The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-09-18

out at Allentown.
West Bethlehem has failed to secure
borough charter.
! --Emaus, Lehigh county, boasts of
having a two-legged kitten.
The ProthonotarV of Lehigh county
has issued 39S marriage licenses.
The capital stock of the Catasauqua
National Bank has been reduced from
$500. 900 to $40O, 900.
The Lehigh Valley railroad COM
pany is erecting signal targets at all the
stations along the line.
The iron trade remains quiet
Forge iron runs from $3.50 to S16. 25,
and foundry iron from SIS to $3.50.
Our popular druggist Il. ID. Thomas
is happy and all on account of the pre-
sentation by his good wife of bouncing
little Thomas boy.
Judging from the present outlook a
strike is inevitable in the HazletOn coal
regions, which II il takes place will
throw out of employment ten thousand
men and boys.
Edward Boyle. of Cass township,
Schuylkill county, aged sixty years, has
been arrested for feloniously assaulting
Mrs. Lavenburg, of the same place, aged
ninety years.
The Republican delegate elections
will take place to-day Saturday and
the County Convention will take place
at the Court House, Mauch Chunk, on
Monday next, 20th inst.
The work of attempting to rescue
the seven men entombed in the Marvine
mine, near Scranton, is being steadily
pushed forward, although but little hope
is entertained of finding the men alive.
The forty-fifth annual session of
the East Pennsylvania Evangelical
Lutheran Synod convened at Reading
on Wednesday. The synod embraces
$1,000 communicates and $50 members
and delegates.
Our indefatigable young friend r.
IL. D"tcuN, vi tlC NOllleT OlOTS,
wears gentle, zephyr-like smile of con-
tentment, and all owing to having been
presented, on Tuesday morning, with
an II 1-2 pound boy baby.
-Clauss Il Bro, popular merchant
tailors, Bank street, have been busy
during the past week in cleaning and
clearing out preparatory to laying in
their usual large assortment of fall and
winter overcoatings and suitings.
The Philadelphia ard Reading Coal
and Iron Company has given notice of
an advance to S1.25 per ton of pea coal,
and an advance to $3.50 per ton for
broken and egg coal. The advance in
prices is made OH account of the abso-
lutte scarcity of these sizes.
Our genial friend Leopold Meyers.
Of the Packerton Hotel, made us a pres
ent of basket of luscious peaches ard
grapes and bottle of choice wine one
day this week. Leopold evidently
knows how to draw smile upon the
countenance of a journalist.
Mr.. w. A. Ogden, composer of the
new song, "Stay at Home My Heart and
Rest" deserves great credit for this
composition, for it is work in which
there is exceptional merit. The melody
is rich flowing and beautiful. 1t may be
sung by any voice of ordinary compass
resulting in an excellent effort. Price
40 cents. Ign. Fischer, Publisher
| Toledo, O.
"A. A. Grayer, representing Schlech.
ter e Henry, dealers in music and Jew
elry, Reading, Pa, will be at the Le-
highton far with exhibits of the Knabe
and Gilbert pianos and three styles of
A. Is. Chase organs. The organs took
first and second premiums at the Worlds
Fair, New Orleans, and are guaranteed
to give satisfaction. While here you
should make it a point to see them.
The health of Allentown-The
County Fair--People who intend com
ing to the Allentown Fair need have no
dread or fear of the sickness that has
been preva lent in the city of late. The
fever has died out, no new cases having
been reported within the last two weeks,
and those taken with the prevailing
disease weeks ago are now all in rap
idly recovering way, and hence strangers
can again come here without incurring
the least risk. While there was a good
deal of sickness here during the summer,
typhoid was not at any time as largely
prevalent asreported. Dem