Pottsville
a borough and countyseat of Schuylkill co., Pa.; on the Schuylkill river, and on the Philadelphia and Reading, the People's, the Pennsylvania, and the Lehigh Valley railroads; 93 miles N. W. of Philadelphia. Here are the court house and county jail, high school, public hospital, parks, street railroads, electric lights, waterworks, National and State banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The industries or arms, nearly equal, united at the base