The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-05-17
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ment in another column.
Don't you forget the free Sour Kraut
Lunch at Lewis Christman's saloon tonight
Saturday. All are welcome, and beer only
five cents for "big" glass.
A little daughter of Michael IIoary, Of
Locust Gap,P Pa, disappeared few weeks ago,
and was supposed to haye been stolen by
gypsies. Her body was found in the creek
at Mount Carmel on Sunday.
Lost, on Saturday last, gold cuff but
ton. The finder will be rewarded on leav-
ing it with F. f. Whitney at the l.. S.
Depot, Lehighton.
List of unclaimed letters in the Packer
ton post-ofice, May 10, 1879; Penrose
George, Richard Link, Christian Schmidt.
L. mcdaniel, P. NJ.
Polio TOGO Tribe, Imp. o. II. M. of
Wessport, have received permission from
Geo. Ruddle, Esq, to hold their pic mic, on
the ground near the j. & S. depot, this
borough, on July 4th.
A number of house painters can secure
work with Chas. II. Hummel, at Mauch
Chunk. Wages $l.4O per day and prompt
pay.
"A new counterfeit IS note, on the Nat
ional Bank of Pawling, N. Y, appeared in
. New York city Monday. 1t is altered from
the Tamqquo and Hanover (Pa.) plate issues
which circulated largely few months ago.
Chew JAcKsOx's BEST Sweet Navy To-
baccO. 80.
-PortieS going west can get tickets from
Bert seaboldt, L. V. r. R. depot. 1912
-FoR sALE.-Eight shares of the Capital
stock of the lst National Bank ofLehighton.
For further particulars apply at the ADvo.
cATE Office.
Just opened another large assortment OF
ladies, misses and children fancy CATERS,
walking shoes and slippers, at ostonishingly
low prices, at j. 7. Nusbaum Sons.
AT Allentown, Tuesday morning, boy
named Nagel tumbed from a wagon and
was killed by barrel of water falling upon
him and crushing his head.
The l32d annual meeting of the Ger
man Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of
Pennsylvania and adjacent States will be
held in Lebanon, commencing Trinity Sun.
day, June sth.
A convict by the name of Rackcr, who
escaped from the Easton Jail on the l lth of
February, 1878, was last week recaptured at
New Brunswick, New Jersey, and brought
back to serve out his term.
For beautiful designs in wall papers,
fancy stationery, &c., call on E. F. Lucken-
back, near the Broadway house, Mauch
Chunk. Lowest prices in Carbon County.
For cheap Farm Land in Carbon coun-
ty, inquire at N. D. Cortright, Mauch
Chunk. 24-37
For the week ending May 9th the L. 4
S. railroad transported ,3OS tons of coal
making total of ,2ss,63G tons for the sea-
son to that date, an increase of 657,l tons
as compared with the same date last year.
H. II. Peters announces to his friend.
and the citizens in general that he is now
receiving and opening his spring stock o
cloths, casslmeres, vestngs and suitings, and
that he is prepared to make up all classes o
clothing at prices never before heard of in
this section. "Perlect fits and Lowest
prices" is the motto of this house, and don't
you forgetit Store in the Post-ofiice building
Lewis Weiss is now receiving and open
ing new and elegant stock of hats, caps
boots aud shoes for orspring and summer wear
which he is prepared to sell at unprecedent-
ly low prices. He respectfully invites an
inspection of his stock feeling assured that
he can give full satisfaction.
The Popular Western Ticket Agent, B
O'Bnan, will be at this office next Wednes-
day night. If you intend TO go west, call
and see him, he win send you right, cheaT
and quick.
The forest fires in Luzerne, Lackawanna
Wayne and Pike counties, in this State, con
tinued Monday, and an extensive conha'
grafton on Pocono Mountain is reported, il
addition to the previous Rres. Near Pitts
ton and Moosic, powder mills were threat
ened by the surrounding flames. In Pix,
county the fire penetrated Blooming Grov,
Park, devastating fifty acres of timber an,
destroying some deer. Fires are also burn
ing on the mountains in Lebanon and Berk
counties. Immense fires are raging in tn
Catskill Mountains, in New York, the flame
being visible from the Hudson river a
night The burned district covers 700
acres.
Proposals will be received by W. NJ
Rapsher until Monday, May 10Th, 1879, t
paint the fair building of the Carbon Count
Industrial Society, at Lchighton and separ
ate proposals will be received to white was
the fence around the entire grounds on bot
sides and the stands on the grounds. Th
work must he satisfactory or no pay.
Archibald Dick, formerly of this place
but for the past two or three years lesiden
in Hazleton, died at the home of his brothe
Charles Dick, in that borough, at about ST
o'clock on Sunday evening last. Decease
was very highly respected by large circ
of friends. His age was about SO years.
There were lOO9s6 tons of anthracit
coal shipped over the Lehigh Valley ralroa
for the week ending May 10, making tot'
for the season of ,5S5, POS tons. An increa.
of S2,s4S tons as compared with last year.
What are our patriotic citizens doing
properly commemorate our heroic dead, III
year, at the approaching Decoration Day
Are they bestirring themselves as the occ,
sion requires? If not, let il be remembers
that the time draws near. A week frol
next Friday is the day. There are sever
reasons this year why the day should
made especially memorable at the grav
Of the heroes who laid down their lives
their eountry's shrine in the late war. Aft,
fourteen years of national peril, the elorior
principles for which they died have tr
umphed, the dark clouds have been rem
and the rainbow of peace and prospeu
once more spans the land. With though
like hese let there be a special gathering
the resting-places Of our honored heroes
this vclnitya week from Friday.