The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-10-18
NrATE NEWS.

Joseph Demerer have been held to bail to
answer for the murder at Court.
The new Court house at smithport, Nc
Kean county, is to be erected at once, at
cost of $4,000.
Mr.. Henry Layman, of Adame township,
Cambria county lost his wife and three chill
dren in two weeks with diphtheria.
A child of Mr.. j. S. King, living in Ad-
ans township, Cambria county, was burned
to death last week while playing in the
fire.
There is disposition in Bradford TO build |
with bricks, which the Era takes as indls-
putable evidence of the permanency of the
place.
Mrs. Josiah Walters, of Easton, fell in a
fit on Wednesday night oflast week,and a
coal oil lamp she carried in her hand ex-
ploding, she was burned to death.
al gave the child dose of 'Dr. Sellers
Cough Syrup and it was all right in an
hour" Sold by druggists at % cents per
bottle.
die & Taylor, on the charge of conspiracy to
defraud, was called in Court at Williamsport
last Tuesday and, upon application, contin-
ued until the next term of Court.
In South Oil City father dug the grave
Of his little son among the flowers in the
garden, where he loved to play. Little sis
ters and brothers took the coffin to the grave
and mother and father passed words of Gu
.logy over the departed.
Jacob Patch teamster, was killed on
Thursday of last week at Gold Mine Station,
Schuylkill county. by tree to which he had
pulley attached falling Tn him.
a tree fell on young man named Wilson.
at Winterburn, Clearield county, on Tues
day of last week, killing him instantly.
Isaac Ziegler, of York, committed suicide
on Thursday afternoon, 7th inst, by shoot
ing himself through the head. He leaves
wife and children, and the cause for the act
is not known.
A large barn on the farm of DR.. w. F.
Trout, at Fort Littleton, Fulton county, was
destroyed by fire, with large amount of
grain, on Wednesday night, Sth inst, The
loss will reach $40 900, upon which there is
no insurance.
1t is one of those rare, good remedies
which used once will be always kept in the
house. DR.. Bulls Baltimore Pills we refer
to. Price 25 cents.
According to the contract which has been
entered into between Rev. F. G. Buchanan
and II. B. Swarr, Esq, executors of the late
Hon. James Buchanan, and George Ticknor
Curtis, Esq, of New York, the biography of
the Ex. President is to be written in two vol
umes and completed by July /, 1850.
The Lock Haven journal states that a ru-
NOR is flying about to the effect that Judge
Orvis will resign next spring to accept the
position of solicitor for a prominent railroad
company.
Look out that your nurses do not drug
your little ones with laudanum, paregoric OF
other soothing remedies. Give them Dr.
Bulls Baby Syrup, which innocent remedy
is warranted not to contain opiates.
Adam Knight, of Titusvile, a wheel
wright, who weighs 265 pounds, stands six
feet in his stockings, and measures As inche:
around the chest, has challenged Colonel
Mclaughlin, of Detroit to wrestle him, col.
lar aud elbow, for $500 or 81 900.
Two tramps entered Ripley, near North
East, Erie county, on Wednesday afternoon
Sth inst, and, after demanding and being
refused liquor at a number of places, fired
promiscously among the people. The Sher,
i'll opened fire upon them and received q
flesh wound in the leg. He quickly gath.
cred reinforcoments, when one of the tramp,
was shot through the lungs and instantly
killed, and the other so riddled with buck.
shot that he will die.
a New York express train,when six mile,
east of Scranton, on Monday evening, killed
Peter Gavin, an old track employe
A brakeman on the Delaware, Lackawan.
ma and Western railroad, named jeremiah
Scott, was instantly killed while coupling
cars in the company's yard at Scranton on
Saturday.
In Lancaster, on Friday night, a young
lady saw for the first time wandering corn
doctor, and after five minutes conversation
the two repaired to a minister's and were
made man and wife.
The drought has made navigation in the
Schuylkill canal impossible, and at differ.
ent points boats are tied up awaiting an in.
crease ofwater. Between Auburn and Lees
port 400 boats are high and dry.
On Saturday evening Robert Carroll, o.
Marietta, recently Sealer OF Weights and
Measures for Lancaster county, while at.
tempting to cross the railroad track at Ian.
caster was struck by a locomotive and had
his right foot cut of.
A petition is being circulated among the
employees of the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company in Reading asking the
company for an increase of fifteen per cent
Two hundred and five mechanics have al,
ready signed it.
Coal miners at Williamsburg and other
points on the line ofthe Pennsylvania Rail
road Company haye made demand for an
increase of wages.
Owing to the absence Of Secretary Quay
the regular meeting of the Board of Pardona
announced for the 2lst instant, has been
postponed until Tuesday, the Goth instant.
Hon. F. w, Hughes, of Pottsville, having
declined the Greenback nomination for
President Judge of Berks county, has trans
ferred the honOrs to Hon. Charles n. Brumm
of MinersyiAe, schuylkul eouny.