The Newtown bee., 1879-03-04
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States,

Eastern and Middle States.
 Rumors are thick in Wall street, New York, that Jay GS;si5 has aco coiafys led to seii out 1 the bulk of his shares in Union Pacific railroad stock-thus losing control of that company-- and that he is about to retire from further ac- tive financial operations.
 The following resolution in regard to the bill restricting Chinese emigrants was unanimous | ly passed by the Connecticut house of repre- sentatives upon motion of Hon. Henry Q. Rob- inson, of Hartford: Resolved. that the pro- posed law pending in the Congress of the United States restricting Chinese emigration IS in fragrant violation of sacred and honorable treaty, and is wholly inconsistent with the l principles and traditions of our republic, and with the broad principle of human freedom and it is our earnest hope that it's provisions may never disgrace our national statutes. The New York police have captured the dar- ing thief who attacked Mrs. De Barry on Fifth | avenue while the street was crowded with pedestrians and robbed her of a valuable dia- mond earring. The thief, and one of two &C., complices, who was also arrested, confessed their guilt.
 President McMillen, at the twenty fourth annual convention of New York school l commls- sioners and city superintendents. at Syracuse, said that there were Il, 821 schoolhouses in the State, valued, with their sites, at $3O, 147, ,5S9 and 1,032,0 052 pupils. President White, of Cornell university, in speech, compared Americas school system with Europe's, and awarded the palm to America.
 The Citizens savings bank, of Woonsocket, R. l., has been declared insolvent by commis sioners appointed to look into it's affairs An interesting ceremony at Greene, N: r., was the marriage of three sisters at one time. | Two of the bridegrooms were clergymen.
 At the convention of the International Base ball association in Buffalo, N. r., the name was changed to the National Baseball asso- l citation, and the championship penant was given to the Buffalo club.
 l An interesting case concerning an eccentric l old New York merchants ability to take care of 1 his large property has recently been decided before eighteen jurymen in Brooklyn. Distant | relatives of Jonathan T. Wells, who for many l years sold straw hats in New York and accumu- | lated 8 fortune, claimed that his actions be- | tokened insanity and sued to have the control l of his affairs taken away from him. The old man resisted the charge; the case was tried, | and the jury, after hearing number of wit | nesees on both sides, voted twelve to six that l Wells was sane, and capable of taking care of his property.
 Jacob A. Westervelt, an ex-mayor of New York and president of the dock department in that city, is dead in his eightieth year.
 John c. O'sullivan, an East Newark (N. J.) politician, was found guilty some time ago, of | being & common barrator-that is of causing and encouraging dissensions among his neigh l bors-and has been sentenced to sixty days imprisonment in the county jail and to pay fine of $100, with costs. O'Sullivan is the only
 
 Jersey, and it is said that besides himself only | one man has ever been convicted on 8 similar | charge in this country.
 Henry Bigelow Williams, Boston real estate agent, has failed for s1. .276,000.
 Captain Paul Boytnn started from Pitts burgh, Pa., in an attempt to swim to New Or leans in his ife-saving rubber suit. When he made the start the temperature of the water l at Pittsburgh was at freezing point, and the | river was full of ice.
 car attached to train st Chambersburg | Pa left the track and fell over an embankment | six feet high, turning on it's side. About fifteen persons were injured more or less seri- ously.
 Aostern ana Southern States
 The San Francisco Stock Report, the oldest financial paper on the Pacific coast, in an arti- cle urging that 8 monster mass meeting be held in San Francisco to demand of President Hayes that he sign the Chinese emigration bill used some extraordinary language. It broadly discussed the possibility of secession from the Union in case the President refuses | to sign the bill and said further: "The East has utterly failed to understand our situation, and to extend the aid and sympathy we have the right to expect from the sisterhood of States. Leading men say that we have pleaded, have exhausted arguments, have cried aloud | for relief, but our most earnest appeals have been treated with indignity, and our sufferings been made mockery. AS 8 last resort we will l take advantage of the geographical lines that l surround us, the vast extent of soil within our boundaries, the exhaustless resources of wealth that ours and will set up an occidental re- public, which, if it cannot rival the old republic in it's glory of the past, will at least be mag nifcent empire of white freemen, whose herit- age shall be preserved to their children and their children's children forever"
 The northern-bound passenger train on the Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad, fell through Duncans bridge over Mulberry creek thir- teen miles north of Selma, Ala, and was a total wreck, with the exception of the engine. George Evans, of Selma, and two colored men were killed. M Stanton, superintendent of the road, Conductor " R. White, and Mail | Agent Hunter were fatally injured, and about | twenty other persons were seriously hurt. Upon investigation the bridge through which | the train fell proved to be thoroughly rotten. | The scene after the disaster was one of horror l and confusion. The struggles of the wounded 1 passengers endeayoring to crawl from be- ] meath the cars were fearful, many being pinned l between the broken pieces, unable to extricate | themselves without aid. The escape of the l passengers from the sleeping-car that hung on | the brink of the chasm was perilous, but was executed without loss of life.
 The Michigan legislature elected zachariah | Chandler to the United States Senate, the Republican majority in both houses voting unanimously for him.
 All is fish that comes to the net of the Vest | ern highwayman, and he has no more respect for the armed soldier than for the peaceful citizen. Brevet-Col. Rice and Lieut.. Fred. 1 Sibley, of Gen. Miles regiment, and Morris 1 Calm, of Evansville, Ind, with an escort of l seven men, were surprised by four black-mask- ed road agents on the Yellowstone. Five of | the party were in an ambulance and five were 1 on horseback, leisurely following at some dis tance in the rear. The five in the ambulance l were suddenly covered with the rifles of the | robbers and told to throw up their hands, which they prudently. did. Then, while the captain of the robbers kept q the drop' on the captives, the other three disciples of Claude | Duval relieved the officers of $200 and Calm of $2, 800; refusing to take the gold watches of | the military men. When the five cavalrymen rode up they were also quickly covered by the robbers rifles, disarmed and robbed. The thieves then made the military stack their guns and leave unarmed. A military detachment | which was sent in pursuit of the road agents captured one of them.
 The Ohio Prohibitionists are first in the political field with ticket headed by Gideon T. Stewart for governor. The platform adopt ed favors giving the laborer for corporations the first lien for wages favors reserving public lands for homesteads the suppression of gambling in stocks the prohibition of labor of children under fourteen years of age in mines and factories universal suffrage the issue of small interest-bearing bonds compulsory edu- cation; the reduction of official salaries, and local options.
 George Washington, colored man, twenty five years old, was hanged at Louisville, Ky, for an atrocious assault on 8 little German girl four months ago. Twenty thousand per- sons witnessed the hanging A horrible failure was made at the first attempt, the rope break ing and precipitating Washington to the ground. He was picked up half insensible, and hanged again az soon as possible. He was pronounced dead at noon and the body was cut down.
 Indian depredations in Dakota are reported. Two wagon-trains were attacked near Rapid City, the savages firing several volleys into the town to prevent the citizens from going to the rescue of the teamsters. Another band of In dians attacked the Sulphur Springs station, on