Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-26

New YORK, May 25.-The U. S. steamer
| Worcester, which took out cargo of French re-
lief supplies from Boston, will sail this week
| from Liverpool for this port, bringing the guns
| which formerly formed the battery of the con-
lederate privateer Shenandoah.
The Western Union telegraph company's
steamer, William Orton, intended for LAYING
and repairing cables in the vicinity of New
York, was successfully launched from the ship
yard of C. & J. Poillion, at the foot of Bridge
street, Brooklyn, this afternoon.
The lnman line of steamers will soon discon-
tinue the mail service to Halifax the last steam
er for Liverpool via that port leaving New York,
June 9th.
The Erie road has resumed for ten days run.
ming trains on the Middleton and Water Gap
railroad.
The association of dissatisfied policy holders
of the Knickerbocker life insurance company
have resolved to commence a suit against the
company without delay. The list of complaints,
now in the hands of the committee, has swelled
to nearly one thousand persons, who claim to
have suffered in various sums from $500 to
$500.
Senator Wilson of Massachusetts has engaged
passage in the Scotia for Liverpool, June It'll.
The fires on the mountains in Sullivan, Ulster
and Delaware counties have swept over ten
thousand acres of woodland. Three cabins were
destroyed, and it is believed that all the occu-
pants persisted.
To-day's session of the national insurance
convention was mainly occupied in the prepare
ton of business for future discussions, and com
pieting prelimiuaries and organization. Six
committees, of three members each, were APP
pointed, among whom were apportioned promi-
nent topics already named for consideration
and the convention will hereafter meet daily at
eleven A. M, for discussion and the disposition
of their reports. Communications were read by
President Winston of the Mutual life company
and Hope Of the Continental fire, recommend
ing various reforms and improvements in the
administration of insurance affairs, by which
greater simplicity, uniformity and sta
bility may be secured throughout the
entire country The former recommend.
ed, among other things, that companies
he required to deposit securities and render a
detailed statement of business only in states
where Incorporated, certificates to that effect to
proper state officers to be valid and sufficient in
all other states A telegram was received FROM
Insurance Commissioner Clark Massachusetts,
announcing his intention to be present
movement, which is likely to be successful,
is in progress for the consolidation of three COM
panies of the Cumberland coal region, which
will make the property oneIof the most valuable
under single control in the world.
Thomas Clark LubY, released from the irish
prison with other Fenian exiles last winter, ar
rived in this city Tuesday from Hamburg, and
was hanqueted by number of prominent Irish
men last night.
Alexander f. Orr yesterday recovered from
the city SOB, the full value with interest Of q
grain elevator and other property destroyed by
the rioters July 49, 1863,
William McNevins, convicted this afternoon
of murder in the first degree, in killing Edward
Hines, last November, will be sentenced to-moT-
row.
Ex.State Senator and Col, John Mcleod
Murphy, who commanded regiment during
the war, was stricken with paralysis this after
noon, and his recovery is doubtful.
commissioner White again adjourned to-day
the examination into the disposition OF the En-
glish Erie stock
John Miller was sentenced at Trenton, n j.,
yesterday, TO live years Imprisonment for pass
ing counterfeit bills on the Farmers aud Me-
chanies' bank of Poughkeepsie. George Daiser,
another counterteiter, received ten years sem
tence.
A five.story brick building, Nos. 80 and 81
Ann street, was burned this morning. Loss
$4,000, of which Charles Craske, electrotyper
sustains the greater part
Foster was this morning convicted of murder
IN the hrst degree, with recommendation of
mercy, Fosters wife, on the announcement,
was affected to tears, but he remained unmoved,
and was remanded until tomorrow for SEN
tence. Judge Stuart, Fosters counsel, entered a
motion for the arrest of Judgment, which will
be argued tomorrow. He also complained of
the many articles which lately appeared in the
city newspapers, and especially of one which
appeared in the Tribune this morning, and
moved for the arrest of the editor Of the Tribune
for contempt Of court, but Judge Cardozo de-
cliued to grant the motion.
The tight between Edwards and Collins came
off this evening, at east New York, and was de-
clared draw. Edwards broke his left hand
early in the struggle 1t is said the fight will be
resumed tomorrow morning.
Fisk, Jr., to-day gained his suit against GRAY
for money advanced to invest in cotton. 1t was
in this suit, amounting to $4,000, that Fisk
was arrested, some time ago, in Boston.
The commander Of the Austrian frigate, No
vara now in this port, was visited to-day by the
German association, and IN
vited to accept the Inequalities of that body.
Weather Record.