The Newtown bee., 1879-06-03
NE WS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.

There are now 2l2 fire insurance rotnpantss doing business in Massachusetts, nine having been Bdniftted during the past year. One thousand seven hundred and twenty eight fires caused a loss of $s3,683, ,265, of which $2, ,525,- lS2 were paid. Three hundred and ninety-seven of the fires were incendiary.
 At Niagara Falls, N., l., II. F. Peefs, q Canadian, iu1nped from the center of the Sus- pension bridge into Niagara river, distance ot I92 feet The descent was made in four seconds, and Peers was picked up by boat, unhurt. A large crowd witnessed the daring feat.
 Some weeks ago Henry Riddle, who had been for many yetsis superintendent ot public schools in New York city, published a work on Spiftualism, which caused great comment and resolution was introduced at the next meeting ot the l}o,rd of Education, requesting him tc resien, but it failed to obtain majority of votes. Mr. Riddle, however, has seen it to resign of his own accord, and the Board of Education has accepted his resignation, pass ing resolutions complimentary to his efficiency while in office.
 Mrs. Mary Billett and her small child were run over and killed by freight train near Harrisburg, Pa.
 Shrinkage in securities and assets together with inability to collect interest on loans, has embarrassed the Five Cent Savings Bank, of Lowell, Mass, and it has been enjoined from Going business. There are 10000 depositors with Sl ,500,0 ,000 to thelr credit
 The will of Judge Packer was read at Allen- town, Pa. It bequeatbs for the permanent endowment of Lehigh University, of Bethle- hem, Pa, $l 500, 900; for q library for the university, $S5O000 to St. Lukes Hospital, Bethlehem, $500, 900; St. Marks Episcopal Church, NIauch Chunk, Pa, S30,000
 At the tenth annual commencement of the Womcns Medical College of the New York Infrmary ten young women, all of New York city, received diplomas to practice medicine.
 The two New York elevated railroad uom- panes hRve joined forces, and will be operated under ono management hereafter.
 The New York Legislature has adjourned. The most important financial bill passed dur ing the session was the one reducing the legal rate of interest in the State rom seven to six per cent.
 The fitteth anniversary of the Brooklyn Sunday-School Union was celebrated by pa- rude ot the teachers and scholars of one hum dred and forty Sabbath schools, comprising about j0,000 individuals. The day was gen elally observed as a holiday throughout the city.
 The trial of Edward Reinhardt on Staten Island, N. r., for the murder of his wife re- suited i'll verdict of guilty by the jury, and the prisoner was condemned to be hanged on July II. Reinhardt murdered his wife, Mary Ann Reinhardt Once Degnan), and buried the remains in barrel at Silver Lake, Staten | Island He was seen conveying the barrel, ill which were the remains of his wife, on wheelbarrow on July 19, 1878, and he told the persons who saw him that he was changing his place of residence and had crockery in the barrel. Others he told that he was about bury ing dog Relnhnrdt, at the time of the dis appearance of his wife, was marriedsto Paulina Dittmar, of Newark, N. J., who was present during the trial
 A fire in Brooklyn destroyed the large lin- seed oil works of Fowler, Compton X Co.,, en- tailing loss of nearly $500, ,000.
 A New ! ork paper publishes letters and dis patches from about 100 places, covering more than GOO points and representing every State in the Union except the Pacific States, in re- gard to the crop prospects. According to these reports, while there is no such universal prom ise of overfiowing harvests as were reported q year ago. yet there are satisfactory indications of an average product in most sections and of most crops, and in the case of most staples an increase is expected The wheat and corn crop | ofthe Western and most of the Southern States will surpasS that of last year, should the later season prove favorable The condition of the fruit crop in New England and the Middle States IS one of unusual promise, but in many sections of the South and West the trees have been in iured hv the cold winter late frosts. The crop of oats, rye and barley will not be above the average. 1he hay crop will be large, eX- cept in some limited areas. The cotton crop will be larger than usual, not withstandng the untitv orable weather, owing to the effect of the recent increase in prices in extending the acre age in most of the Southern States. Farmers everywhere have planted more potatoes than usual, and vigorous measures will be taken to protect them from the r;lvages of the Colorado beetle, which has already appeared in threaten ing numbers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Kentucky, Ohio and some other States. In tobacco there is a preceptible, but not large in 1 crease in the South ,and 1t is being more largely cultivated by the farmers of Massachusetts and Connecticut In Massachusetts and New Hamp- shire the sugar-beet industry is receiving con- siderable attention, and sorghum has come into favor in many sections of the South and West.
 William Lloyd Garrison, the anti-slavo " agitator, is dead. His last moments were spent Ill New York city, to which place he had gone from Massachusetts, hoping to obtain some relief from his sickness. Born at New buryport, Mass, in l804, Mir. Garrison learned the printers trade, and at sixteen began to write for the papers. He edited and published a number of anti-slavery papers, was imprs- oned and fined in Baltimore for denouncine the act of q Newburyport captain, who took a cargo of slaves from Baltimore to Louisiana and was mobbed and narrowly escaped being killed at Boston in 1885. He began the publi- cation of the Boston LibeTdtor in 1881 and dis solved it in 1865, in which year he visited South Carolina and spoke at Charleston.
 The jury in the case of Mrs. Smith and Covert D. Bennett, on trial at Jersey City. N. J., for the murder of the formers husband Policeman Smith, found the two guilty of mur. der ill the first degree.
 Six archbishops and thirty-seven bishops as. sisted Cardinal N1cCloskey in dedicating the new Catholic Cathedral on Filth avenue New York. An immense throng was present. and nearly every large city in the United States was represented in the gathering of Catholic ioln tod the morning until three in the afternoon. Car. dinal McCloskey himself was the chief cele brant, and sang the mass The dedicatory sermon was preached by Bishop Ryan, of St Louis, and in the evening Bishop Keane, O Richmond, preached. The Cathedral is O marble, and when completed will have cost about $2, 400, GOO.
 The Scituate (AIass. Savings Bank has been enjoined by the Supreme Court from doing further business, because it holds a large amount of real estate by foreclosure and is em. barrassed.
 A fire in State street, New York, destroyed 4,500 bales of cotton, 3e0 bales of cork anG 200 bales of hops, causing total loss O $l50,o00.
 At the fifth days session of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, held in the for mer city. a report was adopted advising grea delberation and caution by colored people ii leaving that section of country where thei habits had been formed
 While John King, aged thirty-six years, an Walter Swan, aged twenty years, were cross ing Niagara river from Lewiston in q smal boat, they were drawn into an eddy, the boa upset and both drowned.
 Western and Southern States.
 At the Iowa Democratic State Convention held in Council Bluffs, ticket headed by H 7 II. Trimbie, for Governor, was nominated
 Resolutions were adopted calling upon Con gress to stand firm fer the freedom of the bal lot; declaring tbat both the government an the States should be sternly restricted 10 thei respective spheres in the exercise of power