The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-01-05
PARAGRAPItrC.

--Tramps whip Massachusetts, women
who do not have hot milk in their coffee.
-"What did you get in yours 7'-Detroit
Free Press. Sugar and water.-z. Chandler.
An Eastern Vermont man sold his wife
for $50, and there are still due some $40 on
her.
Harpe having gone out offashion, heaven
win probably be provided with upright
pianos.
Within three months nearly million
acres of land have been appropriated in
Minnesota. This looks like returning COM
mon sense.
A California minister says that luxuri-
Gus living in this country is building up
class which divides itself from the working
men and is in lieu Of an aristocracy.
Shoes, we read, were in the old English
days tied with thongs, even by the nobility.
Yes, we remember now; King Canute went
into the shoo-tide business.
Utica Republican -" Little six-year-old
Mamie, who is making desperate effort to
conquer the tune of There is Happy
Land suddenly stops and, with eyes suttused
with tears, says, Mamma, do people have
to learn to sing before they can 60 to
heaven p"
-Ex-Govenor Pinchback says the solid
South will hold together for the next Presi-
dency that Indiana and New York will go
with the South, which after 1880 will break
that the Northwest viii hold the future
balance of power; that negroes in the
country are not dying out, and that this
country must have three or more parties.
London correspondent Cincinnati En-
guirer -" A friend of mine, who knows
Osnan Pacha we'll, tells me he was close
student of the campaigns ofGeneral Lee and
General Joseph L. johnson, and that he had
all their reports and descriptions of their
military movements translated specially for
him that he delighted to comment on
'Stonewall Jackson, and spoke eloquently for
Sheridan. But Lee and johnson are his
models
1873. January l. Diary Of A. Brown
Smith -" A. M.-Paid last evening 81 25
for this diary. S:l5--Resolved that no malt
or spirituous liquors shall pass my lips this
swear. Resolved that will go to church at
least once every Sunday. Resolved that I
will eat no meal without giving silent but
heartfelt thanks to Heaven for its goodness.
Q,1n hoe in, md
/ must refuse all offers. 11:45 P. M.-Wash
thish OF dry fur, any way ? Keep lots d'rys
+ wanted to but here, YOU, shay bring
fh's unuzzer them bra water,
The exasperating work Of putting up O
s.ovepipe resulted in tragedy in Lancaster
Pa. Cheney and his father-in-law, Snyder
Quarrelled over the job, and Cheney was
killed in the fight that ensued.
"A girl tried to commit suicide in Au.
gusta, Ga by jumping from a bridge. She
was grabbed and held by a man, who was
compelled to use considerable violence tc
restrain her. Afterward she had him arres
ted on a charge of assault.
some Alabama editors, answered " 1 really
desire to address a press association, becaus,
there is no power in this country capable o
doing so much good, and really doing s.
much evil, as the press of this day"
Henry Hickey, the Boston boy VIII
killed his play-fellow, had read the chea,
romances of border life until he becam
ambitious to do some bloody deed himself. II
told a companion that he intended to XII
somebody, and then live in cave as a
outlaw.
Tho bank of Bartlett & Smith, in CO
lumbus, Ohio, went to pieces last spring,an
the cause was mystery. Now one membC
of tue firm sues the proprietors of fot
gambling establishments to recover abol
100000. He says that the teller, the cashie
and his partner gambled away the bank
money.