The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-04-12

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putting more life into all classes of people.
The rail mill Of the Allentown Rolling
Mill resumed operations on Tuesday of last
week
-weissport is just now enjoying the sun
shiny weather, and the presence of a peri
grinating photograph gallery, all at once.
One of the most complete things imagi-
nable is the new spark catcher" over the
cupola Of the Fort Allen Foundry.
Our farmers and gardeners are now up
and doing, and their future prospect has
very much frightened within a week.
Carriages for funerals, pleasure or bus-
ness at popular prices at the livery of David
Ebbert, North street, this borough. A fine
stock of horses and an elegant lot Of carriages
to select from.
II you need sewing machine Of any oi
the best makes, at from S25 upwards, call
on John II. Faga, the popular agent, sus-
quehanna street, Mauch Chunk.
S. S. Smith, Esq, cashier of Linder-
man & Cos. bank, Manch Chunk, has been
in town several days during the week in at
tendance at the sale of T. D. CLAUS goods.
The Commissioners of Schuylkill coun-
ty are putting out five per cent. bonds to
take up a former Indebtedness bearing six
per cent OF the new issue $4,000 have
been taken since April l.
arrangements are being perfected for a
grand rcception and entertainment to the
Grand Officers of the Grand Lodge oft the In
dependent Order Of Odd Fellows, on their
visit to IIazleton, on Thursday, the oath
inst.
Maj. II. w. Bordwell, postmaster at
Tunkhannock, who recently invented an
improved letter stamp, is in luck. The
Government has adopted his invocation, and
Offices are furnished by Mr.. Bardwell upon
application to the department. lie will
make handsome royalty on the stamps
sold.-Pittston Gazette.
The L. & S. RR. Co., transported 52,-
500 tons of coal over their road for the week
ending the 4th inst, making a total to date
of SSs,422 tons, an increase of 47l,454 tons
as compared with same time last year.
"A gentleman of Reading has been in
this county during the week buying and
transporting to that city the cnders from
the old forges in this vicinity. 1t is esti
mated that he will take $4,000 tons of this
| ferrilerous debris from this end of the coun-
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Little Gap; 5000 tons at the old Laury
| forge at Poho POGO, and 1000 from forge
near Kresgeville Four teams are engaged
in bringing the cinders to the railroad by
way of Weissport and six others are carrying
it to Lehigh Gap. 1t is said the cinders not
only produce a superior quality of iron them
selves when worked over, but add to the
intrinsic quality of other iron with which
they are smelted. The estimate is that
there is not less than $3.50 clear profit in
this IL. 900 tons of old cinders which have
| heretofore been considered worse than worth
less, to say nothing of the material wealth
which is thereby added to the iron interest.
Verify, this is progressive age.
Eighty men are now employed at the
Ferndale Works, with day and night shifts
in operation.
Nineteen members have been dropped
from the rolls of the Easton Grays for nom
payment of dues, etc The Express, of that
place, says Unless the remaining members
take more interest in the organization there
is possibility of the company being mus
tered out of service at the next inspection.
The widow of the late DR.. II. 0. Will
son, of Slatington, has opened trimming
store in said place.
No school director has right to charge
for his services, the law contemplating that
directors will give their services for the good
ofthe cause. If the Auditors allow for such
services they become liable for a violation
OF the law and their duty.
The official term Of all borough and
township officers, excepting school directors
and justices of the peace, commences on the
first Monday in April of each year. This
includes burgesses, councimen, assessors,
constables, supervisors, auditors, town clerks,
Judges and inspectors, elected at the election
on the third Monday of February. The
terms of justices of the peace commence on
the first Monday in Nav, and Of school di
rectors on the first Monday in June.
Mr. j. w. Meissner, son of DR.. Otto
Mcissner, decd, of Macungie, who has for
some time been one of the clerks in the lie.
high Valley freight Office at Mauch Chunk
was last week appointed Lehigh Valley sta
ton agent at the East Penn junction, uict
Frank Horn, resigned. Mr.. Meissner is a
youngm man transferable executive ability
and will make an active and careful official
The Old Moravian burying ground in
Bethlehem, which heretofore has been open
tn the public, is to be closed aud locked ex.
cept on certain occasions. THIS course wa,
made necessary by the improper conduct Of 1
few shameless persons.
The Evangelical church at Weissport
was crowded on,Friday evening of last week
the occasion being the temperence neetn,
under the auspices fthe Sabbath school o
that church. Impressive and eloquen
speeches were made by the different speak
ers on the occasion land the stirring temper
, Ance songs were rendered fully in harmon,
with the addresses. At the conclusion, tn,
pledge was introduced by w. C. Weiss, Esq.
aud it was signed by 70 persons, several o
whom are men who have felt the heavy an,
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blighting hand of intemperance, and ar
now resolved to tear themselves away from
its deadly grasp and lead reformed lives
The meeting has produced feeling of tenn
perance revival in Weissport, where there !
, certainly prolific field for labor, and al
outdoor temperance mass meeting is pro
posed, to take place in May or June.
On Saturday morning last there wa
quite commotion in No. slope of the lie
high & Wilkesbarre Coal Co.'S mines at Hon
ey Brook caused by the discovery that No.
gangway was sinking down to No. 6. TIL
latter is new slope sunk inside of No. 4
In the lower lift the miners drove the breast