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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-04-17

We are now located in our new
building, End below /. & S depot, on
Bank street, and invite our friends and
the public generally TO drop in and sec
us. We have just added number OF
new fonts of type and other material to
our office, so that we are better than
ever prepared to cater to the taste OF
our patrons, while our new prices for
all kinds Of plain and fancy printing
will compare favorably with those of
any other Office in the Lehigh Valley.
Our motto is-''Live and Let Live"
For the famous imported corkscrew
and cashmere suits made to order, from
$50 to S33. iii and workmanship guar
anteed. Call at the One Price Star
Clothing Hall, Mauch Chunk.
The man Sherer who rendered a
forged check on Thomas NJ. Weaver. Of
Pac6crton, to r. J. Beck, of this place,
some time ago, was arraigued in court
this week and plead guilty.
April Fool is what mothers never
say after giving their children DR..
Hands Worm Elixir, because it is a
combined worm killer AMI physic, which
quickly removes round and pin worms +;
also the slime in which the eggs lie.
Our borough council have COM
menced fixing on the streets. Now,
gentlemen, don't pile any more MUD
upon us, rather dig it of the streets and
cart it away. We have entirely to much
mud, MUD, MUDl
For ;he famous stock of ready made
meas, boys and chrildren suits Of all
the latest spring styles at prices marked
low enough to suit everybody. Call at
at the One Price Star Clothing Hall,
Match Chunk.
The following officers Of the Enter
prise Building and Loan Association
were nominated at the March meeting
of the Association, and will be voted for
at the next meeting, April 10, 1886;
President, Philip Miller; Secretary, 4.
y. Snyder; Treasurer, Thomas Krmer-
er; Solicitor, T. a. Snyder; Directors,
II. j. Brotney, John Peters, J. F. NIoul-
throp, and j. f. Snyder. -Four Direc-
tors are to be elected.
A granl jug breaking entertainment
by the members of the jamestown, NJ.
Z. church, will take place on Saturday
evening, April 2lst. The evenings
exercise, will consist of sayings. recita.
tions and readings. All are cordially
to attend.
William L. Meyer, ona of the DEM
cratic Commissioners of Lehigh county,
was arrested short time agn for viola,-
ing the election laws by promising Offices
to eleven men for their influence to
secure his nomination ana election The
grand jury We lne3day morning ignored
the bill, the county to pay the costs
The case of Benz. Boyer against
the OYerSecrs of the Poor of this
borough, was before the Grand Jury
this week, and was ignored by that
body, the costs being put upon thecounty.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-04-17

jacob Brong, of Solomon's Gap
was in town on Wednesday.
Miss Alvenia Gravcr was to PhiIa.
dClphia during the week.
Daniel Gravcr, of Mountain Top.
was in town Wednesday.
Al. Leh, of Ca'a3auqua, was in
- 'n several days during the week.
Miss Gussic Clauss was soiomnina
with Catasauqua relatives this week.
Mrs. VIM. Ash is sojournng with
Easton relatives and friends this week.
Asst. p. NJ, w. f. Bleckley, oI
Penn Haven, was in town Sunday eve,
ming.
Councilman Gable, of town, spent
a few days in Philadelphia during The
past week.
Misses Hattie and Gertie Bleckley
of Penn Haven, were visiting friends in
town over Sunday
Our genial friend Frark Seiberling,
of North Penn, Schuylkill county, wa-
in town Wednesday.
Mrs. w. W. Mortimer spent Tues,
day in Lehigh Gap and SlatingLon Wis
iting relatives and frien $.
Miss Stella Solt. of White Haven,
after giving her friends in Lehighton
and Packerton very pleasant visit left
for Mauch Chunk on Wednesday.
Our friend DR.. Rabenold. the den,
list. was in town Wednesday. his o.lice
day here. The dOctOr j. meeting with
great success. and those who need a
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-04-17

At no other season Is the system SO sus-
ceptibio to the beneficial effects OF a re-
liable tonic and inyigorant. The impure
state of the blood, the deranged digestion,
and the weak condition Of the body, eaused
by its long battle with the cold, whtry
blasts, ell call for the reviving, regulating
and restoring influences SO happily and
effectively combined in Hoods SSrsaparilla.
Hoods Sarsaparilla did me great deal
Of good. l had no particular disease, but
wGs tired out from Oyerwork, and It toned
me up" Mrs. C. Z. SIMMONS, CoheeA II, Y.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-04-17
Beaver Run Items.

