The Newtown bee., 1879-05-06
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.


 At meeting of colored people of New York, ill aid of Southern colored emigrants, letters were read from Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison, and addresses were made by Thurlow Weed the Rev. H. H. Garnet and others.
 Alfred Deffarge, a French druggist, com mitted suicide in New York by taking poison, and also poisoned his two children, one of whom died. Letters left by the selt-murderer accused his wife of inidelity.
 At Whitehall, N. Y, Charles Sweet, deaf mute, met his wife, from whom he had sepa- rated, in 8 house of ill-repute, shot her through the head three times, fatally wounding her, and then placed the pistol to his temple and fired, instantly killing himself.
 Messrs John Jay, Edwards Pierrepont, Thurlow Weed, Edward Cooper, John J. Cisco, Abiel A. Low, General Cullum, E. D. Morgan, Cyrus W. Field, Charles OConor. Judge Daily and Dr. Rufus Gilbert were the pall-bearers at General Dix's funeral in Trinity Church, New York. In compliance with written request eft by General Dix, the services were of the simplest character although notable gather ing present, including committees from the State Legislature, Samuel J. Tilden, Ham, ilton Fish and others. The services were con- ducted by Bishop Potter.
 A dispatch from Middletswn, Del, concern ing the peach crop, says: " Each day adds to the assurance that there will be the largest crop of fruit ever grown on the peninsula; IF, ,000, 900 baskets will not more than cover the present estimate"
 By the destruction by fire of the buildings on the premises of Alexander King, at Pitts burgh, Pa., ten valuable horses and six COWS were burned to death, among the former being the well-knewn trotters Nettie Ellis, Nettie and Lady Alice. Loss estimated at SS75, 900, and no insurance.
 jury at Lebanon, Pa, has found Charles H. vNl, Wise, Josiah Hummel and Israel Brandt, who were indicted for the drowning of Joseph Ra- Der, in Indiantown Gap Pa., last December, guilty of murder in the first degree. The ob- ject of the crime to obtain heavy insur- ance on the life of the victim, who was old and poor.
 Burglars entered the Laconia National bank, of Laconia, N. H., blew open the vault and carried away about $6, GOO in cash and $Sl20, 900 in unnegohable notes.
 Ex-Judge George G. Barnard, who was inn peached and removed from the Supreme Court bench of New ork city, in 1872, on account of several decisions rendered in the Erie railroad suits, is dead in his forty-ninth year.
 Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer, known 'f the boy with the white eye," made an successful attempt to escape from the State prison at Concord, Mass, by saving through iron bars.
 
 new ten-dOllar funding certificates were sold by the New York postoffice in few hours the other day.
 A large amount of damage to timber has been done by extensive forest fires in Northern Pennsylvania.
 Nearly the entire business part of Gorham N. H., has been destroyed by fire. Twenty buildings were burned, thirty families rendered homeless and seventeen business firms turned out of doors Loss estimated at ss50000.
 By the report of the New Hampshire Bank Commissioners it appears that there are sixty six savings institutions in the State, with S7,387 depositors, a decrease during the past year of 4,294. The total amount of deposits is $26, ,2S2, 136.09-a falling of in a year of $2, ,507, ,4l2.9l.
 Seven miners were entombed in a coal mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa, by the sudden fall of several acres of roofing. A party of miners at once went to work to cut their way through the huge masses of fallen coal to the impris- Oned men, whose fate matter of painful anxiety. After working day and night for five days the seven men were reached and all found alive. They had subsisted the meat ot a mule, and were very little the worse for their long confinement. In order to reach them q passage way of twelve hundred feet through rock, slate and coal had to be driven. The coal company presented each of the rescued miners with one hundred dollars.
 The house ot John L. keagh, near Pittston, Pa, was destroyed by fire and two chldren-a aged eleven and daughter ot thirteen were burned to death. In his efforts to save the children Mir. keagh had his hand and face terribly burned. The youngest child, aged i've, was burned so badly that his recovery was considered doubtful
 A new telegraph company has been ineorpo- rated in New York; under the name of the Union Telegraph Company, with Il capital of ten million dollars. The three corporators named are Jay Gould, who subscribes for one half of the stock, and David H. Bates, of New York; and Charles A. Tinker of Baltimore. The new company expects to have its wires running to Chicago within three months.