The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-07-27

-Ihe Board oil Adjustment nave HNeu
the damages to property during the Pittsburg
riots at S3,j00,O0O. The taxpayers realize
shat they will be obliged to psy dear for
thGt little summer days pastime.
The Keystone Cornet Band of Weiss
port. announce their third and last grand
picnic for this summer, to take place on
Saturday, August 10th, at the usual place,
near the Lehighton Stove works.
Rev. c. X. Fehr, P. E., is expected to
preach in the Evangelical church this place,
tomorrow Sunday morning in German
and evening in English. All are cordially
invited to attend.
The Delaware Lackawanna and Western
Railroad Company gives notice that it will
sell its usual monthly quota ofjO, 900 tons Of
Scranton coal at public auction lat New York,
at noon on Wednesday, July 81.
"A lady, joking about her nose, said: al
had nothing to do in shaping it. 1t was a
birthday present" That lady's nose don't
change the fact that David Ebbert keeps the
most popular livery in the county.
"A train of one hundred and ninety-one
empty coal cars, drawn by the new coal
dirt burning locomotive No. 4OS, passed up
the Reading Railroad day or two ago.
This is said to have been the longest trpifS
that ever passed over the road.
-SPEER's PoRT CRAZE FOR WEAKLY PER
soSs.-This excellent product of tie grape
is prescribed and used by the leading phy-
scans in the country, and by the most
fashionable families at evening entertain
ments, and by churches for communion.
"A miner named John Strumminick,
working at the Thomas, collery in Shenan-
y,,pf In fyr, in, eli
lost his foothold and was precipitttd to the
bottom, distance of 100 yards. He was
horribly rlangled and will not recover.
A camp meeting of the Allentown Dis
trict Evangelical Association, under the
auspices of Rev. c. X. Fchr, p. E., will be
held in the beautiful woods near Berlipsville,
on the road leading to Danielsyille. The
meeting will commence on Wednesday,
Aug. 7th, and continue until Tuesday, Aug.
10, 1878
The Allentown Chronicle says: "NIrs
imon R1iss, living in Lower Saucon, Le-
high equity, aged l05 years, worked in the
harvest field last week. She bound up ten
sheaves and then retired, not exhausted.
This aged lady is ia good health, and has
informed several Of her friends that she eX-
poets to attend tho county fair next fall"
The genial, open faced countenancc Of
Sam. Il. Gilham, of Franklin township, the
teacher for three terms of one OF our Lehigh-
ton public schools, and the prospective can
didate of the Republican party for Register
and Recorder, has been visiting at Glen
Fern during The past week. Ho, how the
chickens, and eggs, and cakes, and things
must have vanished at that home of happi-
ness in Upper Iowamcnsng during his
visit there Happy Sammy
<.-Constable Macdaniel, of Weissport, on
Monday last, arrested tramp, named c. Y.
Moury, in the Behigh river; he had en-
tered the house of II. II. Musselman, and
captured watch chain; and been bum
ming around for n day or two. lie was one
of the hardest looking cases epen in some
time. lie surrendered the property, and
received blessing from the Squire and was
ordered to leave the town within five
minutes. He claimed to belong to Ohio.
"A dividend of$l 40 per share is sunnounc-
| ed on the preferred stock and ssventy cents
per share on the common stock of the
Schuylliill Navigation Company, to be paid
on August 9TH in six per cent, scrip Of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
| pany, bearing interest semi-annually, Jan
| uary and July ! , and the principal re-
| decmabic July ] 1882. Said dividends will
| be paid at the office Of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company, and those un-
/ der ten dollars will be commuted in cash at
the rate of sixty per cent.
a fair and festival, for the benefit o.
/ Lehigh Hook Sfiadfor Co., and the Citizen.
! Comet Band, Of this borough, will be held
! in Linderman's Hal, ,on the llth, 18th, 18th
and l4tli ofSeptembcr next The following
articles will be contested for: one conduc,
tors lamp, by the freight conductors resident
in this place Z gnla-headcd cane by til,
doctors of Lehighton and Weissport, and a
handsome horn ,Ey the bands of Maucl
| Chunk, Weissport and Lehighton. 1t il
proposed to make this one Of the most pop
ular affairs that ever tool, place in this county
For the benefit of these dealers in mill
We desire to gall attententiou 70 en- act of tn,
Legislature which vas passed at the las
session. 1t provides that any person who
shall sell impure, adulterated or, nn%'hole
some milk, shall be deemed guilty of {
msdemeanor aud or convicti5h punishel
by fine of not less than twenty dollars
Any person who shall adulterate milk will
a view of offering it for sale shall be amcna
bic to a fine of ten dollars. Any person VIII,
I shall engage in the sale of milk shall hav
the vehicle from which it is vcnded marked
with his name, also indicating the localit,
from whence the mix is obtained or in de
fault be subject to a penalty of ten dollars
The addition ofwateris declared an adultera
ton, and milk obtained from animals fed ol
distillery waste is held to be unwholesome
Teachers AppOinted.