Samuel kOstenbaler is giving Ber-
nard Lcinhdrd's dwelling a new coat Of
paint.
w. f. Dancer, of Reading, was
here on visit to his parents on Sun
day, 4th inst.
-Ephrain Rchrig has moved to
PacEerton, and Alex. Rehrig has moved
from Packerton on to the farm at this
place.
Paul Kieffer's house i'm Beaver Run
was totally destroyed by fire on Satur-
day afternoon last, The fire is supposed
10 have originated from stove pipe
which pierced through the roof. Most
of the furniture was saved by the efforts
OF MessrS. Dauzer, Leinard and Kosten-
bader; only for the their presence and
hy the use of some force was the life Of
the occupant of the bUilding, Martin
Shnrer, saved, as in his frantic efforts
to save a bedstcal he refused to leave
the building even when his clothing
had caught fire until the above named
persons literally dragged him ont.
1t would be best for persons living
along the highways in this neighbor-
hood who keep vicious dogs TO keep
them chained up, so that they do not
dash out at team, and persons passing
in the evening, As il may occasion seri-
Gus damage, and result in a prosecution
Of the owners TO recover damage. A
Word 10 the wise, &c. JosEPHUs.
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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-04-17
Ghr Carbon 90r0mt2,
SATURDAY, APRIL II, 1886.

-SpECIAL NCTlCE.-Hersnns making
payments to Tins office by money orders or
postal notes will please make them pava le
Al the NmssPoRT Posi- OFFICE, as the Le-
highton office is NOT money order office
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-04-17
Total

The following friends ard patrons visited
nc ulncHcrt schools dUrinG tn" month: lr0f.
!. \. snyder Go. Supt., Mr.. y. Neand,
director, Dr w. W. Ecber, MIS-. Dr. Sciple,
Misses hhsta Fenstcrmachcr, L. Eis.icr,
MyIa Good, Edah M.rtl, Magg e Eady. +. K.
t,raVcr, Ela Peters, Abbic Peters, Katie
Weiss, LA Eghrig ,Aessr9;, 4; !, Ballet,
AID Francis Earhman.
The pupils who attended oycry day during
the month are GS follows:
HIGH $CHOOL-J. ". Roberts, teacher.
Laura Wcidaw, Mamie Gabel Irene Fcnster-
macher, Carrie Hough. Charles 'ircNler, Frank
Nusbaum, L. j. Euntz and Allen Pe.ers.
GRAMMAR SCH0OL-Mr. Ke!Scr, teacher.
Alice Ccgsus, EINma Merit, Eta Drisscll,
/ Flla Albright. Clara HuuSlcEer, Wilson
A&ncGr, Edgar Noll, Charles l,audcnbusl,,
Jchn LcnlZ Horace Gross, Granville Clauss
and Oscar Hullnan
INTERMEDIhTE-Nlss Koons, teacher.
Emma Miller. Mamie FOrtwauglcr. Clara
Ce~gus, Ella S.ccrRchcr, Lizzie Albright,
ltYLlC lCui2, Lizzie SrhOch, Annabel ErOkgtc,
Ella Walck, Frank SChOch, John IItbcrlrg,
Wilmer Held, Day'd McCornick, Howard
Ackcr, Thomas Trainer Harry GcgguS oscar
Miller, Willie Nothstcin and Robert Trainer.
SEcoNDARY--Miss Iauk, teacher.
Annie Raudenbush, Alice Gilbert, Emma
! urtNargl"r, Clara Hcilmau, Ella HOnt2.
| i;lILl" Schmidt, Mamie Fritzn"Cr, Irene
! We'd w. Scylia Faust, Carrie Ruff, Wlic
and Allen Grccrawald.
FOURTH l'EiMarY-Ailss Rchrig, teacher.
Edgar Albright, George Kip. Arthur Held.
AttahGh1y Schultz, ECSS.e NulI Emma Peters.
L.EIlc Beck, Mary ICust"nnHchcr, I'attio
,,rggus' Matte Horn, Emma Walck, Helen
Aanocr, DAISY Horn, Minerva Held and Katie
lcustcnayher.
THIRD PRIMARy-Nlss Rrber. teacher.
TTgrt POL
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-04-17
Subscriptions Received
From April lst to April 18th, for til
LEdIonToN puRLIC snRnnLs

