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RAILROAD
DEDUCTION OF FARES VIA NORWICH

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A Ill fares reduced.-StOnIngtO Line The
IA a'orisc Inside Route tor Boston, Prov .dence all
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NETWORK CENTRAL AND HUDSON

~
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York 1888 ashngton and 7S0 Fulton st brooklyn and ~
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General superintendent General passenger Agent
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A. ,pler 70 ~ a. y ~. Ha ~ = a sSSnAys
NAPE CHARLES ROUTE 10 NORFOLK.
KICAMoND. OLD POINT COMFORT
AND THE SOUTH
On and after lst 1886. Express Cape
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RAILROAD
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ALLEN DUDWORTH. No. 6s1 Fifth-ave.
n .ra r,,vs,e ,essoua r. GEORGE DopwoRTH.
ssstant fepd stamp Tor circular New work on dancing
method and teaching all modern dancea
,i for cotiion and $50 figures sept post
ace pa ON receipt sl SOY In stamps or postal cfef
fhe music at 4 T. Gordon SON No ~ East l<th-st
New.York
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DURDENIOWN IN. -
ID MILITARY INSTITUTE.
kev. I. II. LANDON, A. NJ
MRS. LOUISA Il. CULVER
IVA wIIresame her classes tro a Soveneer La
drawing oil ani wster-col0r painting
mi lie flowers and landscape
China painting and decoration
STUDIO No Is ka=t ZoIH-5C
References
Mr. d. President National Academy OF Design
MT william Hart n. Al Nj James NJ hArI N. Al Mt David
Johnson N. A
Boys and Young Men citv
UNIVERSITY GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 1,473
- Br' war near I2d.. 49th year. Primary. commercial
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BY. W. l. AKIN. Prin. N T. AIN DhichsoN Associate
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WAA1ED.-A cultured young man OF pleas
w ing address who thoroughly understands dancing.
ceremonies At popular winter
Newyork Address with reference box ia Tribune Once
dsya
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1nsirn1tion.

Art Scno1ts- Jsy
A RT STUDENTS and others who had some
n instruction In Elementary Draw may have oppor
tunity studying Modrlln and pped Design Young
WoIeus iuistisn Association. last l5thsL Ttiuon
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hand drawing Apply 10 y. Ia from 10 81
IA IN
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EERNANDUS ACADEMY, 1872 East 55th- 81.
school for Dancing Department AMI Calishenics Ex
Classes and private bend ior circular
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THE q. s. AND BRAZIL MAIL IS. co.
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Ocean Cleaners.

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CABIN PASSAGE. $50 and upward INIEh m ~ . :.
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Dausing Afaoemles.

A LEXANDER MACGREGUR'S,
N $40 MADiSON-AVE.
Private lessons and classes dancing any hour daily
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DOYS and YOUNG MEN privately httedtor
cSsss SG"doHf toF FffSSiXS StoSHCse SSs
INLMW( s(ItG Ith ItNS.-At Mil
H. fort Conn Parents who rs untoiunaiein the MANAGE
:, . ga .s % Il Ts 10 RINK e. How saps
i'''A " HEMPsTEAD. Long Island. n. Y.
ESTABLISHED 1851
thorough English Boarding School for Boys Primary
Intermediate higher English and Commercial courses Re
ou.. after the Holiday January Catalogues giving
full Information on Application to the Principal
HIGHLAND MILITARY ACADEMY,
IL Worcester a.'s SnT te a. M
NEWTON N. j. INSTITUTE. -heautifnl,
cialty prn afy English commercial scadec, college pre-
aSy MUST st a co %s4 esseI o%n
department. horses PONIES amt s d%sSSS NJ Principal
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school Tor boys Of al ages poushkeeps'e N l. Cor
respondence solicited. sioo per year
DOCKLAND COLLEGE-NY ACK- ON THE
graduating course es twelve teacherA Enter at any
''"' ''N" ~ W ii. BANIsTER A. NJ, Principal
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%ar'ery Tor s1ys usn' ss an sns Sr
double heated by hne college preparatory Eng
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Hesses Educational Bureau IL East IftusI ""ou
WORKERS ON THE -HUDSON.-Parents
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winter HealthfuL Accessible. Thorough
England.
TIRST-CLASS EDUCATION FOR YOUNG
il LADIES IN ENGLAND.-Miss Fanny Edwards. y sus'
sex in January highest For terms
particulars address Mrs b.. Box 80. Tribune ONCE.
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NOTICE TO PASSENGERS.

steamer LA BOURGOGNE. Captain Frangeul viii leave
for avre only on MONDAY. December 30 at 1870 In
stead December H. advertised her etoore
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CUNARD LINE.
FROM NEw.YoRK TO LIyERPooL VIA QUEENS
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"L
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CITY OF SAVANNA .1nestav Zee. r. . p nj
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Florida Unsurpassed accommodations hrstcisss laoe
dHota
For freight or passage amply to o,,cr
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COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLAN-
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URAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.

