Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-27

New YORK, March 26.-Twenty square miles
of wooded land, on the south shore of Long
Island, were burned over yesterday, and thou
sands of cords ofwoOd and other property were
destroyed, the total loss being not less than
500, 900. The fire began near Merrick, and
burned westward to Oakland, passing close to
several small villages, which were only saved by
the great eXertion of the inhabitants. No lives
were lost nor dwellings burned during the entire
progress of the fire.
Patrick Cunningham fatally stabbed Anthony
McDenaugh, in an ARRAY at Wcehawken last
night, and successfully resisted arrest by threat
ening to murder the constables and assistants in
some manner. While the latter were gone for
aid, Cunningham escaped.
Clipper ships Riugleader, Captain Hambin,
and Frolic, Captain Bush, sailed yesterday, with
in Fl G minutes of each other, on race to San
Francisco.
The Fenian convention last night abolished
the office of president of the order, and returned
to the committee of finance its revision and
classification OF the expenditures into those
made in Ireland and those in America.
The Eric railway company will carry to the
supreme court of the United States an appeal
from the judgment of the New York court of
appeals for S35 900 damages for G. C.. Dyke for
injuries received at the Carr's rock accident.
The Poppenhousen Institute, at College Point,
L. l., has received another 100000 IRON Conrad
POppenh ousen, its founder.
Archbishop McCloskey yesterday ordained at
the church of St. Paul the Apostle this city,
three Catholic priests, all of whom were con-
yerts from Professionalism, and one, &. NJ. Searle,
a graduate of Harvard college and an eX-pro-
fessOr in the naval academy.
The captain and thirteen men of the crew of
the American ship Canova, from Liverpool for
Charleston, abandoned at sea March 18th in a
sinking condition, were landed at Nassau, N. P,
on the 10th inst.
A sewing machine company recently seized
mo 6phf nd low tha
judge of the marine court held the sewing ma
chine to be exempt on two grounds-6rst as
being necessary household furniture, and Sec
ond-as being used by the plaintiff to earn her
living, and he gave judgment in $SS, the price
OF the machine, with interest on it from the date
of the seizure, and regarding It as a treSpass
would give damages $40 a week, which the
plaintiff could have earned with the machine
The presence of Nilsson in Fisk's private box
at the Grand Opera house, has again given cur
rency to the rumOr that she has been engaged
for season by Fisk.
During drunken alteration last evening on
Blissvile bridge, Greenpoint, N. Y, George
Neep shot and instantly killed one of his COM
panons named Michael Mccormick. Neep was
arrested.
One thousand women were supplied with
places last week by the free labor bureau.
Steamer Clyde, for Savannah yesterday had
on board number of immigrants bound for
Florida, where they contemplate starting a
COLONY.
One hundred and ninety-eight thousand dol
lars have been paid in this city to pensioners
within the past two weeks by the general gov
eminent.
Deaths of the week, 537, an increase of 8s.
A physician and two other citizens of Brook
Ign were arrested yesterday for failing to notify
the proper authorities of cases of smallpox, and
for carrying dead bodies of smallpox victims
through the streets.
The French relief committee have received in
two days S240O from churches in different parts
of the country