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

There are on deposit IN tle SIX NATIONAL
Banks of Williamsport, Penna, nearly ST.
GOO, goo.
Carlisle, Pa, is buildings large new brick
market house, which will be completed in
short time
California expects to realize $50 900, 900 on
her wheat crop this year, an increase of $780,
10000 on the receipts Of last year.
A resident of Marietta, Ga, has shipped
thirty-two tons of lead and iron gathered
from the battlefelds near that town.
The tenth annual session of the State
Dental Society of Pennsylvania will be held
at Bedford Springs, commencing July 80.
The sales of land by the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company during the past year
amounted to about one and half million
dollars.
The Lancaster county tobacco crop pro-
mises to be the finest ever cut III that section.
The prospects in York county are also very
favorable.
There is an apple tree near Scranton which
was bearing when the massacre of the
Wyoming valley occurred, and which is now
full OF fruit
4 newly discovered mine in South Noun
tain, near Monterey, Franklin county, Pa,
is said to contain by far the richest copper
ore yet discovered in the State.
Different colorcd ribbons are used in COM
bination for trimming dresses. For black
dresses gold and red are used for white
and delicate tints, pink and blue.
There are four hundred collages in this
country, with an aggregate Of 800 protes-
sors there are twenty-nine universities in
the German Empire, with 20,220 students.
ittsburg has % glass factories, SO iron
rolling mills, steel rolling mills, I white
lead factories, 80 oil refneries, and the coal
mines contributing to that market number
15S.
Gen. Cameron has written to the commit
tee in charge of the erection of the soldiers
monument at Sunbury, Pa, that if the shaft
can be raised for $4,000 he will agree to raise
! half the sum,
The steel works of the Lackawanna Iron
and Coal Company produced last Friday 2l2
tons of gnots in twelve hours, the largest
known produce from two converters within
the specified time.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
makes a great saving in fuel by the simple
device of allowing the firemen half of the
coal saved out of u specified amount for
running the trains.
A gypsy woman stole a small boy in Ell
mira last Wednesday, and carried him near
| " to her wagon out of the city before she
was discovered and overtaken. She then let
| the child go and made her escape.
Prof. Brewer, of Yale College, in an article
on tramps, says, "they are savages in in
stincts, tastes, traditions and codes, and that
their attitude toward society is that Of In
] T., rl Il ind
| trious settlement of whites.
! Mr.. Isaac Boles, of Taylor township,
Blair county, Pa, has brought suit against a
freight conductor of the Pennsylvania rail-
road for detaining his team at Upper Wood
vale crossing, on Saturday evening last, for
the space of about half an hour.
Bars of pure gold, weighing twenty ounces
each, have been plowed up at or near Lex
! ington, N. c., TO the value of some $4,000.
1t is supposed to be the proceeds of a stage
robbery committed some forty five years ago,
when the thieves hid the metal.
John Reddington, hard working farmer
of New Monmouth, n. j., has lost ten chill
dren by death within year. The last of
the ten was buried on Monday of last week.
The cause of death in every ease was scarlet
fever. Six were carried off in one week.
A sailor, named Mccormick, convicted
of stealing an anchor, has been whipped
publicly at Hampton, Va, by the negro
constable of the town, being the first white
man to undergo punishment under the act
which went into effect in the old Dominion
on the lst instant.
The hourng mill industry ofthe United
States is said to rank next to iron. The
number of mills is over $4,000, ailording
employment to 10000 men, whose annua
wages are about S2O,OOO,OOO, and turning
out yearly about 5O,O0O,OOO barrels Of flour
of which 100000 are exported to foreigr
counties.
Thirty of the ninety-one annua
Conferences of the Methodist Episcopa
Church, which have held their sessions
since January !, report 676,594 member
and 1927 probationers There is an in
crease of SO preachers, II 1893 members anC
probatoners, l67 chuches, 80 Sunday
schools, and 1926 Sunday-school scholars
A new line of trade is being established a
Washington, Penna. Some weeks ago
gentleman caught large number Of snap
r ping turtles in Chambers dam, in Washing
ton county, and took them to Waynesbura
where he fattened them, and on Saturda,
, last forwarded them to Pittsburg by expires:
The lot weighed about one hundred an,
sixty pounds, and will bring about eigh
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