The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-10-05
MAUcH CHUNK NEWS.
A Lively Correspondent Furnishes His
Usual Quote spicy Local Happenings.

A Lively Correspondent Furnishes HI,
Usual Quote Of spicy Local Happenings.
The REsUIT OF FAME-From the In.
qutrer of Philadelphia, we This week clip
the following concerning a respected eitl.
zen; A. w. Leisenring, the Republican
politician and financier of Mauch Chunk,
arrived in town yesterday and went at
once TO The Contipental. Mr.. LeisenriDg
is better known to the rising generation as
financier than as politician, but ten or
hfteen years ago he was a power in the
politics of bis section. In that day he
was devoted adherent of the Camerons,
Tor the elder of whom he had profound
admiration, and he fought their battles
whenever there was any to fight. He has
very. y.comfortable home in East Mauch
Chunk, but the bank of which he is presi-
dent is located under the shadow of the
Mauch Cnunk court house and is Thought
to be more enduring. During the past
few years Mr.. Leisenring has been one of
syndicate to organize banks in some of
the other anthracite towns. One of these
is at llazleton, another at Shenandoah
and still another at Nanticoke. PERSONAL
ly he is pleasant man. He is fine
looking man, somewhat oyer sixty years
| old. but his temperate habits have ure-
served his health ~and made him look real
ly younger than he is. lie does not enter
into politics as he once did, but when he
does 1t is with the purpose of winning.
HAPPILY WEDDED.-Miss Elsie, the
accomplished daughter of Thomas Seip
fried, one of Last Mauch Chunks most
prominent citizens, was married to Robert
Williams, of town, member of the enter
prisinR firm of Williams & Kaufman, by
Rev. t. NJ. jackson, assisted by Rev. G.
w, Todd, in the Methodist church in the
above town on Friday evening. Follow.
ing the wedding ceremony reception was
held at the brides home, after which the
young couple were escorted to the Lehigh
Valley depot, where they boarded a train
for New York and other cities, They
have the ADVOCATES best wishes for sue
cess in the journey of life.
A MAUcH CBUNKER INJURED.
Cunningham, of East Mauch Chunk. who
left here about year ago and secured
position on Chicago railroad had his left
leg so badly crushed on Tuesday while at
work in that place, that amputation was
necessary and he may die from the shock.
| He was for several years employed on the
Central Railroad and will be remembered
by the boys as a genial companion and
fellow workman. His brother Ed left on
| Wednesday for Chicago to render any as
| sistance possible
| PAID UP.-The tax collectors from the
several districts in the county were here
during the past few days paying oyer cash
to the comfy Treasurer, as a result of their
dunning during the first sixty days. No
tably among the collections made, "Pop''
Painter beats them all, having collected
$4,000 on the last day of abatement.
I SAM PRICE. The Democratic candidate
for Associate Judge, Samuel B. Price.
closed digits with your reporter on We'd
nesday, he speaks encouragingly of the
result of November and is not at ali afraid
of his opponent. Price will be elected by
big round majority. He is good man
| for the Office.
COUNTY BoNDs.-Farson, Leach & Co.,
bankers. Wall street, New York, are ready
to take all the four per cent. bonds to be
issued by the county. The bond issue
will be TO the extent of $4,000 and run
four years, and is safe Investment Be-
sides The New York parties number of
our county people have made application
| for bonds.
A New BRIDGE.-The Hudsondale
bridge is finished and travel over it has
commenced. The structure is of iron, one
span, thirty-two feet long and was built by
Wilson & Buchanan, of Pittsburg. The
same party will build the iron bridge al
Lehighton.
PRoM1N ENT MISUNDERSTANDING the
prominent LehIghtonians doing business
here on Wednesday your reporter noticed
Squire H. A. Beltz, Howard Seaboldt,
secretary of the Lehighton Water Com
pany, and County Supt. of Schools. I. A.
Snyder.
w. H. Arndt, of East Mauch Chunk,
the Adams express agent for that town,
ce ebrated his forty-fifth birthday anniyer-
sary on Monday evening. The event was
made one of great pleasure.
Argument court opens at ten O'Clock
on Monday morning next when the assess
ment cases of the several corporations in
the upper end will be heard.
-Vahnetah Castle, No. PSI, X. G. E.,
attended divine services in the second ward
Evangelical church on Sunday evening.
Sheriff Levan, accompanied by Quint
Arner, of Franklin, did business at Lans-
ford on Wednesday.
j. S. Webert, late proprietor of the
Mansion House, and his wife left for New
York on Wednesday.
j. II. Wilhelm has resigned as direc-
tor Of he public schools here.
New Oficers.
The following are the newly elected
officers of Gnaden Hutten Lodge, No. 6S6,