The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-01-10
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On New Years right John Browh, 1ii)s
drunk, fell from bridge in pittsburg, and
plunged distance Of sixty feet into the AL
legheny. lie swan mile and reac, G
shore in safety. Notwithstanding Mr..
| Browns mellow condition he hailed from a
place called Tempcraucoville
The Venongo Citizen says: "Ths produc-
era of second sand oil arc considering the
question Of erecting refinery on the CO ope-
ratiyc plan" The idea il to secure better
prices by protection.
There nrb iHy-one furnaces in theLehigh
| Valley with n capacity Of 100000 tons. All
the furnaces ARE now either in operation or
undergoing repairs. The product Tor 1850
will probably oXcecd that Of any previous
| year.
The Pottsville Chronicle reports that the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company's repair shops at that place have
been running on double time during the
week past, repairing machinery used at the
collieries, which could only b5 done during
! the suspension.
A correspondent Of the Lancaster ,NcWEra
writing from Columbia, gives this informa-
ton, MIR. IL. NJ. North, Esq, has sold his
| Kaufman furnace property-the Cudeia
| blast furnace aud farm land in West Hemp
/ field and the Figley ore bank in York coun-
! ty, to Mr. Isaac Mcliose, II prominent and
| leading iron man Of Reading.
| Subscriptions are being taken up in Lu-
| zcrnc county 10 raise funds t6aid the suffer
| ing people in Ireland. ...
| Tramps are reported as unusually plenty
about South Easton. Eight were locked up
at that place on Saturday night.
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iron were made at the blast furnace Of the
Warwick Iron Company last week.
The Remove Record estimates the total
amount of lumber that will be floated from
that point next spring at 24,OoODoo feet.
William Reed dangerously stabbed Mich
ael Welsh at lrwin's Station, Westmoreland
county, on New Years day. Reed was ar
rested.
W. c. Keller, an attache Of the Post Office
in Harrisburg, has been arrested on a charge
Of opening letters and abstracting their con-
tents. He was held in $500 bail
The Ptttsburg papers report rise in The
Allegheny and Mononguhea Rivers, and
there were some fears on Sunday that flood
might occur and land number of coal
barges high and dry.
A pretty Scotch lassie, who lived in the
family OF a prominent physician in Allcghe.
ny City, had a lover named Stewart killed
in the Tay disaster Since that time accord
ing to the Pttsburg Dispatch, which paper
furnishes the item, she has become very mel
ancholy.
Whoopine tdtgii Group, and colds are
alone cured by "Dr. Sellers Cough Syrup
which is daily working miracles Price %
cents
Aorso black bear was killed near Lloyds.
vile, Blair county, the other day.
Total deposits in the Williamsport nation.
al banks amount to 81 ,S42,l77,S9.
The internal revenue receipts in the
Scranton office during 1873 were $llO,797,-
10.
A hunter in McKean county brought into
Smithport few days ago, large catalnount
which he caught in bear trap.
Robert Magill, an elderly man, wandered
= into Plttsburg station house on Saturday
night, and dropped dead while talking 10 di
officer.
Dem Bennet, brakeman ON tie Atlantic
and Great Western Railroad, was run over
by cars near Cory on Saturday and instant
> ly killed.
The oldest netive born citizen Of Allen.
town is Mr.. John Wagner, now in his S9tl
year. Citizens of the place called upon hin
a few days ago and presented him with G
cane.
The Rights of Labor in Schuylkill coun
7 ty have decided not to inaugurate a strike
( A meeting was held on Tuesday, and vott
taken on the matter. Several members o
the order had made threats that, if the new
year was not commenced with the basis,
4 strike would take place.
: Christopher Hoffman, of Erie, hung him
y self on Tuesday. He had been trusted will
large sums of money to deposit in or with
draw from bank, and had always been con
sdered honest. Among his effects was founC
evidence of embezzlement and attempts q
@ forgery. Fear o. discovery was probably
the cause of the deed.
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The cattle plague continues on the islam,
b of Mauritius, and deer have been attacket
;. by it. Up to November 30 there has beel
10000 deaths among the cattle,
r Ten Afghans convicted by military com
y mission at Cabul, We're hanged on Decembe
}. so. Among them was one ofthe murderer
y of Jenkyn's, the Secretary Of Major Cayag
r mari.
The drift ice in the Seine al Taris has be
, come so heavy as to cause great damage AM
> much alarm is felt. The works opposite tn
Il Invalides have been carried away, and tn
river is full of wreckage. Several of tn
IF bridges have been rendered unsafe, an
travel over them has been stopped.
The Norwegian bark Highmoor, Cap!ai
Bache, from Philadelphia for Antwerp, pre-
h viously reported aground in the Scheld
r. and subsequently reported to have bee
wrecked at Zutdergot, has been noatod an
v towed to her destination.
IS The Irish rent agitation has assumed
new phase, and has EXTENDED from tn
4 rural to the urban localities. A movemen
is aloot to agtate for reInission or redu,
ton Of rents on the part of the poor hous,
y holders and tenants in Dublin and the othC
large towns.