The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-12-13


Associate Judge Of that county. Judge
| Marshall is In the Insane Asylum at Harris
burg, receividg treatment for q disordered
mind
Three thousand fodf huhdrcd and ifty-
one acres Of white pine ard white oak tim.
| Der land in Centre county has been sold for
| $62 600 10 Mr.. John T. Fo0lefJ Of Fowler
Post Office, that county.
The coal 5prrators' and Miners Board Of
| Arbitration Of Western PENNSYLVANIA have
declared that arbitration is a failure. This
conclusion has been arrived at after n mum
Der of unsuccessful attempts 10 fix prices for
! December The prices for November were
| fixed by the Board at 81 cents per bushel,
and the miners held out for the same this
month. There was representation Of 5000
miners in the Board, and it is thought that
a striks is inevitable.
John Melvin, while walking on the track
of the Pennsylvania Coal Companys rail-
road, near pit,ston. on Saturday afternoon,
was struck by coal train and killed.
General Charles S. Merchant, United States
Army, died on Saturday at Carlisle, Pa. He
Yves one of the oldest officers in the United
| States army, having been in the service for
upwards Of sixty five years.
A charter WIS granted gt The State De-
partment Monday TO the Susquehanna and
| Clearfiel Railroad Company, extending from
point on the line of the Philadelphia and
Erie Railroad, at or near Heating, Clinton
county, Via the valley of the west branch of
| the Susquehan1a river aud OF the Moshan-
non creek to couientihn at or near the
mouth Of said creek; with the Lock Haven
and Clearfeld Railroad, distance of about
thirty five miles. The capital stock is $780,
900, or $4,000 shares, at $50 per share.
"What every one says must be true,' that
"Dr Sellers Cough Syrup" has no equal for
coughs and colds Try it. Price 25c.
The boiler houses aud machiners at three
oil houses; ard 1900 barrels of Dill with
tanks etc, We're destroyed at Coleville twelve
miles from Bradford, Oil Monday night caus-
ing loss of $4,000.
A Pottsvile school mistress whinred a
pupil until he was black and blue for max
ing faces. She said she wds sorry that she
had lost her temper, and the School Board
concluded that such was ample reparstion.
A freight engine ran into passenger train
Tuesday morning at Eddystone, just above
! Chester, on the Delaware river branch Of the
Reading railroad. Both engines and pas
senger car were badly wrecked, but ito per
son was injured.
William Works. conductor of freight
train on the Philadelphia and Reading rail.
road, was found dead on the track at Pale
Alto at six O'Clock Tue day night, with both
legs and an arm cut off. II is supposed thai
he fell in attempting to jump ON passing
coal train.
The Pennsylvania State Grange, Patron,
of Uusbdndry, met at Bloomsbury, Columbif
county, Tuesday afternoon, Cnl6nel V. L
PiOllet, Of Bradford county, presided. Dele
gates were present from more than half o
the counties in the State, and others arrived
"Wednesday.
4 correspondent writes from Milford
Pike county, that the whereabouts of Wal
ter Mitchell, a notorious land swindler o
that place. who has been missing for somt
weeks to escape arrest, are known. ii,
states that Mitthel's operations have beer
extensive enough to make him worth $3.50,
900, which he has invested IN Government
bonds, and that he has made arrangement
to leave the country, if such should becom
necessary in order to avoid conviction
: and imprisonment:
' All liquor licenses are revoked in Fri
county where it can be shown that the hold
er is unworthy. The Judge of the count,
! Galbraith, was elected as u Temperance can
. didate dlter sesere struggle.
Miss Wren, of Tarport, McKcati county
girl attractive in persUnal and menta
charms, trfed with the affections of a sa
:, loonkeeper nanied Ddliiadge, who sough
Satisfaction IN cold poison. The suction c
a stomach pump saved him.
= Mrs Hulsey, of Pottsville, has been ar
: rested and put under bail for throwing boil
: ing hot coffee over seven-year old daugh
ter, who had offended her. Itwas proved @
= the hearing that the child has been frequent
e ~ beaten in the most brutal manner BY he
mothef.
By report sent from Scranton it is learn
ed that the recent advance in the wages {
: miners and laborers in the Lackawann
=. coal fields has done these people but littl
Q good, as Immediately upon the advance i
wages there was as great an advance upo
a all the articles in the stores.
u The Bradford Era reports that salt wate
: in large quantities has been found in tn
# southern part 5t Mexican tourty. Its pre'
s ence indirates bad territory for the oil opc
S ratOr, and has condemned thousands Of acre
that were hitherto regarded as good.
r The correspondent of the Shenondoa
. Herald claims to have been informed b
reliable parties that Messrs. Charles Farrls
q & Co., have agents in New York sendin
= men to their mines to be used in minin
= coal. There is scarcity Of miners in th
anthracite field.