The Newtown bee., 1879-05-20
SUMMARY OFNEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

Messrs. Whttemore, Feet, Peat X Co.,, one of the oldest dry goods firms in New York | city, have failed for about $l ,000 GOO, their liabilities being distributed principally in New l York and Providence.
 l While miners were attempting to extinguish
 a fire in the Stanton mine at Wilkesbarre,
 Pa., an explosion of gas took place, shaking the pillars of coal to their foundations, causing 1 the death of two men and injuring others l more or less severely.
 l The long trial by the Brooklyn Presbytery of
 the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, on the charge of deceit and falsehood, has resulted in an acquit-
 tal-twenty-ffve members voting not to sus- l tain the charges, sixteen to sustain them fully | and four to sustain them in part A resolution l offered by Dr. Rockwell was adopted, embody- | ing the result of the vote in expression ot l opinion by the Presbytery that MT. Talmage had been entirely free from any intentional | wrong. Dr. Van Dyke presented notice of | appeal to the Synod of Long Island, signed by eight members of the minority. Mir. Talmage then stepped forward and addressed the Pres | bytery for half an hour in of his most characteristic speeches. He was conscious of his own integrity, he said, but he felt 8 sense of gratitude that all was over. He felt very well towards his opponents. and would like to serve them. As to Drs. Van Dyke Crosby | and Sherwood and Mr. Greene, he hoped to meet them in heaven, but not during the first two or three days. [Laughter.l He compared the specifications to so many webs which crawling spiders had woven across him as he lay asleep, and now he had risen and shaken them off. He thanked his counsel, the repor- ters and the press, and all who acted fairly toward him. All others he forgave. He did not intend to change his manner of preaching; he could catch souls that way, and he was go- ing to do it.
 The Pennsylvania Senate, by strict party vote, has adopted the resolution to appoint a mt at San Francisco upon his return from his foreign tour.
 After being married one year Mrs. Maggie Mccoy, of Pittsburgh, Pa., aged twenty -four, hung herself in the garret of her house. This made the seventh suicide in that city within sixty hours.
 Edward P. Livingstone, of Yale College, was defeated by Warren N Goddard, of Harvard College, in a boat race on Lake Quinsi samond, Worcester, Mass, to decide the superiority ot the champion scullers of the two colleges.
 At a meeting of the National Temperance Society in New York, addresses were delivered by the president, William E. Dodge, Rev. Dr. Talmage and others.
 The managers of the Woodruff Scientific Ex- petition Around the World, which was to sail from New York a few days ago, announce that the enterprise is abandoned for the pres- ent owing to the failure of the persons who expressed their intentions of undertaking the voyage to pay the necessary deposit of $500 before the specified time. The ship is ready and the details of the expedition have all been arranged, but only forty persons have complied with the conditions. It is said that sS0 000 have already been expended by the managers in preparing for the voyage.
 The failure of Whittemore Peet, Post tS Co.,, of New York, has caused the suspension of the Meriden Woolen Company, of Meriden Conn. The liabilities are $200, ,000, tho assets nomi- nal.
 Extensive forest fires have done considerable damage to timber in the vicinity of Springfield, Mass, and of Scranton, Pa.
 The village of Unadilla, N. Y, has been par ially destroyed by fire. Nine stores, bank, four dwelling houses and three barns were en- $5,000.
 Andrew Manning, dissipated factory opera i've at Danielsonville, Conn.,, quarreled with his wife and struck her on the head with an axe, killing her instantly. He then ran to a neighbOring pond and drowned himself.
 Louis Barron, a machinist of Watertown N Y., went home from work sick, fell fanting in his yard, and exclaimed to his wife, '' am dying" Mrs. Barron was frightened to such an extent that she died shortly afterward Barron recovered.
 The weather in Northern New England on the thirteenth was unprecedentcdly hot for the season, the thermometer in many places in New Hampshire indicating 100 degrees in the shade
 At the one hundred and eleventh anniversary of the organization ofthe New York Chamber of Commerce q large number ol business and pro- fessional men were present, and speeches were made by James G. Blaine, Andrew D. White, the new Minister to Germany, and others.