The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19
NE WS SUMMARY.
Eastern and MiddIa States.

| Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, the well-knowr
writer and lecturer, died at his home IL
| Brooklyn, the other day, aged fifty three
| years.
| 1t has just come to light that John F
| Haws, late a bookkeeper in the Manutac
| turers' and Merchants Bank OF New York
! who fed to Belgium in August last and subse
quently went to Canada, was defaulter K
| the extent OF 1888, 455 The defalcation was
concealed by the bank officers, and only re-
| gently became known to outsiders.
| The Austrian bark Rebus, which arrived Al
| New York, the other day, brought six cast
Always taken from the wrecked whaling
| schooner Petrol. Captain Ivancich OF the
| Rebus reports that on November 3, wheI
| huh OF dismantled vessel. He bore dowr
| toward the vessel, and deserted six persons
| clinging to the wreck. A fierce northerly gale
| was blowing, and the sea WAS running strong
| The signals of distress from the wreck were
answered by lowering boat. With great
| difficulty the rescue was made. The air was
| very cold, and from exposure to it and the
| water the survivors were nearly dead The
| saved persons were Portuguese and whalers
| who had taken passage in the Petrol to return
| to their homes on the Azores, MADEIRA and
| Canary Islands. The schooner sailed from
Newburyport, Mass, October Is, tor whal
ing cruise i'll the northern Athletic. She I'd
on board twenty-one souls. Three days after
she sailed she encountered terrible northerly
gales that took away her masts and rudder.
On The Goth OF October she capsized, and At
teen persons, including Captain George Fisher
her owner and master, were lost. For tour days
the six survivors chung to the wreck, with
but little food and scarcely any water. The
Petrol was only sixty-one tons burden.
Proposals from various banks and bankers
for selling $40 900, 900 six per cent. bonds to
the government were refused in New York by
Secretary Sherman, who declined to pay more
than LOG. Atterward offers at this price
amounting to Sc, 900 were made and ac-
cepted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Little, two children and
Mr.. and Mrs. James Brown were rowing on
the Merrirnack river, in Massachusetts,, from
Ccntralville shore to Little Canada, when the
leaking of the boat frightened them and dur
ing the confusion it was overturned. Mr..
Brown swan ashore. Mrs. Little and one
child chung to the boat and were rescued. Mr.
Little and Mrs. Brown (his sister) and Mr.
Titles two-year-old son were drowned
Richard Schell, well known in New York
financial and social circles, died the Other
day, aged sixty-nine years. Mr.. Schell was
an ex-member OF Congress, and during the
last presidential campaign was q prominent
Greenbacker.
A number of lottery dealers in New Yorl
have been arrested for sending lottery circu
lars through the mails contrary to law.
Secretary Sherman has succeeded in buying
in New York ten million dollars worth OF si1
per cent. United States bonds tor the govern
ment at his own price-1O6.
Returns from every county in Pennsylvania
give the total vote for State treasurer as fol
lows: Butler, Rep. 2Sl, 153; Barr, Dem.
22l,715; Sutton, Greenback, q 81; Rich
ardson, Prohibition, 3,2l9.
In October 1907 emigrants arrived at tas
port OF New York, an increase OF S,282 owe
| October, 1878 From january | to Novembe
/, 1879 Ill 300 emigrants have arrived, III
| increase OF ,90] over the first ten months 0
| 1873. OF the arrivals in October 1875 were
Germans, 1924 English, 2,204 Irish, 67i
Scotch, All Welsh and ,44S Scandinavian
| Ten thousand dollars will be given in pre-
miums at the second annual Internationa
dairy fair which will be opened in the Anluri
can Institute building, New York, on Monday
| December s. II Q entries last year were 2,GG0
| This year they are expected to be over 5000
! here will be at least 500 specimens of cele
| brated herds oil cattle now in Americ a ae x
hibited. In the displays of butter and cheese
| the manufacturing process of to-day will b.
exhibit ed side by side with that OF a century
ago. For this purpose q log cabin will b.
! built around which will be yard with
small herd OF Jersey cattle. An obelisk o
cheese seventy i've feet high will be exhibitet
| by one dealer; it will consist of l. 100 cheeses
| ST. Louis, Cleveland and many other lik
! cities will secure reduction OF railroad fare
| for their citizens