The Newtown bee., 1880-12-29
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Eastern and Middle States.

on the Hudson north of Catskill.
 THE l64 savings banks in Massachusetts earned last year nearly $12,000,000.
 ABOUT eighty feet of the large iron pier at Long Branch has been demolished by storm.
 AT the first annual dinner of the New Eng land Society, of Brooklyn, held in the Academy of Music, many noted persons were present and speeches were made by Presi- dent Hayes, General Grant, General Sherman. Secretary Evarts, Henry Ward Beecher and others.
 RAILROAD trave. in portions of New Jersey and Long Island has been much impeded by heavy snow-drifts.
 THE president, treasurer and secretary of the s'Mutual Stock Operating Company" of New York city, have been arrested, charged with obtaining money on false pretenses. It is charged that during the past year moro than 2o0 persons in all parts of the country have been swindled by the concern out of sums varying from S5 to Sl,0oo. The parties have been arrested mainly through the efforts of the New York Stock Exchange.
 Western and Southern States.
 A CHICAGO dispatch says that for the past u wheat and other cereals, as we'll as in lard and pork. Tho heavy and determined break in prices caused considerable nervousness in business circles, and several firms were forced to suspend.
 z FOURTEEN Chinese lepers have hsen shipped back to China from San Francisco.
 HORRIBLE tale of murder and swift re- tribution comes from Mississippi At Tupelo MT. Brown Riding, whose family consisted of his wife and daughter two years old, permitted two men giving the nams oi Miller to stay all night at his house. They occupied a bed in the same room with the family, it being the only one in which there was & fireplace. About eleven o'clock flames from the little cottage attracted the neighbors, who found inc house so far consumed that nothing could be done to save it. It was thought the family had absented them selves for the night, but the charred re- mains of the trio were found in the debris An investigation developed the above facts, One of them was caught and confessed that he and his companion had chloroiormed the Riding family during the night, rifed the house of Valuables, scattered cotton saturated witb coal oil over the floor and on the bed, applied a match and then left. After his confession the man was pinioned, surrounded with pine splinters and burned to death.
 AN entire passenger tram went through 6 trestIe fifty feet high near Lincolnton, N. C., piliDg the cars upon ono another in a con- fused and shattered heap. The mail agent, loo, a,,I pa1 son, were injured, and were subsequently, burned up in the flames which broke ont among the wrecked and splintered cars. Two colored crakemen were also killed, and several passengers were injured more or less severely.
 HE heavy fall in wheat has caused several failures in St. Louis.
 DAVID J. CARTER, an old and reputable citizen, and Bud Harrington, also highly re- spectacle citizen, both farmers in good circum- stances-the former about ftty-flve years of age. the latter about thirty y-fve had a law suit. which was heard at EGzabethtown, Ky. After the hearing they quarreled and Harring- ton drew pistol and shot Carter, tue ball entering his mouth and coming out at the back Of his neck. Young Carter, son of the wounded mln, ran home and returned in a few minutes with double barreled shotgun, both barrels ot which he discharged into the body ot Harrington, apparently killing him instantly. He fell seemingly lfeless and lay perfectly still where he had fallen, but old man Carter seized smiths sledge lying near, and walking up to the remains deliberately crushed the head of his victim and then fell over him in dying condition.
 AMOS TAPPAN AKERMAN, attorney-general during the greater part of General Grants first term in the presidency, died at his resi- dence at Gainesville, Ga., a few evenings ago, aged ffty-seven years.
 From Washington.
 THE following nominations have been con- firmed by the Senate: Eugene Schuyler, ol New York, to be consul-general at Bucharest; William Lawrence, of Ohio to be first comp troller of the treasury; Asa o. Aldis, of Yer mont, commissioner for the settlement oi French and American claims.
 TIE secretary of the treasury has re- ceived from an unknown person., in an en- velope postmarked New York, the sum of $ll0. The mon y has been deposited in the treasury account of conscience.
 SECRETARY SHERMAN has directed Treasurer Gilnlan to pay the interest on the public debt duo January l. The interest on all outstand- ing six per cents of 1881 and on the four per cents is payable January 1, and aggregates Si4, 900 GOO.
 THE Senate las confirmed the nomination of Judge William B. Woods to be an associate justice of the United States supreme court.
 Foreign News.
 TIE consul-gencral of the United States at Shanghai announces the determination of the Chinese government 10 establish telegraph line 20 miles long.
 THE British general postoffice has issued a notice saying that it is prepared to estab- fish in any town telephonic intercommunica. tion, at the same time holding itself ready to make arrangements for the establishment or continuance of systems of intercommunica- ton introduced by existing private companies.
 IN railroad collision near Leeds, Esg- land, one person was killed and fifty were in- jured
 EIGHT of the crew of the British bark Nile, Captain Dixon, from Quebec for Cardiff, which capsized at sea, were drowned, includ- ing the master aud the second mate. Two of the men died after they were rescued.
 HE Marquis of Lansdowne, one of the heaviest Irish land owners has abandoned his intention of spending the winter in Ire- land in consequence of the condition of the country.
 Ar meeting of Orangemen in CoIeraine county Londonderry, Ireland, resolutions were passed denouncing the land league agitation and the inaction of the government relative to affairs in Ireland.
 A TENANT farmer named Mullen while re