Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-14
Our New York Dispatches,

NEW YORK, Aug. 19.-The Brooklyn yacht
club will rendezvous at Glen Cove Tuesday, 22d,
and sail for their annual regatta at New Lon
don on Friday, the 25th inst Twenty or more
yachts will join in the cruise
The police of the first precinct yesterday pre-
sented Collins and Quigley, the Battery boat
men, each a solid silver shield for their efforts
in rescuing the passengers of the Westtield at
the time of the recent explosion, and the Amer
lean life saving and benevolent society will soon
present them with gold badges for their services
on the same occasion.
The widow of Col. John Mcleod Murphy is
to be appointed to the custom house inspector
ship lately held by her husband
Counterfeit bills on the Ninth national bank
Of this city are circulating freely.
George Byrnes, municipal official, was ar
rested last night for outraging woman in the
room of the board of assistant aldermen, over
year ago, though warrant for his arrest was
not issued until on the 18th inst
The steamers Oceanic and Wyoming arrived
to-day. Thurlow Weed and daughter were pas
sengers by the latter.
Dr. j. c. Wellington has accepted the presi-
dency of Columbia college.
One police officer and ten other persons, and
several horses were Frustrated by heat yester-
day.
Dr. VIM Tinker, young man Just arrived
in this country, and graduate from the college
of surgeons in Dublin, was run over by Third
ming, and will have his leg amputated to-day.
There is not much hope for his recovery.
Six burglars, among the most desperate ofthe
prisoners who were confined in the Queens
county Jail, wrenched the lock off the door
their cells and scaled the prison fences. Th I
have not as yet been captured.
large number of people have been to the
station house in the Sth avenue to view the
body of wcl-dreSscd man who was found with
his skull smashed on 86th street last night. His
body has not yet been identified
The Evening Post says there is a row in the
municipal ring in this city, and iDtimates that
Tweed has struck hands with eX-Sheritf O'Brien
and the young democracy. If such proves true
undoubtedly Governor Hoffman will go with
Tweed
The officials of the Union Pacific railway
state that contract agreeing to a consoida-
ton of interests with the Pacific mail steamship
company, was actually signed by some of the
officers last evening, and it is expected to be
ratified to-day. While no positive terms of the
agreement have yet been developed, it is be-
lieved one of the results will be the dscOntin-
uance of passenger traffic by the steamship line,
and the transfer of considerable patronage to
the railroad line. The capital stock of the Pa
cihc mail steamship company is put down at
twenty millions, while that of the Union Pa
ci6c railroad is about one hundred millions.
A bank note company of this city is making
japanese paper bills after the greenback style,
except that the pictures are copies of antepre-
RaphaeliSque japanese paintings. 1t appears
that the Germans have heretofore had monop-
oily of this work at exorbitant figures, but
American improved machinery enables 1t to be
done here at greatly reduced rates. The con-
tracts are made entirely through American and
Japanese officials.
The man found fatally wounded Yesterday on
Sth avenue, and who died while being carried
to the police station, proves to be Patrick Nc
Namara, a lab0rer. The detectives this morn
ing effected the arrest of John O'Keefe, his sup
posed murderer.
John Clark, florist at the Fifth Avenue hotel,
died yesterday from injuries received at thelWest
field explosion