The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-07-12
NEWS GOSSIP.

Bishop Odenhiemer, Of New Jersey, who
has been seriously i'll for some time past, is
reported by his PHYSICIANS to be growing
weaker every day.
The fall wheat in Iowa is all gathered in,
and the spring wheat is being harvested.
Both are good in quality and quantity. An
immense corn crop is promised.
Baby Shows are the rage everywhere, and
we understand that the universal remedy
used to keep the little ones quiet is DR.. Bulls
Baby syrup 1t contains no opiate. Price
rs cents.
Henry Schire, nine-year old German,
fell, on Monday, from the roof of the six
story tenement No. l03 Elizabeth street,
New York, where he was flying kite, TO
the eidewalk, distance of eighty feet, more
or less. He was picked up by the neighbors,
and physician was called. The latter said
that no bones had been broken, and that the
boys injuries were trifng.
The erection of the soldiers monument
in POttstown, on the Fourth Of July appears
to have been the expiring act of Graham
Post, No. l06 G. A. II. The Pottstown Ledq-
er reports that its five or six members have
"disbandoned." Foreseeing this result, they
expended the money in the treasury,
amounting 10 several hundred dollars, in
VIC SlOSNiOh VI thS illouuLleuts
LANCASTER, Pa, June CSC. +. Hershey
and Louis Sewers, while engaged at work
in the steam Touring mill of j. NJ. Brandt,
at Mount joy, on Thursday last, quarreiled
about fifty cents, which Hershey had bor-
rowed from Sewers, and which he refused
to pay, back. Sewers struck Hershey a ter
rible blow on the head, knocking the latter
through a doorway TO the railroad track be-
meath. where, striking his head on the rail,
he was rendered unconscious. He was car
ried to his home, where he died yesterday
morning. Both men are old residents Of
Mount Joy, and have large families. Both
were under the influence of liquor at the
time. Sewers was committed TO Jail.
The clatter OF anvils round the Altoona,
| (Pa.) car shops has drowned every other
sound for many weeks, and the local paper
says an extra force Of workmen have been
employed 10 fill an order lately received
for 1000 freight cars.
The Americans lead the world in every
thing and especially in fast eating this has
made Dyspepsia our national disease though
now under perfect control by the use of DR..
Bulls Baltimore Pills. Sold everywhere.
Price rs cents.
The weather continues very hot at st.
| Louis, the temperature there Wednesday be-
| ing 9S in the shade. Ten cases of sunstroke
were reported, four fatal, the dead being Au-
| gust melcher, Julia Nugent, Hermann Huss
and Edward Thompson. In DesMoins, Ia,
Wednesday, the average OF the thermometer
was 90 degrees in the shade. In Springfield
ILL.,, j. Hufierman, a railroad employee, died
of sunstroke. Two deaths from sunstroke
were reported in Memphis Wednesday.
MILFORD, Pa, July 7.-Thomas Kane,
aged "a, lived with his parents on a farm
near Kimble's, this county. He was nearly
six feet high, and weighed 200 pounds. In
March last he contracted a severe cold
After that bad cough troubled him. Al.
though this had no apparent effect on hi:
health, the idea that he was becoming con-
sumptive took possession of him. II preyed
on his mind so that he became despondeRt
On Tuesday last, after moving for half {
day in hay held, during which work he
led all the other hands in the field, he sad
died horse and rode away from the farm
Nothing was thought Of this until late a
night, when, not having returned search
was made for him. On Wednesday, hi
horse was found tied to a tree a mile from
Wolf Pond, half way between the pond anC
The latest advises from Mexico indicat,
that much Of the trouble is fomented by tn,
agents Of American jobbers and adventurer
who are intriguing 10 bring about the an
nexation Of the northern States Of that re
public, in order that they may enrich them
selves by Plunder on gigantic scale. Sen