh,
le protruding from under a rock, An invest
CATION revealed, 10 his astonishment, eigl
pairs Of the shoes recently stolen from Ia
Of store. They We're very little impaired.
N Nixon MATrEEs.-Register pnd Record
b. Philips has executed his bonds iu the sui
l- Of 81 900 for his new term Of office.
IS A poor man, destitute, applied 10 Burge
King recently for employment. On inyc