Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-07
Our New York Dispatches.
O,OOO German sinRers-HaII and Com
nOlIy-St. DOmIm&O-BeauIy and the
Beast-HOw Dissipation Rui ned WO-
man-PubIicatiOm of Debt statement,eIc

New YORK, Aug Cover 10000 Germans
participated in the celebration of the eighteenth
anniversary OF the North American Turnerfest
in this city last night.
AT the request of n committee of the residents
upon Staten Island Gen. Belknap has issued an
order for the immediate inspection of the Staten
Island ferry boats.
The papers here generally scout the PROPOSE
ton of the mayor and comptroller 10 have the
financial accounts of the city investigated by
committee Of the chamber of commerce.
A letter from st. Domingo City corroborates
the statement that certain parties in New York
city have advanced S150,0O0 to Fabns, the agent
OF Baez, TO retain the lease Of SANTANA bay an
other year, in the hope that the island will be
annexed to the United States. The two frigates
are still on duty there. H
All the streets of Williamsburg are gaily dec
GRATED and will continue so for three or four
days longer in honor of grand German turn
fest. Last evening large delegations of Turn
ers arrived here, including representatives from
Boston, Providence, Worcester and many other
cities south and west, besides several societies
from this city.
One Bramhall, lately connected with the
Golden Rule association in an official capacity,
has been missing for a week. 1t now appears
that he went to Albany, where, after failing to
procure some goods, he eOped with his own
niece. He is over fifty years of age, while his
niece is quite young. He has written to his
wife, freely and boldly stating his perfidy, and
parties have gone to Boston to discover them,
as they are believed TO be IN thatIvicnity.
Margaret Walsh, the woman who murdered
police officer McChesney, a few years ago. at
the corner of Greene and Canal streets, has been
before Justice Cox, on a charge of habitual in
toXication. She was once a beautiful girl, and
came from Troy. Now she appears prema-
turely old, was arrayed in rags, and her fea-
lures were bloated and bruised. She was sent
to the island.
No ho, Hna, IL I,r q
the chamber OF commerce in the premises of
Mayor Hall aud Comptroller Connolly. The
summer meetings of the chamber have been dis
pensed with, but the bylaws provide that
special meeting may be called at any time upon
the written application OF ten members. A pa
per will be put in circulation among members
on Monday for signatures and when the neces-
sary number of names have been obtained, Mr..
Opdyke will be recalled to the city by telegraph
TO convene the meeting.
The first official statement of the city and
county debt, which Mayor Hall announces will
hereafter appear regularly on the first of every
month, is published this morning. The net
funded debt of the city and county is $500, 242,-
1896; the temporary debt recoverable by assess
ments on the property for the improvement of
which the debt was incurred is 81 1924 500; rev.
enue bonds to be paid from taxes the current
year, S22, 100000; debt incurred for expenses
growing out of the late war, S12 ,683 900.
Among city expenditures during July are $751;
427 for advertising, S1OS9 for stationery S14O,-
652 for salaries, S67 74O for street cleaning, and
$4,000 for contingencies.
The five German consulateS in this city are I
be consolidated into one.
George G. Ficke, book-keeper and cashier,
confessed yesterday to the embezzlement of
$4,000 from Kabbe & Corlies and William A.
Kabbe & Co., his employers, and was committed
for trial.
Justice Scott to-day issued an Injunction to
compel the occupant of tenement house adj
joining the Alanson Methodist church, in this
city, to stop operating the sewing machines, of
which he employs great number during church |
services. The tenant, a,Iew named Keryofski, |
with number of his workmen, made vigorous |
resistance to the officers who. attempted to serve
the injunction, for which he was arrested and |
in default of $1,000 bail
Arrived City of Baltimore
There were less than half the usual number |
passengers on the Staten Island ferry boats to-
day.