Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-30

Abbreviated DtSpulCncs.
Itiis now reported that Ingersol has positively
sailed for Europe.
There has been no further news concerning
DR.. Livingstone.
An infant died at New York on, Tuesday from
drinking whiskey given to it.
Twenty election fraud cases arc now before
the Brooklyn grand jury.
There are now about thirty members of con
gresS in Washington.
The Mississippi river is entirely closed above
the bridge at Dubuque.
The Germans have begun TO build fortified
tons in the passes of the VUsges.
Gov. Hoffman and staff arrived at New Yorl
too late on Tuesday night for the Alexis naya
ball.
Hon. John A. Griswold denies that he pre-
scented a house in Washington to Gen. Schenck
Senator Morton, while entering the cars a
Jersey City on Tuesday night, was robbed O
his wallet
A pistol discussion at New York on Tuesday
night resulted in Philip Smith being fatally
wounded by Samuel Nicholson. The LATTER
escaped.
A New York doctor refused to 20 to the ait
of Il suffering woman in drug store on Tues
day, and she died.
Ex-Congressman Bowen of South Carolina is
elected to the state legislature, as representative
from Charleston county.
The World fears that small poX is about to be
Spain is imminent.
Judge Shandey sent man to the peniten,
tiaTy for three months for offering Il glandered
horse for sale, at New York, the other day.
An expedition sailed from New York in the
vessel Ocean Queen, yesterday, to teach natives
of Ecuador the mechanical arts and farming.
The trouble between the blaCksmiIhs of the
Central railroad and the company, which threat.
encd TO bc serious, has been amicably settled,
Cyrus W. Field left yesterday for st. Peters
burg, for the purpose of promoting his proposed
Geographic cable. He expects TO be gone about
sixty days on the enterprise.
Gov. Alcorn Will to-day resign as governor and
turn over the executive office to Lieut-Gov.
Powers. Gov. Alcoru leaves for Washington.
A war has broken out in Africa in the route
pursued by the explorer, Capt. Stanley. -Four OF
his men were killed in Il battle with the natives,
and Stanley himself is i'll with fever at Unyan
Yembe.
A dispatch from Castleton, N. Y, states that
the river is clicked with ice from shore to shore,
the wind blowing gale from the northwest
and the cold increasing hourly.
The demands Of the wOrllmen at the West
Albany machine shops of the Central railroad
have been provided for by the company and the
men will all be at work on Friday.
An Albany dispatch OF last night saws: It
will he impossible to get boats through the
canal, unless the weather moderates About
one hundred boats are near Cohoes, nine miles
above here, and the ice is very heavy.
Washington specials state that Admiral Lee,
with fleet has been ordered to Cuban waters,
with Instructions if satisfaction for the recent
outrageS is not rendered to open his guns on the
city of Havana,
On Thursday last, while clearing up the resi-
denoe of Resin Hammond, a wealthy citizen OF
Charlestown, Ind. recently deceased, an old
trunk was discovered, which when opened was
found to contain 100000 in coin, treasury notes,
etc.
Prince Won Bismarck has transmitted Il com.
munication to the federal council, requesting
that body to ratify the consular convention re-
Gently concluded between Germany and the
United States Of America.
The Times fears the voucher thieves will es-
cape, as the indictments against Haggerty and
Rauloh, in the opinion of the best lawyers in
the city, will not hold water and viii have to be
quashed.
At Wheeling, W. Va, on Tuesday night, Mrs
Cady Stanton was served with legal process
sworn out by gentleman with whom She had
an engagement to lecture there last winter but
failed. The amount claimed is 800. The lady
proposes to contest the claim
Members of the foreign relations committee
now criticize severely Mr.. Schenck for his con-
nectiOn with the Emma silver mine. Senator
Morton wisely declines to express his opinion
about the matter until he hears both sides of
the story.
The Washington papers comment seriously
about the complications at Havana, and make
more of the story than the facts seem to justify.
In view Of the alleged unsettled condition of at
fairs, however, another vessel of war will be
sent to Havana mt once.
Schenectady, like other places, has cold
weather, and it is estimated there that four to
six hundred loaded canal boats are frozen in,
and, unless the weather grows warmer, they will
have to remain where they are all winter.
Some human bones were found, yesterday
morning, in the debris of Is North Clark street.
Schenectady, which, before the fire, was occu-
pied by family named Dussler, consisting of Il
husband, wife and wife's brother, all missing
since the fire
Rear Admiral Lee, commander of the North
Atlantic feet, left Washington yesterday morn
ing for Boston, from which port he will sail for
Havana on the Worcester, as that vessel will be
used as his flagship during the time the Severn
Is being repaired
The ball night at the Brooklyn navy yard, in
honor of the Grand Duke Alexis, was great
success, The room presented a magnificent
spectacle, More than 900 yards of bunting
we've used in the decorations. Fisk did not put
in an appearance
Capt. VIM. Howard of the marine corps died
few days SINCE at Greenport l.. |. He was a
gallant officer, a native of Maine, and several
years since was presented with a service of sill
yer by the merchants of Boston.
Hon. John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts,
has written a letter, which is to appear today in
the st. LOUIS Republican, warmly endorsing the
so-cal'ed passive policy of the democrats in the
next presidential election. Mr. Adams saws: Il
am satisfied that such course will he wise and
patriotic, and should be glad to see the democ-
racy concur in such resolution"
Since the failure of the Stuyvesant bank no
report has been made of its condition, and il is
believed its affairs are hopelessly Involved. A
meeting OF the stockholders was held yesterday