The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-01-21
N EWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

| GovERNoR CoRNELL'S message to the New
York legislature is an unusually long docu-
ment. He says that with tax levy more than
one-third smaller than that Of the previous
year the public revenues have satisfied all
legitimate claims, provided 1916, 500 for the
sinking fund and furnished surplus larger by
s1,S46, 856 than that which remained at the
close of the fiscal year 1880. With sound econ
omy, the message says, the rate of taxation
can be still further reduced for the coming
| year. The canals suffered a loss in traffic OF
1882, ISL tons, and the expenditures upon them
exceeded the revenues by s205, 64245. Public
school attendance during the year fell eff more
than 10000. Biennial legislative sessions are
recommended, as'is also the prevention of the
sale of oleomargarine for butter, and the modi-
fcation of the usury laws
The Pennsylvania Republican State conven-
ton has been called to meet at Harrisburg
| May 10.
The seventeenth annual convention of the
American Dairymen's association was held at
| Syracuse, N Y. During the meeting various
papers relating to the dairy interests of the
| country were read.
l The Boston University Methodist college
| has just come into possession of 81, DOC, 900
estate bequeathed to the institution ten years
ago by Isaac Rich.
CENSUS statistics show that the native popu-
| lation of New York city is 727,629, and the
foreign-born population 478,670. Ireland
heads the list of foreign-born residents with
| 1885, Germany coming next with 1884, S2
OF the native population 1882 are colored.
FIFTEEN Brooklyn aldermen who disobeyed
judges injunction were arrested for contempt
| Of court, and each sentenced to serve various
terms OF imprisonment ranging from thirty to
ten days and to pay a fine of $3.50. They were
all taken to Jail, but at II O'Clock at night were
released on appeal, giving bonds.
AsUPREME COURT jury decided at Boston that
the Phoenix Life Insurance company should
| pay $4,000 to Mrs. Susan Brigham, as the
policy on her husbands life, and also the costs
of litigation. The company alleged misrepre-
sentation when the policy was issued.
WHILE going at full speed heavy freight
train, drawn by two locomotives, ran off the
track near Syracuse, N. Y, and thirty three
cars loaded with merchandise were all
| wrecked, the debris beng scattered over four
| tfacks. The two engineers were badly in
| iured. Railroad men say this is the largest
number ofcars ever wrecked in any one acct
dent.
| GEORGE MELIUs, brakeman was arrested
| by order of the coroner, charged with causing
1 the fatal railroad collision on the Hudson
| River railroad al Spu or Drvval INV,
| back when his train stopped and signaling the
| approaching train. The disaster resulted in
! eight victims-State Senator Webster Wagner,
| Mr.. and Mrs. Valentine, the newly-married
couple; Rev. Francis Xavier Marechal, a
| Catholic priest; Mrs. Mary L. Brown, wife of a
| New York mining broker; Oliver B. Kelley, a
| Philadelphia stove merchant; Albert Richards,
young man, resident of Brooklyn, and OAR
win L. Ransom, aged thirty, of the Hoffman
| house, New York.
A FIRE at Albion, N. Y, consumed the largest
business portion of the village entailing an
aggregate estimated loss of $3.50, 900.
THREE boys, while playing in an unoccupied
building in Brooklyn, displaced beam which
| supported one Of the floors. This precipitated
the whole structure upon their heads, killing
| all three.
AFTER six-days' trial jury at Machias,
| Me-, sustained the will of deaf mute, aged
| seventy-six, who devised his property by pam
| tomime. Only one similar case was ever tried
| in the United States, and that was in North
| Carolina.
| THE scheme for holding worlds fair in
| Boston has fallen through
| The Pennsylvania anthracite coal output for
| 1881 was 49, OILS tons-an increase over the
previods year of 5000, TIA tons.
| TIE New York senate chamber was draped
| in mourning to commemorate the tragic death
| of Senator Wagner at the Spuyten Duyvel rail-
road disaster, and both branches of the legisla-
ture attended the funeral in body, going to
Palatine Bridge, the home of the deceased SEN
ator, in special train.
THE Hon. A. A. Pettengill, for twenty-five
years editor and proprietor of the daily Stand
ard, died at Bridgeport, Conn. He had
been State Senator, Congressman and United
States marshal, and was census commissioner
| of Connecticut.
Ex-Governor ALEXANDER II. 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 Fl. VANDERBILT gave reception to
| his friends at his new house in Fifth avenue.
New York, which cost 100000 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 Europeand kept at work two years.
The house is 81 feet front by LIS feet deep, and
four stories high.
South and West. T.
THE town Of Kemp, Texas, has been CON-
pletely destroyed by an incendiary fire.