The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-12-15
Editorial Mention.

oieen Victoria.
RRSfzBBsR, we furnish the CARBON
ADVOCATE and CHICAGO wEEKLr NHws,
one year, for only si.50l
TN Nh. 0owES says. that be has the prox-
les which will elect the next president of
the Reading RAILROAD Company
THH total receipts Of the State Treas
ury from December Ist. 1882 to Novem-
Der Soth. 1883, were s6,775, ,43o.19.
THE booksef Treasurer Bailey showed
she total-bearipg debt of the State on De-
cenbsr D. to have been $40 SAT ZOO.
THE FIRST Monday in January has been
hxod for the trial in Allegheny county Of
James Mutt for the killing Of N. L.
Dukes.
- PREPARATIONS are being made foi o.
d M ellis execution next Monday. His
wife visited him Tuesday. He is now
allowed TO smoke in prison.
YoUNa and old bachelors will please
take notice that il is but few days till
leap-yeaF. II they have any desire to
take the initiative, they had better lie
about It, Two weeks hence and it will
be too late.
The rumor that Claus SpreckeIs has
rnered the entire Hawaiian sugar crop
is confirmed. The quantity is estimated
at $4,000, 600 pounds and is sufficient to
enable him to control the sugar trade of
the Pacific coast.
TIE Allentown CRITIC is the title of
neat little morning paper, the frst num-
Der of which reached our table last Fri.
day morning. Samuel s. woolever is
the proprietor. The paper looks as if 4
had come to stay. Let her wave.
Ms BLAINE positively denies that bis
distribution letter was an augury or bid
for the presidency. and has declared, il
Is said, that he would not accept the
nomination if 1t were rendered him.
Does the Fox and the Grapes fable fit in
herei
AS the result of the meeting of the Ma
uonal COMMITTEE Wednesday, at WASH
ington. call has been issued for a Ma.
tional Republican Convention TO meet at
ohicago, on Tuesday, June 3, 1884. The
question of future representation was re-
ferred to the Convention.
Mr.. JOHN WANAMAKEn has written a
letter to Representative Evans, of this
State, regarding the trade dollar, in
which he says: II trnst you will use
your influence to relieve those who hAl
expressed their confidence in the stamp
Of the United States on its coin."
THE Senators and, Representatives
from the Pacific States held a meeting in |
Washington last Friday night, and ap-
pointed committee to draft a bill, to |
be presented simultaneously IN both
Houses OF Congress, to remedy defects
IN the present Chinese restriction laws.
The estimated production ofanthracite
coal for this year is placed at 81, S92 600
tons. The production of last year was
29,l20, 900, making the increase of this
year 2.7720OO TONS Officials of the
Reading Company who have made these
estimates state that these figures will 70,
be fonnd very far wrong.
A LONDON despatch announces the
death of the Earl of Craven at the age of
AZ The Earl of Craven was one of the
group of English noblemen whose inter
est in the United States was created by
the civil war, and who afterward came to
this country and became largely interC st.
ed in the ranch end cattle industry in
Colorado and the West generally.
N q recenJ lecture on "Modern
SHAM" Miss Emily Faithful very peril.
nently remarks that, "The dollar il our
God, and Shodly is his high priest. II
things continue to 90 on as they are, in
fifty years we shall scarcely fnd a rag Of
social morality left. When women 60
about with painted faces and oonstitu-
uons patched up with Ohloral and pick.
noe-np and men pretend to estheticism ,
on the strength of n sunhower and the
cut Of coat, surely it is time to speak
out
EVERY Ave years Georgia pays money
to men who lost limbs in the late war,
and the Governor hns Just announced his
readiness to receive applications for the
States second payment. There were,
the Augusta CHRONICLE says, between
$50 and 1000 applicants in 1873. There
are four classes Of fpplicants-thos who
lost legs nmputateS above the knee, who
are allowed sl00; legs cut of below the
knee, SIS; arms above the elbow, sec;
arms below the elbow. $40. The aggre.
gate cost TO the State is about $50, 600
The money is to enable the recipients to
buy Artificial limbs.
sEcRETARx STESoER announces that
the following rules have been adopted by
the State Department for observance by
those applying for charters, under the
General Corporation act of 1874: First
The notice Of intention to apply must
give the names of the Ave subscribers to
the charter. Second-The charter must
be on file in this oiiee during the three
weeks of publication. Third-In the
notice Published time must be desig-
mated within OF at which the application
will be made. and that time must be at
leaat twsnty-ons days after hrst puLi-
cation.
Tm Internal Revenue Once leyies a
special tax Of $25 year on retail liquor
dealers. Very few try to escape this ex-
else. because the penalties are heavy.
There is. therefore. no better measure of
the liquor traffic. Ten years ago there
were 2O0. 676 retailers, and now there are
105. s69 In Maine there were ], ,Os4. and
now there are l,l62. New Hampshire