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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-08-09

according to. the Information from
Cincinnati, o., and other points West and
South, furnished to the Ns,0 York Times, u
marked improvement has taken place in
the iron trade during the last 60 days. Iron
merchants, furnacemen, and manufacturers,
without exception, tell of a healthful ad-
vance in prices and great increase in
orders. Furnaces that have laid idle for
years are being put in blastj rolling mills
are running night and day in some localities
in others they run - hours, and the men
are paid one and one-ffth days wages. In
every department of iron industry a good
feeling prevails. Dealers agree that the adj
vance in prices is fully established. A lead
ing Cincinnati firm reports larger sales for
July than for any preceding three months
in the history of their business. They say
there is a scarcity Of iron in the market
Every manufacturer Of railroad supplies has
more orders than he can fill,and some ofthC
rail-mills are sold ahead for year, Another
encouraging feature is that they have now
volunteer orders, while heretofore they had
to drum up custom. Still another good point
is the number of cash buyers, great many
discounting their bills instead of giving
notes,
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great many applicants for the two vacant
foreign missions. inquiry at the Department
Of State, however, ,developes the extraordinary
fact that Of the many hundreds Of thousands
Of patriotic citizens Of this country who weuld
be willing to 70 abroad for the sake Of the
government and endure "hard times" on the
small salary Of about $4,000 or $4,000 year,
not one has been bold enough to como to the
front and AaHsclt ask for either place, In
deed, Assistant Secretary Seward stated to-
day that there is not one single application
on file'for either mission. The numerous can
didate keep in the background and pretend
to be indifferent about the matter, while
their friends and political hackers swarm
about the Department end White House and
load the mails down with volumlnous docu-
mentary recommendations. There seems to
be no settled programme about filling these
vacancies nor is there any definite idea when
the selection will be made. The resignation
| of Minister Welsh does not take effect until
the goth instant. Another reason given why
haste is unnecessary is, that at both London
| and st. Petersburg the persons who will act q,
! Charge d'AGairs are both competent, and
experienced men, in whom the Department
has the most implicit confidence. 1t is no
expected that anything will arise to which
they could not att, nd, in the next few week.
and perhaps months.
In the meeting of the executive committed
of the National Board OF Health to-day, tht
opinion was EXPIRE ssed that during the strin
gent regulations put in force in the Southern
States there is less danger of a yellow feve
epidemic now than there was year ago. 1
is believed that the fever will be confined
mainly to Memphis and New Orleans an,
that in those cities the mortality will be small
in comparison with whatitwas last year. Tn
early breaking out of tho fever has proved
blessing to the other Southern cities, in that
aroused the authorities thereof up to the nc
cessity of adopting prompt measures to pre-
vent the fever reaching them.
AuGuST.
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There is great prosperity reported in the
iron trade of Pittsburg and its neighborhood.
. Instances are cited in which the operations
ofmills are delayed by difficulty in obtain
ing certain grades Of metal which are large
ly sold ahead. Bessemcr steel is very ac-
to their capacity for the rest of the year, at
prices that will net them $500, 900 profit for
1879. The Merchants Steel Mills are well
filled with orders and prices are firm. The
recent advance in railway iron and spikes is
also a prominent feature of the situation.
Leading manufactures look for heavy in
crease in the fall trade. The only quarter
from which danger is to be feared, they
say, is that tho advance in pig-iron may be
overdone, as it was in 1873 The furnaces
in blast in the districts surrounding Pitts
burg have increased in number and capaci-
ty, while the rolling mills are all in active
operation. The rcn used at Pittsburg in
manufactures increased in price the first six
months of 1879 about II per cent. as COM
pared with the same period in 1873. All
branches of the iron interest ore looking for
ward toan active and profitable fall trade.
In this connection It may be stated that a
letter from Cumberland, Nd, to the Balu-
more Sun, says that the month of July has
been the heaviest formerchantaud bar iron
ever known in the history of the Baltimore
aud Ohio pai1r,ol's Ior mill l,o,tal tlnro
There were turned out ,52O,G2O pounds OF
bar iron, and l,30j,7GO pounds of puddle
iron. The latter is afterwards used in the
bar and plate mills. The months shipments
aggregate 2,lO5,S4G pounds, 1854, ,j93 being
bar, and ljl, 1858 plate iron
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A foundry for the manufacture Of iron
and brass castings was started up in Loncas-
ter on Saturday Of last week,
A williamsport firm has an order TO
manufacture fifty thousand toy pianos for
the New York market
Samuel Bingaman,a hostler, Of Lancaster,
has been 50 badly bitten by a mosquito that
II is cared locljaw will ensue FROM it.
The Harrisburg Telegraph sayg that Lind
ley Murray, the great grammarian, was
born in Derry township Dauphin county,
in June, l745.
A man fishing in the Connestoga at Ian
caster caught wild duck, which it is sup
posed, was swimming under water in search
of food, and swallowed the bait.
The Daily Derrick says that the oil report
for the month ofJuly shows 2S5 rigs up and
2g7 wells drilling, which is decline of l64
wells, as compared with June.
An old gentleman of Washington, Pa
was 50 much pleased because ofthe atten-
tions shown him by waiting maid in a
Pitlsburg hotel that when he died recently
he left her 81 200.
The grave of Mad Anthony Wayne al
Erie is near whore the old block house stood
which was used as a means of defence
against the Indians. It is there that the
monument to the dead hero will be erected
George Werkeiser, an old resident of Nor.
ristown, committed suicide on Friday morn
ing of last week, by blowing his brains out
He lest his wife three weeks ago, and it il
believed that grief drove him to do the deed
During the thunder storm on Thursday
afternoon a large tank Of the Vesta oil work
eight mikes from Pttsburg, was struck by
lightning and soon after exploded. Othe
tanks were exploded, and the loss will reacl
about $4,000,
The Ttusville Herald says: "Mrs Thoma
of Philadelphia, an old lady, over eighty
and an aunt to General Kane, has built {
neat stone church at Kane, at a cost Of $50,
600, and presented it to the Presbyterian
congregation. The old lady each year spend
a part of her immense income in building
church somewhere in the country"
The six men convicted at Lebanon, Pa. o
the murder of Joseph Raber, far the purpos
of obtaining an insurance on his life, wer
taken into Court Monday to hear the decs
ion on their application for a new trial
The application was granted in the case Q
George Zechman, but denied to the other:
who were remanded for sentence.
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The reports from the United States Con
suls on the condition of labor in the several
countries of Europe, which have been pre-
pared for publication by the Department of
State, their publication being provided for
on the last day of the recent session of Con-
gress, will be ready for distribution in a few
days. These reports cover all phases of the
labor question in Europe, viz, the rates of
wages the hours Of labor, the habits of the
working people and their manner of living.
capital and labor, strikes, drinking, trades,
unions, socialism, communism, &c. The
condition Of the working people of Europe,
their continued struggle with most adverse
circumstances, as compared with the con-
dition of the working people Of the United
States is well portrayed in these reports
The following startling facts are clearly
proved by these reports;
l. That wages in the United States are
double those of Belgium, Denmark, France.
and England three times those of Germany.
Italy, and Spain, and four times those ofthe
Netherlands
2. That the prices Of the nccessaries oflife
arc lower in the United States than in Eur
ope, and that the laborer in the United
States, were he satisfied with the scanty and
miserable fare upon which the European
hborer must live, can purchase like food
Cor less money than it can be purchased for
in Europe.
s. That the French working people, with
far less wages, are happier than the work
ing people Of Great Britain, who receive the
highest wages in Europe, on account Of the
steadiness and the economical habits Of the
former, and the strikes drinking habits and
consequent rcoklessuess OF the latter
l. That more misery results iron strikes
drinking, socialism, and clmmuuism in
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-08-09

