Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-05
Our New York Dispatches.


New YoRE, Dee 1t is now stated that
Hon Thouias Stewart is to succeed Boss Tweed
as commissioner Of public works. The state
ment Is being endorsed by the leading members
OF the committee OF seventy.
Mrs. Connolly has furnished a long statement
for publication, in which she says ConnOly'S
friends are nearly all among the poor, and those
who are not millionaire. His Weather friends
are generally bankers and lawyers, who will not
be taken as bondsmen. He has had to do with
bankers and lawyers mostly in his office, While
MIR. Iwecd's position has brought him in con-
tact with contractors and such persons, who can
afford TO become surety iot millions If need be,
aud whom the sheriff accepts without question,
There are TWO presidents Of banks in this city
who have come 10 Mr. Connolly and have told
him they would he too happy 10 become his
SurcteS, only their position and their office will
not permit them. Mr.. Iildcn aud many other
lawyers would do the same thing, only there Is
law which fOrbids their being accepted rs
bondSmen. There are several ladies who would
like very much TO become SuretiCs for Mr. Con-
molly; one of them lives in elegant style rlear
MIR. A. T. Stewards, but they shrink from being
put through such a severe course Of questions.
Mr.. Hovemeycr has said in presence of Mr..
Tracy and Mr. Gardiner, as well as several Of
our friends that he would become one of Mr..
COnnoy'S bOndSmen, but that he thought it
would conflict with his duty as a member of the
committee OF seventy. Another member of the
committee OF seventy who had expressed his in
tentiOn of giving BAIL heard him and was influ-
enced by his opinion. No, it is not true that
Mr. COnnolly's friends have not come forward,
that they have deserted him. or that he cannot
get tail. The mistake made in the beginning
was in depending on our rich lawyer and banker
friends being ignorant of the law We wished
to hurry the thing up by getting few bonds
men who could qualify in large amounts, and
we therefore gratefully refused the multitude of
offers which were received from those who could
only place thousands at our disposal. If we
were to sell every bit of real estate we possess in
the world including the house we live in that
husband had given me, it would not avail. All
hisprOperty has been honestly earned. He never
thought of going to Europe.
Mayor Hall declines to swear in the newly
elected aldermen and assistant aldermen, and re-
lers them to the legal tribuneS
Charles OCOnor has gone to Albany to OPP
pose the motion for reduction Of Tweed's bail.
The Tribune SAYS the application for a re-
duction of Connoly's bail to half a million will
probably be granted tomorrow by Judge Brady.
Testimony connecting Tweed with the Harlem
court house swiudle is said to have been given
before the grand jury.
The international workngmen's society met
last evening, and split up in row between the
French and German elements, aided by two
Fenians, who sided with the Germans SubSe.
quently the French wing, which was the most
numerous, held a meeting and voted to have
funeral pageant next Sunday as a memorial
service in honor of RosScl Ferre, Bourgeois,
and other communists executed in France.
Seven freight cars laden with valuable ma
chinery telescoped into another freight car yes
terday, on the Erie track, near Rutherford park,
all being smashed. Loss heavy.
A large number Of canal boats are frozen in
on the Hudson river, between here ana Albany,
having on board over half million dollars
worth produce. 1t is expected that the mild
weather of to-day, with the rain and accompany
Ing drizzle, will thaw them out
rock yielded not, but the foaming waves died at
its foot.
There are still further startling DEVELOPMENTS
of the attempts made to bride jury TO decide
in favor of Fisk and Gould. Another member
OF the Jnrv publishes a statement in which he
says that three voted against the majority; two
finally gave in. Finding that one who still stood
out for the defendant was stubborn and wouldn't
argue the question, | charged him with being
Drbed. He had nothing TO say, except that he
wouldn't agree, and got the Bible and called
on him, if he wasn't bribed, to put his hand on
that book and swear that he hadn't received an /
dldn' expect to receive, and hadn't been prom
lsed cent of money or any other consideration
TO hang that jury-that is, to make them dis
agree. He wouldn't do that either. Then | re-
newed my charges against him, aud we all rot
rather excited and had quite a lively time for a
while. That man was threatened with all sorts
of bodily damage and was only saved from
being thrown out of a window by the interven-
ton OF some of the peaceable ones. He stood
stolidly opposed to us for several hours, but fin
ally yielded, and we brought in verdict for the
plaintiff.
Two pupils were expelled from the Hunters
Point school, to-day, for interference with the
Bible exercises.
In the general sessions court, to-day, the dis
trict attorney stated that the city prison was
unusually crowded, there being three occupants
in almost every cell, with danger of contagious
diseases There are three cases of small poX
already in the prison.
A notorious pckpocket, named Greenthal,
was sentenced to five years in the state prison,
to-day.