Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-24

New YORK, Aug. 23.-The New York city
and county central revenue reform association
resolved yesterday to employ two distinguished
lawyers from outside the state to prosecute the
leading men of the Tammany ring, and to
bring the full force of the law TO bear on them.
Arrangements have been made by Supern.
tendent Kelso to protect the Italian procession
Friday. Inspectors Walling and Jameson take
the front and rear respectively, each command
ing battalion Of policemen. The whole re-
serve win be on duty all day. Drill Captain
Copeland will command at Sulser's park.
Frank Schryver was arrested in this city last
night for forging checks on Edward Burlin-
game & Co., of Troy. One unused check was
found on Schryver's person.
Gen. John NJ. Brennan, commanding officer
at the fort from which the shell was fired over
the steamer Plymouth Rock, Monday, says the
Shell used was not loaded, and that the gunners
are ali experienced and know where shot
will fall. They are engaged in testing new
depressing gun carriage designed TO insure the
personal safety of the gunners. They have
been detailed for this purpose by the secretary
of war to experiment on this new invention
previous TO its introduction into general service.
A number of French citizens are making eff
forts to have grand celebration in honor of
the anniversary of the French Republic. The
celebration is to take place Sept. 4th, on which
day. one year ago, the republic was proclaimed.
The general committee for the conduct of the
forthcoming Italian demonstration, met last
night at the Germania assembly rooms. Com
municatons from several societies in response
to invitations were read, also letter from Gov,
Hoffman stating that official engagements at
the capital precluded his attendance, as re-
quested. Horace Greeley also excused himself
ON the ground of prior engagements, but gave
the movement his entire sympathy.
The Commonwealth national bank of Boston,
recently drew check for $3.50 on the First Ma
tiOnal bank of this CRY, payable TO the order o
Horace (,rpplpV Suhcp0upOtlv n bnnlxiDo hon ~
in Philadelphia cashed the check of the Com
mOnwealth National bank for $4,000, which was
payable to +. r. White and bore the endorse
ment of Oakes Ames. The four thousand dol
lar check was the one originally drawn in favor
OF Greeley. The torger has not been discovered.
Felix Darcy, a truck driver, aged forty, living
in a tenement house on East 18th street, muir
dercd his wife this morning, and then made an
Intellectual attempt to kill his two sons, Bernard
seventeen, and Hugh, aged nine, and committed
suicide. The sons state that their father had
labored under fits of mental arrangement for
over six months They had been trying fol-
some time 10 get him into an insane asylum
and expected to place him there yesterday, but
was postponed till to-day. The father evidently
suspected the fact and appeared quiet last night
This morning, soon after the family got up the
father took a common table knife and sharpened
it. As he went towards the door his wife inter
posed to prevent his going out, and a struggle
commenced. Both sons caught hold and at
tempted to get the knife away. The father be-
came frenzied and drew the knife across his
wife's throat and turned upon his sons, who es-
capped. The father then drove the knife twice
into his own throat.
Mayor Hail. in his message to the common
council, abiding to the magnitude of the labil.
tiles paid by the controller, says: Enlarged
criticism has been made upon the payment OF
those liabilities. Even in view of 1t, the mayor
is of the opinion that he would feel compelled
to perform, at this time, precisely the Official
services which he performed at the dates of thC
criticized warrants, in counteTsigning them
The mayor regardeS his countersigning all war.
rants to be no more than teStifying to the
verify of the paper called warrant that it is
an official document, is drawn correctly in
| form, and comes from the proper sources, with
| the endorsements of the proper bureaus and de
partments. 1t is utterly impossible in immense
| governments such as this of New York that its
executive head or even the head of the finance
department should become personally acqmaint
ed with every detail and incident of its fiscal ae
counts.
In the course of his message to the super
visors, the mayor reviews the legislation under
which the present city government organized
endeavoring demonstration that the greater
portion of the claims and liabilities were in
CURED and transmitted by previous admins
tratiOns. The mayor declares that there was
and is nothing upon the face of the bills to sug-
gest suspicion of bad faith to any one, nor was
more eXorbitant than the generality of deferred
claims always are against national, state or 10
cal treasures.
The mayor defends the issuing of long bonds
so as to provide for the gradual redemption OF
these heavy liabilities, saying that if the city gov
eminent adopted the federal policy of high taxa.
ton, it could make the present generation ma
terially diminish our own debt and all its neces.
sary accretions, instead of putting its burden on
posterity. Permanent Improvements will last
through years to come, aud will, by increas-
ing the value of property, render it easy for the
next generation to extnguish the permanent
debt. The message concludes with a declara-
ton that it is eminently proper that local and
county legislatures should adopt some method of
scrutinizing accounts and put to confusion the
evident partisan conspiracy which has been
formed against the credit of the city and county,
at home, as well well as abroad.
Freight to the west by the trunk lines was
again reduced to-day to point considerably be-
low paying rates, and lower than at any time
since 1861.
The board of health to-day directed quaran-
tine of thirty days for all vessels from ports in
fected with yellow fever or cholera.
The united society OF the Italian brotherhood
began its annual convention at Cooper institute
to-day.