The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-08-11


eu pavement between Mr.. T. A. snyder's
house and Squire Beltss Office. Is % full of
man that when the planks are covered
In early winter with thin veneer Of snow
there will be an excellent opportunity at
every second step for weary man TO com.
nit suicide by jumping into one of the bot
tomless pits which sdurn the side path.
This side path ia a disgrace to the town. 1t
is absolutely end boleIeSsly rotteni and the
burgess should make 1t his immediate busi-
ness 10 see that "this rotten side path shall
CO."
We have a vacancy for
a smart, active, 'intelligent
Boy to learn the Printing
Business. Apply at once at
the CARBON ADVOCATE office.
We want no "slouch.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
has been granted the privilege, by CONF
mission appointed to try the matter, 10
cross the tracks Of the New York Central in
Buffalo. The Lehigh Valley pays to the
Central $40 900 for the privilege.
Toe Easten professional base ball team
went to Allentown on Wednesday expecl-
ing to win an easy victory over the amateur
Blue Stockings. After hotly contested game
the Eastous won by a score oi 4 to 2 Leister
OF the "Blues" made home run. Fully
$500 persons, witnessed the game and the
excitement at critical moments was intensc.
Two Wilkesbarre men have constructed
a miniature colliery which is wonderfully
accurate, complete and ingenious.
On Tuesday, Ell. Rldgeway was.stand-
ing on the rairoa track at Scranton, when
an engine bore down upon him at iuh
speed. He sprang and alighted upon the
pilot, which he grasped with both hands,
thus saving his life.
-Burglaries have become alarningly
frequent in the vicinity Of Scranton, 10 lees
than ten having been reported within the
last ten days. Tuesday night the jewelry
store of C. W. Brundage, at Peckvillc, was
broken into and $1,000 worth OF watches and
iewelry stolen.
Bernard Phillips, a stock broker, insur
ance agent and formerly Recorder Of DECIDE
Of Carbon county, and prominent polite
ian, was arrested at Mauch Chunk on We'd
nesday, charged with the embezzlement Of
about $500, which had been entrusted TO
him by j. G. Rutter, president Of the Min
ers' Bank of Summit Hill. He was held 10
answer at court. ,
On Thursday our eat eemed contempor-
sry the Valley Record Of Catassuqua entered
upon it's fourteenth year. In past years II
has done good work in its own section d
the universe, and in seven years more when
1t 10 old enough to have a vote, we hope il
will be found still spreading the light with
all its youthful vgor.
George Henry and Jacob Frederick
Sons of DR.. Mayer Of Msuch Chunk, left on
Monday to attend ten weeks course at the
Select School. New Mahoning,
willie Dolou, of West Broadway ,Mauch
Chunk, fell from swing on Monday and
broke his arm. A physician was called in
who set the fractured limb successfully.
H-we congratulate our TREND Harry
Kreidler, OF the firm Of Trexlcr 4 Kreidleri
on the addition to his family-on last Sun
day morning, after rest Of Eve years. his
better half presented him with bouncing
daughter. Mother and child are doing
well. ..,.
| The driver boys in the Hollenback
| mines Of the,Lehigh and Wilkesbsrre CID
Company presented bill Of grievances ,te
the officials on Wednesday. They say tlis'
hey only get three fnurths Of days pay
fer day's work and demand a full day'l
pays. If their claim is not acceded to gem
eral strike may be looked for this week al
the Diamond, lIollenback and Empir,
mines. s,
ON Wednesday morning a party o
children, while picking berries on Ii,
Mahanoy Plane, discovered the body OF i
man at the bottom Of hole, caused bN
cnving in Of the mines. Armed with ropes
a Tafty Of men secured the body which
proved TO he that If German named Kun
ka, who worked on top of the mountain
lie had been seen last about nine o'cloci
the previous evening, and il lie supposed
that on his way in the dark to his boarding
house on the top Of the mountain he fel
into the hole The fall was a distance o
fifty Ieet and the mans neck was broke in
simultaneously.
The Palist Record states that in snm
parts Of Berks county butter sells al sixtPel
cents a pound and eggs at Is cents dozen
The v. r., wishes that soma Otthose COW
and chickens were "srouud here" be
lieye you my boy Me tool And som
wholesale rsshers also, iu the elenentsr'
form of young pigs.
Colonel Tom Snyder, of Sunbury, VIII
is so years of age, is willing to bet 500 tha
he can walk 40 miles in a day.
John Pfaff, boy employed in tn
Dryden Horse Shoe Factory Of Catasauqu'
had his right arm badly burned sb'Ye III
elbow with red hot iron Wednesday al
ternoon.
About twenty-five members OF th
Americus Club, Of Allentown, are rusticai
ing at Saylor's Lake.
George Washington Smith, who die
recently at Catasauqua ami now lies Interre
in Upper Msuch Chuch cemetery, was on
of the earliest settlers in Mauch Chunl
He started business IN that town in 1872
and took out many valuable patents cor
) nected with the wire weaving and screen
making industries. Although, from time
time, he was offered large sums for thos
patents he refused 10 sell, even when fAi
ure in business, a few years since, com
PEELED his removal IN cstssauqua. NJ
Smith possessed all the qualities that max
good citizen. He was a good biblics
scholar, prominent member Of the PREF
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