Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-19
Domestic Notes.
ITEMS FROM NEW YORK .

ITEMS FROM NEW YORK.
New YORK, May 1S.-The new chapel of the
Drew theological seminary, at Madison, N. j.,
was dedicated yesterday, Bishop James preach
ing the sermon.
The City Of Ragusa sails for Liverpool, Mon
day, with cargo of 500 bricks, and a crew of
one man and dog.
The election judges at Hamilton, N. j., have
all teen arrested on the complaint of women :,
whose ballots were rejected.
The annual convention OF the American Israel
ties was held in this city yesterday. Seven
thousand dollars was collected last year for the
aid of Jewish emigrants for western Russia. A.
S. Saroni of Boston was elected treasurer for the
ensuing year.
The English directors of the ocean steamship
lines, in consequence fthe earnest remonsrance
of the shipping merchants of this CITY, have
given up the attempt to introduce new forms
of bills of lading, and will soon return to the
old style of bills No gold went by Yesterdays
Cunarder, and much of the specie has lately
been sent bythe German lines in consequence
of the almost total lack of security to shippers
by the new bills of lading
The Times says that the rise in the Erie stock
is engineered by William H. Marston, who went
to London last November in the interest of the
Erie ring, and returned to New YORK last week.
A notice of registration at the Farmers trust
company of 30, 900 new shares, created by Gould
| last winter to cover up the spoliation of about
half of the English stock in litigation, has been
withdrawn by Gould himself, so the necessity
of an injunction on or before Friday, the 18th,
| is superseded. 1t was reported last night that
| an alliance had been formed between Gould,
Vanderbilt and Scott, by which the Delaware
and Hudson is to have the monopoly of the
| anthracite coal trade at all points on the Erie
| and Central, and access to Albany, Vanderbilt,
Gould and Scott to control all the other traffic.
thus making practical consolidation of the
three lines. 1t is also stated that three Wander
bilt men are to be admitted into the Erie direc-
tory, in place of the gentlemen who have made
arrangements to retire at an early date.
Mrs. Pierson of Chicago, Mrs. Samuel Pruyn
of Albany, Miss Crosby of Poughkeepse, mis-
siOnaries TO Japan, leave this city to-day for San
Francisco and Yokohama.
The young woman who drowned herself at
Llewellyn park, Orange, N. j., Tuesday, was
Annie Gardner, daughter of the editor of the
Bayonne Herald and moving in the best society
in this city and brooklyn. A recent attack of
brain fever is supposed to have produced tenn
porary insanity
DIR. Lookup Evans, the notorious abortionist,
was convicted this morning for assault with
intent to commit manslaughter in the second
degree, the jury having been out all night, and
sentenced him to three years and six months in
the state prison.
The women's typographical union in this city
elected Miss Mary Moore delegate to the Balti-
more convention.
Gov. Hoffman has disposed of all bills passed
by the recent legislature. Among those which
were not signed were those amending the code.
granting state aid to railroads and the extraor-
binary canal repair bill.