The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-08-07

issued shortly.
There are a number of typhoid fevel
cases in Allentown.
Furnace No. 5, at Glendon, was
blown in on Monday.
"A G. A. r. Post was organized at
Bethlehem on Monday.
Squirrel shooting is not legal until
after the first of next month.
The Slatington cornet band are
"blowing" through new instruments.
Efforts are being made to organize
castle of the X. G.. L. at Slatington.
"A number of our citizens are beau
tifying their residences by the erection
of iron fences.
With the exception of the delin-
quent subscriber everything is earlier
than usual this year.
"A number of our Evangelical
citizens are "tenting on the old camp
ground" in Weiss grove.
The relief association of the en-
plovees of the Bethlehem iron company
has now a membership of about 800
The apple crop throughout the
United States and Canada promises to
be the largest gathered in many years.
"A strange bug has made its appear
ance in the southern part of the State
and is doing much damage to the po-
tato crop.
"Wednesday afternoon two hundred
Hungarians and Italian laborers on the
Nescopec railroad, at Glen Rock, struck
for an advance of fifteen cents per day.
The State Grand Lodge of the Ger
man Order of Harrigali, beneficial,or-
ganization having branches throughout
the State, convened at Reading this
week.
Col. 7. r. Sitgreaves, very promi-
nent citizen of Easton, died Sunday
morning, aged eighty years. He was
the prothonotary ofNorthampton county
at one time as also borough treasury.
He was son of the late Samuel Sit
greaves, at one time minister to England.
The most modest man eyer heard
of was in row boat in a storm. lie
got swamped and drowned because he re-
fused so hug the shore. This catas-
trophe could have been averted had he
hired one of David Ebbert's easy riding
rigs. Livery on North street; terms
low.
Our borough fathers held their
regular monthly meeting last Monday
night. Present: Burgess Graver; Coun-
cilmen Gabel, Schmidt, Semmel, Miller,
Snyder and Supervisor Newhart. The
usual amount of business was trans
acted and committee appointed on the
culvert matter, opposite the Exchange
hotel.
AS the summer wanes typhoid fever
and other forms of zymotic disease
should be carefully guarded agans'.
Wherever the conditions are favorable,
as shown by the experience in many
places with malarial disorders due to
imperfect sanitation, there will quickly
be felt the paralyzing hand of epidemi-
cal contagion.
The following members of Carbon
Castle, No. Ill, X. G. T., Of this place,
were present at the institution of the
Enterprise Castle, X. G. E., at Weather
ly last Saturday night: DIR. Horn, Geo.
Stocker, Doug. Miller H. V. Mortimer,
Jr., Z. J. Rehrig. The ceremonies
were very imposing. The lodge has
bright prospects.
The Prohibition County Conven-
ton will meet at Mauch Chunk, on the
18th inst. Hon. Chas. Wolfe will de-
liver an address in the evening, after
which a special train will leave Mauch
Chunk on the Lehigh Valley Railroad
for Bowman's and perhaps Lehigh Gap,
for the accommodation of those persons
at the Convention and who may wish to
hear the address.
The Philadelphia Telegraph says:
Should the Reading Railroad company
continue its operations at the same
losses as have been sustained in the first
seven months of the year, the deficit for
1886 will not fall far short of $S, 500,-
600. While the business of the railroad
for the month of June cannot be said
to have beer discouraging, that of the
coal and iron 'mpany was marked by
an outlay of S233,5T4 in excess of revc-
nue. The actual loss of the latter for
several months, exclusive of interest ac-
counts, foots up the appalling total of
81, ,197,3jl.