The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-01-26
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AAhAUnHE hlNs
There were over 5000 births in Chicago
last year
Patrick Collins, notorious Mollie Ma
Fuirs and Commissioner Of Schuylkill
county, was arrested in Harrisburg on Thur
day night, ON warrant from Pottsville,
charging him with forgery and embezzle-
nlent.
Thomas Brennan was arrested near
Ashley, Pa, Friday, on the charge of making
nnd passing counterfeit fifty cent pieces and
FIVE cent nickels. He was committed in
defhult Of $1,000 bail.
In Great Britain during the last seven
years, there has been one case Of injury to
every 524, 900 passengers carried on railroads,
as compared with one to every 100000
passengers during the same time in Massa-
ehuesetts.
While out sketching wild scenery in
the neighborhood of Shasta, Cal, a couple of
romantic misses stumbled upon rich ledge
Of gold quartz. The art instinct instantly
gave way to the practical, and they hurried
away to file their claims TO what may prove
fortune.
AT Grotto-M Minarda, in the province Of
Avellino, Italy, country girl going on an
errand left her little boy, 2 years old, alone
in q cradle. SOW that was tethered in
corner of the cabin broke loose, bounded on
the cradle, and devoured the baby. On her
return the bewildered mother found little
left of her child.
The wheat arriving in Chicago by the
Northwestern and other lines, from January
to January IA this year, foots up seven
hundred and ffty-two thousand bushels,
against three hundred and sixty thousand
during the corresponding period in 1877.
Residing near York, Pa, is a farmer
who has kept record Of the number of
tranps visiting his premises. From April
!, 1877, to Nov. Is there were 545, or an
average of 10 per week.
Subscribers to Mr.. o'Donovan Rossa's
fund will be interested to learn that pas
toral by Cardinal Cullen ofIreland was read
on Sunday in all the Roman Catholic
churches, in which he denounces secret So
sieties, and especially cautions the people
against what is called the "Skirmishing So
eiety," which is described as "a development
Of Fenianism recently imported for Ameri-
ca"
A swindler Is sending around notices
Of supplementary drawings in lotteries, and
requesting the person who receives the cir
sular to notify jewelry firm in Bond ST.,
New York, by what express the lottery prize
ofjewelry) is to be sent to him. OF course
fee is to be charged when the goods are
received, but it is small fee for apparently
very valuable lot of jewelry. Any one who
answers the circular and invests any money
in these "unclaimed" prizes, will undoubted-
ly get swindled.
An anecdote is told of Driesbach, the
once famous lion tanner, who died on his
farm in Ohio few days ago, aged 20, a poor
but contented man. AT an exhibition given
in New York twenty years ago, he was taken
out of cage covered with blood, and appar-
emily dreadfully injured, after severe fight
with tiger. The audience shrieked and
much horror was expressed. For a fortnight
afterward Driesbach appeared with his arm
in a sling and his face covered with bits of
plaster. Then it leaked out that his wounds
were imaginary; the gore had come from
sponge filled with rose-pinI, and the whole
performance was nothing but clever piece
Of advertising.
1t is stated that for three years past GER
tain students at Harvard University, more
wealthy than studious, have been accus-
toned to purchase examination papers from
the printer By thus knowing in advance
the questions TO be asked at examination,
they were enabled to pass perfect examina-
tion papers. 1t is said that as many as
twenty members of the last graduating class
at Harvard would have failed to pass the
examination for the degree of A. i. but for
this underhand purchase system. The cor
ruption has but recently come to the ears of
the Faculty, and the printer, who had been
making money by a breach of trust, has
been discharged. This is the second case OF
students buying up examination papers OF
recent occurrence-the first being the bribery
Of a tutor by freshmen to show the paper he
was TO give at an examination about to take
place.-BoSton Post
-RFMARKABLE SUCCESS The s,e.