The Newtown bee., 1879-02-18
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastsrn and RaIddIe states.

Ous d.. arrears of income tax, was on the calendar of the United States district court, in New York the other day, but was put of for the term at the request of the government counsel, who was not ready to proceed with the suit.
 Thomas Lord, the aged New York million aire, is dead, in his eighty-ff year. He was best known to the public by the excitement created and interest aroused last year when he married the dashing Mrs. Hicks, despite the wishes of his sons, who instituted unsuccess- ful legal proceedings to have the marriage an nulled on the ground of their fathers alleged unsound mental condition. The sons charged that their father had been kidnapped by Mrs. Hicks and had never dreamed of marrying her until five minutes before the ceremony took place. The matter was finally compro- missed, Mir. Lord signing an agreement giving to each of his children yearly allowance dur ing his lifetime, and at his death all were to share alike in the proceeds of the estate. He leaves several million dollars.
 Recently glass ball match was shot by Captain Bogardus in Gilmore's Garden, New York, and at the time it was claimed the marksman had hit 5 680 consecutive balls with out & miss. The feat was hailed as an un- paralieled one but Wilkes Spirit of the Times comes out in an article giving strong proof to show that the glass balls had nearly all been broken before they were shot at, and that the "match !" was & fraud.
 The American print works, of Fall River, Mass, one of the largest concerns of it's class III tue country, IS Ill unancldl QIfnCult1oB and has been compelled to ask for an extension on its notes. It's outstanding liabilities amount to $1 300, ,000 and it's assets, st the last return made, were placed at S2, 100000.
 Jacob Schaefer takes the first prize in the three weeks billiard tournament in New York, winning every game. The second. third and fourth prizes were won by Slossen, Sexton and Daly, respectively.
 The congressional committee examining the charges made against United States Supervisor Davenport, of interference in the last election in New York city, has concluded it's labors and returned to Washington. large number of men who had been arrested for voting or try ing to vote upon naturalization papers which, it was charged, were illegal, as well as many deputy marshals, testified.
 Western and southern States.
 A fire in the business center of St. Paul, Minn., destroyed property valued at over $60,000.
 Grief caused young farmer named Passet living near Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to shoot himself through the heart on the day following the death of a recently married wife.
 Hon. J. P. Christiancy, recently nominated as United States minister to Peru, sent in his resignation as United States Senator from Mich igan to the governor of that State.
 Advices from Belleville, H.. say that George w. Sieber, treasurer of St. Clair county, is & defaulter to the extent of about $30,000.
 Members of two families at Queensyille, Ind. were made dangerously i'll by eating buckwheat cakes iu which arsenic had been unintention- ally placed.
 From Washington
 The President has nominated ex- Governor John F. Hartranft to be postmaster at Phila- delphia James Pollock to be naval officer at Philadelphia A. Louden Snowden to be super intendent of the Philadelphia mint; Martin Parry Kernard to be assistant treasurer of the United States at Boston, Mass. Thomas Stew enson to be collector of internal revenue for the fifteenth district of New York.
 The commissioner of pensions in report presented to Congress, says that $34, 100000 will be required to pay claims arising under the arrears of pensions bill, recently passed by Congress.
 The Senate has passed the following bills The Indian appropriation bill the bill abolish ing the volunteer navy, and the bill giving three months extra pay to the army and navy serving during the Mexican war, originally voted in 1S48. The House has passed the army appropriation bill; the amendment transferring the Indian bureau to the war department be- ing rejected, and the reorganization amend ment making large reductions in the force be- ing adopted.
 Foreign News.
 M. Grevy, the new president of the French republic has sent in his first message to the French assembly. He says he will never enter into conflict with the national will, conveyed through its constitutional organs, but will be guided by the wants and wishes of France. M. ,tta also delivered his inaugural ad- dress as president of the chamber of deputies.
 The St. Petersburg press bitterly denounce the precautions taken by Germany and Austria to prevent the pleague from reaching their territory as attempts to ruin Russian trade
 Frederick Lewis Malgarini, of London, has failed for $935, 900.
 A Singapore dispatch says the Chinese crew ll-- -f-T Kong, bound to Foochow, mutinied and mur- dered their officers and scuttled the vessel.
 Strikes in England are frequent of late. Over 30, 900 laborers are idle in Liverpool, and dispatch from London says 800 engineers had struck, and 1,200 more would follow their ex- ample the following day.
 Dispatches from Russia state that all the at- tempts made to arrest the ravages of the plague have thus far proved intellectual. The sanitary cordon which has been drawn around the infected districts has been broken at sev- eral points, and among the results is the ap- pearance of the plague at Wyssakoye, a town near Moscow. The accounts from the infected districts are very distressing. The people are dying like rotten sheep business is at 8 per- feet standstill the means for medical and sanitary relief are extremely limited and i'm perfect, and the suffering is heartrending. frightful sickness las broken ont among the Russian troops at Adrianople and there are reports that this, also, is the plague. The &C., counts are conflicting, but some of the de- fcriptions of the nature and course of the dis ease are said to bear out the belief that the disease is the black plague. In the villages near Astrakhan the populace have massacred tue doctors believing that they poisoned their patients who have died of the plague.
 The definitive treaty of peace between Russia and Turkey has been signed. Russia agrees to complete the evacuation of Turkish territory in thirty-fve days, and receives war indemnity of S225, 900, 900 from the Ottoman empire.
 While the British troops so far have been uniformly successful in their campaign in Afghanistan they have not been 50 fortunate in South Africa, where the Zulus-a powerful Caffre tribe, under King Cetywaya-bave de- fed Eugiand's authority and are in open revolt A British invading column consisting of & portion of the Twenty-iourth regiment, a bat tery of artillery and six hundred native aux diaries, was utterly annihiiated near the Tugela river, the dividing line between Natal and Kafrland, by 10000 Zulus, who captured a valuable convoy of 102 wagons, 1,000 oxen, two cannon, 400 shot and shell, 000 rifles, 250, 900 rounds of ammunition, 60,000 pounds weight of provisions and the colors of the Twgnty- fourth regiment. The British lost forty eight officers and five hundred privates, while the loss of the Zulus is estimated to have reached 5000 in killed and wounded. Lord Chelmsford, the commander of the expedition, was forced to fall back, and the utmost con- sternation prevailed for time in Cape Colony j; but seven attacks subsequently, made by the Zulus were repulsed, and sthe colonists re- covered somewhat from their consternation.
 A London dispatch says the report printed in New York papers that " the British govern ment have issued an order forbidding live cattle from the United States to land at British ports" is incorrect, no such order having been issued.