The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-12-24
STATE MATTERS IN BRIEF


The Best OF News CuIod From % Multi
tude Of Sources.
The report of Professor Geo. Weiss,
superintendent of the public schools
in Sohuylkin county, shows that the
salaries Of the teachers i'm number of
the districts wero raised during the
past year. The raising Of salaries and
lengthening of school terms affects
hfty-two out of seventy two districts
Christian P. Smoker, of East Lam.
peter, Lancaster county, has turkey
gobbler of thirty-seven pounds in
weight LIE has been offered SO for
the bird if it can be made to reach the
forty pound mark before Christmas.
After attaining the age Of nearly 100
years Mrs. Rebecca Twining, of Ire
vose. Bucks county, has yielded to a
sudden attack OF nervousness and
taken to her bed When taken i'll she
was reading Bible, "a book that she
has always kept by her side, and which
she has read through many times. She
is the oldest member of the WhriRhts-
town Meeting, which she has attended
regularly 60 years.
Frand Seavil, of Great Bend, about
three months since fitted up regular
emigrant wagon, in which he had two
beds, kitchen utensils, few chickens,
his mother, who was about so years OF
age, and sister and started for Florida,
expecting to be three months in get
ting there, tells the Montrose Demo
crat. Arriving at Gettysburg the wo-
man gave out and we're obliged to go
by rail the rest Of the way. Seavil con-
tinued his journey with his horses and
wagon, reaching Florida after three
months iourning. Mr.. Seavil at times
could get nothing for himself or horses
to eat. At one time he subsisted four
| days on sugarcane; sometimes he could
| get few quarts of milk at ten cents
per quart and buttermilk at FIVE cents
! lie was so disguised with the country
that he sold his horses, wagon, harness
and many other things for SO, took
the cars and returned to Great Bend
1t cost him 500 for this little bit OF
experience.
During the last twenty years about
four thousand town lots have beer
sold at Pottstown. This, and the fac
that about three hundred houses arr
built annually, is an evidence of thl
towns prosperity. Lately many farm
have been absorbed for building o
speculative purposes, and it is no
rarely that 80 by $50 lots in tavorabl
locations sell now for what the farm
would have sold for fifteen years ago.
The total value of real estate i
, Pennsylvania is given at Si,Oj5,jO1, ,SlO
and of personal property at o1,bS6,92l
SG6 The assessed and actual valuatio
2 of real estate in Delaware county
Q given as follows. ssessed-Townshil
e SD, ,63l, ,432; boroughs, 5000, ,l68; city {
! Chester, S9,246,53l; total, l,53S, ,l3
! Actual Township, s2l.b3l
= 432; borough, S16,lOO,280; city of Che
D ter, Sl5,41O,SS5; total, S54, ,l42,j9I; pc
}. centage of assessed to actual valul
!, tion, 7G.
The Delaware and Hudson Cant
Company shipped from Honesdal
e this year, via the canal, 797 ,656 tons {
G coal. In 1891 the amount was S36,S;
= tons, showing loss of 39,lS2 tons fC
this year. SO far this year the con
pany has shipped from Honesdale, vi
e the Honesdale branch, 1,0l2,O79 ton
t to 843, ,48O tons to the correspondent
date of 1891, a gain of lGS, S,l99 tons fC
this year The total shipments, J
both railroad and canal, were l,SOS
735 tons