Would it not be better for our School
Board to reconsider their decision to have
but six months school? There is great dis
satisfaction expressed by our people at their
action. Had they reduced the tax in pro-
portion, then no doubt many would have
been satisfied, but to keep up the tax and
reduce the length of the school term, is some.
thing at which they feel displeased. With
the 10 mills building tax they can pay in
terest and reduce the debt few hundred
dollars each year, and by refunding the debt
at per cent, they will be able to do still
better. Give our children ot least eight
months. Surely we, with so handsome a
$4,000 school house, should be able to give
eight months school. If we cannot,
then it would be far better to lease the build
ing to some one, and set up a log shanty for
school house. The plea offered by one
member of the board that our fathers done
with three months schooling in the year,
avails naught in these days of progression.
The demand of the people is good schools
and at least an eight months term, and this
we can have with proper management, and
still pay off our debt gradually, and we do
not think the bond holders are in a hurry
for their money. Gentlemen, give our chill
dren an eight months term of school-noth-
ing less
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Total. al...-...................,S Slb2, 4)l,6l7 10
The total estimates, exclusive Of the per-
manent annual appropriations was sl29 lg7,-
sl2 6s, being s33 2O6 s35.Os less than the aggre-
gate of appropriations. This difference is ac-
counted for partly by the amount, which was
about Sl6OO,o0O, appropriated for improve,
ment Of rivers and harbors, and the sum ap-
proprlated under the arrearages Of pensions
acts, neither Of which items, of course, were
included in the estimates.
Senator Lamar who is spending the sum
mer in this vicinity has come TO the rescue Of
Mr.. Finley, the young South Caroliniun, who
was recently designated by the Secretary-of
War for one Of the vacant second-lieuten-
ancies In the army. Heyisited the Executive
Mansion to-day, and assured the President Of
MI Finley's loyalty to the government It
seems that the trouble comes from a fippant
remark he made TO some friends when he re-
ceived a notice OF his appointment, to the ef-
feet that he had received the appointment,
"although ne was rebel" The statement
was Immediately carried to the President,
and given to the newspapers, and the conse-
qucnce was that Finley was not only greatly
annoyed, but threatened with q cancellation
Of his appointment.
II is generally supposed that there are
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1t is now stated on what appears to be
reliable authority, that suits by the dozen
against The county of Allegheny, Pa, are
brought daily by Pittsburg lawyers in be-
half of the losers by the railroad riots in
that city and under the legislative act
which compels suits TO be brought within
two years. The Supreme Court of the State
has declared the county liable, and the leg
al claims will amount to about SO 900, 900.
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England and Germany than from all other
causes combined, hard times included.
As Congress provided for the publication
Of $4,000 copies only Of these reports-s,oOo
for the House, 1000 for the Senate, and
5000 for the Department of state-senators
end members Of Congress will do well to get
their allotted number for distribution among
their constituents at this most opportune
time of investigation into the depressed CON
dition of labor in the United States. A care
full reading Of these reports will do more to
solve and settle the "labor problem" in the
Intelligent judgment of the country than
the fragmentory investigations which have
thus far been the only public inquiries un-
dertalen by the Government.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-08-09

