Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-20
ersey City, and the wounded man sent to the

Jersey City, and the wounded man sent to the
hospital.
The terrible and mysterious disease which
has caused such rayages among the car horses
of this city is not abating in the least. On the
contrary, ii is decidedly on the increase, and
many Of the car companies are beginning seri-
ously to look about them, fearful that at last
the disease may stop their business entirely.
The principal sufferers are the Third, Fourth
and eighth avenue railroad companies. The
deaths have averaged about % per cent. on the
number attacked, and of late the percentage
has been increasing.
There are yet twelve persons lying in Bellevue
hospital who were shot on the 18th Of July in
the Eighth avenue. Among them are Owen
Stanton, aged eighteen, in a dying condition;
Peter Mccartney, shot in hand and hip, in bad
condition and may die; John Rourke, shot in
thigh; recovery doubtful; Edward Bahlinan,
shot in head, not fatally. The Others will all
recover. The remains of private Prior of the
ninth regiment, who died yesterday morning,
were last night placed on ice, and will be buried
tomorrow from Calvary church, at eleven A. NJ,
Dr. Flagg preaching the funeral sermon. The
ninth regiment will accompany the remains to
Woodlawn cemetery, where they will be inferred
in the lot of the ninth regiment. Prior was
shot by a burly ruffian, who stood in coal cart
and took deliberate aim with dragon revolver.
Dispatches from Long Branch state that Fisk
is suffering very much, his back having been
and probably will not be about again so soon
as expected. Thomas McClahey of Brooklyn
died yesterday morning, from lOckiaw, superin-
duced by wounds received in the riot.
Deaths in New York the past week. S57 and
in Brooklyn, 346, both showing heavy increase.
No deaths in this city resulted from typhus
or typhoid fevers. This circumstance is UMPIRE
cedented in any previous week since the Organi-
cation of the metropolitan board of health in
1866.
The number of deaths from the riot reported
to the board of health in this city up to to-day,
was 46; all but two of the whole have been
identified.
Another effgy of Governor Hoffman was sus-
pended in Brooklyn this morning by friends of
Cleary, one of the victims of the New York
riots.
1t is reported that a number of wealthy men
are organizing a company in opposition to that
organized in Brooklyn for the purpose of estab-
fishing railroad with steamboat cOmmunica-
ton to Boston. The road is to be built from
Patchogue to Orient Point from which place
passengers will be taken to Boston. The South
side railroad stockholders are said to be inter-
ested in the project, and it will greatly benefit
their road.
The New York state German-American assO-
citation adopted resolution tonight condemning
the appropriation OfmOney for Sectarian schools,
and advising the Germans not to vote for any
state senator or member of the assembly who
does not advocate repeal of the statute giving
the mayor the appointment of school officers.
The lrish-American citizens, in mass meeting,
tonight, passed resolutions denouncing Gov
ernor Hoffman for permitting the Orange par
ade