The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-02-03

Having used DR.. Bull's Cough Syrup
in my family for the last three years. | find
it is the best preparation have ever used
for Coughs and Colds, giving almost i'm.
mediate relief B. Walker, General Com.
Merchant, lis Light street, Baltimore, NJ.
d.
Tuesday afternoon. Trinity Episcopal
Church, Pottsvlle, was crowded by large
and fashionable audience Ia witness the
wedding ceremony OF Lewis Grant, son OF
William Grant, deceased, an extensive coal
operator, and Harriet WyRkoop, daughter
of Colonel John E. wynkn"p. The cere-
mony was performed ly Rev. DR.. Charles
G. Gillio;t. Immediately after the ceremony
the happy compile left for New York. The
presents were very numerous and costly.
Tile Republican County Committee
met at the office OF E. NJ. Mulhesrr, Esq.,,
Wednesday and elected the old officers Tor
the ensuing year, viz: f. NJ. Mulhearn,
District Attorney, Chairman, and.Charles
Orion stroh, Eco, Secretary. Philip j..
BOYLE, Of Buck Mountain was nominated
Tor Poor Director Of the Middle Coal Field
Poor District. There was a full attendance
ard the meeting was very harmonious.
An explosion Of FIRE damp occurred at
Pitston Wednesday at the Phoenix Coal
Cos shaft at the upper end of that place.
Four men were burned. A shot fred in the
top bench, next to the roof, it is supposed,
set off the gas. Thomas Ratchford was
badly burned about the limbs and body.
John McGrath's face aud hands were seri-
ously burned, and Martin Garrity and
Charles Barber were slightly burned about
the face aud hands.
"A boy of fourteen years drank tumb-
Ter OF whisky on Tuesday to keep him warm
before starting in sleigh from Wescoesville
to Hellertown in company with a man
named Mol. At Allentown the boy was
found to be entirely overcome with the
whisky and cold, and was apparently life
less. He was taken to a hotel, and alter
four men had rubbed him for an hour or so
partially recovered.
AT Eastou, before Judges Meyers and
Schuyler, Monday morning the injunction
| suit of the Wind Gap and Delaware Rail
road and the Lehigh and Lackawanna Rail-
road vs. the Pennsylvania, Slutington and
New England Railroad was on motion and
agreement Of all the counsel interested con-
tinued one week, because arrangements are
being made for settlement of the difficulty
/ without further recourse to law.
"A Hungarian%named Crogan, while
practcng with a-pistol on Saturday night
al the rear end of his boarding house IN Ash
! ley, Luzerne county, fired into an outbuild.
ing, inside of which was another Hungari-
an, hitting him on the shoulder...and in.
flicting, as was thought at the time, only a
slight flesh wound but which now turns out
to he probably fatal injury. Crogan has
left the city.
Mrs. P. T. Meyer, who was charged
with throwing at Mrs. Buesch of Allentown,
a SNOWFALL saturated with vtriol. tried to
commit suicide on Friday. She was en-
ga yed to be married and the wedding was
fixed Tor Thursday of last week. Her lover
ran away on the wedding morning. 1t is
| thought that with this trou BILE on her mind
and the charge of throwing vitriol drove her
insane.
The collieries the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Company, owned by the New
Jersey Central Railroad Company and op
Grated by Charles Parrish, have been IN
speclcd by Chief Engineer Whiting, of the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company. i The inspection is said to have
been made for the information of Mr.. Cow.
en-. member OF the Jersey Ceutral's Board
of Directors. 1t is stated that it is one oI
the steps preliminary to taking the property
out of the hands Of the Receivers.
Peter Monge, an Italian, who had been
working at Bangor, thought he would like
to return to his native country. Before
leaving he helped himself to 500 belonging
| W WIN" Souhti , 'HaH' AlaNlhS oSSh
caughThis European. "trip has been post.
poned indefinitely.
On Tuesday afternoon last the old ell.
gine "Nescopec," Of the L. V. railroad, ex
ploded when near the iron bridge, abov,
Packerton, and was completely wrecked
There were FIVE men on the engine at tn,
time of the explosion, three Of whom were
somewhat injured, viz: Engineer Johr
Miller, August Youngblcod, a brakeman %
Mauch Chunk, and Lewis Grower, of thi
borough. A close call for all hands oil
board.