The Newtown bee., 1880-12-08
NEWS OF THE WORLD,
Eastern and Middle States.

Francis Murphy, the well-known temper scene ot his early labors in the temperance cause and was received with great enthusiasm.
 A New York the eatrical manager having an- nounced that he would produce the 't Passion Play" or story of Christ's crucifxion, the press and pulpit raised storm of indignation against what was pretty generally termed . sacrilege; and the manager has been compelled by the force of public opinion to announce that he would not produce the play.
 Lucius Hotchkiss, a retired banker of New Haven, Conn. died suddenly the other morn ing. A few minutes before his death his wife, who had gone in to see him, on being informed that he was dying, fell dead on the bed on which he was lying He was seventy-eight years of age, and his wife was seventy two.
 The ice-bound boats in the New York canals have been released to 8 great extent by the recent thawing weather.
 The New York police have begun crusade against the many gambling houses which four ish in the metropolis.
 A party of thirty-one socialists, consisting of laborers, printer and newspaper men, have arrived in New York from Hamburg, whence they had been banished by the German gov ernment. Their baggage was conveyed through the streets in wagon with a red nag
 flying over it.
 The following were the earnings of the New York canals for the last five years: In 1878, Sl, $40 O04; 1877, S8S0, ,896; 1878, $993, ,348 1879, $941. 57397; 1880, Sl, ,155, ,0Ol.68. Four more bodies---the last of the twenty victims of the disaster at the Jersey City end of the Hudson river tunnel-have been recov- cred.
 Congressman Evarts w. Farr, member oi the present and the next House of Represents tives, died at his home in Littleton, N. H., g few days since, aged forty years. The coinage executed at the mint in Philadelphia during November amounted to 1850, $40 pieces. Of these, 158 AGO pieces were eagles l87 ,280 half eagles, 1860 quarter eagles, l60O gold dollars, 1000, 900 silver dollars, 200 each ol five and three-cent pieces, and 6,200, > 200 cents.
 The biggest man in the world arrived in New York a few days ago on an ocean steamer. His name is Chang, he is Chinaman, and his height is nine feet.
 Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Boston, from the I estate lett by her husband has distributed more than $l ,000, 900 among various religious societies and colleges. Mrs. Stone has also given $500 GOO to relatives and friends, and $l00,000 to churches and needy students and for the redemption of morteaged homes. The first translation of the Bible into the English language was commemorated few evenings ago at the New York Academy ol
 Music by a Wycliffe semi-millennial celebra
 tion under the auspices of the American Bible society. The principal feature of the celebra tion was an oration on ''John Wychfe anG the first English Bible " by the Rev. Dr. Rich
 ard s. Storrs. Short addresses were made by ex-Governor Joshua l.. Chamberlain, O Maine, president ot the American Bible SO ciety, Cortlandt Parker and Enoch l.. Fancher
 Many prominent clergymen and distinguished
 laymen were present, and the audienc, crowded the academy.
 The New York surrogate has decided ths contest over Frank Leslie's will by sustaining the will and ordering that 1t be admitted tt probate.