The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-06-22

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Work on the steeple Of the Lutheran
church is progressing. l.t. ...s'.
John W. Nusbaum is making prepara-
tions to remodel his dwelling on Bank street.
One Of Jobs comforters on the end OF
our proboeis during the past week, has gwen
us cause to "nose" all about it.
-Rebecca, daughter of Levi Bartholomew,
of this borough, died on Monday morning
last, after an illness Of nearly ayear,z i
b 1t is questionable at least to allow the
baby to exhaust itselfan annoy the house
hold with its continual crying when that
tried remedy, DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup Will
quiet il at once. Price rs cents.
Frank B. Wooley will no longer read
love letters which pass through the Shenan-
doah mails. United States Commissioner
Smith has held him in $500 for doing such
imprudent things. tt......s.t
Midnight soliloquy by the man who
supped ON dried apples: "Twelve o'clock
and all swell" Hire your teams at the
popular livery of, David Ebbert, on North
street, this borough.
Edward Melvin was found guilty of
manslaughter at Stroudsburg, in having
caused the death Of his wife while she was
c0ntlned In cnllu-Deu. he Will uOI pS sSh-
fenced until next month.
Furnace stocks are going up in price.
On Wednesday 275 shares of the Bethlehem
Iron Co. were sold at auction in Philadel-
phia at 800 per share. A month ago the
same stock was sold as low as 5000 per
share.
The Lehgh Presbytery will meet at
Hokendauqua on Tuesday and Wednesday
of next week. Rev'ds Jack of Hazeton,
and McLoaine, of South Bethlehem, will
deliver sermons, and Rev. William Wallace
will preside.
Five of the youngest, handsomest and
most lively of Lehigh Valley clerks, decor
ated with ribbons gay and pretzels hanging
to the buttonholes of their vests were doing
our charming little borough on Thursday
evening. .gr. rrvr.y ..r
Thursday, while engaged painting a
'house for Mr.. MNntz, at the upper end Of
Mahoning Valley, Simon Acker, of this
place, fell from q scaffold, distance of about
28 feet, and dislocated his wrist and other
wise severely injured himself He was
brought home the same evening.
The time for paying merchants licenses
expires on the lst of July next. If not set
tied by that day the County Treasurer must
under the law, bring suit for their recovery.
As such proceedings would be attended with
costs to the parties we publish this piece of
information for the benefit of our many
merchant readers in the county
Hon. B. M. Boyer, attorney for Norris
town policemen, has presented bills to the
Commissioners of Montgomery county, for
arrestipg vagrants in 1874, amounting to
$Sl4,S0. These bills were examined, and
by the advice of their solicitor, the Commits
toner's refused to pass the accounts. The
Board propose to test the legality of the
vagrant act, and the liability of the county
to pay such charges. So says the Pottstown
Ledger,
William McIlhaney, q man with an
impaired mind resident at Hokendauqua,
met with painful accident at said place on
Thursday of last week. 1t appears he went
to the furnace premises and there attempted
to couple some ore cars after their contents
had been dumped down from an elevated
bridge, when owing to a sudden humping of
the cars he was thrown to the ground below,
distance of about thirty or thirty-five feet,
sustaining fracture of his skull, arm and
hip. ...4r U4~
An exchange says that when you see n
man with a long pole over his shoulder, and
a small tin pail in his hand, making down
back alley, with his old hat slouched over
his face, and his twinkling gray eye pierre
ing out from beneath the brim, first on this
side, and then on that, evidently trying to
avoid recognition, and when he suddenly
darts through his back gate, and with a
quickened pace passes into the kitchen, it
may be taken as an accepted fact that that
individual has been indulging in aquatic
spirits, and has experienced "fsherman's
luck" There viii be no fish to speak of at
the vesper meal.