The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-13
Coal has advanced 25 cents per ton.

All klhos vi uiy BOVu9 "i0 SOiHS Up q
price.
The druggists have a run on coug
syrup.
Fine gold and silver watches at E. H
Hollis, Mauch Chunk.
And now Nazareth is to have a news
paper.
Soft and stiff hats, light weights, at JAS
Hsndwerk's Mauch Chunk, at light prices
Moving day-April lst-falls on Thurs
day this year.
The price Of -four has been reduced 81
cts. per hundred in Easton.
Farmers boys have just had their hail
cut, an infallible harbinger of spring.
Easter this year falls on the 2sth o.
March. An early caster, it is said, is an
indication Of an early spring.
The Catasauqua Manufacturing Co. is
at present shipping cnder from their rolling
mill at Ferndale to Steelton, near Harris
burg, for renelting. The material contains
about As per cent. of iron.
The selling prices of pig iron last week
were as follows: No. foundry at S40a42
per ton; No. 2 at $Soa4O; grey forge at
$Ssa3o, and mottled at $S6a37 at tide water
and $3.50 per ton less at the furnace.
Charles Deppe, of franklin township,
will, to-day Saturday, offer at public sale
three pieces of real estate and variety Of
personal property. See bills printed at this
Office.
Thomas Weidaw, of East Wessport, on
the 18th inst, will sell his valuable farming
stock and household furniture at public sale,
preparatory to going to Ohio. See ilustra-
ted bills printed at this office.
800 boxes Vests Vegetable Liver Pills
for sale at Durling's Drug Store. 20 cents
per box. If.
job printing at lowest rates at the CAR
BON ADVOCATE office. Try us.
"A fresh stock of latest designs in velvet
frames, at Luckenbach's, Mauch Chunk.
IF you wanta nice smooth, easy shave
your hair cut or shampooing, go to Franz
Roederer's Saloon, under the Exchange Ho-
tel. He will fix you right, and don't you
forget it.
III you are going to make application for
hotel; saloon, restaurant or liquor store IL
cense at the next term OF court, your petition
must be filed in the Prothonotary's Office
not later than Thursday, 18th inst.
For the Ave days ending on the 5th
inst, there were 69,57O tons of coal shipped
over the L. and S. railroad, making total
for the season of 53O,6lS tons, decrease,
compared with same time last year, OF 4O,-
240 tons.
New American stem-winding watches
only SO so, at E. II. Hollis, few doors a
bove Mansion House, Mauch Chunk.
See a wine cup in another column
with bunch of Grapes from which Speer's
Port Grape Wine is made, that is so highly
esteemed by the medical profession for the
use of invalids, weakly persons and the
aged. Sold by druggists,
The depot for fresh, pure and genuine
drugs and medicines is DR.. C. T. Horns Cen
tral Drug Store, opposite the "Carbon
House." 6-19.
M. Florey, near the canal bridge, Weiss
port, offers for sale this spring, good hand,
made, fine and coarse harness, collars, &c,
and very reasonable prices.
-Ifyou want the latest designs of fine
wall papers put up in the best style, call at
Luckenbach's, Mauch Chunk.
The Preparatory Department of the
Pennsylvania State College offers free in
structon to all. 1t is thoroughly organized,
and embrascs wide range of studies such
as will prepare its students either for sue
ceSsful work in the Collegiate Department,
for the duties of intelligent citizens and COM
petent business men in all vocations of life.
For full information, address the President,
State College, Centre county, Pa.
The first quarterly meeting OF Weissport
Station, for the present Conference year,
will be held on Sunday, March l4th.
Presiding Elder C. X. Fehr will preach
morning, afternoon and evening.
Soft and stiff hats, light weights, caps,
gloves, &c, at very low prices for cash at
Handwerk's Market Square, Mauch Chunk.
-SToRE RooM FOR RENT.-For an ener-
getic party there is at present an excellent
opening for a mercantile business in Weiss
port. The Rolling Mill Co., Foundry and
Emery Wheel Co., works are all opening
business on an enlarged scale-a store room
80 feet deep, in fine brick building in said
borough, can be rented. Apply at this office.
Subscribe for the ADVOCATE, only 81
a year.
An important decision has been rend-
cred by Judge Ross, of Montgomery county
TO the effect that when judgments are OBJ
tanned before justices for wages on labor,
and an appeal taken from the decison, an
oath by the defendant must be recorded and
sent up with it affirming that ait is not for
delay, but because he thinks injustice has
baen done him." and further, that the secur-
ity then entered shall not be merely for the
costs, but for the debt and costs. This is in
with the act of April 20, 1876.
The debt Of Allentown is s47O ,566. .Ie,
on $S77 ,472.22 Of which the city PAYS seven
per cent. interest, and on $76,I5S six DER
cent. The balance is not interest bearing.
To pay the interest on the debt requires
$50 ,992, ,2S annually. This does not include
the school debt of the city.
H. H. Peters, agent, the popular merch-
ant tailor, in the post office building, is now
receiving and opening one of the largest
and most fashionable stocks of cloths, cas-
simeres and suitings ever brought into
Lehighton, and which he is prepared to
make up in the latest fashion and most
durable manner, at prices which actually
defy composition. Call and examine goods
and learn prices and be convinced.
WIN. Hain.z, of East Penn, was before
Esq. T. s. Beck, on Thursday afternoon Of
last week, charged with assault and battery
and obstruoting Constable J. S. Webb in the
execution Of his duty when making levy
upOn the narsonal rrnuartv Of ths dac,-l