It is said that one out of every four real
inyalds who 60 to Denver, Col, to recover
health never return to the East or South eX-
cept as a corpse. The undertakers, next to
hotel keepers, have the most profitable bus
ness. Excessive mortality may be prevent
ed and patients served and cured under the
care of friends and loved ones at home, if
they will but use Hop Btters in time. This
we know. See other column. 373.
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ImronrAN.r GEoLoGucAMrACr.

Geology has shown that nature accom-
plishes her greatestrevolutions in the earth's
surface conformation Slo,oly Every year
the river makes its channel deeper, the gla-
cier wears deeper gorge in the Alpine rock,
and the ocean tide deposits the sand it has
crumblod from the rocks upon which it
breaks. We note the earthquake and the
devastating hurricane; but these changes
arc so gradual man seldom observes them
until the channel has become overhanging
cliffs, or a mountain has disappeared before
the icy stream, or the ocean has given us a
Florida. Thus it is in disease. Our atten
ton is attracted by acute diseases, as ievers,
cholera, etc, while chronic diseases (often
the most dangerous in result), being slow in
their development, are seldom noticed until
they have made an almost inelaceable i'm
preston upon the system. Persons believ-
ing themselves comparatively healthful are
oittimes the victims of these diseases, and
only become aware of their presence when
relief is almost impossible. Diseases Of the
liver and stomach are the commonest of
chronic affections. DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative
Pellets are never-failing remedies for these
diseases. They produce healthiul secretion
of the bile, prevent indigestion by regulating
the bowels, and impart a vigorous tone to
the whole system.
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Democratic Ticket,


