The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-07-21

| theTe "ere 1000 IONS OI coal shipped owe
the Lehigh & Susquehanna RR., making
total for the year to that date OF 2,S56,I6l
tons, an increase as compared with sam,
time last wear of 1924 tons.
-10d. to 40d. nails OF J
L. Gabel's for only $3.10 pei
keg. Locks $2.75 per doz.
The race between Christnan, of Maucf
Chunk, and Billiard, of Bethlehem, wal
won easily by the former. Billiard gay,
his opponent FIVE yards start; but he scarce.
ly gained foot on him in the race. Christ
man would have had no trouble, apparent.
ly, to have beaten him even.
&s- TELEPHoNE.-"Hellol hellol! Who
Is it MaryP" Jennie, did use Horns
Telephone Liniment for my headache, |,
cured 1t in less than ten minutes would
not be without il. II is the king of all
liniments, and thank you, Jennie, for
recommending me such good medicine.
Good byel"
- For the week ending on the 14th inst.
81 ,OO9 tons of Goa! was transported over
the L. V. RR., making total of 3,646 O6s
tons to that date, and showing an increase
Ot 1000 as compared with same time last
wear.
The editors ofthe Plain Speaker, Halle
ton, got some wedding cake on Monday
evening, and the following morning they
gave the editor Of the Sentinel some "taiTy"
for journalistic progress" One good turn
deserves another.
Scarcity of coal has compelled the
Reading Company to decline orders for a
few days, and the market, therefore. is dull
and quiet, without any special feature.
Suspensions are now at an end, for the pres
ent at least, and it is hoped that the aptir.
patlons OF the miners will be met by steady
work for the remainder of the wear
While William Gest, a farmer near
Shenandoah, was moving in an old field on
Friday, his seythe caught the leg OF tramp
who was sleeping in the oats. One ,f the
arteries was cut and the tramp almost bled
to death before the severed vessel could be
properly treated. The tramp sad it was
"hard luck"
Another band has been started in town
with the following well known PLAYERS:
Charley Miller, Wilson Miller, John Krei.
denwise, Charley Kelly and Hen Schwartz.
They have purchased their own insrru.
meuts and have commenced practising.
They are all good players. aud il will no
doubt be success.
We have just received handsome card
Of invitation to the Third Annual Re.
union OF the Soldiers Orphan 'Sixteeners'
of Pa" The meeting will be held in the
Opera House at Altoona Pa Aug. 18th, 10th
aud l7lh. Arrangements have been made
For relTeshnent facilities, and al abundance
of music. We wish the reunion all success.
Superintendent Goodwin gave orders
some time ago that steam whistles were not
To lie used by engines when passing through
villages. The order is now dead letter, as
day and night are made perfectly hidenus
10y the wild shreking from the internal in
strumenis which seem to have been placed
IN engineers hands for the special annoy-
ance "i Lehighton. We would call MIR,
Goodwn'S attention to this nuisance.
The wife Of Mr.. Richard Williams, liy.
log near slatingtOn, eloped few days since
with a young man named William w.
Jones, lately arrived from Wales. The
lovers took with them some yaluables and
several hundred dollars belonging to Mr..
Williams. They were arrested in Philadel
phla and are spending the honey (or vim
egarl moon in jail:
Our popular friend W. s. wintermute,
VIII" has been the able proprietor of the
well known store,opposite he L. & s. depot,
we are sorry to report has during the pasl
month disposed of his business 10 VIM. II.
Strauss. Mr.. Wintermute leaves for Kan.
sas where be expects to make his future
home. Hetakes with him the KIND wishes
of all our people, and our wish is that he
may meet with all the success possible.
Our esteemed contemporary the Stat
inqtoH Ae'os records a remarkable event.
"A hen, belonging TO Mr.. Joseph +. Hun
sieker, who resides on Church street, pro.
dueed, one day last week, an egg weighing
Tour ounces, aud measuring six and half
by eight aud one fourth inches II the
Voracious Netos had not stated the dimen.
sions so carefully, we should find some diff.
hculty in reeonciling sn great length with
So small weight in the matter OF amy hens
egg However "it must be true as lis writ
ten in the paper"
Clark, full grown widower,
Templ"yed in the gas factory at Catasauoua,
eloPed last Friday night with the wife of
William Rackawack. who lives on a canal
boat near the gas works. The lady left a
note Tor her husband informing him that
he had always treated her "gond :" Lut "she
could not help herself aud she had to leave
him" We should bsye expected better
things from one bearing the hozored name
OF RaeKawaek, who had been brought up
amid the billows aud other softeninc iufiu-
ences Of great canal.
-Supt. T. NJ. Ballet, of Carbon county,.
delivered an instructive and interesting adj.
dress before the Teachers Convention, held
at Williamsport last week. He selected for
subject "The Defects in our system of
Graded sehouls." and amid many other
criticisms pointed out that in the average
Ir.ded sch"ol more attention is maid 10 n a
class promotion Of the pupils than to their
mental development. Another objection
I pointed out was that in such schools. older
! pupils, who are somewhat backws are
made so conspicuous that they stay way
from school altogether, thereby losing all
eRanee OF improvement. Mr.. Balliet's ad.
dress was received throughout with an
pause aud keen appreciation OF the import
anee of his criticisms
"A. J. Durling and family return. d
home last Saturday.