The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-09-27

Bar, but lately resident Of West Chester
aud President Of the State Normal School,
has been appointed the Trustee Of Chester
county Of the new State Asylum.
Prevention is better than cure, and Dr.
| Bulls Baltimore Pills are the best proven
tive Of disease known. They ore uscl, ap-
proved and recommended by Hyriads Of
people throughout the land.
Major General James Fleming, Of Cruw-
ford county, has reached his cighty-fourh
year. He entered the regular service in the
was Of 1912 as a corporal, and before she
war ended hod been promoted 10 the posi-
ton Of Major General
In the Butler Jail on Thursday night nine
prisoners who had been sentenced to the
penitentiary and was awaiting transpor,a-
tion revolted. They refused to enter their
cells when commanded by the Deputy Shcr-
i'll. He drew his revolver, ordered the turn
key to do the same, and gave them one min
ute to obey his orders. 1t took them about
half Of that time to obey.
With Erie manufactures the call for en-
gines and boilers is represented as unprece
dented, and all the shops have their hands
| full.
Williamsport is represented as having
never been so prosperous since 1878 as now.
The Valentine Iron works will soon start
up, giving employment to 100 men.
A Pittsburg gentleman travelling through
Columbia, on the Susquehnnna river, no.
ticed five or six furnaces being got ready for
blowing 10 that have not made iron since
1873.
The Lochiel works at Harrisburg, which
have been idle for five years, have an order
for 200 tons of railroad iron. Every in
dnstrial establishment in Harrisburg will
be running before January l.
Rich Brothers, hardware manufacturers in
Reading, haye advanced the wages of their
men 10 per cont.
100000 of stock, the amount required,
has been subscribed towards starting up the
Rolling mill at Kittaning, Armstrong
county.
DR.. W. j. Longftt, of Allegheny City,
while attending patient troubled with
| diphtheria, got some of the virus in a soar
on his hand and his life is dcspaired Of
The following is a list of the industries in
Allegheny county: l55 coal and coke COM
panies, IA blast furnaces, 6 forges; SO roll
ing mills (ron and stee), So glass houses, A
glass mould and press manufactures, so iron
foundries, Al engine and machine shops
II boiler makers and 647 miscellaneous
macuiactores.
Henry w. Reitzel, brakeman on the
Reading and Columbia railroad. was acci-
dentally shot and badly wounded Wednes-
day night by Miss Sally Rodgers at George
Bonds restaurant in Reading.
Opium is the most dangerous drug, es
pecially when given to children in the shape
of soothing remedy. DR.. Bulls Baby
Syrup is warranted not to contain opium IN
any form and Is the most innocent and eli-
cacious remedy for children teething. Price
% cents bottle.
On Sunday last Adam Bornhart an eight
year-old boy living at Freidens, Somerset
county, while handling an old musket Lei
the hammer fall, and the weapon exploded
killing his co4sin, six-year-old girl.
Reuben Thompson, an old man of South
ampton township, Cumberland county, dice
last Thursday night while linceling in pray
er. The Shippensberg Chronicle says tina
) he died of starvation and neglect.
All the rail mills in Allegheny county arr
running to their utmost. All the manulac
turing establishments in Erie are in ful
operation, and in Pottsville and the sur
rounding country the mills are running ol
double time. The Duncannon Iron Compa
ny have more orders for iron than they cal
fill, and could keep as many more furnace
: going in their mill. The PheniX Iron Co
have taken an order from the New Yorl
Elevated Railroad for 10000 tons of iron
They have other orders that will keep then
; busy for many months.