Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-24

The Panama Railroad WILDE CONFLICT
ca and open for the transportation Of cara,
rom ocean to ocean, by the first Of August
next.
In Rhode Island there are four tickets
in nomination for state officers for the election
in April.
Jacob Shuster, alias Tom Hand, who
served term in the Penitentiaryt in the Dis
trlct OF Columbia, for the larceny of govern
ment jewels, has returned to course of
crime. He was arrested ii New York short
time since for passing counterfeit money
Advices from the Rio Grande state
that General Wool was concentrating Next
can troopsat Camargo, with view to make
that place his headquarters.
The fall in -four at New York within
day or two has been 62 IL to rs cents. At
Philadelphia on Friday good shipping brands
were offered at 1925, without buyers. At
New Orleans, same day, $50. In all the
lake ports an immense quantity of wheat is
is in store, and will soon come forward In
Milwaukee alone there are over 700 900 bush
els Of grain.
The steam frigate Princeton has gone
to Havana in consequence of the Black War
rior affair.
In Executive session of the Senate,
Fletcher Webster's nomination as Surveyor Of
the port Of Boston, was unanimously confirm
ed, without reference.
The journeyman house carpenters of
New Bedford have agreed to raise the price Of
their labor twenty-oye cents day, after the
third of April. They will then have So
day.
The Legislature of Louisiana has ap-
propriated ten Thousand dollars to encourage
ship building.
The Bangor Jeffersonian, describing
the effect of a thunder shower, says-"A COW
was struck by lightning and instantly killed,
belonging to village physician who had
a beautiful calf four days old
In STAFFORD, N. H., boy named Foss.
about ten years DID, shot and killed daugh-
ter of Jonathan NJ. futile, aged years. He
did it designedly, pointing the gun at her after
she had crept under the bed to avoid him.
In the New York Legislature, the
Maine Liquor Law has passed the House by
'NtS VI 80 W f%-to 80 1lltO elIect Oh Cne nrSC
of May.
Forrest, the tragedian, it is said to have
become convert to Spirit Rappings, and is
frequent attendant uponthe soriees of the Fox
girls. Very likely
Bill Lewis, young negro who has
committed several outrages about Norwich,
Con-, has been arrested. In Montville he
knocked down old Mrs. Church with ham
mer, and her recovery is doubtful.
A New York newspaper SAYS orders
arc on the way out from Washington recalling
the Japan expedition.
The wooden mill of William Earl in
Claremont,, n. H., was destroyed by fire on
Saturday morning last, with all the machine
ry. Fully insured.
Sailors are extremely scarce, For
want of them, vessels ready for sea, have been
waiting in the stream since the middle of last
Weekdays the New York Journal of Com
mered.
A clue is said to have been found as to
to the destroyers of the Popes block for the
Washington Monument. The grand Jury of
the District of Columbia haysvhe matter be-
fore them.
The Cincinnati Price Current publish
es its final report of the hogs packed in the
West, showing net increase of 333, 900, be-
ing equal to 10 per cent. over last year. The
report embraces 260 points, and is the fullest
ever published.