The Principal Of the public schools Of this
borough makes tie fo.lcWinG report o! t.e
htteadgnce, condition, etc, for the month
.ud.ur April o.h.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-04-17

"A nnntn Jnut Il to canvass for one Of the
hg'lllS WGll IL largest oldest rslablish"d
lbeSt-knnwn Nurseries in the country. Most
tlibCral terms. Unequal7d facilities. rrlcos
How. Geneva Nur>ury. EstIbh sized 1861
lw. < I. SMITH, Geneva, n. y.
! 60 Wit
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-04-17

Our old friend Jacob Shinger is
nursing a sore foot, caused by treating
on q needle, portion of Which b.ckc
Ci ~ the fJ.t.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-29
The Food Question.

In recent number of the Century
Mr.. Edward Atkinson gives a surpris-
ing array of statistics which show the
extent of the resources of the country
and its great consumption. The fig
ures show how transportation has been
cheapened in recent years, to the great
benefit of the western farmers and
eastern consumers, and also illustrate
the magnitude of our home market.
The annual consumption of wheat
-four in the country is estimated at
50 100000 barrels, which would have
been moved twenty-one years ago at a
cost of Sl72 800, 900; this year the cost
of transportation would have been
S34, 100000, a saving of S13S, 800, 000
The aggregate consumption of products
annually amounts TO $1,000, 000, 600.
Animal food he estimates at $685.
$50, 900. bread at S456, $50, 900, vegeta-
bles the same as the latter, sugar
and syrup at 1866, 900, 900, tea and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-29
Notes and Opinions.

ACCORDING to the report of the in
ternal revenue bureau, 573 persons IN
Vermont pay liquor-dea!er's tax.
TIE government will give up its tea
farm in June next. 1t has cost S3S 900
to run the experiment during the last
eight years.
THE French government is testing a
new mitrailleuse which weighs only
twenty-eight pounds and discharges 600
bullets a minute.
SOME philanthropic people in Brook
Ign propose to furnish hot and substan-
tal meals to the poor during the winter
at the price of one cent per meal.
ONLY thirty of the three hundred
twenty-five representatives in Washing.
ton keep house. The rest of them
exist " at boarding-houses and hotels.
GEORGE TICKNoR CURTIS, who is at
Washington as counsel for the Nor
mons, says that what the Mormons
want is not to have any more legisla-
ton against them.
IT is probable that the most remark
able thing about the Presidents mes,
sage, in the minds of the people, is the
great disparity between its length ant
its breadth. Toledo Blade.
THE undsputed control of the mex
senate by the republicans may hinge
upon the senatorial election in New
Jersey, and there is still strong ele
ment of doubt surrounding that.
THE gratifying intelligence comes
from Connecticutthat General Hawley's
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-29
Making New States.

The chances of congress making
hopeful, for the reason that the matter
is controlled almost wholly by partisan
considerations. The democrats of the
house committee on territories have
amended the senate bill for the admis-
sion of Washington Territory by adding
a section to admit Montana as state
also. The democrats are less disposed
to admit the former as a state than
they were last winter, since the last
election disclosed that in a straight con-
test between the parties Washington
Territory would be republican by a
good majority. So they join Montana
to Washington because the former is
usually democratic. Even the New
York Euening Post, which of late is
commonly democratic in its opinions,
declares that Montana is not fit to be a
state. In 1880 it had a population Of
only 80, 159, of whom 1868 were In
dams and 1,765 Chinese, and it cast
only 14,170 votes. In 1856 it cast
30 ,262 votes, which, on the same ratio
to population, would give it about
10000 people now. The Post says: " 1t
is claimed in the territory that the popu-
lation is 100000, but even that total
would not justify congress in giving
such a frontier community a congress
man, two senators, and three votes in
the electoral college, which might turn
the scales in presidential election.
In regard to the admission of Dakota,
this is opposed by the democrats on
the preteXt that the people of Dakota
have not complied with an essential re-
quirement that the people of the terri
tory shall first decide whether they
want to come into the Union as one
state or two. Congress ought to de-
eide this question by admitting the
territory for the present as one state.
The vote of Dakota at the recent cleo
ton was about 100000, which is more
than two and one-half times as large as
South Carolina, which has seven repre-
sentatives in congress. But the demo-
Gratis persist in DISTINGUISHING people
nearly as numerous as those of Florida
j and Delaware combined because il
would be republican state and add
two to the present republican majority
/ in the United States senate and cast its
electoral vote for the next republican
candidate for president. The demo
cratic policy of depriying Dakota of hel
just rights on such partisan grounds
will damage the prospects of that party
more with the people of the country
at large than the exclusion of Dakota
from statehood will help the party il
the presidential canvass of 1888.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-29
How to Keep Down the Surplus.

