The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-08-23
STATE NEWS

=
and all sensible nurses recommend that in
nocent but effectual remedy for all the pains
and ills that befall a baby.-Dr. Bulls Baby
Syrup, price 20 cents.
Eighty thousand dollars in script was paid
to the hands of the Philadelphia and Read-
ing Road at the latter place on Wednesday
of last week for June wages.
John Simmons was arrested for robbery
in Reading on Tuesday afternoon of last
week, the Grand Jury found true bill
against him the same day, ani next morn
ing the Judge sentenced him to three years
at solitary confinement The Reading papers
regard this as quick work.
The Easton Express says that on the road
leading from Williamsburg to Portland, in
northampton county, the excavations in a
limestone quarry have penetrated an old
graveyard. Bones may be seen protruding
from the earth and many families in the
nelghborhood have utilized skulls unearthed
as flower pots and for other purposes about
the house.
A child missing from Wilkesbarre nearly
three years ago was supposed to have been
made way with by the father to avoid its
support. Suspicion fell strongly upon him,
and he would have been arrested had not the
then Mayor of Wilkesbarre, who had the
matter in charge, taken sick and died The
child has been found in the vicinity of Tunk-
hammock, Wyoming county, where it had
been taken by tramps. The parties to whom
the child had been given refused at first to
give it up, owing to their strong attachment
to it, and only consented after legal processes
had been resorted to.
Since the new tramp law" has become
Operative at least three hundred tramps,
who had been prowling about Northampton
and adjoining counties, have crossed the Del
aware and taken up their abode in New
Jersey.
Nature does not execute "snap" judgments
but always warns the offender against her
laws by the inAicton of pain Give atten-
ton to her warnings, and take DR.. Bulls
Baltimore Pills in good time to prevent
the encroachment of disease. Price 25
cents.
1t was announced in the Burnette House
at Stroudsburg, Tuesday, that the jewelry Of
several Of the boarders had been stolen dur
ing the night, the aggregate value of the
missing property being $1,000. A search
warrant being obtained, the stolen jewelrv
was found under the bed Of a young man
named Fulmer son of the owner of the ho-
tel, he was arrested, but earnestly asserted
that he was innocent
William Swent, aged Sc years, committed
suicide in Milton, Tuesday morning. lie
had been melancholy because of the loss of
money.
Jessie r. Crawford, of Blair county, Tues.
day entered bail in $4,000 at Harrisburg, for
his appearance at the next term of Court, to
answer charges of corrupt solicitation of
the members of the Legislature and perjury,
in connection with the Pittiburg Riot bill.
On Saturday night Miss Julia, daughter
of Hon. John W. Ryon, member of Congress
from schuylkill county, was stopped on the
street by a tramp, who demanded her money
and jewelry. She called for help and her
assailant was frightened off.
Two unknown men entered the store of
Robert Mofiat, an old man, at Pine Creek
s'atlon, four miles from Allegheny, on satur-
day nseht, and after beating him in horri-
BILE manner, rihed his pockets. They secured
very little money, as their victim had but
short while before taken the result of the
days sales to his residence.
AT the conclusion of song by Miss Ida
Burt, at the Academy of Music, in Bradford.
on Saturday night, young man threw a
bouquet upon the stage, which he immedi-
ately withdrew with string when the ac-
tress reached for it. Miss Burt had her re-
venge by emptying the contents of a sack of
Hour over the offender in the presence of the
audience.
Here are a few evidences of prosperitv
taken from State papers; The Harrisburg
Car Company now employs 700 men, and
some of the machinery that has been idle for
years is in full operation. The Gautler Steel
Works at Johnstown have a capacity, which
they arc working up TO, to produce annually