The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-06-28
NEWS GOSSIP.

Habitual poor health is a direct result of
habitual poor attention to the physical sys-
tenn. Keep the head cool, the feet warm,
and the bowels regular by the proper use of
DR.. Bulls Baltimore Pills, and sickness can
not approach you. Price rs cenrs.
Mrs. Martin Mulken, while walking from
Dedham to West Roxbury, Mass, last Sat
urday night, fell through a railroad bridge
and was killed. She had got off a train at
the request OF a conductor, because she did
not pay her fare.
The De Forest Gold Medal, the high sst
literary and oratorical prize of the Yale Col
lege course was awarded Monday TO Louis
JudsUn Swinburne, of Albany, N. Y, for an
address upon "The Unrest of the Age as seen
in its Literature"
The dwelling of j. F. Reynolds, near
Jonesboro' Ga, was destroyed by fire on
Sunday night, and his daughter and sister
in-law, aged respectively IL and l6 years,
gerously, if not fatally burned, in saving his
wife.
Christian X. Ross has returned from trip
to North Carolina in search of his lost boy.
He placed no confidence in the clue, but his
wife based renewed hopes on il. "0n my
return," he says, "she showed more disaD-
pointment than | had noticed in long time,
aud took to her bed with nervous prostra-
ton"
Edward Foy, the negro who was hang
ed at Raleigh last week, was a member Ct
the Mourning Jonahs, religious society.
| The rest Of the Jonahs were ranged in front
| of the scaffold, the men in long blue coats
with purple regalia, and the women in black
dresses. Foy made long address to them
and they sang as the trap was sprung.
"Will it do no harm?" This is the ques.
ton often asked, and the answer is at can
not" for DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup is an inno-
! cent remedy, warranted to contain neither
Opium, Morphia, or anything injurious
Price rs cents bottle.
Chastine Cox, eolored, was arrested il
Boston, Monday night, for the murder o
Mrs. DR.. Hull, in New York. He confessed
this crime, but said he did not intend 10 xii
her, robbery alone being his object. Co,
was waiter in the neighborhoOd Of th'
Hull residence.
"A man at Chapmanville, Va, had I
chance TO find out how long he could stand
on his toes. Robbers took his money ,hangeC
him TO a tree, and left him. By pressing
his toes on the ground he could relieve tn,
choking of the moose around his neck, and il
that way he stood for thirteen hours, but wa
on the point Of giving up when help came.
A couple of runaway lovers had licens,
to marry in Clark county, Ind, but the traiI
on which they were eloping only touched th
corner Of that county, and without stopping
The ceremony would not be legal if perform
ed in another county, unless a new licens
was obtained In thisdilemma they appeal
, ed 10 the conductor, who stopped the trail
for few minutes on Clark county soil will
a clergyman tied the knot. The passenger
were permitted 10 kiss the bride, as compen
} sation for the delay.
oIL CITY, Pa, June 24.-Squire Grove
to-day committed Robinson Howe for trial a
. Court, on the charge Of numbering his father
Samuel Howe, a farmer, who was foun,
dead on his farm, near Pioneer, on June I'd
II was at first supposed that he had beei
kicked 10 death by a horse. Subsequent in
vestigation showed that he had been shot il
the head twice and pounded with a rail
The efforts Of the officers 10 trace the muF
derer developed strong crcumstantial evi
+ denee against young Robinson Howe. On
point Of the evidence is that lie came int
possession Of nearly all the old mana prop
erty by the provisions of will which hi
father was talking Of having changed.