The problem of how to reduce or
dispose of the surplus revenue has al
ready evoked several plans. Among
the various propositions the bill in
troduced before the holiday recess by
Mr.. Hewitt is attracting wide attention.
1t empowers the secretary of the treas
ury to calculate what the difference in
interest between three per cent and, re-
spectively, four and four and one-half
per cent will be for the time that the
bonds of the two latter rates of interest
have still to run. The Albany journal
thus summarizes the proposition:
There are $3.50 900, 900 of four and one-half
per cent bonds payablein 1891, Their value
to their owners for one year is fraction
over one and one-half per cent greater than
if they bore only three per cent. Roughly
speaking, for one year it would be $3,750, 600.
For the four years TO the time of their pos
sible payment that difference-not allowing
interest-would be about $14, 100000. Com
pounding quarterly the interest at three
| per cent, tne result Oh cdplldllIlHB tne ulller-
| ence between interest on the four and one
half into three per cent bonds would be
about S15,000,000. An exact calculation
would be tedious and difficult and round
figures answer as we'll the purpose of argu-
ment. Mr.. Hewitt's bill authorizes the
secretary to pay in advance out of sur
plus revenues this difference, and also the
difference on the four per cents, payable in
| 1907, which by the same calculation would
amount in the rough to $l45, 900. When
ever the interest on bond has been so am.
tcipated its present coupons shall be can
celed and new set of three per cent cou.
pons shall be attached to the bond. If the
proposed process could be applied to the
whole of the outstanding four and four and
one-half per cent bonds, it would require
the payment of about $l60, 100000 from the
treasury, and would dispose of the question
of reducing the surplus by consuming it foI
two years to the advantage of the govern,
ment
1t is considered doubtful if the pri.
vate owners of four and four and one.
half per cents will desire to reduce
their fixed income from this source;
so Mr.. Hewitt proposes to permit ma
tiOnal banks to use these refunded
bonds as basis for circulation to theil
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-29

face value instead of to the extent of
ninety per cent of their value. His bill
also authorizes the secretary of the
treasury to deposit with any national
bank any portion of the surplus funds
of the government upon security to be
held by the treasury of an equal
amount of the bonds or other indebted
ness of the United States. The de-
posts are to be held subject to call.
The Journal says:
If our revenues continue to show large
surplus such deposits, once made, would
probably never be called in. In effect,
therefore, this provision would enable the
government to hold bonds in its possession
payable at a distant day, and TO put into
circulation the sums required to pay them
years before the time of redemption came
When that time arrived mere process of
bookkeeping, without any call for bonds,
would complete the transaction. The pro-
cess Mr.. Hewitt limits to S100,000,000. To
this extent, therefore, the bill also provides
against the accumulation of big surplus in
the treasury, which cannot be used in bust
ness, and consequent contraction of the
currency.
In explaining and defending the pro-
visions of his bill, Mr.. Hewitt said;
1t is mere business proposition. If a
business house has out Understanding Sc
curities and wants to pay off all the interest
at once, they arrange with their creditors
for discount. Now / want to apply the
same business principles to the government.
BY paying at once the government will
make the interest on the interest computed
at three per cent. The taxpayers will be
relieved just this much and the interest on
the public debt will be reduced to three per
cent. Should all the holders of the four
and one-half per cents avail themselves of
the opportunity thus offered them it would
relieve the treasury of about S75,00O,0O0
of its surplus.
We believe that it is not pretended
by the author and advocates of the bill
that it would serve more than tenn
porary purpose, but that it is needed as
a makeshift to tide over the embarrass-
ments of the present situation and
until we have congress that can be
depended upon to deal judiciously with
matters affecting the revenue and the
national bank system.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-29

