The Newtown bee., 1879-04-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.

about four years old the sons ot George Mason and Bradford Perrin, were drowned in a mill trench.
 William Simpson, the most famous of New York pawnhrokeIs, is dead.
 John r. Phair formerly machinist at Rut- land, was executed at the Vermont State prison in Windsor, for the murder of Mrs. Ann Frieze, on the evening of June 9, 1874. The con- demned man maintained his innocence up to the last moment. Phair sad that he forgave the judges and all who were concerned in his death, but he believed that his innocence would yet be made clear to the world He maintained that on the day of the murder he was at Boston soliciting work. In his state ment affirming his innocence he said: "And to Almighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, who knoweth the secrets of all hearts, do l now most solemnly appeal in this the hour ot
 my extromity to hear me and bear witness to the truth that am innocent of the crime of which I stand convicted; and as I am inno- cent or guilty so may He deal with my soul in the day of judgment and eternity" Public opinion the subject of Phair's innocence or guilt was divided. Upon the trial two Boston pawnbrokers and several of their associates identified Phair as the man who had sold them the murdered woman's property, the clerk at the Adams House, in Boston, swore that a person who registered as C K. F. Smith, St. Albans, Vt," resembled Phair, and the sigma ture upon the hotel register and the pawn tickets were said to be almost a fac-simile ot that name and address written by Phair in iail at the request of the detectives. Phair was condemned to be hanged April 6, 1877; but the day of execution a Boston manufacturer named Downing happened to see a Boston paper which contained Phair's last statement. In this statement Phair gave an account of his whereabouts previous to and during the commission of the crime and detailed a conversation between himself and a gentleman on the cars while on his way to Boston. Downing remembered having had such a conversation on the cars on the date mentioned in Phair's statement and at once took steps to have tho execution post poned. Photographic messages reached the gcyernorjust in time, and the hanging was post poned to May 4th. The governor afterward reprieved Phair until the present month, and the Vermont Legislature passed a special law which allowed his case to come before the courts again. Phair's story was corroborated by Downing and by persons in Providence who testified that they him in that city on the day of the murder. But every effort to secure new trial failed, the judges holding that the new evidence was of no consequence when the circumstance @of the pawned effects was taken into consideration. He received last reprieve of q few days, but nothing could be done to save him. He walked up tke gall lows steps firmly and betrayed little agitation Two clergymen offered brief prayers, the cap was drawn over his face and he said, in n calm out distinct voice: ' Lord, remember me in the great day of judgment" The sheriff then touched the spring and Phair fell seven feet breaking his neck, and died without a struggle The body was taken down and placed in neat casket and conveyed on the midnight train to the home of Phair's mother in Vergennes.
 At Glastonbury, Conn, Miss Julia E. Smith, sole survivor of the Smith sisters, famous throughout the country for the repeated sales of their Alderney cows to meet taxes, which they refused to pay because they could not vote, was married to Amos G. Parker, of New Hampshire. He was widower, is a lawyer by profession and of the same age as the bride-eighty six years.
 In regard to the great worlds fair to take place in New York city, in 1883, the executive committee has already invited the governors and mayors throughout the country to send delegates or commissioners to great national convention to be held in the metropolis June Is next.
 The lower house of the Massachusetts Legis- lature has rejected the bill to secure women the right to vote municipal affairs in cities and towns. The bill giving women the right to vote for members of school committees came from the Senate for its third reading and was passed.
 A statement just issued by the New York Mercantile Agency of Dunn Barlow & Go. shows the number of failures in the United States during the first quarter of 1879 to have been 2524, with aggregate liabilities of S43, I12- 665. During the same time in 1878 the total failures were 3,355, with $S2, ,078, ,S26 of labil- ties.
 General Ieivl.--.a r.-ya~-, - -4 Taylor, and brother-in-law of Jefferson Davis, died of a cancer in the stomach while visiting some friends in New York. General Taylor was born near Louisville, Ky, in 1926, and graduated from Yale College. He became aide-de-camp to his father in the war with Mexi- CO., and was State Senator of Louisiana from 1856 to 1860. At the outbreak of the war he accepted the colonelcy of Louisiana regiment, and the close of the conflict saw him a heuten- ant-general in the Confederate service. He visited England in 1873, where he made quite a position for himself in society on account of his culture and brilliant conversational pow CTS. He came to New York just before his death to supervise the publication of a work ot personal "reminiscences of the war, entitled l" Destruction and Reconstruction" The tun- eral services took place at the " Little Church Around the Corner" the pall-bearers being William M. Evarts, Senator Bayard, Hamilton Fish, Charles OConor, August Belmont, D. D. Withers, William Constable, Mayor Cooper, Abram s. Hewitt, Charles L. Perkins, George Ticknor Curtis, William R. Travers, Dr. Fordyce Barker and Dr. Austin Flint, Jr. The body will be taken to New Orleans for final interment.
 The Providence Savings Bank and Trust Company, of Providence, Pa., has suspended, owing to inability to meet it's obligations. Its liabilities are 5000.
 Forty male contestants started on another six days walking match at Gilmore's Garden, New York.
 Fulton Market, one of the oldest and best known markets in New York city, has been partially destroyed by fire
 An official call, signed by the Governor oi Pennsylvania and other officials, has been issued, inviting proposals for a State loan oi $2, ,000, 900.
 The body of Benjamin Singerly, State Printer of Pennsylvania, who died in 1876, has petri. fled into a mass of yellow stone weighing 92i pounds.
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