The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-08-30

about feoched an end, aid they nt5 tiali-
ing terms with the employers.
On the LIST Of September, without lear Of
molestation from the law, spdttsmeA sah
shoot ducks, geese and squirrels.
The pastor at the Berks county Alms-house
Rev. M. L. Fritch, has appealed to Court for
his last months salary--SlG.
The Borough Council of Pottsville haye
passed a resolution Offering $40 900 as an in
ducemeht to have the Miners Hospital To-
Gated at that place.
The State Grand Lodge Of Knights OF Py-
thas, in session at York last week, finally
adjourned ON Saturday to assemble in Car
Isle bh August q, 1880.
The station house at Bradford is in such a
filthy condition that a magistrate there re-
fuses to commit prisoners to the place and
sends theih to the smethport Jail.
Mr.. David Fox tfgreen Iano, Montgom-
cry countyj who lost three children several
weeks ago with diphtberia, buried two ttiore
from the same cause last Thursday
-"May your tFeubles only be little onesy
and tnay you always have DR.. Bulls Baby
Syrup handy" said an old bachelor to a
newly-marricd couple.
A needle, with long thread attached,
was picked out of boys back in lancaster,
on Saturday. Itissupposed to have entered
some portion of his body when he was an
infant
Oyer Two thousand acres of land ftcently
leased near Mt Pleasant, Westmorelahd
county, are being prospected for oil and
number of rigs have been erected thereon.
The company undertaking the work are con-
fident of success.
BERTHE Hathaway living near Edehburg,
improvsed a gun out of piece ol gas pipe
on Friday, which he exploded, when the
breech pin blew out, and, striking Him in the
BREAST, inflicted wound which it is thought
will prove fatal.
Mrs, A. B. seybold, the wife of well-to-
do hardware merchanty at McKeesport, AL
legheny county committed suicide ON Thurs
day by submerging her head in a barrel of
rain-water. The lady was a sufferer from
chronic headache.
At Murraysville, Westmoreland county,
on last Friday, Rachel snodgrassJ a young
lady of nineteen, was so overwhelmed with
fright at the peril other infant brother strad-
ding plank over the mouth of well that
she fell to the ground and expired almost in
stantly.
The Emaus furnace, on the East Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, Is II be started up within
few days. The Reading Times and Dispatch
says that it will not be long before every
furnace in the Scbuylkill and Lehgh Val
leys will be in operation. Work il going
steadily on at the Kutztown furnaces, with
a view to starting them in few weeks.
The Secretary of War has ordered that the
barracks at Carlisle be ttrred over TO the In
terror Department, to be nsed as a school for
the education of Indian youths. The insti-
tuition will be modelled after the Hampton
(Va.) Normal Institute, and will be under
the charge of Captain II. Pratt, who has had
considerable experience as a trainer of In
dams at St. Augustine and Hampton.
On Friday night Rev. Hermah Eggeis;
pastor fSt. Johns German Lutheran church
at Easlon, fell through a trap door that bad
been accidentally lett open in the church
building. and received wounds from which
he died early the next morning He was ed
ucated in the Kingdom of Hanover, South
Germany, and had been preaching in the
United States about forty-fve years!
Mrs. Healey, residing at Blair furnace,
three miles from Altoona, Walked too near
the shaft Of an abandoned ore mine and the
earth giving way, the lady fell to the bottom,
distance of eighty feet, maintaining an up
right position, and sunk up to her armpts
in mud. Her infant which had dropped
from her arms, was found nearly smothered
in tbe ihud, but neither of them was seri-
ously hurt.
! Father McEnroe, of the Church of the
Holy Infancy, at Easton, is waging war
against the variety shows in his Sunday dis
courses:
Kate Md1aughllh, d young woffian Who
accompanied St.Michaels church excursion
from Chester to Cape May, on Monday, has
not been heard of since and it is feared she
was drowned while landing at the wharf III
Chester:
An old ore mine is being operated at Pc
trolia, Butler county, which was discovered
in 1857, and abandoned soon after, owing to
the expense in smelling ore, The vein is
thick, the ore rich, and one Pittsburg firm
will take 1000 tons Of it,
Mrs. Julia Addm Cake, relict Of the late
Joseph W. Cake, at one time Collector of the
Port of Philadelphia, died at Pottsvlle on
Monday evening Mrs. Cake was born in
Litchfeld, Mass, and was related to John
Brown, of Harper's Ferry notoriets Hon.
David Davis, of Illinois, and Vas school
mate at Litchfeld of the wife of the late
Horace Greedy.
The termination Of the strike of the
pressed glassware makers at Pittsburg, after
holding out for nine months, is opportune,
as the demand for glassware dt this title is
very large. There are large orders on hand
which can lie filed at a fair margin, and an
industry which has suffered by enforced idle
ness Viii be rapidly recuperated by the large
demands made upon it. Five hundred hands
will find employment Immediately.
A to1mittee from the order ofKnights of
Labor, in Schuylklll county, have addressed
a letter to Mr. F. B. Gowen, President ofthe
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, asking
that he at once prosecute in the Courts of
that county the members of their order who
be has charged in an open letter with being
connected with the "McNulty gang" the 6b-
ject 6f which is criminal practices. The com
mittee state that as la%-abiding citizens they
will consider it thelr duty to give Mr.Gowen
| ayar,y assistapoa within their nower in the