The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-11-01
mars 70
John Fitzwilliam



The iron business is still booming, and
all the furnaces are in full blast
The next reunion Of the 47th Penna.
regiment will be held in Allentown.
The school controllers Of Reading have
Just increased the salaries of their teachers
10 per cent.
The first Of the Crane furnaces at Cat
asauoua was blown in on anthracite coal
July 4, ls4O.
Chew JAcKsox's BEST Sweet Navy To-
bacco. 80.
A full line of blank books, very low, at
Luckeubach's, Mauch Chunk.
The slate manufacturers of Chapman
and Bangor have just advanced the price OF
slate twenty five cents per square.
The Lehigh mountain farm near Beth
lehem yielded over 5000 bushels of apples
this year. There are over 100 apple and
pear trees OH it.
"A very dangerous counterfeit $40 legal
tender note is in circulation. 1t is of the
series of 1878, letter C, and is SO well eXecut
ed that it is apt to deceive all but experts.
William Schroeder, of Kempton, last
week found in one of his fields blossoming
rye stalk, measuring 3 feet and 10y inches in
length 1t had sprung up from grain that
remained on the field after harvest.
An immense stock Of envelopes and
writing papers, sold at Luckenbach's Mauch
Chunk.
The Popular Western Ticket Agent, B.
O'Bnan, will be at this Office next Wednes-
day night. you intend to go west, call
and see him, he will send you right, cheap
aud quick.
One day recently willie Dayid Caskie,
of Slatington, was out cunning, his fowling
piece exploded while in the act of firing, the
flying fragments striking him upon one of
his hands and larccrating it so badly that
the thumb had TO be amputatcd.
DIR. James X. KistIer, of Kistler's Val
lev, last week started for Atchison, Kansas,
where he purposes to settle for the practice
Of his profession.
The Kutztown National Bank, in its
official statement just issued, shows d s.
count line Of S5O, ,SO6,5O, and a deposit line
of$lO,39s,O5. The capital paid in is $6O,-
900, and the surplus 1901 A.
Mr.. Samuel Fries, of steinsville Lehigh
county, after nineteen years of patient wait
lug, has a beard four feet and nine inches in
length. He attributes the almost superhu-
man strength with which he is endowed to
his long beard and HAIR.
800 boxes Vests Vegetable Liver Pills
for sale at Durling's Drug Store. 90 cents
per box. If.
Just in, new lot of wall paper, for fall
trade. Call and see it at Luckenbach's,
Mauch Chunk.
For the week ending October "a, there
were shipped over the L. & s. railroad l0l,-
l22 tons Of coal, and for the season to that
date 3,294,IGj tons, showing an inrrease, as
compared with same time last year, in the
shipments of ,4IG,99l tons.
1t makes no difference how much the
political pot boils, David Ebbert continues
to hire teams from his popular livery on
North street, at knock down rates. Try it.
purchased the hat store of Mrs. Hannah
Bedford, in Mauch Chunk, in which he had
been clerk for a number of years, has the
most elaborate stock of hats aud caps inCar-
bon county.
Hon. Robert K'otz, passed through town
Tuesday, jovial as ever.
See advertiseme ent in another column
Of the sale Of the farm and personal proper.
ty of the late John L. Zeigenfus, Of Lower
Towamensng, which takes place November
18th.
III you wanta nice smooth, easy shaw,
your hair cut or shampooing, 60 to Franz
Roederer's Saloon under the Exchange IIo
tel. lie will fix you right, and don't you
forget it.
"A fine line Of assorted box papers, latcs
styles. as low a. cents per box and upwards
at Luckenbacn's, Mauch Chunk.
Henry Campbell, OF East WesspoTt, an
nounees to his friends and the public that b,
is prepared to supply them with the bes
quality of readv.nade fall and wintc
BOOTS and SHOES at great reduction il
price from last year, Notwithstanding tn,
recent advance in manufacturers prices @
from 10 to IS per cent. These boots an,
shoes have been made expressly to his or,le
and are guaranteed to give satisfaction. Cal
and see them.
new coal company has been organized
with Elisha, A. Packer, of New York, a
L.,
Upper Lehigh branch of the Central Rail
To,d Of New jersey, on the Buck Mountain
vein, and ara expected to furnish abou
900 tons of coal year,
For fancy stationery, call at DR.. c. I
Horns popular drug store, just received i
handsome boxes, and TO be sold at pani
prices also, wall papers, a new and hand
some assortment lower than ever.
A popular lecture under the auspices
the Ladies' Mite Society, will be delverc
in the Lehghton NJ. L. church, by Rev. !
7. Miller, on Tuesday evening, Novembe
Ilth. Subject George Washington. spe,
ial music will be furnished BY the cho
Admission, adults, 5 cents children. IOc
Abraham Lewis has opened me-
store in Farryville, and invites his nun
erous friends to call and examine his lara
stock of clothing, dry goods notions, grocc
les, queensware, glassware, tinware, &C
which he is prepared to sell at uupreceden
ly low prices for cash. lie also makes
speciality of useful goods on his IRE cc
counter. Call early for the purpose of secu
ing hasL bargainsl
Calvin j. Horn, aged SS wears, was Kill
ed, aud Frederick Sampsel seriously inju
ed, at Easton, Friday Of last week, by Il
fall Of a scaiIold, on which they were wor