Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-19

New YORK, June 1S.-The public baths will
| be thrown open for use on Monday.
| notorious piclpocket, calling herself Ellen
| Williams, but known to the police rs Medic
| Flowers, was committed on Friday in default o.
$1,000, by Justice Hogan, charged with stea1lGg
| $50 from the pocket of Il Mr.. Saomons, of NeN
| Orleans, in a Fifth avenue stage.
| The New York city directory for 1912 (the
| eighty-fifth volume) has been issued and it is
| claimed is more accurate than any that have
| preceded it. In this volume there are but
2OO,953 names, against 2O4, 617 last year; fall
ing off of 3, 1854 names.
Dispatches from st Petersburg have been re-
ceived at the Russian embassy at Washington,
to the effect that the Grand Duke Alexis will
leave Cronstadt in August on his visit to this
country. He will embark in the General Admit
raj, one of the finest armorclad war ships in the
Russian navy, instead of the Swetana. Much
competition exists, it is said, among the young
noblemen of the Russian court to accompany
the prince on his tour, and extensive altera-
tons have been made in the internal arrange
ments of the vessels forming the squadron, to
insure the comfort Of the numerous suite. The
Russian corvette Vsadnick, now lying in the
harbor, which was originally under orders to
await the advent of the grand duke, will shortly
sail for England, and several officers in the
American navylhave determined to give her off
GERS reception previous to her departure, in
recognition of the services rendered by them on
LHe OCCdSlOu OI IHG ulSaSITOuS COlllSlOn between
the United States frigate Oneida and the British
steamer Bombay, in the harbor of Yokohama,
Japan, on theI oath of January, 1862
In the divorce suit of Gen. Egbert L. Vele
against his wife, yesterday, decision was rem
dered on the habeas corpus writ to obtain from
him the custody of his two youngest children.
They were given to the mother, with the privi-
lege of returning to their father whenever they
desired.
Commodore Ashbury's new yacht the Lavo
mia, will leave for this port the first week in
September, and, as a representative of the
royal Harwich club, race representative yacht
of the New York yacht club. having waived the
condition requiring six months notice of the
contest. The Herald this morning says that,
from Ashbury'sl dispatches, he evidently eX-
poets to carry out his recently announced pro-
gramme OF coming to New York as
the representative of eight EngihS yacht
clubs, $50 that he could have eight chances
OF carrying off the cup, hoping that some acci-
dent, if not speed, will give him least one out
of eight races. He interprets the waving of
the six months notice, in the first case, as the
waving it in all, forgetting that no action can
be taken regarding any other race until the
first is decided.
Services of thanksgiving were held in the
Greek church, this city, and on the Russian cor
vette Vsadnick, in this harbor, to-day, in honor
of the birth of Grand Duke George AleXan-
drowitsch, son of the Czarewitz and Princess
Subscriptions to the Sir Walter Scott statue,
to be erected in Central Park, now amount to
$4,000.
The book committee reassembled at the
usual place yesterday morning. AT the open
ing, Mr.. Vanderpoel, one of the counsel for DR..
Lanahan in the Goodenough case, testified be-
fore the committee at great length in relation to
the mdRddmas proceedings by the defendant in
The supreme court to compel the chief agent of
the book concern to give over the books and pa
pers of the establishment into his charge. In
the course of his testimony the counsel said that
as the case of GOodenough against Lanahan
was on the calendar and would be called up in
a few days, he thought it necessary to obtain
the books in order to make sufficient prepare
tons for the defence in the above-named suit
Mr.. Vanderpoel then proceeded to explain the
subsequent bearings of the case, and said that
the defendants action throughout the pro-
ceedings in relation to his application for
mdnddnlus was entirely guided by the advice of
his counsel AT different times during the de-
livery of this testimony, cross.ire of words
took place between the opposing counsels, and
it was peculiarly remarked by Judge Reynolds
"that the book committee was supposed to be
a body of intelligent men, and not composed of
jurors who had never read the papers,"
Mr.. Vanderpoel remarked that DIR. Lanahan
had told him several times that il given three
DAYS notice he would be ready for the trial of
the case. The counsel was then cross.examined,
during which the actions of DIR. Lanahan in his
various relations to the book committee and the
book concern, including the proceedings in the
supreme court, were thoroughly investigated.
Mr.. Vanderpoel, who started for Europe, was
then excused from further attendance at the
trial. Mr.. Smith, of the firm of Brown, Hall &
Vanderpoel, was then called and testified sub