The Newtown bee., 1880-01-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.

Eastern and Middle States.
 Many prominent citizens from all parts of New York were present at Governor Cornelfs inauguration in the Capitol at Albany. Gov ernor Robinson made speech of welcome, to which Governor Cornell replied. The gov ernors then marched arm in arm to the Gov error's Room, where Mr. Cornell held reception.
 New York city government during 1850 is | BPS, ,142, ,99l ,98.
 Charles Stewart Parnell, the great Irish | apitator and leader ot the Home Rulers ill | the British parliament, arrived in New York | the other day in an ocean steamer. He was accompanied by John Dillon, another promi | nent agitator, ard the two were received with an address of welcome, read by representa-. | tive of their fellow countrymen in New York The visitors replied, and were then escorted l to their hotel by the committee. MT. Parnell | stated to a reporter that he came to America in an official capacity as president of the | Irish National Land League-best fitted tor the purpose ot assisting the destitute in | Ireland on account of it's thorough organiza- | tion-and that he should visit all the principal cities of the United States, for the purpose ot waking public opinion in this country, and creating moral force here, in behalf of his efforts to reform the system under which the Irish tensntry hold the1r land-a system to which, MT. Parnell claims, is due the wIetched condition of Ireland to-day.
 The Grocers' bank, of New York city, has suspended and & receiver been appointed. Forgeries to large amount in securities held by the bank have been discovered.
 About S,0U0 people were present aL tie nrst public meeting held in New York by Messrs Parnell and Dillon, the Irish agitators. MT. Parneu described the distress now prevalent in Ireland, declaring it to be the result in great part ot the evils of the land system and | fl,,N. .f s@l lowed by MT. Dillon, who referred to the time of trouble through which Ireland passed in 1847, and ariaigned the British govern ment for allowing such state of things as now exists to continue without endeavoring | to amelorate it.
 Bishop Gilbert Haven, of the Methodist Episcopal church, died in Madden, Mass, a l few days ago, aged fifty-nine yeals He had been for some years editor of Zion'S Herald, the leading Methodist organ ot New England, and was one of the best known members oi the church in the United States.
 At 8 little before six o'clock in the morning flames were discovered issuing from the Turn Halle, on East Fourth street, New York. | Sixteen persons--the lessee ot the building, | janitor, servants and others-werc asleep in | the upper story of the building, from which | there was no mode ot exit to the roof; and as | the flames swept up the one broad stairway | that led to the street the inmates were cut off from escape in every direction. Henry | Gehweier, Theresa Ehrhardt and servant | girl named Rosa jumped or tell to the ground | from the fourth story; the first two were instantly killed and the thii d died in the hos | pital. Willie Geib, aged ten, and Louis Schmi,t, aged thirty, were sufiocated and | several other men and women were injured more CT less severelI.
 By explosion in @ celluloid factory in l Newark, N. J., William Finders, Frederick Sites, Horace o. Pierce and Charles Yates were instantly killed; Spencer NJ. Atwood | died from the effects of injuries received in
 jumping through a window, and several | other wofkmen were badly hurt.
 l s. V. White, receiver ot the suspended Groccrs Bank of New York, has caused the urrest of J. Lloyd Haigh, wire manufac- turer and principal debtor to the institution, | for torZerics committed upon it to the prob- | able extent of Sl250G0.
 | The New York legislature organized by the | election oi General Sharpe, the Republican candidate, 10 the sneaker ship ot the house, and the reception of Governor Cornel s message. In the senate all the Republican caucus ncmi- nees for officers were elected.
 General Prado the deposed president O. ] Peru, arrived in New York few days ago He told reporter that he did not know oi the change of government in Peru until his arrival in New York.
 The annual sale of pews in Plymouth | church, Brooklyn, netted S4 ,289, the highest
 
 Seven persons in all have lost their lives by the Turn Halle fire in New York, and six by the celluloid explosion in Newark, N J. l Much confusion prevailed at the opening ot the Maine legislature, which was organized in both branches by the " Fusionisls," ex- Congressman Hale being the only Republican | who took part in the organizat ion oi tho | house. MT. Hale made the point several | times that there was no quorum, but each | time was overruled. Governor Garcelon qualified the members, alter which he an- nounced that seventy-six representatives, be- ing quorum, had taken the necessary oaths | and ioi med the regular and duly constituted house ot representatives. The governor then l said that he would lay before the house the l opinion Ot the supreme court and the petitions ot gentlemen from certain cities clalm1n nS | seats, and would ask that the documents be carefully considered 4 speaker, clerk and secretary were then elected, Mir. Hale raising tho point that quorum had not voted, after | which he presented the protest oi members who had not received certificates, and made a | speech in favor of seating them. The matter | was referred to the committee on elections 1 Mir. Dickey saying the supreme court had nothing to do with the action of the leglsla' | ture. In the senate the senators were called l to order by the secretary of the last senate and prayer were offered by the Rev. Samuel | Upjohn. A protest from the Republican 1 members against the proceedings was read by | Senator Locke, but the secretary refused tc l entertain the motion to put certain gentlemen 1 on the roll, and the senators then qualified bo fore the governor and elected John D. Lam son president, the Republicans refusing tc vote or to serve on committees.
 Western and Southern States. United States Senator George S. Houston of Alabama, died at his home in Athens, Ala. a few days ago. aged sixty eight years Sena
 tor Houston was a native of Tennessee. IT early life he removed to Alabama, from whict State he served as Congressman, with sin gle break, from 184l to 1861. He was governor
 of Alabama from 1874 to 1879. Last year ht was appointed United States Senator, tt serve until 1885
 At Massilon, Ohio, two boys ot seventeen have been sentenced to be hanged for mnr deIing n man last August.
 At New Haven, ky, Albert Lucas, wit three ladies, drove off the bridge across Brus creek. All the ladies were injured more o less, but Lucas young daughter broke he back, and died in few minutes. Anothe lady had her collar bone broken, and Luca
 was crushed by the wagon bed falling on him
 Wells, Fargo & Co.'S annual circular givin the product of the precious metals west of tn
 Missouri river, including British Columbis md the receipts in San Francisco by expres from the west coast of Mexico, during 1878 places the aggregate products at: Gold, $3G
 539 92O; silver, S38 623, SIP; lead, $4, 185, ,76!
 It has been discovered that about forty bodie hichihonu' va., durIng ohsraad- cemetery, l ana It IS supposed the corpses have bee
 shlpped to medical institutions in various part of the country.
 The Capital Savings bank at Sacramento
 Cal, has closed it's doors. It is said that tn
 suspension will involve a loss of over SI,
 000, 900.
 While the sheriff of Amherst county, Va.
 was conveying Columbus Miles, a colore
 man, to jail on the charge of having outraee,
 white woman, his prisoner was taken iron
 him hv an armed forc1 ,f ol,n,,4 4er.4 .. =. -