The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-02-23

CARBON ADVOCATE who Immediately pays
up arrearages and one year in advance will
receive free for one year Health and Home,
a large page, 40 column monthly paper,
devoted to home matters. Step up.
GB Only $1,000 cash
for an all-wool Suit at III. H.
Peters, ost-office building,
Lehighton.
The report of the leasing of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad to the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company is denied by the officers Of
the latter company. They say they have
a traffic contract with the Lehigh Valley
Company, which is satisfactory and suf
fcient.
After a very brief illness Ex Judge
Solomon Foster died Monday night at his
residence IN Pottsville, aged IS years. He
was born in Connecticut and went to Potts
Vile with his brother with whom he was
always associated, fifty years ago. Judge
Foster was meyer married. He leaves a
large estate.
Ma-Sweet Things Cheap. - You can
make all kinds Of fiue and fancy candy at
small expense by simply following direc
tions. given in that valuable little book,
"How to Make Candy" which will be sent
to any address upon receipt Of 80 cents in
one or two cent stamps. Address. The
HOUSEWIFE, Rochester, N. Y.
-Dildine Snyder, OF the Iron Exchange
Hotel, Parryville, will rattle off his cele
brated grey pacing horse, on March goth.
Tickets 81. This horse is said to be the
fastest in the county-having a record Of
2:2S. A fine opportunity TO get q valuable
horse for a very little cash.
Mr.. Stephen Remedy, a laborer in the
Urion Foundry at Catasauqua, complained
on Friday evening as he quit work Of dizzi
ness in his head, and the following morning
he was a corpse. He leaves wife and FIVE
or six children. Congestion of BRAIN is
supposed to have been the cause Of his
speedy death.
Last Monday evening at about 5 o.
clock, engine No. 800 ran into the rear end
Of coal train drawn by engine No. 266. as il
was lying,appasite the L., K s. depot, at the
upper end of town, knocking ten or fifteen
loaded coal cars off the track, smashing
them to splInters, and throwing the coal in
all directions. Fortunately no one was in
jured.
M H. H. Peters, at the
Post-ofice building, Lehigh-
ton, will make you an all
wool suit for only $40 cash,
if you order now.
An Allentown landlord, who wanted
to eject tenant who was in arrears for
rent, went on Monday, accompanied by a
Constable, removed the furniture in the
house and took away the doors, window
shutters and sashes to render the house un
inhabitsble in case the tenant should gain
possession again. The latter will sue Tor
damages.
The stores at Audenried and Tresckow
are now doing business on cash principles.
The P. & r. Coal and Iron Company hay.
ing assumed full control last month. This
Company allows no stoppages from the
wOrkingmen's wages, hence the change in
the stores. Even special contracts between
the parties are put aside by the company
when the workman objects.
1t is reported that the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company is negotiating for the
purchase Of the Allentown Rolling Mill
Company's works. II the purchase is made
the railroad company would make the
mills = general supply depot Tor supplying
the road with iron and employ a large force
of hands Sume OF the Lehigh officials in
spected the works on Saturday.
Walter l.. Jones, of Allentown, was
convicted in the United States District
Court at Philadelphia, Monday of receiving
$40 for procuring a pension of 81 200 for
Hiram F. Shsefer in violation Of the Ia W
that limits the lee of an attorney in such
cases to $40. He declared, in his own de
tense, that Shaefer had made him present
| Of $50 and that $40 Of the remainder repre-.
sented money that Shaeler bad borrowed of
him. Judge Butler fined him SIS aud
c1sts.
Thomas Phillips, formerly operator Of
the Kalmia Colliery and member of the
law commission, has written all The mem-
bers of the mining commission, naming
February 29th aud Msueh Chunk as the
time and place for a meeting of the COM
mission. A favorable response has been
received from all the members except two
The meeting has been delayed owing Il
some Of the members not being able 10 at.
tend al times previously set.
Miss Eugene Coppee, daughter OF Pro
fesscr Henry Coppee, LID, of the Lehigh
University, was married Thursday after
noon of last week, TO Edwin L. Griffith, 9
merchant Of San Francisco, Cal. The eere
mOny took place in the Church OF the Ma
tivity, Fountain Hill. South Bethlehem
Rt. Rev. Cortland Whitehead, Bishop o
Pittsburg, ofheiated, assisted by Rev. q. X
Nelson. rector Of the parish. A reception
was held at the residence of the brides pa,
rents after the ceremony.
This saturday. evening, at Concer
Hall, Mauch Chunk, the members o
"Ranch 10 Dramatic Company" will ap
pear in the new domestic drama. entitled
"Better than Gold, or The Old Salt" anC
the musical comedy, entitled "Turn Hin
Ont," with appropriate scenery and cos
tunes. The proceeds are for the benefit o
| bhdpIhdu I ioss W. n " oi Ahht OoTough.
a sufficient number Of tickets are sold il
this end OF the county a train will be rut
for the accommodation Of those who attend
Buy ticket and go.
Fifty eight persons from LIzerne coun
iy were sent to the DanVille Insane Asvluu
during the year 1888. ofall the commits
sons in lunacy appointed only one reported
the person under examination as sane
Judge Woodward now refuses 10 aDpOin
, any more commissions until new cour
rules in conformity with the act Of 1888 or,
adopted. He says there is either an alarm
ing increase OF insanity or persons former
ly considered sane are now being sent 4
the asylun.