The Newtown bee., 1880-02-04
NEWS NOTES.
Eastern and Middle States.


 By collision between two heavy freight trains on the Philadelphia and Erie railroad, near Cameron. Pa-, Engineer Dean, Of the train ,oing west, and the fireman and brake man ou the train going east were killed, whlie three other train hands were fatally injured. Two locomotives and twenty cars were to- tally wrecked
 Alter the body of the colored man Searles, hanged at Oswego, N. r., was cut down 1t was sold by his father to two doctors for Sl5. Taking it home they severed the head ttom the trunk removed the brain, found that 1t weighed iorty-siN ounces, aud then placed 1t in d glass far, which was aiterward hcrneti- cRlly scaled. This done they filled the town with bills announcing they would lecture that night oL the uaiure and construction of mur- derers' brains in general and Searles' brain in particular. They further proposed to carry the hea less corpse through the country and deliver anatomical lectures in connection with it.
 While m engine carrying a number of work men was going down Eirhth avenue on the Elevated railroad in New York, it was thrown from the track and fell to the ground Seven men were injured two or three fatally.
 On the 24'h inc Fusionist wing of the Maine legislature ordered a number ot ques ions to be submitted to the supreme court. The Republicans having Tlac, Q body of milltia win a Gatling gun in the State-house, the Fusionist governor, Smith. issued proclama- ton denouncing this action and denying that his followers contemplated rt sort to force. A heavy tail in prices for grain caused great excitement in the New York Produce Exchange, and temporarily crippled one broker. All grades of wheat fell three to live cents buShpl in one day, and during the week prices fell from seven to nine cents.
 The walking mauld has caused the death at Ncwburg, N. r., of two young men who over-eNertcd themselves in their ehorss to make big scorea and were taken down with consumption.
 A loss of Sl0O, 900 was incurred by the de- struction by fro of stephen F. Whitman < Sons large confectionery establishment in Philadelphia.
 The Rev. II. II. Hayden, whose long trial at New Haven for the murder oi Mary stan nnrd resulted in disagreement of the jury, has been released from jail on bond oi S5,- O00 On account of the disagreement ol the jlry Mr. Hayden say he will not go back to the ministry, although the wardens ot his church have asked him to return to them. While in confinement he wrote an autobl0g- raphy of his life which is to be published in hook form.
 A workshop in the grounds of the Kings county penitentiary on the outskirts of Brook lyn wns destroyed hy fire few days ago. There were nearly S'0 convicts and employees in the building at the time, but no lives were lost. The total loss on building, stock and machinery belonging to the Bay State Shoe
  o O. . In answer to the questions submitted to il hy the Fusinnist legislature the Maine supreme court decided that those questions were not submitted by any legally constituted body and that the Republican senate and house sit- ting in the capitol at Augusta were the only legal legislature ot the State.
 Mrs. Mary B. Lindermier, a robust woman of ftorty-seven, living in Philadelphia, died the other day in great agony from hydrophoba, having been bitten by dog six or eight weeks ago.
 Governor Van Znudt in his annual mesSo gt to the Rhode Is aud general ssembly recom menis the extension to women ot the right tc vote on school questions and pt ohibitory ln stead ot the prevailing liquor law.
 The Maine Fusonist legislature, after pro louged secret session, held on the day after the adverse decision of the supreme court was published, adjourned until the first "Wednesday in August. Regarding the supreme court de- cision and his future movements, the Fusion ist contestant for governor Major Smith, snid to a correspondent that it was no more than he expected that |" as law abiding citizens we must submit and go to our homos," and that he should nov CT re-enter politics. Concerning the future movements Of members of the Flu siouist legislature, a dispatch says that many oi them will go home not to return to Augusta bctore August and others will take their seats among their Republican brethren; some of the counted-in members will go home, while others will contest the seats of their rivals in the capitol"
 Tho story of the child inmates of the Shep herd Fold in New Yok, as told daring the pr, ceedngs pending bLore the supreme court reveals n terrible story of cruelty anc pryuiiOn. The little ones testified tbat they wore insuflcientIy ied, made to do the hardes kind oi work, cruelty beaten and generally ill! treated heir emsciated appearance bo ou their tale ot suffering.