The Newtown bee., 1879-01-14
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

The weather in New York city on the third of January was the coldest in ten years-the thermometer at 4. M. registering two degrees below zero. Throughout the State furious storm of snow and wind had ragged for thirty six hours, compelling the almost complete sus- pension of business in many places. Travel on the New York Central, the Erie and the Lake Shore railroads was at standstill, and the cold was intense in all parts of the Eastern and Middle States.
 Out of twelve children, Edward Williams, of Martinsburg, N. Y., lost seven through diphtheria-~ all dying within few days.
 Bennett, Phelps < O., bankers of Wilkes barre, Pa., have failed for $500 900, of which $376, GOO are due depositors
 Alonzo Garcelon, Democrat, and Joseph L. Smith, Greenbacker, were chosen by the Maine house, as candidates to be sent to the senate for governor. The senate selected MT. Gar celon-all the Republicans voting for him and committee was appointed to inform him of his election. The candidates of the united Democratic -Greenback caucus were elected to the other State offices.
 The Central Park lakes, in New York, are visited by immense throngs. to skate and to see the skaters. One hundred thousand per- Dons were on or about the ice during the third Sunday of the skating season.
 Three boys in New York have formed them- selves into 8 volunteer life saving corps, and patrol the East river front for the purpose of rescuing persons who may have fallen into the
 
 lives.
 During the recent heavy storm the steamer Vindicator, from Fall River, Mass., for Phila- delphia, stranded near Yaphank on the Long Island coast. She carried no passengers, and the crew were saved by employees of life saving station.
 Hon. Morton McMichael, senior publisher of the North Arnericda, ex-mayor of Philadelphia, and president of the park commission in that city, is dead at the age of sixty-two.
 Mayor Cooper's first message was read to the New York board of aldermen, in which body the Tammany members are now in the minority.
 A train composed of five engines and snow blow sent out from Buffalo, N. F., to clear the snow off the New York Central railroad, ran into snow drift near Batavia, and was wreck ed. The plow and four locomotives were thrown from the track, and several men were injured.
 A public meeting of sugar refiners and irn- porters was held in New York for the purpose of considering such a revision of the tariff as will provide for an honest collection Of the duties on sugar, and to protest against adul- teration in refined sugars and sirups. Peter Cooper, Cyrus ". Field, David A. Wells and others were present, and the meetings brought out an exciting discussion; but no definite ac- ton was taken
 One fireman was killed and eight others were injured-three severely-by the falling of 8 roof at 8 fire in vesey street, New York.
 1u6 N0W 1Ork l6RlSlRCuT6 m0G IOT the HTbt time in the new capitol at Albany. The senate began the regular business but the house did not organize until the following day, as num- Der of members were snow-bound and could not reach Albany in time. In the evening a reception in honor of the opening of the new lit up, Gilmores band from New York city furnished music for dancing, and the edifice was filled with people of distinction from all parts of the Empire State and other sections Of fba puY,fry "a of xait0ra n the magnificent statehouse during the day was esti- mated at ten thousand.
 The sale of pews at Plymouth church, Brook lyn, realized $40, ,721; an excess of $3, 721 over last years sales. Horace B. Clafiin paid $500 for first choice.
 train containing six hundred passengers was imprisoned in a snow bank, near Roches- ter, N. Y., and it took four days of strenuous effort to release the luckless travellers.
 The Pennsylvania legislature met at Harris burg and organized. Henry M. Lang was chosen speaker of the house.
 The Delaware legislature is in session.
 Western and Southern States.
 The extremely cold weather in the Eastern and Middle States extended to the Northwest the thermometer falling all the way from fifteen to thirty degrees below zero The Second Baptist church, of St. Louis, a new edifce and one of the finest in the city,
  The Chicago postofice has been destroyed l by fire for the third time in the last eight l years. The building burned was known as the Honore block, and contained the postoffice, | General Sheridan's army headquarters, Chicago 1 and Alton railroad offices, and number of the 1 largest law offices in the city. The edifce was six stories high, and was considered one of the handsomest blocks in the city. All the valuable | letter mails were saved, but portion of the newspaper mail was destroyed. The threat ened destruction of adjoining buildings was averted by breaking in the wall of the Honore | block with a cannon, to make way for the streams of water. Loss, over $500,000.
 The Louisiana legislature has convened. The Senate subcommittee to examine into l alleged unconstitutional election practices met l in New Orleans and began to examine wit nesses, of whom there were about 200 in the l city (mostly colored) summoned from all parts I of the State.
 | The legislatures of Ohio, Minnesota, Louisi- l ana. West Virginia and Nevada are in session | at their respective State capitals. From Washington. The acting secretary of the treasury has is- | sued the seventy-seventh call for the redemp- tion of 5-20 bonds of 1865, consols of 1867 ; 1 principal and interest to be paid after the fourth of April next.
 The United States supreme court has de- cided that Congress has right to legislate dS poiy ShAiy HI OtaA. The subcommittee investigating the yellow | fever in the South, has returned to Washing | ton.
 Foreign News. The steamer State of Louisiana. from Glas- l gov for New York, which went ashore in Lough Larne some weeks ago, has gone to pieces. l The failure of the Cornish bank, of Truro, | Cornwall, has caused great consternation in England, as the suspension will prove disas- I trous to the traders of West Cornwall and the Cornwall miners. The banks liabilities are l given at over $5, ,000,000.
 l Juan Moncasi, who fired upon the king of l Spain at Madrid, last October, was officially strangled by the garrote in the Spanish capital, 1 in presence of an immense number of specta- l tors. He was twenty-two years old, and leaves a wife and one child.
 l Dublin, he is reported as having made the l longest speech in bis life. l The elections for senators in France have resulted in great victory for the republicans All the retiring republican senators were re. elected, while the places of all but fourteen of 1 the retiring conservatives have also been filled l by republicans, giving that party majority of l ffty-six in the senate.
 Suleiman Pacha, leading Turkish general, has been degraded and exiled for life on account of his conduct during the war with Russia, and has appealed to the sultan for pardon. Havana is to have an agricultural bank l The plague has been raging with extfeme I virulence in southeastern Russia, causing many l deaths. The disease is said to have been in l troduced from Turkey by returning Cossacks The king of Hollands marriage to Princess Emma, of Waldeck-Pyrmont, took place at Arolson. William III. was a widower, and has two sons by his first wife, both much older than the Piincess Emma.
 Thomas D. Conyngham. who was 8 promi- nent usiness man of Wilkesbarre, Pa., in 1878, and at that time committed forgeries amounting to $20O, 900, after which he fled to Europe, has been captured in Rio Janeiro, BrazI.
 CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.