The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-06-18


-wANTED-An active, industrious man.
Good pay and steady work. Address Lock
Box 800, Allentown, Pa.
Tho late rains insure fair hay crop
and plenty of garden truck.
-Rumor has it that glass works are TO be
established at Bethlehem.
D. D. Jones, an extensive slate operator
at slatington, has begun opening new
quarry.
The borough tax of Catasauqua has
been rated at mills on the dollar for the
present year.
The corrected time table of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railroad will be found
in our ISSUE to-day.
The Thomas Coal Company of Philadel-
phia has surrendered its lease Of Kelly Run
Colliery to the city of Philadelphia. Fifty
thousand dollars have been expended in the
effort to drown the fire in the colliefy. The
mine is now being flooded.
"A miner OF Mahanoy Plane, schuylkill
county, has just finished fast of thirty-one
days.
Stephen Kreiderweis is putting down a
substantial flag pavement and otherwise
improving his property at the upper end Of
| town.
Our town was enlivened Monday even
ing by a free lecture, delivered under can
vass, by DR.. Dunham.
ill.,. I7er ;s VI 10
put down a fine flag pavement in front Of
his Bank street residence.
During the week ending on the 10th
inst, there were 9,2S3 tons of coal shipped
over the Lehigh and susquehanna railroad,
making total for the season of 100000
tons, and shows and increase Of 326,5s4 tons
as compared with same time last year.
Pure Paris Green and Hallebore, in
large or small quantities, at Zern Rap
sher's drug store, Welssport, Pa.
Edmund j. Moore, Jr., a well-known
lawyer of Allentown, died on Thursday of
last week.
The fire in Vaudeville shaft, near Potts
vile, has been extinguished.
Mise Clara Hibber will please accept
our thanks for magnificent boquet of roses.
The croquet ball has been set in motion
in this place.
Parties owning lots in the cemetery
have been fixing them up lately, and now
the grounds present nice appearance.
Last Friday contracts for the building
of ten blocks of houses in the Diamond Ad-
ition, Hasletown, were let out by the Lehigh
Valley Company.
The report is renewed that the New Jer-
sey Central Railroad will soon be taken out
of the Receivers hands, and this time the
Receiver himself, Judge Lathrop, is given
as authority for the statement
R. j. Flick, of Wilkesbarre, has pre-
sented Lincoln University, in Chester coun-
ty, with $40 900, for the endowment ofa pro
fessorship.
The Lehigh Zinc Works at Bethlehem
have passed into the possession of Messrs. R.
& C. A. Hecl,sher, Of Philadelphia.
During the week ending on the llth
inst, there were 9,sl6 tons Of coal shipped
over the LehIgh Valley railroad; making
total of 2,7O3, ,O4S tons for the season to that
date, and showing an increase Of sos, 1852
tons as compared with the same time last
year.
Patrick Reilly, Of Smoketown, Lacka-
wanna county, on the line of the Delaware
and Hudson Canal Co.'S railroad created the
yy1 "A asf in, hot ,lapa On, SnplA "
morning by an attempt to assassnate Rev.
Father ORourkc during the celebration of
/, mass. Reilly returned home from the Dam
VILE insane asylum few months ago, and
has been frantic at times sLce then. On
Sunday morning he marched through the
principal streets to the church, carrying Il
; loaded repeating rifle. On reaching the
church, he passed up the centre aisle to the
altar, and aimed his gun at the priest, but
, before he could fire number OF the congre-
CATION rushed upon him, dlsarmed and Sc
+ cured him.
--Messrs Zern & Rapsher have secured
the services of a new clerk in the per-
sou of Mr.. L. j. Sellers, late Of Reading,
Pa. Mr.. S. is thorough druggist aud
will be pleased to wait upon customers.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad announces
= quarterly dividenod of one aud one hall
E per cent, payable July Is.
Mrs. L F. Keppinger's father, Reuben
B. Beber, died, of dropsy, at his home
in Bath, on Wednesday last. Funeral to-day
s Saturday at 10 O'Clock.
e Charles Matthews, a fireman on the
schuylkill and Lehigh Railroad, was killed
on Wednesday afternoon.
o F. D. Burrell, who recently went tc
, Wilkesbarre from Binghamtor, New York
, claims that Emma Smith, a waitress at a
+ hotel in the former place, is his daughter
He states that his wife eloped from Roches.
# ter Is Years ago and took with her the child
If who was then ! year old. Dispatches from
i Binghamton to Wilkesbarre say that Bur.
y rell is not to be trusted.
- For Sale, an old fashioned eight day
n clock, which plays eight different tunes in {
g most artistic manner-one each hour; it car
r now be seen at the Lehghton Hotel, on ap
T.. pication to the landlord L. f. Kleppinger
e or Thos. S. Beck, Esq. Apply soon if yot
e wish to buy it.
i All the industries of Lebanon are crowde,
a.. with work.
Q Attention, All
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