The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-08-08
FRw WORDS.

a Lively writer Tells the Story Of The
happenings Of Week in and About
old Carbon.
-Nesquehoning has church
sscandle.
-Lansford is wild over progressive
euchre parties.
up at weatherly they must muzzle
their dorgs.
Some of the index boards along our
roads should be repainted.
The farmers all through the county
are rejoicing over big crops.
The Jeanesville foundry works
night and day to fill orders.
Coal Dale is having rumpus over
the appointment of principal.
The bottom dropped out of pota-
toes and they sell at 60 and 70 cents
per bushel.
On Thursday the Sheriff sold the
personal property of John G. Rex in
New Mahoning.
Ed Henry, of Evansville, was badly
gored by vicious bull one night re-
Gently. He will recover.
up to date Lansford is still in
darkness-perhaps this is why jimmy
malloy thinks he runs the town.
"A wild Hungarian who flourishes
yard long dagger is novelty for Sandy
Run folks. Several attempts have been
made to capture him but he eludes
pursuit.
Mayor Smith, of Weatherly, has
established a regular court and hears
cases in great style. The other day
he had two females before him charged
with malicious slander. The gossips
we're fined and dismissed.
John Trevanna, Nesquehoning
miner, was killed Thursday evening
last by the explosion of blast. His
body was picked up in small pieces.
His death was horrible one.
An exchange has the following: Five
dollars reward will be paid for remedy
that will prove effectual in stopping
the tongues of gossipers, that are old
enough and ugly enough to die, but
don't know enough.
"A brute of Hungarian shamefully
beat his wife at Lewiston the other day,
and then decamped with $3.50 that the
poor woman helped to save. The
decent people in that community
should organize vigilance committee
and take care of such brutes,
-tHe drank too much whiskey," is
the cause assigned by an up the county
coroner's jury, for the death of a
Beaver Meadow Hungarian who was
found lying in the brush alongside the
road where he had gone. TO sleep off 9
drunk. Some of the whiskey they sell
up that way is enough to kill anybody
let alone Hungarian.
1T is safe for you to assume that
the individual who is always eager to
tell you bit Of scandal about some
body else Is always just as eager to tell
somebody else bit Of scandal about
you. There is good deal of truth in
the old saying, that "a dog that will
bring bone, will take a bone,n
Hugh Nee eGarvey, of Beaver Meadow,
who has been holding the position as
messenger in the State Department at
Harrisburg since last January, has been
promoted to clerkship in the same
department., The positien of messen-
ger made vacant by the promotion of
Mr.. McGarvey has been filed by a
colored man by the name of Banks, a
resident of Philadelphia.
Foster, the famous weather
prophet, in his forecasts last week tells
of another storm wave that will cross
the continent from the Oath to the 28th.
He says: The important feature about
this storm wave will be, that it will
complete the last heavy rain period OF
the 1891 crop season. do not mean
that there viii be no more rain, but
that for about hfty-two days following
August 1st, the rains will not be
general"