The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-09-25
Our Neighborhoodsi in Brief

before October I'd.
Tile Lehigh county fair convenes a,
Allentown next week.
The salaries OF the clerks in the Al.
lentown postotlice have been reduced.
Thursday, the both inst, will be the
COMMENCEMENT of the Jewish new year,
5647.
There are about four hundred and
fifty pupils enrolled in our public
schools,
A thread mill will be put in opera
tion al Allentown sometime during the
coming winter.
The huckleberry crop of Monroe
and Pike counties amounted to $50, 600
bushels this year.
-Aldeg, -Luzerne county, was visited
by ascyelone last Monday, and property
to the value of $1,000 was destroyed.
"A four months old son of DR.. W..
A. Derhamer died Sunday afternoon
and was inferred in the Lehighton ceme-
terry Tuesday.
"A young man named Geibel, of
Philadelphia, fell from moving pas
senger train at Mauch Chunk, Monday.
and was seriously injured.
The hoisting apparatus and stock
house OF the two blast furnaces of the
Allentown rolling mills were DESTROYED
by fire Monday. Loss, $4,000.
THE ADVOCATE is constantly ad-
ding new subscribers to its already large
list, which fact should be remembered
by merchants desiring to advertise.
Tile last ear on the Switchback now
leaves Mauch Chunk for Summit Hill at
3 p. M; leaves Summit Hill for Mauch
Chunk at 5:40 p. m. Make a note of
this.
49, The Klckapoo Indian company who
have been tenting on the square for a
week pnast, left for. Slatihgton Tuesday.
They Msposed of abota ffytshundred
bSttfeS OF Indian -Sagwa" while here.
For the week ending Sent. IS, there
were l40,497 tons of coal shipped over
the Lehigh Valley railroad, making a
total to date of 4, ,979. 1S2 tons, and show
=, ing an increase of 3l4, ,3Si tons compared
with same date last year.
. Webster Weiss will expose at public
ssele on his premises, ir Franklin town
tsbh,, ON Saturday, October lG. 1856, a
lot ofavaluable farming stock, compris-
ing two cows, six mules, carriages.
sleighs, harness and other articles.
publishers of the american
A0,icWlturist will forward copy free
to every person who has been sub
scriber TO that periodical, but is not now
4 one provided they serd their name on
apostal card), to the end that they NAV
see,thegFea improvements that have
been mAde.
---One hundred and fifty cigarmakers
in the factory of Rhue Brothers, Allen
town, were locked out Monday, because
of demand for an increase of 81 per
thousand on all grades of cigars. The
firm proposed an advance of 80 cents per
thousand on all grades below So, which
was rejected.
We call the attention Of our many
readers to the advertisement of A. J.
tiitzenberger,. the popular hardware
merchant, in another column of to-day's
tApyQCArE. Mr. Lilzenberger is al
ways awake to the interests of his pat
rons and if you need ANYTHING in his
line it will pay you to give him a call.
~-We-had the pleasure of meeting II.
G. Fisher, the popular merchant tailor,
of Coaldale, one day recently. Mr..
Fisher located at Coaldale about a year
ago, and by steady push and energy, by
giving The best goods made up in the
latest styles for the least money, he has
succeeded in establishing a first class
business house.
The entombed miners at Scranton
haYe been reached by their heroic COM
rades, but as was feared, the fumes of
the deadly gasses had long before done
its work, and all were dead. The grief
which the relatives feel, however is NOT
so pungent as that which fills the hearts
of those whose friends lie buried in the
Nanticoke mine. TO be able to look
upon on1 dead and be certain Of their
fate mitigates TO a certain extent our
sorrowq
"A fast freight train, No. 50, bound
for New York, was wrecked about six
O'Clock Sunday morning. on the Lehigh
Valley railroad, near Lehigh Gap, nine
: miles below here. The train was heavi-
ly laden with lumber and merchandise
ffpm. the West. Sixteen cars we're bad
ly smashed causing a blockade of the
tracks all day. I'm. Hughes, the con-
ductor, two brakemen and a tramp who
was stealing a ride were injured-none
seriously. The wreck was caused by
broken wheel.
Our genial friend Geo. Huntzinger,
Of the popular Switchback restaurant.
Summit Hill, furnished about four hun
sdfed "dinners" to members of the
Columbia Gesung verlin, from Philadel-
phia, last Monday, and on Thursday
furnished some seven or eight hundred
members of the Schweitzer National
Gesung yerln with dinner. This speaks
well of the growing popularity of this
already popular Summit Hill restaurant.
When in Summit Hill don't fail TO call
on George you will 6nd him hearty,
genital, whole-souled fellow.