Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-18
Miscellaneous Dispatches.

ITEMS FROM NEW YORK

ITEMS FROM NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, May 17.-GoV Hoffman inst
before leaving for Richmond yesterday, tele.
graphed Rulloff's counsel that he had decided
not to interfere either by respite or communal
ton. The execution occurs tomorrow Rulloff
stated yesterday that he only needed six weeks
to complete his rudiments of philology
The Tribune, this morning, says that if the
senate persists in arrestng and confirming its cor
respondents it simply sentences them 10 double
salaries while Others do their work.
Thomas Carpenters Thomas jefferson won
the $500 purse for 2:29 horses at Fleetwood
Heather Bloom the 500 purse for three minute
horses.
The Tribune, this morning, says that Gov.
Hoffman has about decided not to sign the bill
amending the code to which the bar OF the city
and state so strongly object.
KUKLUX.
COLUMBIA, S. c., May ia party of 100 ku-
kiuX visited the Newbury court house, Sunday
night, for the purpose of killing the republican
county officers. They surrounded the house of
simeon Young, a colored man and chairman of
the BOARD OF county commissioners, threw tur-
pentlne balls into his bedroom, and fired a vol
ley through the window, shooting Youno's wife
IN the back and his child through the thigh
They then forced open the door, and as they en-
tered, Young fired upon the foremost, woundlng
him severely, and then jumped through the
window and ran, receiving two wounds but
making his escape. The kuklux went TO the
houses OF Trial Justice Long and David Hail
STOCK, another county commissioner but they
secTeted themselves and escaped. The probate
Judge was warned the night before, and
lett town. A wounded kuklux was taken off in
a buggy, and left at a house four miles from
the town, where he was yesterday arrested. and
found to be man named Faulkner, well known
in Newbury. He is now in Jail, but will prob
ably be rescued by his comrades Tonight The
republicans IN Columbia are determined to make
q roc np1nr IL
gress, and will endeavor to have TTnited
States warrant issued for Faulkner, and mar
shall, with squad of soldiers, sent to bring him
here for trial in the federal court 1t is believed
if this done that he will give evidence implicat-
ing the other outlaws with whom he acted
SHELBY, N. G., May 17.-The sixteen arrested
kukluX, together with eighteen others. who vol
UNFAIRLY surrendered themselves, appeared be
fore Commissioner Moore yesterday. The com
plainant and witnesses failed to attend, alleging
that their lives would be endangered The com
missioner has issued warrants for the arrest of
the witnesses, and they will be brought to Shell
by to-day.
POWERFUL RAILROAD COMBINATION,
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16.-Papers have been
drawn up here to-day securing the most extern
sive and powerful combination ever ATTEMPTED
in the world. 1t includes the Pennsylvania Cen
trail and connections from the seaboard IN the
Union Pacific terminus at Ogden, Utah, and ON
this side the California Pacific, not the Central
Pacific, but the Vallejo opposition line, which
will be extended north to Goose Lake, OREGON
and connecting with the Oregon railroad to
Portland; possibly, also, TO Pugets Sound
thence TO Christmas lake, thence eastward along
the south side OF Snake river in southern Idaho
to point in connection with the Union Pacific
eastward of Ogden. This route will avoid The
heavy grade across Sierra Nevada, and complete
a continuous line from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc. 1t will be constructed Immediately. all
the capital having been secured in Europe for
the entire work. No subsidies will be asked
The work will be commenced within two months
with all the force which can be placed upon the
line.
MEXICO.
MATAMoRAs, Mexico, May S.-Juarez is dis
placing all generals who support his opponents
Gen. Rocha, commanding at San Luis Potos
Gen. Lopez at Tampico, and Palacios, all part-
sans of Escobedo, have been relieved, but they
refuse TO transfer their commands to their APP
pointed successors, and it is expected that Pala-
clos will resist and fight and follow the example
OF the third division. One hundred armed
Mexicans have crossed the Rio Grande into
racks, and are making a cattle raid. Smaller
bands are constantly crossing for the same pur-
pose, and extend their operations to near Cor
pus Christi. They fight il encountered There
is panic among the breeders of stock between
tie RIO Grande and the Nueces. Thousands Of
cattle are stolen every month, and the Mexican
ofncials throw every obstacle in the way of their
recovery, neither the state nor nation protecting
the people, who complain loudly. They have
organized to protect themselves, but are not
strong enough. If no change takes place. all
the ranches will be necessarily abandoned, and
the loss will be incalculable.