The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-02-03
0Jhe Carbon SdrpGltc,
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1888,
Our Neighborhood in Brief.

To-day friday is ground hog day.
-shrovo Tuesday Next Tuesday, 9th
inst.
Thirty six prisoners in the Lchigh
count Jail.
The Lenten season commences the 9TH
inst.
-wllkesbarrc has over 400 cases OF mea-
s'es.
Hon. f. II. Snyder was at home over
Sunday.
Mrs. Longtry and Mr.. Gebbard will 60
to wilkcsbarre early in April.
w5S. Brooks Method of Teaching and
Culrins Object Teaching kept IN stock at
Luckenbach's, 81 Broadway ,Mauch Chunk.
w. A. SNYDER, of Belvidere, N. J.,spent
Sunday with his brother, Prof. T. A. sny-
der, OF town.
DIR. W. A. Derhamer's horse died on
Wednesday night OF last week, very sud
denly. 1t was a valuable animal.
go An elegant assortment of solid silver
wedding presents, just received at e. II.
Hollis, Muuch Chunk.
Miss Lizzie DeLanty was the guest Of
guest of Miss Jennie Greenwalt, on Second
street, during the week.
MG- Who wants to exchange Town prop
erty for Farm Of lag acres, with good new
buildings and fine fruit trees on it. Address,
W. NJ. RGPsHER, this borough.
joseph obert received a car load of
Chicago fresh beef this week, which he is
selling at very low price.
Miss DeYoung. Of stroudsburg, is visit
ing at Hon. A. J. Durling's, on Bank street,
this borough.
We learn that our old friend E. X.
Stroh, of Mauch Chunk, died on Tuesday
,st He had been confined to the house
for two or three months with malarial fever
zsa- The iewelry store of E. H. Hohl, at
Mauch Chunk, has been enlarged. Mr.. II.
intends to keep larger and finer stock
than ever before.
A new counterfeit half dollar is out
1t is made Of copper and alloy and plated
with silver, aud is nearly full weight.
Robert II. Sayre, of Bethlehem, late
Supt. of the Lehigh Valley railroad, now
President OF the South Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company, is to receive a salary Of S25.-
900 per onnum.
JEn~ There was sold on Saturday, 25th,
ult., at Hugamon's store, Lehighton, seven
ly-ouc dollars worth OF watches and jewel
ly, for one family.
John Fry, who lived alone OF Coplay,
was found frozen to death in his room Mon
day morning.
If you want carriages for pleasure trips,
wedding or funeral purposes, you should
call at David Ebbert.s livery, on North
street. Terms very reasonable.
The widow of the late Samuel Nc
Candies has sued the Bethlehem Iron
Comuany for damages. Her husband had
been water tender of the boilers which
exploded recently, and by which he was
killed.
Mrs. Polly Brown, widow of Paul
Brown, decd. of Bal;etsville, died on Sat.
urday last, after lingering Illness, at the
age Of 40.
I'm Tuesday, the goth inst, you will be
called upon to elect your borough officers
Is il not about time to make nominations Z?
Come trot out ysur best men.
Esis~ The watches sold by Z. IT. Hohl, / I
Mauch Chunk, are growing more popu ar
every day, and his sales are rapidly incr,as
ing. Low prices and fair dealing has secur-
| ed him large run of custom.
Mr.. David Flinckinger, well known to
the older people of the lower end OF the
county, die0 lately at his residence at Al
lentown.
"A very handsome new school house
has been erected at Nesquehoning. It will
be dedicated with appropriate exercises a:
soon as it is entirely finished.
va you wanta nice smooth easy shave
| your hair cut or shampooing, go to Franz
Roederer's Saloon, under the Exchange Ho.
el. He will fix you right, and don't you
orget it.
The school board at Lansford establish
ed new primary school few months ago
to preventothcr schools from getting over.
crowded. Instead of appointing young,
inexperienced girl to take charge of it, as il
too often the case, they engaged teacher %
th rough culture and seven years expert
en- e. This is a move in the right direction
A night telegraph Office was orened at
Rockd lie station, OH the L. V. R. r on th,
S0lh ult with David Case as operator.
ny 1t will pay you, if you are in neec
! oI watch, clock or anything IN the way o
je" elry to call on Z. II. Hohl, at Msucl
CHI nS, and examine his stock and get hil
rrices before going elsewhere.
While kneeling in prayer in the Luth
eran church ut Schuylkill Haven on Sun
day night j. P. Koons dropped dead from
helrt disease. He was iorty-one years o
age.
BY an explosion in the Warwick ,r,
mines at Boyertown Tuesday Robert Golt
shall and Samuel Bryan were thrown from
a car and both seriously injured. Gottshal
was unconscious for some time.
EsS- Mrs. Mamie J. Mullen, fashionabl
dressmaker, corner Of Second and S0utl
streets, this borough. Per'ec fits and work
manship guaranteed. Wax Flowers Of al
designs at lowest prices. White Flower
for funerals a specially.
Colonel John McComb Wetherlll, c
Pottsville, has been elected Leutensr
Colonel OF the Eighth Regiment, N. G. l
He succeeds Lieutenant Colonel William X
Russell
IN Dreher township, Pike county,
whole family recently died from diphtherii
Two small children of Sydenham Hazleto
died first. The mother aud father died
few days afterward.
&S-M. Florey, of Wessport. has now o
hand and for sale a large stock of Hor:
Blankets, Lap and Buffalo Robes, Bell
Whips, aud Double and Single Harness
suitable for winter use, all OF which he wi
dispose of at very reasonable prices.
-silas Jones, local pugilist of Bango
Northampton county, was severely beate
recently in a fair fight by a woman bal
tender. II is said that Jones once killed