Returns of the election in Kentucky
show light vote and few Republican gains
in the Legislature, but not enough TO affect
the large Democratic majority. In Louis
vile, where Working Mems candidates
were elected to the Legisloture,two years ago,
the delegation is now entirely Democratic,
The Greenbackers were almost invisible.
The call for a Constitutional Convention
fnilnd
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The movement to the West continues,
and there is a growing tendency in ourpopu-
laton to take up farms, in addition to the
demands of newly arrived immigrants.
During the year ending July, 100000 900
acres of Government land were taken up by
homestead entries alone, and at least 10000
900 acres were sold to settlers during the
same time. The new settlers numbered
half million people. Such figures tell of
the growing importance of the Western
States and Territories, and the mind almost
staggers when it attempts to realize what
will be the population Of these United States
one hundred years hence. The wheat crop
Of Minnesota promises an estimated yield of
fifteen bushels per acre, which would give
an aggregate yield of 44,OOO,OOO bushels, or
enough to supply bread to $500 900 people.
The great yields promised by all our West
ern States will not only leave a large amount
of money in the farmers hands, but will
cause the disbursement of millions ofdollars
for its transportation to the seaports orship-
ment to Europe.
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A UDTTOR'S NOTICE,

In the Orphans Court Of Carbon County.
Account confirmed nj 81. June lst, 1879.
In the matter OF the final account of NJ. A,
Fegley, Guardian of Mary A. Waters, now
Mary A. Ditteriue.
The Undersigned Auditor, having been ap-
pointed by the Orphans Court of Carbon
County, to audit and rostate the account in
above matter, will attend to the duties of his
appointment at the office OF Albright * Frey
man, Esqs. Friday, August 10Th, 1879, at
o'clock A. NJ, where and when all parties in
terested may attend.
/. p. LONGSIEET,
Mauch Chunk, July 10, 1879. Auditor.
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PROVERBS.


"Sour stomach, bad breath, indigestion
and headache easily cured by Hop Btters,
"Study Hop Bttcrs books, use the med
oue, be wise, healthy and happy"
"When life is a drug, and you have lost
lll hope, try Hop Bitters."
"Kidney and urinary trouble is univer-
sal, and the only safe and sure remedy is
Hop Bitters-rely on IT,"
"IIop Bitters does not exhaust and des-
trov, but restores and makes new"
"Ague, billiousness, dTowsiness, jaun-
lice, Hop Bitters removes easily"
"Boils, Pimples, Freckles, Rough Skin
impure blood, Hop Bitters cure,
"lnactive Kidneys and Urinary Organs
cause the worst of diseases, and Hop Bit
ters cures them all
"More health, sunshine and joy ia Hop
|Biters than in all other remedies"
'Hor COUGu CURE AND PALS RELIF Is
THE BEST
For sale by an druggists. aug a.-lm.
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STRICTLY FOR CASH
Ponds Extract
The Vegetable Pain Destroyer

J
INVALUABLE FOR
inflammation & Hemorrhage.
piles, Sprains, Lameness, Burns SeAldsr
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toilet requisite, has induced us to prepare
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soap. ESQ cents box offs cakesl Toilet
Cream for sottcning and beautifying the
skin tSlOO a bottle), Dentifriee $50 cents)
u Lip sRlve (25 cents).
For sensitive and severe cases of CATARRH,
our CatRrrh Cure rs cents) used with our
NRZnl syringe (25 cents) is a radical cure.
our Inhaler $50 cents), for LUNG AND
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New York and London.
June 7.-l5t
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A UDITOR'S NOTICE.

