The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-06-08
Local and Personal.

"A large crop of hay will be gathered
this year.
Read Tilghman Arner's new advertise
ment in another column.
Sunday fishing bears with it $25 and
costs. Make note of this,
Court commences on Monday next.
Those interested will note the fact.
Spring and summer styles of gents and
youths hats, at T. D. Clauss' at low prices.
The Slatington Rifles will 60 into camp
on the Walnutport Island on the coming
Fourth of July.
A full line of boots and shoes, gents
furnishing goods, &c, at 7. D. Clauss,' very
cheap.
The arrival of summer dress goods, &C.,
at the Original Cheap Cash Store are an
nounced in another column.
IF. Horlacher announces grand picnic,
at Bowmansville for Monday, June 18th,
and promises a good time to all participants.
For new designs in wall paper, go to II.
A. Peter, of the Central Drug Store. Sold
cheap for cash, Paris green at bottom prices.
Good XC mounted buggy harness only
$15, and good nickel mounted harness $25,
at M. Florey's, Weissport, Pa. 23-tf
"A black snake, feet 2l inches in length,
was dispatched alongside the pavement,
short distance below our Office, on Wednes-
day last.
1t is now pleasant to drive to the coun-
try; the air is pure and the scenery charm
ing and beautiful, and David Ebbert's the
place to hire teams,
Master Clarence s. Weiss will please
accept our thanks for his elaborate reports of
the ministerial and Sabbath School Con-
ventone, published in to-day's paper.
The National, Labor Reform, Green,
back party win meet this friday evening
at 1880 O'Clock, in the ballroom of the Ex-
change Hotel, 10 form campaign clYH.
j Clocks and Watches carefully repaired,
and work warranted, at lowest cash rates, at
Hageman's cheap cash store, opposite public
square, Weissport. 1913.
il X. Rcllert has still few ofthose eli
gible lots in Rickertstown to dispose of. If
YOU feel like securing good home call and
see him. He is also supplying flour, feed,
lumber and coal at the lowest rates.
See eherubims in another column hold
ing bunch Of grapes from which Speer's Port
Grape Wine is made, that is 50 highly es-
feemed by the medical profession tor the use
of invalids, weakly persons, and the aged.
Go to A. j. Durling's popular drug store,
FOR the celebraf ed insect powder-sure death
TO worms injecting currant, gosseberry and
all other bushes. Paris Green, "a fresh stock
Just received, fer the destruction OF the pota-
to bug. Cheap for cash.
II. D. Clauss the Lehighton merchant
tailor, is nov receiving an unusually large
stock Of gents sUitings, cloths, cassiners and
vestings which he will make Up to order in
the latest fashion at extremely low prices
for cash
GARDEN T00DS.-J. L. Gable has just
received lot of garden tools which he is
selling very low for cash. Look here: Nal
liable iron ralies at 35 cents long handle
shovels, 81 and so cents; garden hoes, 35
cents; spade forks and spades, equally low.
Store opposite the Public Square.
THE Scranton National Bank has sus-
pended, with $62S, ,2l5 liabilities The assets,
It is said, will fall considerably short of this
amount. The capital of the bank is $780,
900, and it showed $4,000 surplus fund in
its last statement. Its deposits are about
$l6s,oOO.
JUSTICE AND CONSTABLE BLANKS.
We keep constantly on hand a supply of
the following blank forms: Summons, War
rants, Executions, Subpenas, Justices Tax
Warrants, Constables' Sales, &c, which we
are selling at very low cash prices. Get
your blanks at the Carbon ADVOCATE office
If we have not got them on hand, we can
print them for you at very short notice.
BY the passage by the late legislature oi
bill reOrganizing the National Guard, the
former annual allowance paid to each Com
pany of infantry has been increased to $500
per year, and the enlisted men will be paid
at the following rates for actual services
rendered, including general inspection days
1st Sergeants, $500 per day and rations
Sergeants, $500; Corporals, $l.75; Private.
and Musicians, Sl.5O.
--ADvERTIsING ron CASH IN ADVANCE
Under this title Geo. p. Rowell & Co., II
Spruce St., New York, issues a 52-pagt
pamphlet, which is singular in its promises
TO say the least They offer TO insert an ad
vertisement gratis in 1000 newspapers, pro
vided they are paid the publishers rates 70
26, which are eatalogued. On the SAM
plan "a different State Lists are offered, al
of which contain the leading papers. What
ever may be thought of the policy of putting
forth such offers there is no doubt tina
Messrs Rowell & Co., are responsible 70
their contracts, and can be relied upon Il
faithfully carry them out.
Next Sunday will be Whitsuntide, tn
seventh Sunday or fiftieth day after Easter
a festival instituted by the Church in com
Inemortion of the descent of the Holy spiri
upon the apostles fifty days after the resur
rection of the Saviour. 1t always come
contemporaneously with the Jewish Feas
of PentecOst, which festival in the early age
was one of the favorite seasons for admins
tering baptism, and as those who received i
were clothed in white to symbolic tn
spiritual purity which baptism confers, tn
day acquired the name of White-sunday o
Whit-suntide. In modern times the da
began to be celebrated by the observance
the customary Sabbath services. In tn
Catholic, Lutheran and Episcopal ehurche
there is stricter Observance Of the day tina
in those Of other Christian denominations.