Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-11

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! tOnal bank of this city are in circulation
Controller Connolly yesterday informed a re-
| porter that he had no intention of rcSigning,
| and Mayor Hall said he had not heard that any
| city officials designed to do so.
| The corporation counsel will reply tomorrow
! before Judge Barnard, TO the application for Il
| perpetual injunction against the city officials,
Mayor Hall having decided to take no part in
! the case. TwGCd'S constituents will hold IN
| open air mass meeting Saturday evening, ut
| which Congressman Roberts will preside and
Mayor Hall, Judge Cardoza and Others will
| speak
During the past week there have been report
| ed at the health department 555 deaths, 1861
| births, As still births and 35i marriages,
The commissioners of charities report that
| during the past year they have cared for
temporarily and in the county institutions A.
| S32 persons.
Tic fire marshal reports twenty fires during
| the past week, on which the estimated loss is
$20,570, and the insurance SIG 400
The old cast iron ratings around Union
square were sold yesterday by public auction for
$4,000, to Mr.. Henry l.. Hcmwcll, who paid
twenty per cent. of the purchase price and IS to
| receive 1t within thirty days,
| Ii having been reported that Bishop COnroy
had directed Father OSullivan to resume the
| paStorale Of st. Mary's church, in Hudson, the
| vigilance committee organized some time ago
by the persons designated as the ''rebcs" held
| meeting and unanimously resolved to resist his
admission TO the church dt all HAZARDS They
assert that Bishop Conroy's threat of eXcOmmu-
nication will have no influence whatever upon
their action, and declare that "it is no part of
the duty ola good Catholic to submit to the min
| lStfationS of bad man."
Ldter.-Father O'Sulvan did not make his
| appearance and no services We're held in st,
Mary'S church to-day. A strong guard was
| maintained around the building all night and
during the carly part Of the day, the rebels con-
| tlnuing united in the determination to prevent,
| ut all hazards, OSullivan or any of his adj
| herentS from entering the church, and say
| they are prepared for any emergency.
| The wholesale markets have improved in
| tone the past week, and prices OF nearly all
| commodities have advanced. In -four the de-
| preston and irreguarity of values of last week
| continued until Tuesday, when better demand
| prevailed, and since prices have advanced daily.
Wheat, under the impulse of an active foreign
| inquiry, has improved rapidly. Rye has been
| better and more steady. Oats have been in
good demand, and improved with slight huctua-
| TONS Corn has been in good demand and
| urn. Pork has been fairly active, though vari-
able. For prime mess there has been much
| depression, and TO effect sales holders have been
| obllged 10 accept much lower prices. Bacon
| and lard have been in fair demand and firm.
| Sugars have been more active and firm, Coffee
| has been decidedly strong and better, Cotton
has been fairly active with the tendency mainly
| in sellers favor.
The police commissioners yesterday unani.
| mouSly dismissed John Foley'S complaint against
pVlltC SGlStdNl HICKS lot refusing 10 arrest Inc
| diSturberS Of the recent municipal reform meet
| ing in Harlem.
The Times money article this morning says
the recent heavy fall in Hannibal and st. Jo-
scph railroad stock is due to troubles in the city
| hall ring, which holds large amounts
| A most singular case has come to light; On
| Wednesday afternoon the messenger OF the
| North River bank obtained gold certificates for
$4,000 at the sub-reasury, for the purpose Of
taking them to the bank. When he returned to
In lpt mia. hoe Il IL
nary story; After obtaining the certificates at
the sub-treasury, he says he placed them in
| bank book, and the latter ia a deep pocket o {
his panaloOnS. Having a commission TO exc
cute IN William street, he went down Pine street,
| ana when near William street says he was sud
denly attacked from behind by three men, trip
| ped up, and in an instant his coat was torn
| open and Che bank book pulled from the pocket
| in which it was placed The thieves then ran
| toward William street.
The messenger claims that as soon as possible
| he regaincd his feet and attempted to pursue the
| highwaymen, but Notwithstanding the hour and
the crowded condition of the street. nopne else
| appears TO have seen the alleged outrage COM
mitted or to have seen the alleged pursuit of the
| thieves. The messenger then returned to the
| bank and told its officers the above story. The
messenger is a mddle-aged man, named Rich.
ard Doolcy, and has been employed by the bank
six years, during which time the fullest conf
denCe has been felt in his integrity. He has irc-
| qucntly been entrusted with larger sums than
| theamOunt OF which he was robbed. Being aSSail-
ed from behind, Dooley says he did not see the
faces of the mcu who attacked him, and would be
| unable to identify them.