The undersigned Auditor, appointed by the
Court of Common Pleas of Carbon County to
restate, settle and make distribution of the
funds in the hands of AdOlph Hussman, Adj
mnistratOr Of the Estate OF Chas HUssmau,
decd, will attend to the duties of his appoint
ment ON MONDAY, AUGUST nth, 1879, Mt
TEN o'clock A. NJ, at his Omcc, OAK HALL,
Mauch Chunk, when and where all parties
interested may attend.
PETER j. MEEHAN, Auditor.
Mauch Chunk, July y, 1879.
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Inc NdLtOHdt tHPtW ~ INC SU7tWCf.- " dN- /
ington m the past, present and .tuturc.-
Uncle Sap's TocGct- book. - Cast Of Run /
ming The Gorernmcnt-Hc ,cto iaughs first
dc,-Modegt Aap1aats for Foreign MIS-.
Si0Hs..-otc, dc.
WAsHNGToN, d. O., Aug. ., 1879.
The present summer seasonis characterized
by the presence of a larger population, resi-
dent and visiting in Washington, than has
been known for years. This is not entirely
due to the necessity Of business life nor yet to
financial inconvenience, but to the fact that
our people are awakening to the intelligence
that the summer months can be passed more
profitably and, with few drawbacks, more
pleasantly at home ami home associates and
convenience, than elsewhere. No city in the
country has improved so rapidly and success
fully as Washington within the past half de-
cade, and the progress continues pertnently
and eflectually. MIR. Shepherd perfected the
crude idea Of Washington, and gave us the
next beautiful metropolis in the country.
Nature that had hitherto loafed quiescent
about us, rose in graceful beauty and emphat-
ic picturesQuoness about us by contrast with
most complete picture in the world. And now
private enterprise is afoot and at work to fin.
ish and gild the frame about and color the in
ner light and shadow of the scene. Washing
ton is only oppressive, either in cold or heat,
spasmodIcally. 1t seems to be invested with
an eccentric but good-natured climate that
now and then makes things lively for its in
habtants, only to give a drawback, with
pleasant interest, at compound rates 1t is
wonderfully made but it is well made. There is
little doubt that the National Capital will
soon become the winter Saratogo-on a larger
scale--of the country, and it isnot improbable
that not far distant is the time when It will be
popular asa asummer resting place. We have
broad avenues and abundant shade; grand
and immediate surrounding country of woods
hills, glades and rivers and each year produces
some newer city attraction successfully plan
ned and well-managed. The salt water and
/ the sea Is within little further distance than
an hour from u.s. and the Potomac teens with
/ fleets of eXcellenty appointed travelling and
excursion boats. The price otllving and trav-
/ cling is almost nominal, and there is n spirit
1 Of genteel freedom and bouhomic peculiar to
the National Capital, that wins all who come
among us.
The appropriations made during the third
session OF the Fogty-frth Congress and the
first session of the FoTtysixth Congress for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1850, and for
former years, prepared by the warrant diyls,
i,y ogth, rreaer,r,- Non, ant ro o1 g. II.,-
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pXECUTOR'S NOTICE.

Letters Testamentary on the Estate of
jonathan KOlb, late Of the Borough of W eiss-
port, Carbon County, Penna. deceased, have
been granted to the undersigned, to whom all
persons indebted to the said estate are re-
quosted to make payment within six weeks,
ami all those having claims or demands will
make known the same, without delay, to
HENRY BOYER, Executor.
Wcissport, July ., lS79-w6#
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PIMPLES

/ will mani tFreel the recipe for a simple
VEGETABLE BALM that wil remove IAN,
FRECkLES, PIMPLFS aud BLOrCHE,,
leaving the skin soft Gear ana beautiful also
iu- -CruCtous Tor producing luXuriaut growth
Of hair ON "a bald head or smooth face. Adurcss.
slINnI. N Y
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ITO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

All persons arc hereby forbid making con
tracts to purchase from or to sell to my Wife,
MARY ANN, after this date, rs l will not be
responsible therefor.
GIDEON ZIMMERMAN,
Franklin Township, Carbon County, Pa.
July Goth, 1S7g.-w3#