Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-21

Senator Thurman is quite i'll.
VIM. H. Seward will start this week for home.
The military maneuvGrs at Adershot close to-
day.
The health of Queen Victoria has not been
improved by her residence in the highlands.
The Asiatic cholera has appeared at Constan-
tinople and Smyrna.
Excelsior fire hose company of Lowell left
Norfolk on Tuesday on the steamer for Boston.
President Grant left Cincinnati yesterday af-
ternOon for Clermont county.
At Baltimore, yesterday, Mutuas, seven
PastimeS, one.
At Charleston, S. c., yesterday, there were
three deaths from yellow fever, cooler weather
having had an unfavorable effect.
The fire department have seized and destroyed
a thousand more boxes of torpedoes in New
York.
Two young men, VIM. Remmes and Henry
Miller, were drowned in New Greek, Long ISL
and, on Tuesday.
1t is conceded by all that majority of the
new Mexican congress is favorable to Juarez.
There is no sign of revolution.
Two cases of Asalc cholera have appeared IN
Perth Amboy, in New Jersey, the victims being
recently landed Immigrants from Germany.
The American ship Arcadia, from Leith for
San Francisco, was burned at sea off the lower
coast of Brazil, August y. Cargo lost. Crew
all saved.
The new professor of engineering at West
Point is likely TO be Col. Peter S. Niche, now
professor of philosophy at the academy, and
graduate of the class of 1868.
At Binghamton, N. Y, yesterday, the state
grand lodge Of Good Tcmplars voted TO favor
local prohibition, and will work for that end
with the Sons of Temperance and the state
temperance society.
The officers of the treasury claim that in a
few days they will be able to show the public
that their department is in no way responsible
for the Hodge deialcation, and that the pay
master generals office was aware Of Hodges
misconduct some time ago.
General Sheridan, with party of invited
friends, left Chicago yesterday morning for
grand buffalo hunt on the western plains The
party go to Fort MACPHERSON, on the Union
Pacific railway, and will march across to the
head waters of the Republican and Salmon
rivers, to Fort Hays, on the Kansas Pacific rail
road. The entire trip will occupy about fifteen
days.
Russian correspondence says that the general
opinion in the diplomatic circles OF st. Peters
burg is that there must soon be war with Ger
many; that the tone Of the government organs
grows more violent against Emperor William
and Bismarck every day, and that it seems as
if open hostilities could not long be suppressed.
The Iowa state agricultural fair opened at Des
Moines, on Wednesday, with very large attend
ance. Weston, the pedestrian, began his walk
on the fair grounds yesterday. On Friday Hon.
Horace Greeley will address the association, and
will deliver a lecture in the evening.
Since the cholera made its appearance in cpl
dcmic form at Konigsberg, at which point it first
appeared it has been steadily increasing in vo-
lence up to the present time. An American YES
sci, from the Baltic, has been Obliged to put into
Cardiff, in Wales, four of her crew having fallen
victims to the disease. The medical opinion is
that there is obviously nothing to prevent the
disease, which can be carried to sea from the
Baltic to Cardiff, from being carried to sea from
the Baltic to New York.