The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-06-07


less than l6 per cent. below the basis, in
stead of 20, as hitherto paid" and that the
of the coal trade "is such as to war
rant the expectation of further advances of
toll and prices of coal for July and August,
which will involve corresponding advances
in the rate of wages for those months"
ALI kinds of dry goods and dress goods
at Dan. Graver's Bee Hive Store, cheaper
than ever. Call and examine goods.
The Rev. James A. Little was most
heartily welcomed home by his paris hioners
last Sabbath, after his vacation of two or
three weeks, at Saratoga Springs, that fa-
nous and fashionable watering place.
DR.. J. A. Horn, a graduate Of the Phv-
sicians and Surgeons College of Baltimore,
has been engaged by Mrs. A. C. Peters, to
attend to her drug business. The Doctor
will always be found in attendance, and per-
sons dealing there will always receive polite
attention.
The Turkish Ambassador, NJ. Masarus,
is Dean of the foreign ENJOYS accredited to
London, where he has represented Turkey
some 40 years. He is much more an Eng
lishman than Turk, and one of his daugh-
ters is married to Mr. Herot (son of an Epis-
copa clergyman, whose sister married Lord
Wentworth, Byron's grandson. The Turkish
Embassy is very large abode in Bryanston
square, north of Hyde Park. And right here
we may add that the popular livery of Da-
vid Ebbert, is in a large building on North
street, this borough. Terms reasonable.
In an editorial comment on advertising
schemes, Tie Reading( Penn.) Times truth
fully says: There are men who would rather
spend $40 or $40 in the railcard and board
nuisances, which may be seem by a few hun
drcd people, than to expenl the same sum
in their home papers, where tens ofthousands
of eyes would see their card every day.
This is ar age ofnewspaper reading and the
sooner business men come to realize this
fact in all its importance, the better it will
be for business generally, and the better it
will be for themselves.
Go to the Bee Hive Store for groceries
and provisions OF the finest quality at lowest
prices.
For the week ending May, 81, there
were shipped over the Lchigh & susque-
hanna railroad 92,3l2 tons of coal, making
total for the season to that date of ,534,-
Ols tons, an increase of 772, ,ll9 tons as COM
pared with same date last year.
Jonas Sondheim has re-
ceived another large stock of
MEMS, BOYS, AND CHILDREN's
SUITS, which he will sell re-
gardlcss Of cost. He is selling
mems shoes for rs cts; shirts,
25 cts; hats from Is cts, up
wards, and everything else in
proportion, call before pur-
chasing elsewhere. FIRST
CLOTHING STORE ABOVE THE
MANSION HOUSE, Mauch
Chunk.
Owing to the misplacement of a switch
a fast freight train ran into a coal train on
the Lackawanna and Bloomburg Railroad
at Pittston, Wednesday. One of the engines
was demolished and the other badly dam.
aged, while freight and coal cars were piled
in common ruin. The employees escaped
injury by jumping off the trains.
Judge Asa Packers will, recently pro
bated, contained the following clause: cane
to the trustees of Washington College, Lex
ington, Va, the sum of $4,000; and ais,
direct that the bond of the Washington Col
l,gc, Lexington Va, r. 81 900 shall be sur
rendered and cancelled by the trustees, thu
making the legacy To that college $4,000.
A letter has been received from the trustee
of Washington and Lee University, at Lex
ington, Va, saying that is the institution
which Judge Packer really intended to ben
eft and the one which issued the bond no,
in possession of the estate. On the othc
hand the Superintendent of the Virgini
Military Institute, state Institution, ais
situated at Lexington, lays claim to til
whole of the legacy saying that it was in
tended for that institution, inasmuch as th
81 900 bond referred to was in reality bon
of the Virginia Military Institute, and ne
one of Washington College, which has bee
known as the Washington and Lee Univel
sity since the death of its President Gel
Robert E. Lee.
Our Borough School Board organized o
Monday evening last, by the election of til
following officers President, IVm. Rex
Secretary, Daniel Graver; Treasurer, E. L
Snyder.
Daniel Grdver, at the Bee Hive Stor
calls the attention of the ladies to his ne
stock of summer dress goods Prices dow
to the lowest figure.
Mrs. Thos. A. Williams, being about
join her husband in Texas, will sell at pul
lie sale, at Mantz's Hotel, in this boroug
ON Monday evening next, at o'clock,
variety Of Household Furniture, comprisiu
stoves, chairs, tables, &c., &c. Terms Cas-
Rev. Jas. Bowman, of Allentown, deli
cred very interesting lecture in the L
v highton Evangelical church, on Friday ev
q nmg, May SOth, su6ject-"liy Soldier Life
: Rev. Bowman is an able and eloque
speaker, who relates some very extraord
e nary experiences in soldier life, in We
It effective and pleasing manner, His exp
/. riences and maltfeatment as a militia
= prisoner, in Libby and Salisbury prison
is brought tears to many an eye unaccustom
20 to weeping. 1t was the best patriotic lectu
= our people have ever had the pleasure
r hearing The benefits of the lecture we
- devoted to Sunday School Missona
purposes.
On Thursday evening of last week t
ID Mite Society OF the NJ. Z. Church, held
IA very pleasant and agreeable entertainmel
in Reber's Hall, consisting of music, singh