The Newtown bee., 1879-02-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern ana mldcle states

of the institution on February 22. 1878 and l died the next morning in state of insensi- biity. It was supposed at the tirle that he had been murdered by robbers, and several circumstances indorsng this belief were point | ed out but now come detectives who have been Investigating the matter and allege that Mr. Barron committed suicide. It is asserted his accounts wore not straight After his death his widow received several thousand dollars subscribed by banks throughout the country in recognition Of her husbands heroic death, and money had been raised to build the Barron memorial church, now partly finished.
 B. F. Jones has been elected United States Senator from Louisiana, to succeed Mir. Eustis. and John J. Ingals has been reelected to the same body from Kansas, the former being a Democrat and the latter Republican.
 The oyster schooner Adamantine sank in Chesapeake bay, between Kedge's straits and Smiths island, and the bodies of ten men, composing her captain and crew, were found lashed to the deck, which was several feet under water.
 The three leading New York bank note com panies-the American, National and Conti- nental--have consolidated under tho name of the American Bank Note company This &C., tion was taken because sinca the national government established the bureau of engray- ing and printing at Washington, the business formerly appropriated by these companies has been mainly transacted by that bureau, and profits have been correspondingly cut down.
 Miss Annie Bartell failed in her attempt to walk 5000 consecutive quarter miles in 5000 consecutive quarter hours, in New York, after completing 566 quarters of her allotted task. During the latter part of her walk she suffered intensely from physical prostration.
 The city of Elizabeth, N. J., was unable to pay the interest-amounting to $35, ,000-on its debt. The cause is said to be due mainly
 extravaganza in street improvements.
 Detective Charles E. Wiggin, of Boston, who was employed by the attorney general of ATAtn oNA m.-. nected with the death of J. Wilson Barron, treasurer of the Dexter (Me) savings bank, professes an entire disbelief in the story of his dishonesty and suicide. Mrs. Bsrrop wife of the dead cashier. publishes q card, asking for a suspension of judgment until all the evidence in the case has been taken.
 The venerable poet and esssyst Richard Henry Dana, died at his residence in Boston i few days ago, aged ninety-three.
 The business part of the village of Lee, Mass, has been destroyed by fire. Ten stores and & printing flee were burned out causing an aggregate loss of about S100. 900. General George Cadwalader, a veteran of the Mexican war and well known in military circles throughout the United States, died in Philadelphia, the other day, aged seventy | three years.
 At the burial of Ashburton Webster in Marshfeld, Mass., the lid of the casket con- taining the remains of his grandfather, Daniel Webster, was opened, and his face was perfectly recognizable.
 A falling roof in the Briggs mine, at Scran- ton, Pa., killed Charles Fletcher, a miner and severely wounded Adam Lynn.
 At the pigeon show of the Columbarian
 society, held in New York, about 800 pige ons | Of all varieties were On exhibition. One pair
 Of black carriers were prized at $1 900. | The Vanderbilt contested will case is drag | ging along in the New York surrogate's court.
 Six men were arrested at Lebanon, Pa,
 charged with having murdered Joseph Raber,
 an old man, last December in order to obtain
 1000 insurance on his life. One Peters
 testified that be saw several of the accused | s,rike the old mau over the head with Hunt
 instrument and then throw the body into the
 creek so as to cnvey the impression that he had fallen in and drowned.
 Western and Southern Statea.
 Twelve buildings at Mason, Miss. were de-
 stroyed by fro.
 AtosnAdo at Iuka, Miss, killed six colored persous, five of them children, and destroyed five buildings, including church,
 boiler explosion at Bloomington, III. killed
 four persons - literally tearing their bodies to
 fragments-and badly injured fifth.
 Three men were killed and woman was
 severely injured while trying to escape from q
 fire in the City almshouse at Louisville, Ky.
 Samuel B. Bowles, ex-county engineer of
 Hamilton county, Ohio, was arrested on the
 charge of forging and raising county bonds to
 the amount of S22 900.
 From Washington.
 Whiteaw Reid, of the New York Tribune,
 testified before the Potter committee that the Il cipher dispatches which appeared in his paper sere received from William b. Chandler and htt.H Hscock-the latter member of the com mites and that they were main!y translated py AesssS Hazard and Grosgenor. through the
 sld or an Associated Press dispatch, which stAoeu tne cipSer was an old mining one, taken rom the nouse>old dictionary.
 The subscriptioss to the new four her cent.
 loan during January s.nounted to S158. s51. 150. The board of expertssqthorized by Congress 7 to investigate the yellow fsyer epidemic of 187s , submitted their report to he joint congras. , sional committee. After saying Wat the nyesti. gation has been necessarily. .incoaplete op ac. mend that specia experts examine tEs subiec, } in detail and visit foreign ports whels thf fever prevails regularly. Two classes of bed
 ical officers ale sup pgested First Medical os z ficers of health to serve in foreign ports, iron which we receive importations of yellow fevo l and cholera. Second = Medical officers o ] health to have charge of quarantine station 3 and to supervise interstate travel and traffi [ from infected places in times of epidemic. I I is also suggested that general health laws b passed by Congress and rigidly enforced. Tn board say yellow fever is specific disease an, 7 is produced by the introduction in the human { organism of specific poison. The speci6 , poison of yellow fever has never been chemi 7 cally nor microscopically demonstrated, nor il ? any way made evident to the human senses The most perfect local sanitary conditions at D tainable should be established and uniforml
 maintained in our cities and towns and thei
 surroundings. It is recommended that tn !, bodies of persons who die of yellow fever b l promptly buried. When cholera is prevalen l persons should be instructed to apply flo a treatment upon the preliminary symptoms D The apartments of the sick should be freel :. ventilated. With the exception of pr. Loui A. Faligant, the board voted unanimously O. : the sbove propositions. That gentleman, whil c approving fully the necessity of a woll-regu l lated quarantine, holds the view that yelo A fever may Do developed by indigenous as we . as by imported poison. Last summer th whole number of yellow fever cases in tn South was 120 000 of which 10000 resulted i 7 death, while the pecuniary loss to the countr y was estimated at all the way from $l00, 000, ,0C o to S200, 100000.
 f. Chief Joseph's Neg Perces Indians arc willin n to cede their lands, amounting to about 4, 80 fquare miles, to the government for six towI
 ships in the Indian Territory and $250 900 i n money. The interior department agrees @ those terms and Congress is to be asked f s make the necessary appropriation. , The Senate committee on agriculture hear a Commissioner Le Duo in advocacy of legisl V tion which will enable the department of agr s1 culture to give moro attention to the subje n of cattle diseases and make scientific invest v gation, with view to devising measures fs
 their prevention or suppression.
 The Senate subcommittee of tho Teller Ii i. vestigating committee has returned to Wasl t. ington from itr visit to the South.
 e Tie public debt was decroased $2, ,75l, 980.l a- during January, and 89.8 .899 I'll 39 during Il '. past tix morshs. Cash in the treasury, $382 tt 450, 695 96. Debt less cath in the treasur h $2, 2,025. .896, ,13043.
 y Concerning the beautiful Arlington ests 1t on the Potomac, opposite Washington, di st patch from the national seapital says It sI "a pears to be the opinion of the legal profsssit v 6cra familiar wifi fba a1hiecf that fa Alvin,