The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-09-28
cARBoN's CAPITAL.

Interesting Local Brevities From the Ira
NOUS Switzerland" by our Regular
Correspondents
REWARD OF GREATNESS. AS Genera
Lilly, of Mauch Chunk, walked dowr
Chestnut street Yesterday, he illustrated il
bis attire the contempt for stylish clothins
which only rich men can afford to display
his grayish coat was flung wide open ant
Tapped in the winds like a torn sail in q
> storm. Over his arm was a rubber coat
on one end of which he kept stepping with
muddy shoe until it was impossible "a
tell which was rubber and which mud.
His headgear, an old brown straw hat en-.
Titled by service to high place on the re-
tired list, was pushed back on his head,
exposing his kindly face, then illuminated
with smile. Scores turned to lock at his
odd make up, not one in twenty of whom
mad the remotest idea of his identity. Such
is ame.-Phila. Inquirer, Sept. 10.
BADLY INJURED. Harry Schab, of
East Mauch Chunk, lineman employed
by the telegraph department of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad, was badly hurt at Park
Place, on the Mahanoy Division, on Satur-
day. de was seated on the crossbeam of a
pole, about thirty feet from the ground,
when the pole broke and he fell, striking
on his back and badly injuring his spine.
He was taken to st. Luke's Hospital on
the O'Clock train on Saturday.
AT ALLENTowN.-The County Com
missioners, their clerk and solicitor were
in attendance at the State Convention of
County Commissioners in session at Allen
town this week. During their absence the
office was in charge of Quint Arner, a
franklin township school teacher, who
played sad havoc with the hearts of the
pretty excursionists who were fortunate
enough to catch his beamng smile as they
passed the county building.
NEW TELEGRAPH LINE.--A new tele-
graph line is being erected by the Lehigh
Valley Railroad from Easton to this city.
The present lines are insufficient for the
work required of them. The wire and
batteries for the new line have been dis
tributed along the different stations, and
work on 1t viii be pushed with all possible
haste.
WORK OF THE SILENT REAPER.-On
Friday night at the residence of George
Twining, in East Mauch Chunk, George
Slater died at the ripe old age of eighty
four years, of feebleness and general debili-
ty consequent to extreme old age. He was
buried on Monday at the old Hamilton
church, Saylorsburg, Monroe county.
CHANGE OF LANDLORDS. .-Messrs. j. |
s. Kelser & Son will take possession of the
Mansion House next week; the final trans |
fer was made on Monday evening, when j. |
S. Weibert disposed of his entire stock to
the new firm, who will make things boom |
at the new stand.
PLAY BALL,-Chicago's champion fe-
male base ball club will play ball on the
new grounds at Glen Onoko on Thursday
next. Some Carbon county club will be
their opponents. 1t promises to be an in
teresting as well as exciting game.
ENTERPRIsE.-Alre over four hun
dfed electric lights have been subscribed
for by less than fifty Mauch Chunk mer-
chants. This is progressiyeness with a
big p.
EXCURsIoN.-On October 9th Josiah
Connolly, the blind and one.armed soldier,
will run his popular fifty cent excursion
oyer the famous Switchback railroad.
JAILED. Two Hungarians, with names
of the unpronounceable kind, were jailed
on Monday BY Squire Beckhardt, of East
Mauch Chunk, for non-payment of debt.
RELEAsED.-Benedict Blechard and
Henry Mangold, both of East Mauch
Chunk, spent several hours in Levan's
dungeon for assault and battery.
CoURT.-Argument court conyenes on
Monday, October 7, at which time the
assessment cases, of which fact YOU recent
ly published, will be heard.