The Newtown bee., 1880-02-18
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.


 At an inquest held in Philadelphia on the body of Henrietta Brest, blind girl nine years old, it was shown that the helpless child had been shametully neglected and ill-treated by her mother. When the girls body was dis covered it had been partially eaten by rats and covered with vermin. The coroner said it was the worst case of depravity he had ever encountered. The jury found that the girls death was due to the mothers intemperance and neglect, and she was committed to jail
 The body of Miss Dolly Hartman, beauti- tul school girl who died at the age of eighteen at her home in Allegheny City, Pa., was burned in the Le Moyne furnace at Washing ton, Pa. At death she expressed preference for cremation. This was the fifth cremation at the Washington furnace and the second of a woman.
 Adolph E. Borie, General Grants first sec retary of the navy, died in Philadelphia the other day. aged seventy -one years. Mr. Borie had been prominent merchant of Philadelphia. He was with General Grant on his recent tour abroad
 Governor Davis, of Maine, in his message refers to the late difficulties and recommends an inv vestigation of the whole subject of count ing the election returns.
 Later reports show that during the rece,t heavy storm at least eight vessels were wrecked and ten lives lost on the New Jersey coast.
 The publication in the New York city papers
 
 committee tor the enforcement of law of the Society tor the Prevention of Crime, was col lecting what he termed "black list" made up of the names of persons ot wealth and as- sumed respect ibility whom his detectives found trequenting gambling houses and other places of ill-repnte, has caused great deal of indignation and much ill-feeling against the society. The secretary ot the society pub- fishes a card asserting that the society does not authorize any espionage or the making ot any lists except of names of witnesses for the prosecutions which 1t has undertaken.
 Senate subcommittee, consisting of Sen ators Wallace, Garland, Mcdonald, Hoar and B air, has held two days session in New York city, examining witnesses in regard to alleged illegal arrests made by United States Supervisor Davenport and his marshals on election day in 1878.
 Mrs. Sarah Dillin5 ham, thirty three years old, wife of a farmer living near Londonderry, IN. H., was outrageously assaulted and then shot and proDably fatally wounded by her nephew Frank Dillingham;, twenty years old. Alter committing Ii G crlme Dillingham; made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide and then surrendered himself His aunt was found unconscious with rope around her neck and a bullet hole in her head
 Two white and three colored prisoners were publicly whipped few days ago at Newcastle, Del.
 A two horse sleigh in which Howard Hackett and James Feeney were carry ing 100 pounds ot nitro-glycerine over turned near Bradford Pa., and the compound exploded tearing hole in the frozen roadbed twenty feet long and fifteen feet wide. Feeney jumped from the sleigh it was going over and was found under the debris severely in- jured. Hackett was thrown fifty feet by the explosion and instantly killed. Two houses and a barn in the vicinity were wrecked by the concussion, of the buildings being literally shaken to pieces.
 The Chatham mills, extensive three story brick building in Philadelphia, was de. stroyed by fire few days since, involving loss of about $l75,000.
 The city hall at Albany, N. Y., has been de- stroyed by fire. During the conhagration six tiremen were inj jured more or less severely by the falling of the dome. The loss is estimated at $l00, 900. Both houses of the legislature adopted q resolution directing the trustees of the old capitol to provide accommodations in that building for the holding of courts whose rooms in the city hall were destroyed.
 Western and Southern States.
 The officers ot the Kansas freedmans relief association have been directed by the direct- ors of the association to devise some method of diverting the constantly increasing emigra- ton of colored people to other States than Kansas.
 negro cabin on the plantation of Captain William Stack, thirteen miles north of Co., lumbia, s. G., burned the other night.
 
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 At Baltimore Count Eue enc Mitkiewicz was indicted by the grand jury for obtaining $l6000 worth of coal under false pretenses and was lodged in jail,
 The county court house at Dallas, Texas, has been destroyed by fire. The building cost SlO0,0O0 and the loss is about halt that amount.
 Ten Chinamen were burned dwss6 ta dfiStn fiSohse a at fire which deatr"p"a H NI--o'o ' CIV San Francisco 1,,.,,. , Ii,
 io 'ie esI, Iour desperadoes, attacked and killed Joseph Carson, the city marshal of Los Vegas, New Mexico, because be had made himself obnoxious to them by seeking to recover buggy which they had stolen During the fight which followed Carson's death Randall was killed and bis three con- panions were arrested. A few days afterward all three were taken from jail by crowd and lynched.
 Three burglars entered the bank at Knox vile, Ill. seized and bound President Runkle, who sleeps in the building, and alter gagging and beating him and burning his feet in shocking manner to compel him to reveal the combination of the safe lock, they left with S3, 200 which had not bee' locked up. There was time lock on the safe and MT. Runkle was unable to give the combination.
 The supreme court of Georgia has refused to grant new trial to Cox, who was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of Colonel Aston. The case will be carried to the supreme court of the United States.
 The Iowa house of representatives, by vote ot 57 to 3l, has adopted resolution for submitting constitutional amendment to the people making women eligible to the legisa- tnre.
 The annual carnival season or feast of Mard GIas was observed this year at New Orleans Mobile and Galveston by processions of mas queraders in tanciiul costumes and tableaux nj otI E,r.1n ,~r tl were filled with people and in the evening were brilliantly illuminated.
 The Lehman cotton factory near Prattville, Ala, burned down few days ago, causing loss ot $l00,00 and throwing I50 hands out ot employment.
 The California State Normal school has been destroyed by fire and loss incurred of more than $S250,00J.
 From Washington.
 A report made or the information of Con- gress by Secretary of War Ramsey shows that the organized strength of the militia force of the different States consists of l45 general of- fcers, 605 regimental, field and staff officers, and Q, l9S company officers, making a total of 8,o69 commissioned officers. Of non-commis- stoned officers, musicians and privates there are l17,037. The unorganized force or men available for military duty in the United States is put down at 6,516,758.
 The Senate has rejected the Presidents nomination of the late Senator Morton's son to be collector of internal revenue in San Francisco, the vote standing 42 to 10.
 The Senate committee on education and labor has agreed to recommend for passage the bill introduced by Senator Burnside pro- viding that the net proceeds of sales of pntIic lands and the net receipts of the patent office shall hereafter be devoted to the establish ment of an educational fund, to be appor- toned annually among the States and Terri tories and the District ot Columbia General Sherman on the 9th authorized the publication of the following: esMy private shows that some persons actu- ally believe tLat General H. V. Boynton, cor 1 ot the Cincinnati Gaactte has be- | gun some sort of proceedings against me toi | slander in civil or military court. So tar as i l know up to the present instant of time he | AIa.a., H.. nl AL | .. |