Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-10-03
GencrnI NcM. SUMMARY.


The shipments of coal from the An
thracite region continue very large. The
Reading Railroad brought down, for the week
ending on Thursday, SO, 7O3 tons, and for the
year, l,622, l0l tons, against 1899, $50 tons,
up to the same time last year. The shipments
by the Lehigh navigation for the week end
ing Saturday, Sept. %, were S9,329 tons,
making for the season, S2S, 76S tons, showing
handsome increase over last year tonnage
to the same time. BY the Schuylkill naviga-
ton, the shipments for the week ending on
Thursday, were 80, 1876 tons, making tom
mage for the season of 100, 1898 tons, an excess
OF last years tonnage to the same time, OF
74,7ll tons. The whole tonnage by the three
lines, for the week. amounts to 1913, l6S tons,
and for the season, three millions, one hun
dred and fiity.six thousand, seven hundred
and ten tons.
A letter from Paris, it is stated, reports
that two vessels of two thousand tons burthen
each, are i'll course of construction at Nantes,
to ply between Havre and New FORK, the en-
gines of which are to be worked by chloro
form. This is recent French adoption, and
it was reported some time since, that expert
ments were being made in France, with
view of applying it as a motive for ships. If
one succeeds in reaching America, it will be
a curiosity.
Rev. Horatio Potter. D. D., Rector of
St. Peters Church, Albany, has been chosen
Bishop of the New York Episcopal Conven
ton. The principal competitors were Rev.
DR.. Height, of New York city, Rev. DIR. Vim
ton, of Brooklyn, Rev. DIR. Harris, of White
Plains. aud Rev. DIR. Hawkes., Of New York
city. The N. Y. Chwchman called upon the
Convention to re-instate Bishop Onderdonk,
but he received no votes. His friends, we
believe, maintain that his suspension was lille
gal.
A storm commenced on the coast of
Texas on the 18th ult., and ragged with terrific
fury fer four DAYS. An immense amount of
property was destroyed, and several vessels
and many lives were lost. The town of Mat
agorda was destroyed, with the exception of
three houses. The crops, both of corn and
cotton, were nearly ruined.
In Brooklyn, on Saturday, Michael
King, being jealous of his wife, and under the
influence of liquor, inflicted dreadful cash
on her head with razor, and supposing her
to be dead, put an end to his own existence
by cutting his throat with the same instru-
ment. He was about forty years Of age. His
wife may recover.
~" OiACullo pupSlc VI j Nc 't~
25th. say the total number of deaths the pre-
vious week were 5O4, of which 34l were from
fever.
An interesting revival is in progress at
Westboro, where several young persons have
recently been baptized, and others are soon to
follow them in the same ordinance.
The Boston Gazette of Saturday eve
ming says, two or three failures occurred to-
day. A clothing establishment OH Milk street,
and two firms down town, engaged in the
Australia trade, stopped.
At the meeting Of the Rhode Island
Episcopal Convention, held at Providence on
Wednesday, Rev. Thomas NJ. Clark, of Hart
ford, was elected Bishop for the Diocese of
Rhode Island.
The total mortality of New York last
week reached 6l2, an increase of 10 on the
pre- ious week. The deaths by cholera were
Al, a decrease of 80.
At Darien, Ga, twelve deaths have
occurred from yellow fever There we've but
five deaths from cholera at Pittsburg on Sat-
urday.
A census of Savannah, taken Satur-
day, shows population of 6, 2S5 whites, 5,49l
blacks.
Col. Benton has returned to Washing
ton from Missouri.