Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-04-06
General News SUMMARY.

A case OF some Importance, as defin-
ing the scope of insurance policies, has just
been decided in New York. Suit was brought
against an insurance company to recover for
goods stolen, as well as destroyed, at fire,
the plaintiff claiming that inasmuch as the ex-
posture of the goods, which led to their being
stolen, was the result of a fire, the company
was liable for them under that clause of the
policy which insured him from the loss 'hap-
pening by fire. The decision was in favor of
the company, the court ruling that loss
which is not stricl1ly in consequence of fire,
although it happen during a fire, cannot be
considered as covered by policy which in
sures only against loss happening by
fire.
The coal of the Dauphin coal Co. is
now being used most successfully in their To-
comotives, and also in those of Reading Rail-
road. 1t is said to answer better as fuel
than any coal heretofore used in locomotives,
and it is predicted that in a short time, it Will
entirely supersede the use of wood on all the
roads that can obtain it.
The schooner Lucy Watts, Captain
Hall, of Thomaston, Maine, from Philadel-
phia for Boston, sprung leak and sunk on
the 10th 1ult., 80 miles from Cape Cod. The
crew, after being three days and nights in the
boats, were picked up by the schooner John
PeW, and landed at Gloucester badly frost-bit-
ten, on Monday last.
Fears begin to be entertained for the
safety of the steamer City of Glasgow, which
is now thirty-four days out from Liverpool for
Philadelphia. She had supply of coal on
board sufficient for twenty-six days, and with
economy twenty-eight or thirty days. Her
cargo is valued at $1,000 900. She has also
some l25 passengers.
The value of Domestic Produce ex-
ported to Foreign States from the port of New
FORK, for the month of March, was $5,562,-
$40. There was also exported the sum of
$l,466, l27 in Gold and Silver, and re- export
ed in Foreign Goods the value of $464, 459.
Five men who went deer hunting
from Randolph, n. H., the last week in
March, lost their way under the White Noun
tains, and would have furnished with hunger
aud cold if their neighbors had not turned
out and found them. The cold in that region
was terrible.
An agriculturist who has tried the ex-
pertinent satisfactorily, says that few seeds
Of tomato dropped into the hill with cucum-
bers, or tomato set out, which he says is the
better mode, will keep off black feas and strip
ed bugs, as they dislike the flavor of the to-
mato.
Madame Goldschmidt, (Jenny Lind }
recently appeared in concert given by the
King of Prussia at Berlin, and with immense
success.
The value of Foreign Merchandise
imported at the port of New York for the
month of March, 1854, was, $16,1l2,059.
The outstanding Public Debt of the
Federal Government now amounts to SOL
S66,372.
By new law in Canada, newspapers
and periodicals pass through the mails entire
ly free.
Nearly two thousand persons have
availed themselves of the advantages offered
by the Evening Schools of Boston, the past
winter.
Colonel Benton gave his vote in the
House of Repre- sentatiyes, against the appro-
priation for building six new steam frigates.
The official resignation of Mr.. Dan
iels, Charge to Turin, has been received.