The examiner., 1882-01-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

THE Hon. A. A. PettengiIl, for twenty-five years editor and proprietor of the daily Stand Grd died at Bridgeport, Conn. He had been State Senator, Congressman and United States marshal, and was census commissioner of Connecticut.
 Ex-GovERNoR ALEXANDER H. BULLOCK, of Massachusetts, dropped dead on the sidewalk in Worcester, Mass, of apoplexy. Hewas born in Worcester in 1916, and had been success sively member of the Massachusetts legisla- ture, mayor of Worcester, speaker of the State house of representatives, and governor, to which latter office he was elected in 1866, and twice reelected.
 WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT gave reception to his friends at his new house in Fifth avenue, New York, which cost s3, GOO, ,0O0 to build and furnish, and is considered the finest private residence in the city, More than 600 men were employed for year and half on the interior decorations alone, while sixty sculptors were brought from Europe eand kept at work two years. The house is 84 feet front by 1!5 feet deep, and four stories high.
 WHILE blasting at 8 stone quarry near Read ing, Pa, three men were frightfully injured by 8 premature explosion, two of them having their eyes blown out
 THE one hundredth anniversary of Daniel Webster's birth was celebrated at Boston by banquet, and at Salisbury, N. H., his birth place, commemorative exercises were held.
 THE Pennsylvania board of pardons, in ses- sion at Harrisburg, decided against the appi- cations of six murderers for communication of their death sentence.
 $ A BILL has been introduced into the New Jersey assembly to provide whipping posts for wife beaters.
 ArJeanesville, Pa., the coal breaker operated byJ. c. Hayden & Co.,, one of the largest breakers in Luzerne county, was totally de- stroyed by fire, together with about 200 tons of coal The loss is estimated at s200,0O0.
 GOVERNOR CORNELL has sent to the New York legislature a special message, called forth by the recent rs silroad slaughter at Spuyten Duyvel. The message calls attention to the need of stringent laws for the prevention of accidents on railroads.
 Mas. SARAH MILTON died few days since at Kittanning, Pa., aged 1O6 years.
 AN explosion on board a steam tug at Haver- straw, N Y, resulted in the death of the second engineer, fireman and cook, and the total de- struction of the tug.
 CHARLES DANA $ Co.,, wholesale provision dealers of Boston, have failed with from s1OO,- 900 to $15O,OO0 liabilities.
 HoN. GARRISON N. POTTER, the prominent New York lawyer, best known to the country as chairman of the "Potter Congressional Con- mittee," charged with inqu' ring into alleged frauds connected with the presi tential election of 1876, died suddenly the other day at his home in the metropolis, aged ffty-six years. While arguing a case before the court of ap- peals at Albany he was taken sick, and his symptoms assuming an alarming phase he was conveyed to his home in New York, where he fingered but 8 few days before death relieved him of his sufferings In 1879 MT. Potter was defeated for Acknowledgements of New York by only 29O votes in a poll exceeding 9O0,0OO. In August last he was elected president of the American Bar association.
 THE Hartford (Conn.) high school has been destr yed by fire. Loss, $120,000; insurance, s7O, 900.
 A PH1LADELPH1A lawyer was fined $50 for not reporting 8 case of smallpox which proved fatal.
 GOVERNOR HoYr, of Pennsylvania, has signed the death warrants of six men and fixed the 24th of March for their hanging.
 IN New York and vicinity the thermometer recorded all the way from forty degrees below zero-at Lake Saranac- three degrees below zero-at New York city-and many cases of prostration caused by the intense cold were re- ported. Three men were found frozen to death -one in New York, one in Greenpoint, Long Island, and one in Newark. N. J.