Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-11

by spark from locomotive in WcstcheSter
county, MY.
A ST. Paul dispatch saws ;"Returns swell Aus
tins majority to 1929, with the upper couuueS
to hear from"
Gen. Mcclellan is named as Tweed successor
in the department OF public works in case the
latter resigns or is dismissed.
1t is estimated that real estate in New York is
worth at least twenty-five per cent more than 1t
was before the election.
The news of the disasters by the whaling fleet
caused immediate and heavy advance in the
price of sperm oil in London
Il is reported that AshburY will be a cand-
date for representative in Brighton upon the
next parliamentary acancy of that borough,
Thomas Spett committed suicide on Thurs
day in Williamsburg, having been deserted on
Wednesday by his wife and children
Large amounts of silver bullion are being re-
ceiyed from the Ely district, Utah. The ship
mcnts of base bullion and ore are extremely
light.
Theirs has visited the military school of st.
Maur, where lie witnessed the examination of
pupils, inspected the quarters and held re-
view.
The state department in Qurinal palace,
Rome, is in preparation for the permanent resi-
dence of Victor Emanuel on his arrival at the
Italian capital.
The bar association of Richmond county, Ga,
unanimously passed resolutions requesting con-
greSs to establish Il United States district court,
with circuit powers, in Augusta
The Ogden, Utah, papers claim, on the prac-
teal tests Of Cornwall experts and practical
miners. that the tin discoveries at that place are
bona de
Comparative cotton statement: Receipts from
September 1, 572 $50 bales; same time in 1870,
1854; exports, 215,2S3; same time in 1870,
272 1888.
The suit of Morris and ingalls,, receivers of
the indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette rail-
road, against H. G Lord, former president, for
the recovery of S24S, 900, waS dismissed
On Tuesday, A. i. Stewart gave every clerk
time to vote, and did not close his store lest 5000
sewing girls, who are paid by the job, should
lose days pay.
Olive Logan, in her lecture at New York,
Thursday night, was very severe on the free
lovers, and while advocating female suffrage,
said freelOye is not on our banners, and Victoria
Woodruff is not our leader
j. ii. Evans, twenty-three years OF age, was
found dead Thursday morning in Paramount
park, Philadelphia A bottle of laudanum was
found in his pocket, and it is supposed that he
committed suicide.
On Thursday morning, John Kirk, aged forty
years was run over by cart at the junction of
Twenty-sCcond street and Ridge avenue, Phila-
delphia, receiving injuries from which lie died
in few moments
The Charleston, S. c., Howard association
have passed resolution giving notice that, as
| the yellow fever has nearly ceased, the active
ODCIdtlOlS VI IllC dSSOClltlOl VIII IelIlUatC on
| the 18th.
Five hundred thousand dollars of the stock of
| the Northern Missouri railroad, owned by the
| county of st. Louis was sold to the managers
of that road for $4,000, the purchasers assum
ing the expenses incurred in the suit pending
| against the company
A boiler in the blacksmith shop of the Pitts
| burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad com
| pany, at Fort Wayne exploded on Thursday.
| Six men were injured
The president and Mrs. Grant left Washing
ton last night for New York with General Sher-
man and Lieutenant Grant, who sail for Europe
to-day from that port on the Wabash.
Advices from Aspinwal are to the ID inst.
| The Spanish war steamer Tornado was still
watching the American steamer Virginia. An
| attempt TO capture her was apprcheuded, des-
| pite the protectorate of the New Granadian gov
crnment and the United States consul.
A Havana letter Of the 4th states that large
| number of arrests by the government of parties
| heretofore entirely unsupported of sympathy
| with the insurgents have been made, aud the
| parties sent TO the Isle OF Pines, The arrests
| number forty, including merchants, lawyers and
| planters.
The great topic in mining circles in Utah,
| continues to be the suits of the Eureka COM
pany versus the Aspuwall and others at Provo.
| The chief mines in litigation are the King David
and May Henrietta, both very rich if not the
richest in the territory.
In Philadelphia on Tuesday afternoon, two
rival gangs of boys INDUCED in a stone fight at
| Readers street wharf, during which one OF the
| boys discharged pistol The ball entered the
| left temple of Hugh Carroll, who is now in a dy-
| ing condition.
The telegraph convention which will assemble
| in Rome on the first of December next, will be
| the most important asSemblage of such a char
acter that has ever been held. Representatives
| will be present from every government in Eu-
rope as well as from such governments of Asia
1 fa1n
| territory.
| Colonel John Z. Smith, of the fourteenth in
| fantry, has been ordered to Washington for Il
| conference in regard to Indian affairs, he having
| had long experience with the Indians. Major
| IL. Clay Wood, of Maine, has been relieved from
duty as assistant adiutant general of the depart
ment of Texas, and ordered to duty at Portland,
| Oregon.
1t is given out at the treasury department
| that the amount OF new loan bonds sent 10 Lon
| don is about S6O0O0,000. The general impress
| sion is thar nearly double this amount has gone
| The last detail of clerks who sailed tor London
| took with them 81 900 900 of the bonds.
Senator Sherman, on being questioned con-
| corning the report of possible detection among
| the republicans of Ohio on the subject of the
| United States senatorship, says there is not a
republican elected to the state legislature whom
| he would suspect of making combinations with
| the democrats to defeat the republican nominal
| tons. He also says very emphatically that all
the talk about pledges to him is pure fiction I;
and that, so far as he knows, every member is
| entirely free to decide for himself what rcpub-
lican ought to be nominated, and that all will
| cheerfully abide the decision of the majority.
The white settlers near the Indian territory
| seem determined to steal the Indian lands
| They seem possessed with the idea that speedy
| determination surely awaits the red men, aud
that those who have secured lodgmen. in their
| territory will do so to their profit The various
warnings given them by the secretary of the in
| terror have not had the desired effect to cause
them to leave. 1t has come to this that the pres
ervation of the faith of the government with
the Indians in the interests Of peace requires
that those who settle upon the Indian lands con-
| trary to treaty stipulations shall be removed,
and it is probable a call will soon be made upon
| the war department to see that their removal is