46-WESr 23D-Sr.-4 -.
The leading school OF Music r;iocitia pranaso aos
Foreign LAM and Painting treeaVan'aRoS
equal lessons per week For particulars anrs
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-11-20

The entertainment given in Casslcr :
Rink on Friday and Saturday evenings. b.
the pupils of our public schools was a sue.
cess financially and otherwise. At small
charge for admission, the receipts for both
evenings were $lO5. This money the
teachers purpose 10 use for purchasing
supplementary reading. which is now con-
sdered almost essential for teaching read
ing successfully by all live and progressive
disciples of the new profession" Permit
me, in This connection, Mr.. Editor. to ask.
What has Lively LphigltOn'' done in
this direction, having the County Sunprin-
tendent to back and boss its school affairs ?
Our cnial friend Mr.. S. Croll. of town.
is at present al Duluth. Mimi, where he
owns considerable real estate His object
in going oul. is TO dispose OF some Of his
property, if he can do 50 to advantage, and
place the money tins realized again in
other town lots for speculation. Alr G..
speaks we'll for the future of Duluth. and
considers thai it will, in the near future, be
the Chicago of the new Northwest
-Chas. CaSsler. proprietor of Cassler's
rink probably the largest on" in the cOun-
ly-cNpects TO 90 and see some capitalists
lhiS week for the purpose of inducing them
TO locate some factory here. and thus con-
vert the now almost worthless rink into a
busy factory.
Work in the car shops is brisk, but in
the machine shops there seems to be a
scarcity of work. Several new engines are
now in the shop awaiting orders. Engines
36S and 332 are receiving an overhauling
and will soon be ready for service again.
Work at the new coal engine is going on
slowly
The Packer House has lately been
fixed up and repainled and now presents a
line appearance. Prohibition seemingly
does not frighten Mr.. Hartz ALPHA.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-11-20
Cleaned From all Parts of the State.

Scranton Is to have company with 100000
capital for the forging of wrought iron.
"A Knitting factory to employ One-hundred
and twenty-five bands is TO be established at
West Grove.
The puddlers, at Brooks furnaces, BIrdsboro
VIII receive an advance Of twenty-five per cent on
the first of December.
Amos Brook wealthy citizen OF Honeybrook,
Chester county, committed suicide by chloroform
| about midnight Monday.
Mrs j. Sims0n Africa, wife of the recent
Democratic candidate for Secretary of Internal
affairs, died at Huntingdon Monday
Labor matters in Plttsbwg are better and
brighter than ever before in the history of that
city. Work is booming and prospects are that
il viii continue so.
Josiah McKeen, convicted last spring of wife
poisoning. and confined in jaIl at Minlinburg.
broke jail Monday. A reward of 5000 is offered
for his apprehension.
The bursting OF a fly wheel : the PeenSyI-
vana Bolt Works. LebOnan last Tuesday, caused
damages to such an extent that work has been
suspended for one week.
The boundary dispute between Erie and
Warren counties has been adjusted Eric county
gains several hundred acres of land, including a
valuable tract near Cory
-h'lih DTOlneTS, OF IOdteSNlllp, do not act aS
though they expected 10 hold out long against
the strikers. They are enarging and improving
their iron mills and building a new puddle mill.
Dr. Elma Travis wants to be a member of
the Iackawanna County Medical Society," and
they are in doubt as to whether they should adj
init woman to membership; but it Is thought
she viii get in.
Lee X Patterson, coal operators, who own
mines at Clinton, Lawrence county, have leased
the old coke oven plant, which contains eighty
ovens, and will put them in full operation as soon
AS necessary repairs can be made.
-GovernOr Pattison Monday signed the DEATH
warrants of John NJ. Wilson, of Montgomery
county, and james p. McCabe, of Wayne county,
condemned murderers. The date of execution I'm
both cases is fixed for January rs, 1887.
AT conference of twenty-four out of tbe
twenty'cight Republican members-elect of the
Legislature from Philadelphia it was agreed TO
support NJ. S. Quay for United States Senator and
Henry *. Boyer for Speaker OF the State House
OF Representatives.
The independent and anti-corporatIou Sena.
tor Van Wyck may hold the balance Of power IN
tile Senate, and the Labor, and Greenback
Representatives viii have the balance power in
the Hpllst, and II they use power with skill will
oe able 70 command important concessions from
that body.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-11-20
Work Of the Pardon Rnard

The Board of Pardons," which held an
adjourned secret session on the 18th inst.
announced the following actions Wednes-
day: Samuel Ehrlch. Northampton county,
false pretences; pardon granted. The ease
was considered on papers submitted and
pardon recommended because the prisoner
is dying. The sentence of Edward Costello,
Lackawanna county, assault and battery.
was commuted to one year and will expire
next January. A pardon was also recon-.
mended in the case of John l}. Romaine,
Philadelphia, fortune-teling The follow.
Ing eases were held under advisement:
Ed. j. Cotfey, murder in the first degree,
Allegheny; John Bardley, Allegheny,
larceny; Terrence sweeney, Lackawanna,
robbery; Augustus Bothyne, jefferson, felo-
nious assault; George McKiernan. Clear
held, assault and battery; Theodore Smith,
northumberland, burglary; Juslus Hoff-
man, Luzerne, manslaughter; Newman ct
al, Washington, conspiracy aud riot; Lad.
ner brothers. Philadelphia, einbezzlement.
The following were refused: Josephine
Felix, Clinton, malpractice; Nellie sherman,
Allegheny prOcuress. The case of John
Powell, Allegheny, entering a building and
assault and battery, was postponed at re-
quest of counsel