The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-02-01
mnn,h CHUNK Notns.

! COUNTY CoMMissIONERs--At the regula
meeting Of the Commissioners, on Tuesday
the Auditors report on the financial condi
/ ton Of Carbon county was received, anC
receiving the attest of the clerk, the state
mcnt was ordered to be publithed in tn,
Carbon County Democrat, Carbon ADVOCATE
and the Goal Gazette and the price to b.
paid for publishing the same was fixed al
| $3.50 per square tinch) 10 each of said jour.
nails for the four insertions required by law
They further resolved TO hold their stated
meeting every two weeks, instead of every
week as heretofore. Subsequently they or.
dered the release from the county jail o.
Michael Boyle and Frank Munday.
HIGHWAY Accidental little son Of R
Collins, marble worker, while playing on
the street, near the Mansion House, on
Wednesday afternoon, tried to Jump upon d
passing. team, when he slipped and fell, one
of the heavy runners of the sled passing
over his body. Fortunately the sled was
unloaded or It would have crushed him To
death instantly. AS it was he was badly
hurt. DR.. De Young attended him.
Minor Tor1cs.-sherff Raudenbush, on
Monday, took the prisoners, George Hipperi
John Riley and Samuel Barnes, sentenced
at the recent term of Court TO tie peniten-
tiaryj 70 their destination. lie remained in
Philadelphia overnight, and, accompanied
by Mr.. Louis Armbruster and other friends,
attended the grand Mnnnechor Bal Masquc
at the Academy Of Music. He describes
the scene of the over 1900 grotesque char
acters whirling in the mazy dance as the
most imposing living panorama he ever be-
held. The receipts of the entertainment
amounted to over $1,000, and the use of the
hall for The occasion cost $1,000.
The presence Of the smiling and
pleasing countenance Of Mr.. II. 8. Everhart
at the clerks desk, of the Mansion House,
is suggestive that Col. Wibirt is already
planning for the day when the snow and
ice shall have vanished from the mountain
peaks and hundreds of weary tourists have
fed the city to find rest under his "vine
and fig-tree." During the fall and winter
the Colonel has made improvements on the
building, and in few weeks will commence
a thorough renovation of its interior in or
der to have it ready for Tie summer trade.
Mrs. John Miner, of West Broadway,
died on Wednesday, mornings after long
and patient suffering, of consumption. She
leaves a husband and several sons and
daughters to mourn their irreparable loss.
Her funeral took place Thursday afternoon,
Rev. b. Y. Vincent officiating. She was in
tered at Upper Mauch Chunk Cemetery.
AS soon as the snow and ice melts on
Mt Pisgah, the Pavilion, which was some
what wrecked by the storm last fall, will be
repaired, and will probably be run next
5umhier, as last, by Mr.. John Brighton,
who BY the way is one of the most judi
cious caterers in his line in Mauch Chunk.
-Ex-Sheriff Painter is slowly recotering
from the late injuries receive from fall on
the ice.
There are only eight prisoners confined
in the Jail here now.
VIM. Cool, Esq, now Of Pttston, but
formerly Associate Judge Of this county,
spent the forepart of the week with his old
friends here.
Ills. colleagues at the Carbon county
bar feel that T. Nell Boyle, Esq. unchari-
BILE remarks and insinuations, in last weeks
GG:a-s.,cc II regard to the appointment Of a
tipstate, was an indigaIis alike 70 tleI Iollsl
and the legal profession.
Pensioners, by a recent act of Congress,
are entitled to additional pensions, matter
to which p J. Meehan, Esq, is giving spe-
cial attention