upon him. General Logan's loss to
the republican party is beyond COM
putation. His personal following in
the party was very great and among
the veterans he had almost the solid
body. AS party leader General Logan
was singu'arly direct, manly and can
did. There has, think, been no man
in this country who has combined the
two careers of soldier and states
man in so eminent degree as Genera
Logan"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-29

coffee at 1882 SOC, 900, and other ar
ticles making up an aggregate for food
proper of 81, 562, 800, 900, being at the
rate of twenty-five cents day per
capita of our population. Then, in
addition, the large sum of 100000, 900
is set down to consumption of malt and
spirituous liquors, which swells the
cost of food and drink to $4,000, 000, 600.
Mr.. Atkinson groups together a
number of statistics which afford an
instructive comparison of the condi-
ton of the mass of people in Europe
and America in regard to subsistence.
In consequence of railroad develop
ment the rate of transporting a barrel
of flour one thousand miles has fallen
from S3.45 to siXty-eight cents; and
bread, he remarks, is but one item in
the food that has to be freighted. He
points out that there can be no scarcity
Of food in this country, and aflirms
that individuals who suffer from insult
ficient nutriment cannot find cause of
their distress in lack of land, capital or
laborers, but must seek it in their own
ignorance in buying and preparing
food. If all classes of the American
people can be taught the right meth
DDS of obtaining good and whole
some subsistence at less cost than they
now spend for poor and dyspeptic
one, happiness and plenty will be
found in homes where want now rules.
Probably Mr.. Atkinson is not far
wrong in his claim that reasonably
skillful mode of agriculture would sup
port more than double our population
and leave us our present grain export.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-29

THE chief event of interest abroad
the past week has been the resignation
of Lord Randolph Churchill from the
English cabinet. The consequences of
his action may be much less serious
than the conservatives have feared.
He has authorized the statement that
his resignation was not caused by any
difference of opinion with his col
leagues arising out of the government
policy toward Ireland 81 am entirely
with the government, he said, in
their determination to enforce law and
order in Ireland, and / shall stand by
them steadily in doing so. OF this
there need be no question" The
cause of his resignation is said to have
been his refusal to sanction the in
creased expenditure for the war and
navy departments. He had promised
the country lower taxes and retrench-
ment, and he disliked to disappoint
public expectations. The tory press
express fears that Lord Churchill's
resignation will weaken the Salisbury
government, and at Berlin the incident
revives fears of impending war.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-29

In sentencing a socialistic editor to
thirty days imprisonment for publish
ing an article abusing the court, Judge
Sloan of Milwaukee has given all labor
agitators some sound advice. "There
may be wrongs in relation to capital
and labor" he said, {" but there is one
remedy, and that is to appeal to the
sober sense and good judgment of our
people. A great majority of our peo-
pie are attached to our form of gov
eminent, and there is in truth no an
tagonism between capital and labor.
The laborer of to-day is the capitalist of
tomorrow. Under our form of govern
ment the poorest can rise in society and
wealth, and the remedy of wrong must
not be violent, but by peace. There
never was time when the laborer was
in such good circumstances as at pres
ent, and everything tends towards bet
tering them. There are free schools, IL
braries, hospitals, cheap food and high
"aSoo' Ef0iJ uhiiS las d tohuouoy W
raise the toiler in the scale of mankind
and it is wicked for any one to breed
discomfort" The Evening Post peril
nently remarks that "this is advice
which many persons who are not pro-
fessedly socialistic might well take tc
heart. In fact, we doubt if all the So
cialistc editors in the country to-day dc
as much harm as the demagogues in
and out of the professedly unsocialistic
press who talk what they know to be
false about the wrongs of labor fol-
the purpose of catching the labor vote. y