The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-10-12

The Mexican border industry of cattle
stealing has recovered from its temporary
depression and is as ilourishing as ever.
In various cities Of Germany boys under
16 are prohibited, under penalty of fine and
Imprisonment, from smoking in public places.
Fournier, the eminent botanst. finds in
Mexico G3s varieties of grasses, $40 ofwhich
occur in no other land. Of the rest, SO are
found in this country.
Montreals orangemcn are again in
trouble. If the Grand Jury can have ITS
way four or five of them will not be very
likely to parade next July.
Cunning for gaugcrs appears to be still
the iavorte amusement in Tennessee. At
last accounts the gaugers, however, had the
best of it, four distillers having been killed.
In common with nearly every other count
ry in the world the cry of hard times comes
up from Belgium. The rate Of wages for
skilled labor is between sixty cents and a
dollar day.
The New Jersey Central Railroad Com
pany was sued by Severn Berg, in the Unit
ed States Court, for $4,000 damages for
personal injuries, and the trial was COM
menced on Monday before Judge Benedict
at New York.
During the past year the Presbyterians of
New York city have subscribed the magni-
fcent sum gilmore than four hundred thous-
and dollars toward the liquidation of their
church Indebtedness. This is a good exam
pie for the other denominations.
OF the one hundred and ten millions of
imports into China during the past year the
fraction of little more than a million and a
half only fell to the share of the United
States. And yet fifty-four years ago our
trade amounted to four and half millions.
The head of the International Secret Ser
vice has been arrested in Buffalo as a swind-
Ter. He had sent out great number Of cir
culars asking men and boys to become
amateur detectives, promising plenty of EN-
| ployment at high wages, but demanding So
In advance as asa"membershipi fee" from each.
The Accounts from the yellow fever dis
tricts show little or no sighs cfimproVement
| At New Orleans it is noticed that many OF
| the accomplishments of the yellow fever in
former years are not seen, while some cases
present the symptoms ofthe plague known
as black tongue.
AS our reporter came along Water Street
| last night, shivering with the chill night air
and drawing his oVercoat tightly about him
| he thought. " now is the time for colds and
coughs" but if poor mortals only knew
what a certain cure DR., Bulls Cough Syrup
is, how few would long suffer, and then ii
costs only twenty-five cents.-Sandusky
| (Ohio) Register.
The Partisan International Congress on
| Weights, Measures, and Coins, at Paris
"learns with pleasure the progress Of the
metric system, and deplores the fact that
| England, Russia, and the United States have
not yet entered into the same path" The
British and American members had a meet
ing, and voted to petition their Governments
in favor Of the system.
The Post Office department decides that
| productions of the typewriter cannot be re-
| garded as printed matter, and sent in an un-
sealed envelope for one cent, but must be
treated as correspondence. When, however
two or three hundred envelopes are deposit.
| ed with Postmaster, the contents of which
are exactly alike, though written by type
writer, it is prima tacie evidence that the
production is a circular, and can therefore
be sent at circular rates.
BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. "A letter receiv-
ed here says that last Friday night dozen
intoxicated tramps lay down to sleep on ont
of the coke ovens near Fountain Mills, Fay
| ette county, Penn'a. during the night this
arched roof broke in with their weight, and
| the unfortunate men fell into the raging fires
below and persisted. On Saturday morning
their charred and unrecognizable bones were
| drawn from the oven. Strange to Say, theil
sad fate produced no excitement, and NJ
coroner's inquest was held. Three hour
afterwards the remains were inferred in al
old ash heap and the oven was refilled witt
fresh coal
On Tuesday of last week, as the Hon
George Bancroft, the historian, was driving
at Newport, Il. l., his horses took fright anc
ran away. He guided them safely for som,
distance, but the horses came to a road run
ming at right angles, and they turned int
this and threw the occupants of the carriag,
out upon the ground. The lady who wa
with Mr. Bancroft aud the footman were un
injured but Mr.. Bancroft received sever,
scalp wound. His right shoulder and hi
ribs were also badly hurt. lie was taker
into farmers house and was subsequently
carried to his villa ON the cliffs. Hei nov
recovering.