One hundred guns were fired at the govern
ment barge office, at the battery, yesterday, in
honor of the republican victory in California.
1t is expected that 10000 tradeS-unionists will
take part in the workingmen's demonstration,
| next Wednesday.
Gen. VIM. Ii. Seward, Jr has resigned the
treaSurership of the Southern Central railroad of
this state.
ThOs. ID. Everaux, who was stabbed a few
days ago by Patrick Mcdonald, died yesterday.
lie tried to save an unknown man from being
beaten to death by Mcdonald and his gang
when he was stabbed in the presence of his wife
and family. Mcdonald is in Jail.
| Considerable interest was manifested to day
at the produce exchange on the report of the
successful trip of steam canal boat from AL
bany to Buffalo and return. The return trip
was made in seven days, with full cargo, and
the introduction Of steam on the Erie canal
is considered a complete success.
Judge Bowling acquitted a man to-day who
was brought up by two model policemen on a
charge of assault upon them. The evidence
proved that the man had been pushed from the
walk by the officers while quietly smoking, and
then because he demonstrated they fired four
shots from reyolVerS at him, supplemented by
tremendous clubbing, and ended by taking him
to the station house.
Frederick NJ. Steig, German baker, was
charged at Jefferson Market Yesterday morning
with outraging his step-daughter Katie Lynch,
aged IA years, Katie alleges that on the 18th of
February last, Steig called her into a back
room, and having locked the door, committed
the offence upon her, threatening to shoot her
1t she made any cutlery. The girls mother,
who was Steig's second wife, was dead only 10
days at the time. Three times subsequently,
she states, he treated her in a similar manner.
Stcig was held in one thousand dollars bail to
answer. The accused protests his innocence,
and says the charge is conspiracy.
In a dispute this morning. between John
McCauly, baggage master on the Harlem road
and Thomas Murphy, the latter shot McCauley,
killing him instantly. Late Saturday evening,
McCaulcy started from the New Haven depot
at Fourth avenue and Twenty-Seyenth street
where he was employed as baggage master, hay
ing in his company VIM. Couglin, a blacksmith,
David Blake, brakeman, and Thos Murphy
gate tender of the depot. After visiting several
drinking saloons, they agreed TO separate and
go to their houses, being then aIhalf hour after
midnight. just before parting, Murphy, allud
ing to a previous conversation in which Nc
Cauley had been giving him directions, called
McCauey fraud. McCauley retorted by call
ing Murphy liar, and attempted to strike him.
Murphy avoided the blow, and, drawing a re-
vover, shot McCauley in the left breast, killing
him almost instantly. Murphy did not wait to
see the result of his shot, but dashed down ADD
street from 3D. avenue, at which corner they had
| been standing, and has cluded the police. The
| affair took place but Il few doors from Nc
Cauley'S house, and his wife heard the shot and
ensuing tumult, but did not know her bereave-
ment for several hours. McCauey was twenty
six years old; leaves 4 wife and two young child.
rem. His character was very good Murphy is
twenty-eight years old; married, ami well
thought of
The funeral of Alice Bowesby took place on
Friday morning at her mothers residence in
Paterson. The services were conducted by Rev.
|. l.. Hurlbut, assisted by Rev. DIR. Hombower
and Rev. Mason Gallagher Only the immediate
friends of the family were admitted to the
dwelling, but the sidewalks were filed with peo-
pie. The family desired that the funeral should
be strictly private, bat the many friends of the
deceased decorated the hearse and coffin with
white flowers, wreaths and bouquets and insist
cd upon bearing the entire expense of the flu
neral After a short service the remains were
taken to the family burying ground at PAM
pany, Morris county, j., in the same hearSe
that bore Walter Coukiu to his grave.
A serious accident occurred to the machinery
of the steamer Norwalk while coming up the
bay from Coney island this afternoon, the TOP
of the cylinder being carried away by piston
which broke off and crushed through the upper
| deck and after mart of the cabin Tho Nviidast