Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-11

The Bank OF Peru has been robbed.
CallaO advices, dated 2Sth ult., state that an
earthquake occurred at Tacna.
ODonnovan Rosa, the Irish exile, has be-
come an insurance agent.
All the New York gambling resorts, recently
closed, are again in full blast.
The sessions of the French courts martial will
begin on the 10Th instant
General Quesada and party remain at Cura-
Gao.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars are
invested in bathing establishments in New
York.
More revelations are made concerning the
frauds perpetrated by the Tammany ring in the
matter of the armory leases.
Steamship TaboQuilla, from Liverpool for Cal
lao, encountered pirates in the straits of Magel-
Ian.
The official journal of Paris announces that
elections for council general will be held on the
23d of August.
Eugene Haines, nine years old, a son of
Jackson Haines, the great skater, was drowned
yesterday morning at Lansngburgh, N. Y.
The French assembly has passed a bill i'm
posing additional taxation on the sale of sugar,
tea, cocoa and alcohol.
Cardinal Patrozi, vicar-general, has pro-
hlbited the reading by members of the church
in the Roman states, of non-clerical newspapers.
The Perkins claim against Russia seems TO be
reaching a definite shape at last. Mr.. Stewart,
who is Mrs. Perkins lawyer, thinks that the
money VIII De PAID ere long.
Advices from Aspinwall TO the 9th state that
several parties have been arrested in Panama,
on suspicion of conspiring against the govern
ment.
Sixteen thousand of the communist prisoners
at Versailles have been released by order of the
government, but sixteen thousand are still held
and will be tried in squads.
Tad Lincoln, son of ex-President Lincoln, is
seriously i'll of dropsy. His recovery is regard
ed as very doubtful His mother is in con-
slant attendance upon him.
At Lewes, Del, arrived yesterday, steamer
General Sedgwick, from New York for Calves
ton, with bow leaking, having collided with
a schooner ninety miles south of Henlopen.
The commission TO test inventions for the
more rapid transit on canals, for which pre-
MUM of 100000 is offered, met at Albany yes
terday afternoon, and adjourned after organic
ing.
The U. S. civil service commission contem-
plate adjourning this week until fall in order
that they may, in the meantime give full con-
sideration to the business with which they are
entrusted.
A furious storm of rain and wind passed
over Elmira, N. Y, on Sunday evening. Trees
were uprooted and blown down, houses I'M
rooted, etc. No person was injured, and no
serious damage was done. The storm was
brief, not lasting over fifteen minutes.
The U. S. post office department has set the
example Of giving ladies the same pay as male
clerks when they perform the same work as the
latter. Four ladies have lately been appointed
first-class clerks, with the pay of that grade
Berlin advices report that large number of
Germans are preparing to emigrate to Ameri-
ca this fall The stoppage owing 10 the war
will be fully made up. Eight thousand Ger
mans are still in Germany who have been ex-
PEELED from France.
The result of the vote by the garrison of Par
is in the recent election was as follows: Gam
beta, 1919; Cissey, 1919; Laboulaye, 1850; Wo-
loski, 1879; Breslay, sos.