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NEWS SUMMARY. Hastorn and Middle States At the request of the Massachusetts bank commissioners the Lexington savings bank has been enjoined from doing further business, and its affairs will be wound up without loss to the depositors. Haar & Co., New York stock brokers, have failed for about $200,000. The Concord savings bank, of Concord, N. H., has suspended. Justin S. Morrill, has been re-elected United States senator by the Vermont legislature. In the case of Rev. H. H. Hayden, charged with the murder of Mary Stannard, in Madison, Conn., the grand jury found a true bill of indictment for murder in the first degree. According to Dun, Barlow & Co.'s New York mercantile agency the number of failures in the United Sttates during the first nine months in 1878 is 8,678. the amount of liabilities being $197,211,129. During the corresponding period in 1877 there were 6,565 failures, with $141,862,265 of liabilities. In Canada there were 1,242 failures in 1878, with $18,138,321 of liabilities. and in 1877 the failures number 2 1,646, with $20,904,976 of liabilities. The New Hampshire Prohibition party met in convention at Nashua and nominated a ticket headed by Asa S. Kendall for governor. The bark Susan, of New Bedford, Capt. Peaks, sailed from New Bedford on recent Saturday, with a crow of twenty -five men, on a whaling voyage At twelve 'clock she encountered a hurricane and atseven M. the vessel capsized. Eight men were in the forecastle at the time. They got on boards. chests, and dunnage stuffs, and kept above the water. On Sunday at noon two of them dived down and came up outside through the companionway. One man who could not swim was left in the forecastle. The other five at length fell through into the water and were drowned. The two who got ont lashed themselves on the weatherside of the wreck. On Tuesday morning New York pilot boat No. 8 fell in with the wreck, took off the two men who were on the outside, and cut through the bluff of the bow and took out the man inside alive. One man, who had lashed himself in the rigging at the time the ship capsized, was left. The roll of the vessel had nearly cut him in two. Three men only of the ship's company of twenty were saved -namely, Joseph G. Reig, Henry Gonsalve and Manuel Alpho. The Delaware Greenback party held a State convention in Wilmington, nominated Dr. K. J. Stewart for governor and John G. Jackson for Congress, and adopted a platform which demands the payment of the bonds in greenbacks that greenbacks be made a logal tender for all debts, etc. Hiram Paulding, rear-admiral and senior flag officer on the retired list of the United States navy, died at his homenear Huntington, Long Island, the other day, aged eighty-one years. Admiral Paulding w&s the last surviving officer of MacDonough's squadron in the victory over the British on Lake Champlain, on September 11, 1814. Patrick Butler, a wealthy New York manufacturer, was thrown from his carriage while riding in Central Park and killed, and his wife was seriously injured. Job W. Green, aged cighty-one, committed suicide at his home, in Brooklyn, by hanging himself. His mind was affected. John O'Neil was sentenced to death at Sunbury, Pa., by Judge Rockafeller, for the murder of Coroner Hesser at Hickory Swamp, near Shamokin, in December, 1874. Peter MoManus, his accomplice in the crime, has already been sentenced to death. Captain Anderson. of the schooner Moss Glen, of St. John, N. B., reached Boston, the other day, and reported the loss of his vessel during the recent heavy gale off Cape Cod. The steward and two seamen were washed overboard. The captain, mate and two sailors lashed themselves to the mizzen chains and drifted about for four days without food or drink, when they were rescued by a passing vessel. Western and Southern States. Nine convicts dug through the wall of the prison at Koxomo, Ind., and escaped to the woods. During the progress "of a marriage at a colored Baptist church in Lynchburg, Va., some of the ceiling plastering fell, and the immense crowd at once became panic stricken, many in the galleries jumping from the windows of the second and third stories, while others threw themselves headlong down the stairway on the surging people below, There was only one door of exit down stairs, and through this men and women crowded frantically most of the killed being literally crushed to death. Ten women were killed three more fatally injured, and about thirty persons received wounds more or less severe. Five illicit distilleries were recently destroyed in one day in Putnam county, Tenn., by United States revenue officers. Official returns from Ohio give Barnes, Republican candidate for secretary of state, a plurality of 3,154. The California constitutional convention adopted a resolution to memorailize the President and the United States Senate to 80 modify the Burlingame treaty as to prohibit Chinese immigration. Five people were drowned near Sandford, in Orange county, Fia., a few days ago. Two were ladies named Hughey, and two were children of Calvin Martin. The fifth was man named McIves. They werein wagon en route for home from camp meoting, and drove into a deep hole at the lake side. A sixth person was rescued after standing up in the wagon for several hours with the water up to his chin. George T. Nelson, while climbing a fence near Kennedyville, Md., was accidentally killed by the discharge of his gun. When the news of the accident reached his mother, six hours after, she was 80 overcome that she died of grief. By the bursting of a boiler belonging to a sawmill near McLeansboro, III., the proprietor and another man were killed and three other men were fatally injured. Ten persons were poisoned at a wedding feast at Azalia, Ind. They partook of food in which some person-supposed to be disappointed lover of the bride-had placed strychnine. Three of the persons affected were made dangerously ill. A Memphis (Tenn.) dispatch says a party of white men killed a colored man near Glencoe, Tenn., shooting him while in bed, in his own house. In retaliation, party of colored men captured and kil ed white man supposed to have been the murderer, while asleep on the porch of a grocery at Cuba, on the next night. It turned out they killed the wrong man. The failure of Stagle Brothers, of Greenfield, Ohio, is the heaviest that has occurred in that rection for years. They owned the largest farm in Fayette county. It comprised 2,200 acres. The liabilities exceed $120,000; the assets will probably reach ten per cent. The appearance of frosts in the districts of the South given up to yellow fever, was the cause of great rejoicing among the long-suffering people. The epidemic immediately decreased in the number of deaths and of new cases to such an extent that the medical and charitable associations of the largo cities, called into existence by the plague, began to end their labors, while many persons, who had fled from the fever, returned to their homes. The failure of Dodd, Brown & Co., the largest dry goods house in St. Louis, is announced. The depression in trade caused by the yellow fever in the South was one of the principal causes of the failure. The firm's liabilities are estimated to be between $1,500, 000 and $2,000,000, with assets at about $1,000,000. The First national bank, of Auburn, Ind. which suffered 80 heavily from the defalcation has 8018-
