The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-12-27

AT the Beechwood colliery, near Potts.
Vile, Friday afternoon, theside hooks Of two
loaded cars broke, and the cars dashed tc
the bottom of the slope, injuring Michael
Kennedy and Patrick Murphy, the former
fatally.
Sixteen thousand salmon have been
placed in the Bushltill river, near Eoston.
The farm of Mr.. Charles Krauss, in
Lower Milford township, Lehigh county,
has been quarantined owing to pleuro-pneu-
monia appearing there. Twelve out of a
herd of forty.three cows haye been found TO
be affected, and seven of them had to be
killed.
For the week ending on the 10th inst,
there were shipped over the L. & S.railroad
1O1 $40 tons of coal, making a total of 4,022,- :
S65 tons for the season, ag increase, as COM
pared with same date last year of l ,72O, ,s6S
| tons.
For the week ending on the Goth inst,
there were 1O0,755 tons of coal transported
over the Lehigh Valley railroad, total of
3O7 ,ss5 tons for the season TO date, an in
crease, as compared with same time last sea-
son, of SIS, ,s67 tons.
Christmas day passed Off very quietly
in this neighborhood; the school children
of the several Sunday schools, received their
customary gifts of candies on Wednesday
and Thursday evenings, and their little hearts
were thereby made glad.
DR.. c. w. Bower returned home We'd
nesday to spend the holidays.
AT Pottsvlllc, Monday, Henry Christian,
convicted of manslaughter for shooting his
paramour, Jennie Britton, was sentenced TO
the penitentiary for eleven years.
According to the Catasauqua Dispartch
everything about the Crane Iron Company's
Works indicate activity.
SEQ wine cup in another column,
with a bunch of Grapes from which Speer's
Port Grape Wine is made, that is so highly
esteemed by the medical profession for the
use of invalids, weakly persons and the
aged. Sold by druggists,
David Laird was killed and John Mitch
ell badly injured by fall Of coal in one of
the Pennsylvania Company's miues at Pitts
ton on Saturday.
Jonas Beltz, an employee at the Parry
Vile furnaces, was caught IN the betting of
the large fly wheel, on Wednesday after
noon, and was taken from the pit under the
wheel with one side of his breast crushed in.
DR.. Zern, of Weissport, was telegraphed for,
and i'nmcdately responded, but expressed
great doubts of the mans recovery. Mr.. B.
died about II o'clock Thursday evening.
Mrs. Luke Boylon, of Dolonsburg, on
Monday last, fell on the porch of her resi-
dencc and broke her arm near the wrist.
DR.. n. b. Reber reduced the fracture.
On account of the inability of the Grand
Officers to be present, the anniversary cere-
monies of Gnalen Huetton Lodge, I.0O.F..
which was to have taken place last Tuesday,
was postponed until further notice.
DR.. w. A. Derhamer and Miss Maggie
Kemerer, of this borough, wtro iaarried in
the Evangelical church, Thursday morning
Rev. B. j. Smoyer officiating. Immediately
after the ceremony the happy pair left on
their wedding tour.
Mr.. William Itstler, of Ntw Tripoli,
last week moyed TO Lehignton with his
family. He was formerly engaged in the
Lehigh Valley Car Shops at Paekerton, but
last fall, while busy at work, met with an
accident which prevented him from doing
anything up to this time-and even now he
will have to depend upon one eye, sight in
the other having been permanently destroy
cd by the casualty referred to-the lodging
in the organ of a flying fragment from a
piece of cast iron which was being hammer
ed to pieces by fellow workman. His suf-
ierngs from the injury were for a long time
ola most excruciating character.-AHentol0n
Democrat.
On Thursday morning morning last,
Mrs. Ann Davis, of Catasauqua, was found
dead in her bed, by her daughter, Mrs. John
Jenkins. She retired on the previous eve
ming in her usual health, and her daughter
who resides next door, not hearing the old
lady stirring around as usual, tried to gain
an entrance, but without success. Going to
the cellar, an entrance was had through the
inside stairs, when her mother was found
dead in her room. The body was still warm
and death could not have occurred an houl
previously. Deceased was a very large wo.
man, weighing at least $50 pounds, anC
death was undoubtedly caused by apoplexy
The marriage of Prof II. A. Snyder, o
Stroudsburg, Monroe county, and Miss EN-
ma Hauk, of this borough, took place Tues
day evening in the Reformed church, Rev
]. X. Derr, officiating. tiS bride was ele
gantly attired in garnet satin trimmed witt
silk the bridesmaids Miss Armbruster, o
Mauch Chunk was dressed in garnet satil
trimmed with brocade silk, and Miss Aggi
f Hauk in pearl colored silk trimmed will
, fringe and satin. The groomsmen were Nj
Win Snyder, of Stroudsburg, and Mr.. Ed
Paetzel, of Mauch Chunk. After the cere
( monY at the church, the wedding party sa
= down to an elegant supper at the home G
} the brides parents, after which the happ,
pair were conveyed to the L. V. depot, an,
took the 7;45 p. m. train for New York. TIL
. presents were elegant and numerous.
&C. W. Lentz, the Weissport druggi;
c tenders the compliments of the season to h
friends and patrons.
GahOiSiHg TNVinLiiiISS.
Going ont with the tide-a weddin