The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-09-11

its first iron Tuesday.
Twenty-Five manufacturing establish
ments are in full blast at Erie.
Josiah Copey, Of Pittsburg, is II years
old. He is journalist of the old school.
The Greenbackers of the Twenty sixth
district have nominated W. c. Plumer for
Congress
George Edge, of Cain township, Chester
county, aged 80 years, committed suicide on
Sunday while insane.
Miss Sue L. Beatty has been appointed
by the United States Circuit Court at Pitts
burg special examiner to take and report
testimony in an oil suit.
The fusion ofthe Greenbaekers and Repub-
lican parties in Schuy!kill county, it is
thought, will drive the Greenbacker to their
old love in the choice of a Congressman.
The Republican School Board of Allie
gheny City has declared that it is in the in
terests OF harmony and social order TO keep
the white and colored children IN separate
school buildings.
Governor Hoyt has decided to grant a
charter for new railroad to extend from
Sharpsburg down the Pttsburg side of the
Allegheny and to be called the 2 Pittsburg and
Allegheny River Railroad.
The Edgar Thomson Steel Company has
paid $4,000 for the privilege of mining 300
acres of brown hematite ore land, and $780,
| 600 for the option of mining 300 additional
acres. The lands are situated in Patton town
hip, Centre county
Mr.. S. II. Miller, Of the Twenty-sixth dis
trct, pending proposed settlement of the
! troubles there, speaks at all the meetings,
while Colonel McJunkiu, Of Butler, who
also claims the Republican nomination of
the district, keeps IN retirement.
4 correspondent OF the Reading Times
and DiSpalch, writing from Shenandoah,
says that 400 men are thrown out of employ
ment at the Keely Run mines. The pros beet
for putting out the fire seems gloomy, and il
this is not accomplished it will burn ffom
gangway to Psngway, destroying five con-
Meeting eolieres.
The Democrats Of Northampton county
have nominated Hon. William Mutchler ioI
Congress and renominated Messrs. J. NJ.
Hatkett, A. W. Lerch and Henry Scholl fol
the Legislature. The Bucks county, corr
ferees are pledged TO Mr.. Mutchler, and the
indications are that the Lehigh conferes'
will be similarly instructed.
Berks county claims the largest chestnut
tree in the country. II is growing on the
farm belonging TO the estate ofSolomon Mer
kel, in Rockland township, and measure.
3s feet and 4 inches in circumference
The Ringgold Bard, of Reading, has re
ceived an e4ier from Potter Palmer, of Chi
cago, to furnish daily concerts at the Palmer
House, in said city, next winter, The otte
is liberal one, and may be accepted.
The State Convention of Directors of tn,
+ Poor, in Harrisburg, Wednesday, adopted
permanent organization and adjourned, L
meet in Erie On the third Tuesday in Sep
tember, 1881.
1t cost Erie county, ir this State, 5000 70
} the destruction of sheep by dogs in august
3 A law school is to be founded at PittsJurg
/ Bradford is to be supplied with pure sprin
, water.
The Phunix Iron Works are turning ou
/ fifty tons of iron a day.
The Pittsburg Southern Railroad is to b
e extended into Greene county.
Rats robbed a grape arbor belonging
u Mr.. Frederick Lauer, of Reading, Of il
e fruit
/ A post of the Grand Army of the Reput
lie has just been established at Hawley
- Wayne cohnty.
7 Albert Griswold, a prominent citizen {
T. Pike county, was killed by the cars at Row
T. land on Tuesday night.
The growing corn cropof the Cumberlan
= Valley will be the largest gathered theI
i within twenty years.
o A cotton press weighing 1850 tons hi
, Just been completed at the Scott Foundr,
Reading, for an Alabama planter
= Martin Hagens and John Reesman,
Il Altoona, were run over by cars, near Peter
= burg, On Sunday, and killed.
= Hon. Seth H. Yocum has appointed c.
Yates, of Lewisburg, Union county, cad
at Annapolis.
It The Geigertown (Berks county, Cid,
y Works are making 800 gallons of cider p'
n day, at a cost Of one cent per gallon.
John Shenk, a well-known fatmer
Conestoga township, Lancaster county con
/, mitted suicide by hanging, on Tuesday,
q Willie White, only years Of age, and
slate picker, was killed in the Elk Iii
breaker, near Scranton, a few days ago.
Il S. b. Manning chief miller in Marshal
e Kennedy & Co.'s -four mill, at Pittsbui
c was killed by the bursting Of a burr Q
"a Tuesday.
Is A 3-year-old child of Mr.. Huzinga
'e Missimer, Of Pottstown, fell from a windoI
ir distance Of twenty five feet, on Saturda
but escaped injury;
A watss snake That has destroy ed a nun
l. Der of gold fish in Oakland Cemetery, We
le Chester, was dispatched recently, viii
n- trying to swallow one Of the Hsh.
h, The Republicans of Clinton county ha
" nominated Thomas II. Murray, Of Clea
ol field, for Congress, aud Nathan =. ategal
NJ ol E1Roya, lor the Legislature.