The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-09-27

Thomas Leonard was thrown by run |
away mule at the Baltimore mines, near |
on Tuesday, and his foot get |
ting entangled in the harness, he was drag |
ged along the ground for mile and killed.
AT Lonslord No. colliery Saturday, |
Cornelius Boyle, breaker boy attending to
a g,g. had one Of his legs broken by his toes
coming into contact with the revolving shaft,
which caught aud whirlcd him around
with the result given.
The new brick hotel building Of Mr..
Joseph A. Hon, Of this borough, is rapidly |
completion. During the week
it has been put under roof 1t is substan-
tial structure, and when completed will add |
quite an ornament to the upper end Of Lee
highton.
-Proposas will be received by the un-
dersigned, until October LIST, 1879, for FUR !
NISHING MUSIC FOR THREE DAYS,
at the coming Fair of the Carbon County In.
dustrial Society.
w. NJ. RApSHER, Sec'y.
Lehighton, Pa.
-0O,77O tons of coal were shipped over
the L. & s. Railroad for the week ending
10Th instant, making a total for the season
to that date of 2,7l6,76l tons, an increase,
as compared with same date last year, of
/ ,26l ,O07 tons.
j. p. uetrich, who was born in SOC and
long known as prominent politician, died
in Easton on Sunday. lie was at one time
editor of the Northampton County Wing, but
lately adhered to the Democracy.
AT the present rrts of dividends ie-
clared by the Lehigh Valley railroads the
annual income of the Lehigh University is
$50 900. Every additional per cent. adds
$50 900 to the annual income of the institu-
ton. At per cent, which has been the
average annual dividend Of the Lehgh Val
ley railroad in the past, the Univcrsity's in-
come will be the neat sum of $ls0,OO0 an
nualiy.
The Berks County Railroad, which was
sold under foreclosure Tuesday, by NJ.
Thomas & Sons, for 5000, 900, was purchased
Tor the Reading Railroad and other bond
holders, and will continue under its present
management, the Reading Railroad being
the lessee. This road does not pay expenses.
1t connects the Wilmington and Reading
Railroad, by route through Reading, with
the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Slatington.
Mr.. James Homes, aged 5S, a highly
respected citizen of Packerton, died sud-
denly of heart disease last Sunday. His
boiy was inferred in the Lchghton ceIS
etery on Tuesday.
The Central Railroad Company OF New
Jersey announces th9tShe coupons of the
consolidated mortgage bonds ofthe company
maturing on Wednesday, October !, next,
will be paid on and after that date at the
office, also, that the scm-annual dividend
of 81 per cent on the stock of the New York
an Long Branch Railroad Company will
be paid On the same day.
-GUCKE A MOHL Do =
Mems overcoats, $3.50 and
upwards; mems suits, $3.50
and upward ; mems white
shirts, 80 cts, and upward ;
mems undershirts and draw
crs, 80 cts. and upward; ; mems
hats,50 cts, and upward; mems
boots, $500 and upward. All
the above winter clothing can
be bought at astonishingly low
prices now; and it will pay
everyone in need of mems
boys youths or children's
clothing to call, before pur.
chasing elsewhere, and exam
inc the goods thus offered by
Jonas Sondheim, first clothing
store above the Mansion
House, Susquehanna street
Mauch Chunk.
The woman blacksmith is a verify a
Mount Washington, near Pttsburg. She
o! German descent, broad and muscular
) She handles the sledge with wonderful skill
and is assistant to her husband. She has
, young baby which she rocks in the cradl
with her foot while she handles the hamme
or blows the bellows. So also is 1t a verit
able fact that David Ebbert keeps the be:
t aud largest stock of livery teams in thi
r section, and his prices are low as the loves
The Lacllawanna coal auction il Ne,
? York, on Wednesday last, resulted in
f slight falling of o. prices, the average ben
/ S2.lj per ton against S2,lO4 in Angus
r There is nothing new from the combination
! but confidence in the future ofthe coal stock
continues unabated, and prices were put
little higher than they were the day pre-
yious. Disappointment is in store for eithC
bulls or bears in these stocks, but only tim
| will show which.
A two year old child of Adam Hoover,
Mead township, Crawford county, fell IN III
fire during the absence of the mother o
! Thursday aud was burned to Q crisp.
+, A morally case hardened female VII
gave the name Of Emma Mates, of Phil'
delphia, was arrested by officer Webb O
Bank street Monday afternoon and commi
s ted To the lookup. Next morning she WI
] a-ragned before Justice Beck ON a charge
d mtoxication and immoral disorderly col
s duct on the street. She was fined 50 an
c eosts, which was paid by her male travelir
G companion, an uprighter of old umbrellas.
81 This is the second time within a bri
u period we have been called upon to reco
y the sharp business practice Of Mrs Jul
r schabo lHoc Weissl. On Thursday aflerno,
e she was arriignei before Justice Beck, at Il
insugalion OF Mrs. Tschirschky charged wi
r getting white skirt from the store of Il
'i latte! under slippery pretences, The ca
D. was settled on promise OF defendant t. retu
h the skirt aud pay casts.