Worcester daily spy., 1871-03-23

were over two thousand trunks full of valuables
belonging to Americans at the railway stations.
Their owners are beginning TO entertain hopes of
regainng them
Count Won Bismarck has notified the French
government that the sum of two hundred thon-
sand francs must be paid by France to the
mother Of NJ. Hart, an eX-offcer of the Prusslan
army, who, at the breaking out of the war, was
arrested in Paris as German spy, uujustly con-
demned 10 death by military commission, and
executed.
At recent New York dinner, the names of
the guests, designating their places at the table,
were painted on rubber balloons which hoated
over the table, being fastened by long strings,
one to the stem Of each mans goblet. The effect
was very novel, and provocative of many jokes
As a check upon the dspensation of poisons
by ignorant drug clerks, it is suggested that it
shall be made a law that all poisonous ngre-
dients in drug stores be placed in department
by themselves, in bottles of peculiar and de-
fined shape Triangular would be best,) and with
a stopper also of an unusual aud defined color
Two of the New York counterfeit money and
sawdust swindlers, of the fictitious firm of owen
& Co., have been convicted on the testimony of
Mclvan L. Cove of Seabrook, New Hampshire,
who was credulous enough TO expect them to
send him bad money for good and angry enough,
when he found he was deceived, to be Indifferent
TO the exposure of his own rascality. The
swindlers were sentenced to six months in the
penitentary and fine of fifty dollars each.
Truckmen are the victims of the latest New
York swindle. A man asks one of them who
has n load of goods, TO take trunk TO some
place in the neighborhood of the carman's des-
tinatiOn. On reaching the place, the carman
and the other take the trunk up stairs, stopping
at an Office door where the carman is asked to
wait Il minute while the KEY is brought from the
store below. He waits till he is tired, and then
goes down stairs to find that his horse and truck
have vanished. The trick has been played three
times within week, and not one of the stolen
articles has been recovered.
The failure of DR., Strousberg, the Prussian
railroad king, who but few months ago was re-
ported to be worth eight or ten million thalers,
was due TO the disastrous result of his specula-
tions in Roumanian railroad stock. The extent
of these speculations may be seen from the fact
that Strousberg, on the list of March, owed
merely on the coupons Of the railroad stock in
question the sum Of two million thalers and a
half. There is intense telling against him
throughout Prussia, and it is even said that he
will be prosecuted by the criminal authorities.
The following conversation, which is reported
to have taken place during the peace negotia
tions between Count Bismarck and Picard, the
French minister of finance, is, at least, good
enough to be true BiSmarck-"I am not dis
inclined TO extend the armistice TO the oath, or
in case of need, the 2sth of February" "Trust-
ing to your kindness, count" said Picard, 81
beg you will consent to prolong it till the Both"
"ImpOssible," replied the count. "AGay | know
your TedSOuSE HShetl lilc rItlCu ullllSleT. lou
may" answered Bismarck, with good-natured
SMILE "because the month has only twenty-eight
days"
Anewspaper correspondent writes from Rome
81 just hear an amusing instance of American
pluck. A coachman the other day attempted to
impose upon one of our young countrymen, and,
enraged at his want of success, rushed at him
with knife, fortunately only cutting his cloth
ing. The young man in his turn wounded the
cOachman in the arm, overpowered him, put
him in his own carriage, and drove him off to
the police office. One Of the amusing features
of the case is that our countryman is a very
delicate young man, spending the winter in
Rome for his health. Of course he was entirely
for the Romans never do anything
to prevent fray"