The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-08-27

IL. II. PETERS, Agent,
P, O. Building, Lehighton, Penn'a.

Esfs~A good fresh COW for sale; apply to
W. f. Kelnerer, Big Creek.
&G- Clocks, Watches, Jewelry and silver
ware tIr sale, and repairing done at Haga-
mans Store, Weissport. 25-yl.
Smoke "The Round Head Cigars :.
the best cent cigar in town. Try them
For sale by J. w. Raudenbush, at the Gar.
bon House" 81 If.
n0-The best and cheapest books may
be had at Luckenbachs, 6l Broadway,
Mauch Chunk. Among the works he of.
feEs for sale are the following: Acme biog
raphy: u standard books by Macauley,
Carlyle and others, bound in one volume,
80 cents. Lives of Chaucer. Spencer, Mil
TIN, Cowper and Southey, l volume, 30
cents. Lives OF De Foe, johnson, Gold
smith, Scott and Thackeray, ! volume, so
cents. YouDg's Bible Concordance $2.
The works of FL, vious Josephus, So.
MGs-We notice that a number of our peo-
Pile GO to DR.. ]. A. Mayer, at Mauch Chunk,
to get beautiful sets of teeth the Dr., as an
operator, is unexceled by any other in this
region, which fact is appreciated by the pub
lie. jy3O l3w.
"A gentleman interested in railroad
matters says the Lehigh Valley Company is
maturing project for the extension to Potts
vile by what is called the Lizard creek
route. THIS is to start from the Lehigh VAL
ley Main Line at Lehigh Gap and run
westwardlv through the farming country Ia
Schuylkll Haven, four miles below Potts
yille,when another branch will be run north
and west This plan is even more feasible
than nm extension across Broad Mountain to
Pottsville, which has been extensively ad-
vncatei, but which would require some very
flicult and expensive engineering.
"A breaker of large dimensions is 10 te
er cted for Linderman, Skeer 4 Co, al their
Sugar Loaf Coliery, near Hazlcton.
-Dr.'W Mel. Ostrander, of West Pitts
ton, LGzerne county, committed suicide on
Tuesday by hanging. He was prominent
Mason and a physician Of standing. Iii.
desperate act is attributed to i'll health.
Some Of our people were much excited
on Friday morning of last week, because
Minnie Peters had started or Tor Trenton
on the early morning train, without the
consent of ner pa euts. Mr. Peters iollov-
ed on the next train, and returned home
with her in the evening. Ngf ced.
During the week ending on the goth
inst, there were shipped over the Lehigh
Valley railroad Ito, ,7S2 tons of coal, making
total for the secson to that date of $685.,
OIL tons, an increase of $685. tons as com.
pared with the same time last year
"A coal train on the Lehigh Valley wal
wrecked near White Hall on Saturday nigh
by Instructions placed upon the track. N,
person was injured. An unsuccessful at
tempt was made to wreck train at tht
same place three weeks ago.
Two hundred and nine telephone in
struments are in use between CatHsauqu,
and Easton.
The ladies connected with the Luthe
ran congregation of slatington are about t
organize an aid society.
The sixth annual session of the GranC
Lodge Knights of Honor, of Pennsylvania
will be held in Philadelphia on the secont
Tuesday of September.
1t is said that the Lehigh Zinc Com
pany have strucl. valuable mine of zin,
ore on the line Of the East Penn. Railroad
in the neighborhood of Reading.
Fine silverware of all kinds at f. II
Hobbs, Mau,h Chunk.
The freight and coal traffic over th
Central Railroad Of New Jersey is so heav,
just now that the Lehigh & Susquehann
Division is at times completely blocked be
tween Easton and Hopes Lock.
Coins in which holes have been punch
ed are now worth much less than perfeC
ones. The government has just fixed th
following values; Dollars, 65 eentsi ha
dollars, S5 centsj quarters, Is cents, an
dimes 5 cents.
Anton Kloe1e, who last winter, abou
holidays shot and killed his young wife i
this county, with murderous intent as wa
at first supposed, but, as was develope
when brought to trial, through inexcusabl
carelessness, has just been convicted in Boz
ton on a charge Of bank robbery, an
sentenced TO the penitentiary for ten yean