The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-23
Current Events Epitomized

throughout the State
Nice watches for boys and girls
at L. II. Hollis, Mauch Chunk.
Efforts are being made to have
Pottsyile Incorporated as a city.
-Fortv-five prisoners are at present
confined in the Lehigh county Jail
Wedding rings and large as
sortment of fine siverware az Hollis,
Mauch Chunk.
Key. Mr.. Erdman, of Mauch Chunk
addressed the temperance element of
this place last Saturday evening.
Don't fail to read the advertise
ment headed Save time and money!"
and ending, "All cheap for cash" /
Thursday, October 2S, will be OBJ
served as Arbor Day in this State. Will
our public schools observe this day?
"A strike is anticipated in the an
thracite coal region which will throw
out of employment three thousand
hands.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pany has received an order to build one
hundred Tiliin refrigerator cars at the
Packerton car shops.
Sale bills printed at this office in
the best manner and at lowest prices.
Give us your order. Prompt attention
given to orders by mails.
The Liquor Dealers Protective As
sociation, of this county, met at Mauch
Chunk last Friday afternoon to take
action on matters, governing the election.
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company must pay the expenses in
CURED for holding inquests on the
bodies of the victims of the Lansford
boiler explosion.
The Commissioners OF Luzerne
county offer $500 reward for the arrest
of the murderers of Mrs. Brogenski.
who was killed on the road between
Hazleton and Jeddo some time since.
The surviving members of the Old
Hundred and Forty-tlird Regiment
PENNSYLVANIA Volunteers, will hold their
annual reunion at Old Camp Luzerne.
Luzerne county, on Saturday, Noyem-
Der 6.
"A charter was granted at the State
department Monday to the Bellefonie
Eastern railroad company with a capital
stock of $1,000, 900. The road viii ex
tend from Milton to Bellefonte, dis
tance Of fifty miles.
For the week ending Oct. 10, there
were l97,6i4tons of coal shipped over
the Lehigh Valley railroad, making
total to date of 3 800, ,9O7 tons. and show
ing an increase of 353, 1856 tons compared
with same date last year
The Lansford Record was seven
years old last Saturday. Jimmy prom
iscs that in the future he will be ''liyc.
saucy, newsy, clean, Independent aud
correct, This should win for thai
journal many new admirers.
Alta Democratic ratification to he
held in Allentown today Saturday the
several candidates on the State ticket.
and Chairman Hensel, Curtin. Randall
and many other individuals prominent
in politics will be present and make adj
dresses,
Mrs. Reberca Titus, the aged moth
or of Janitor Titus, convicted of the
murder of Iillie Smith, is badly broken
down over his conviction. Her mind is
so impaired that her friends will proba-
bly, have TO send her to the State insane
asylum,
Bucks county farmers have organ
iZe1 themselves into vigilance com
mittee and are searching the mountains
Tor gang OF desperadoes who have
been setting fire to barns, plunderng
farm houses and running off with horses
and cattle.
On Thursday evening. October 2S.
Webster Weiss, of Franklin township.
will expose to public sale variety of
valuable household articles. &c. Mr..
Weiss proposes, in the near future. to
move TO Bethlehem, where lie will make
his future home.
There are probably 100000 work
ingmen employed in the anthracite coal
traffic, and the Hazleton Plain Speaker
says that 1.-THE better the prices of coal
the more they get for wages, and il is
now too late to deny that good wages
and prosperity go nand in hand"
On November TO and II, 1886. b.
Il. and w. X. Steigerwalt, attorneys for
the heirs Of S. II. Steigerwalt, dec d.. -.
will sell al public sale, ON the premises
in Mahoning township, Pa, a lot of
very valuable personal property, incud-
ing horses, cows, shoats, chickens,
wagons, harness, &c, &c.
,e "A person is "of age on the dav
preceding the twenty-frst anniveralv Of
his birth. lfhe was born on November
3, 1865, he will be twenty-one years old
on November 2 next, and will be en-
titled TO vote at the election on that
day. The twenty-second year of his life
begins on his birthday; his twenty-hrst
year is completed on the previous day
Fire twenty-seven," said the busy
hotel clerk TO the new porter down town
Saturday. Presently the porter re-
turned looking very much used up, ~
fired him, sor,' he said, "but begorra,
for jist wan blissed moment thought
he would fire me-" The misunder-
standing was amicably adjusted by the
clerk taking the fired" participants for
drive in one of David Ebber's easy
riding carriages. Livery on North st.
Functional disorganization of the
liver is potent and common cause Of
melancholy. DIR. Bulls Baltimore Pills
Invariably give tone to the liver DAYS
Horse Powder Is Indispensable for the
proper care of sheep and lambs i'm winter
The best stock-raiseTs always keep il on
hand. 20 cents. Only a little colicky!"
Collie makes many new graves. DIR.
Bulls Baby Syrup will speedily cure the
baby thus affected. Try it. Twenty
five cents.
Our home talent has been prevailed
upon by the members of Lehigh Hook
d Ladder Company, of this place, to
give them benefit. So, Just remember
that there is a rich treat in store for the
people OF this town and the surrounding
neighborhood. There is no exaggera-
ton when we say that tho rery best
talent (which has heen tried and not
found wantingl has been secured and
VIII be under the management of Alex.
Bowman,O of Packerton. Mr. Bowman's $
experience in theatricals is sufficient
evidence that the coming event will be
an unprecedented success The drama,
which, by the way, is very interesting