Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-21
Miscellaneous Dispatches.

| ITEMS FROM NEW YORK.
| New YORK, April 20.-The Liverpool shiI
Bridgewater arrived yesterday with Capt Sven
| gensen and five men of the Norwegian barqu(
| Bella Dona, from Baltimore for Londonderry
| The barque sprung a leak in a hurricane, and
| sunk on the 9th inst. The mate and two sailors
were lost, and the survivors were picked up in
| an open boat on the 9th.
The barque Northern Queen, from Newcastle,
England, has also arrived, with the captain and
crew of the Nova Scotia schooner Condor, water
logged and abandoned.
Jay Gould was served with a subpoena TO APP
pear to-day before Kenneth G.. White master in
equity, in the proceedings instituted by the En-
glish stockholders of the Erie railway company
against James Fisk, Jr., and himself to give evil
dence in regard to the non-producton of the
books and documents containing information
concerning the disposition of the stock, for
which four distinct orders have already eminated
from the court.
W. D. Bogart, charged with embezzing funds
of Paymaster Clark of the United States ship
Vermont, who was tried by a naval court mar
tial and subsequently transferred to the civil au-
| thorities, has disappeared, and reward has
| been offered for his arrest. A marine officer de-
| tailed to arrest him, entered the store where he
| was employed, but Bogart SuSpecting that he
was wanted, bolted through the rear window,
| and has since eluded arrest. 1t is believed he
| has gone abroad.
The rumor that David Dudley Field had with
drawn from the Erie suits and dissolved his con-
nection with the Erie managers, or that the Erie
managers had dissolved their connection with
him, was denied last night by James Fisk, Jr.,
who stated that Mr.. Field is now senior counsel
for the Erie company, and will be as long as he
lives.
The announcement in the board of brokers
that the Erie directors had increased their COM
mon stock 81, 900, 900 by exchanging that amount
for convertible bonds of the company, created
yesterday an excitement on Wall street. The
acftI
notice of the issue of additional bonds or stock
having been violated in the transaction, the
brokers' committee met yesterday afternoon to
consider the question of throwing the Erie stock
ont of the list called at the board, but no de-
cision was reached. The Erie managers claim
legal right to issue convertible bonds without
limitation.
The state superintendent of insurance is ex-
pected in this city to-day to investigate the con-
dition of three insurance companies, one of
which will probably be ordered TO suspend bust
ness.
The German consul at Panama has sent let
tiers to the German consul general at this port,
exposing scheme from this city OF sending
German emigrants to Lower California under
false pretences, and calling upon him to take
action in the matter.
One of Bergh's officers found over fifty cats
and kittens in the cellar of the Metropolitan
hotel yesterday. They were all collected, fed,
and given to persons promising to take care of
them. The colored man at the hotel stated that
the cats had not been fed since the sheriff took
possession of the hotel.
A large number of bishops, including Will
liams of Boston, Louis de Goesbriand Of Bur-
lington, VT, Mcfarland of Hartford, Bacon of
Portland, Me-, O'Reilly of Springfield, Mass.
and others, met yesterday at the residence of
Archbishop McCloskey Of this city, and decided
to divide the diocese of Albany into two distinct
dioceses, 10 be known as the diocese of Albany
and tlp diocese of PlattShurp mr.
will remain bishop of Albany, and the names of
three clergymen were selected to be forwarded to
the pope at Rome, that he may select from them
the future bishop of Plattsburg. The names of
the three were not officially stated but they are
supposed to be Rev. DIR. McGlynn Of 81.
Stephens, Rev. Father Preston of St AIMS, and
Rev. Father Quinn of St. Peters, Barclay street,
all of this city.