The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-01-28
PACKERTON NOTES AND OPINIONS.
A Versatile Correspondent Comments on Time
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w. +. Brodhead is in Pike county ow
ing to the serious illness Of a relative
Judge Dreher denied the petition fol
Packerton; whether this settles the apita
tion or not is an open question.
The coal trade is brisk. IL you want
TO see business done on the jump, just cal
around the Packerton offices any day.
1t NAV not be generally known, but
Mr.. Snyder, No. 3 Dolons row. Lehigh
avenue, repairs watches and clocks. Hi,
work is thorough and satifactory.
"A failure to properly place a switch In
the yard here. caused engine loo to leave
the track. No serious damage was done,
but the boys didn't get home till early in
the morning.
The CARBON ADVOCATE is certainly a
cheap paper. The "Broadbrim" letters
are sufficient to repay the Investment OF
one dollar, to say nothing about the other
excellent reading.
The NANTES oes issued by President
Corbin and the strikers is becoming a little
monotonous; neither side seems willing to
submit. just what particular gain labor
expects in this contest may be apparent to
the leaders, but to the ordinary observer
the loss of wages to labor is hardly supple
mented by bindly adhering to the advice
of well-paid, well-fed leaders.
The l.. V. r. r. is taxed to its utmost
now with coal and freight traffic; the i'm
mense tonnage from the Wyoming region
requiring double force night and day.
The G. r. II. l.. g. s. division are doing a
heavy business; the strike on the Reading
has given an additional impetus to the
business boom of the Wyoming Valley for
which the good citizens of that section are
truly thankful.
1t will be necessary now for "Brer"
Blaine to hasten to Rome. President
Cleveland's very appropriate gift of copy
of the Federal constitution was highly ap-
preciated BY the Pope-calling forth from
the Cardinal and Pope their high estimate
of our chief magistrate. Politicians say
the act was a polite one Whatever the
motive, / is exercising the friends of Br'er
Blaine, aud they must do something to
offset It.
We were informed that a finance CON-
mittee Of the X. of L., called on one of
your Lehighton merchants for contri-
button in aid of the strikers, and because
they were refused, they intimated that he
would be sorry-in other words they threat
ened boycott. If the information is cor
rect, we bet a dime that the parties have
no authority to thus threaten, and dare not
openly put it into execution. 1t is un-
American and win not be tolerated in this
country, and those who advocate the use
of such weapon are cowardly.
1t matters very little whether Frank
Reber or Cassidy supported Kisner; there
was a majority for him, and his election
seems to suit majority of the party Ran
dali and his friends had right to espouse
the cause of Sanders, but they lacked
sufficient votes to elect. What the party
wants is leader, not boss; Mr.. Kisner is
aggressive IN the sense that he will demand
positive, thorough Democratic action
throughout the State; he don't expect to
capture this rock-ribbed, high.tar fl, Blaine
| Quay Republican State on the first charge,
but he will so marshall and advance his
forces that the g. o. p. will need to watch
Commander Kisner-mark the prediction.