The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-08-14

"A total eclipse of the sun will take
place on the 18th inst.
The Orwigsbarg, Schuylkill county.
shoe factory has started Up.
Remember the county fair. and
prepare something for exhibition.
--Enterprising citizens of WhiteHaven
are negotiating for shoe factory,
The days have lost one hour and
seven minutes since the longest day of
the year.
I'm not a candidate, but my friends
want me to rln," is the way Allentown
politicians put IT,.
1t is expected that the Bethlehem
silk mill will start operations about the
lst of September.
Bath, Northampton comfy, was
laid out as q village by James Ralston
in the year 1916.
Anthony Nealon, of MofTet's Patch,
L'uzerne county, was run over lay train
and killed on Monday.
II. d. Clauss has laid substantial
stone pavement in front of his residence
on Bank street. Next.
The Reading Hardware Comnanv
with capital of $3.50, 900 was chartered
ct Harrisburg last week.
The number of prisoners confined
in the Lehigh county jail during July
numbered seventy-thrcc. Wicked Le-
high.
Levi, son of Charles Patterson. had
ms right arm severely lasCeraiei Tues- /
day, while at work in Heilman's ice
house.
--3,7l1 loaves of bread and 1906
pounds of meat was consumed bv the |
prisoners in Lehigh county jail during |
the month of July,
The last day for registration is
September 3. Every voter should make |
1t business to call on the assessor and |
see that his name is entered properly.
Samuel Kross Post. No. 2S4. G.
y. H.. of Slalington, will hold their
annual camp fire on Saturday, August
2lst, on Island Park, near Walnutport,
"A number Of collierics in the Schuyl-
kill coal regions are lying idle owing to
the scarcity of cars, resulting from the
inability to unload them at tide water
ports,
George Kuhl, the eonfcctiondr of
Allentown, well-knOwn in this place,
died last Saturday afternoon. after an
illness of about one week with typhoid
fever.
Joe Prior AMI Broken nose
George of Philadelphia, are confined
IN the EaSton jail charged with robbing
Michael Connolly, Of South Bethlehem.
of S70O,
The meaning of postage stamps. says
the Chicago Heya'd, is as follows: Up
side down means II love you." Riyht
up and down means "Good-by, sweet
heart, good-by."
The /. V. +. r. Company has
changed the method of Joining the rails
used on thoir road, which will add con-
siderable to the rigidity and frmness of
the track and greatly lessen the liability
to accident from bad or broken rails.
"A Wisconsin COW has died from
chewing tobacco. The Slatinglon -He,rS !
asks: "Did you heifer hear the like?"
olatlnSton folks should endcavor to have
Schlarch transported to JERSEY. ANY
one who pcrpetratpS bug'' of the
above order Is actually dangerous. |
The dead body of Charles Rohile. 4 j
child aged FIVE months who died of =,
whoopmg cough at MinnHaroIis. Mimi. .
on August i, and on the follow ing day
was shipped TO this place. arrived here I
on Hedneslay evening in greatly de- |
composed condition. The body was ,
consigned to Joseph ZaIn.
--Look out! Scafar & Rooms great !.
russian Combination, will exhibit on |
I he upper end OF the Public Square. in S
iliS place, BIoliiay, Tuesday and :
hcdnesday of next week--lGih, 18th 7
and 18th inst. Admission only 10 e.,
Cur exchanges say the performances are '
very good. Go and see for yourself. /
Mrs. Barrol, of East Penn, this 1
county, gave birth to a monster boy /
weighing twelve Pounds last Saturday. q
The peculiarilieS of the baby was a q
horny-Iikc eAc?cscence two and hall !
inches long protruding from the fore t.
head, only one eye, which however. had \
two pupils with half an inch space be- '
tween them, no nose Iorncl the face |
OF the child anA its ears were shspod ,
like those Of a cats, the mouth was so
small that 1t wonll not take in a cherry
stone, The child died few minutes {
after birth, DR.. a. NJ. Sitter was in i
at The birth of the clild.