Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-28
General New. SUMMARY,

OeuersaA news summary
Philip Greeley, late Collector of the
port of Boston, died at Havana, of yellow fe-
vor, on the 10Th.
The U. S. mail steamer, Washington,
left New York on Saturday, for Southampton
and Bremen, with IS passengers, and $685.
1874, in specie.
John Hltselberger, keeper of the st.
| Charles Billiard Saloon, New Orleans,
stabbed lately, by Mrs. Bridget Murphy,
| whose daughter he had deceived and betrayed
under promise of marriage. Hitselberger is
not expected to recover
Arrangements are being made to es-
tablish regular steamboat communication be-
tween the cities 81 Boston and Baltimore.
An Irishman, named Robert Donolay,
was killed at Somerville, by the caving i'll of
bank of earth, under which he was digging,
on Friday.
Counterfeit one dollar bills on the
| Providence Bank, Woonsocket, r. l., are in
circulation.
The Los Angeles. (Cal..) Star, of the
18th and 18th, records some rich gold discov-
cries at Santa Anita, about eighteen miles
from that place
Spain has eleven hundred guns in the
immediate vicinity of Havana, and eighteen
thousand men.
The trial of Patton, for the murder
of Colonel Turnbull, at New Orleans, last fall,
has resulted in verdict ofguilty, but with
out capital punishment.
Madame Sontag and her company, it
is stated, including Alfred Jaell, the pianist,
and Camille Urso, the violinist, have con-
n1, nd o,1oa 70 IN
give concerts and operas.
James Raymond, the well known
manager of circusses, and menageries, died
at Carmel, Putnam county, on the 23d inst.
He originated the business about 80 years
ago, and imported the first elephant ever
shown in the United States. ; Among his
property, which is valued at $1,000, OO0 are
the Broadway theatre, and Washington Hotel,
in the city of New York.
At .Brattleboro', Vt, quite brisk
business in the way of prosecutions for viola
tons of the Liquor Law, was done last week,
under the auspices of the Carson League. H.
" c. Nash. C.. L. Whitney, and Harris Stock
well, were seyerally fined $40 and costs, and
VIM. Holden $50 and costs.
A little girl in Brandon, Vt, who had
the care of a child two months old, let it fall,
and thus caused its death.
Half dozen persons were killed on
Friday, by the explosion of the locomotive of
the Salem and New Albany, Indiana Railroad
train.
The Town Treasurer of Dover, n H.
has absconded with two OF three thousan ddol-
lars, belonging to the town and three thousand
six hundred dollars from tbe Strahord Bank.
Bishop Brownell, of Hartford has brok-
en- his leg in three places by fall.
The new clipper barque Grape Shot
sailed from New York on Friday for Constan-
tinople, having on board ammunition and the
Claw 'muskets
A boot maker from Milford, had his
pocket picked Of $4,000 in Boston, on Satur-
day last.
The insurance in London on house
property is l8d to the El00 in New Y ork it
Is five times as much. London has 100 fire
men; New York 5000. London has 20 square
miles to be protected; New York 10. London
bas no aqueduct; New York has the largest
saueduct in the world London has water
N one side; New York has water on all
sides.
An Avignon paper chronicles the arri-
vi there of vehicle driven by compressed
est. which had come from Marseilles, dis
kesee of so miles, in four hours. The car
sses Was divided, like house, into various
Compartments, for different uses, and con-
segsd upon this, its first trip, one hundred
yesS1fs. French high roads permit easily a
sySed ~ twelve miles an hour.
g0me Of the people in Maine, interest
I'd ip The numbering business, have secured
large ffsets Of good timber forests in Canads,
A Wisconsin, in Michigan, and in New York