Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-27
Miscellaneous Dispatches.


ITEMS FROM NEW YORK,
New YORK, Feb 25.-Seventy thousand dol
lars were subscribed for the completion of the
Fifth avenue cathedral, at meeting OF the
Catholic clergy and laty, o. the residence of
Archbishop MCCloskey, last evening
A company of freedmen from Kentucky sailed
from this port for Liberia, Wednesday, in charge
of Rev. NJ d. Heind IN, for sixteen years mis-
sionary on the African coast Sixteen hundred
freedmen from Kentucky, Georgia and North
Carolina have applied for an early passage to
Liberia.
The Brooklyn navy yard authorities received
orders to fit the corvette Wachusctt tor sea at
once, and suspend work on the Shawmut until
the French relief vessels are fitted out. The
Wachusett will join the EuroDean squadron.
Secretary Patterson concluded an invesiga-
ton into the custom house affairs Of this city,
and left for Washington last night. The COM
mittee dcnv the correctness of all the statements
thus far published respecting their abors while
| in this city.
The coal situation remains unchanged. The
| papers are all predicting an early exhaustion
of the supply unless the transportation COM
panes give way. There are now more than Two
| miles of cars filled with coal on the Delaware
and Lackawana railroad between this city and
Rutherford Park, N j., where they have been
standing for month.
James r. Gilmore Edmund Kirke), the aTl-
thor, was married at Jersey City, yesterday, to
Mrs. Amelia 3. Burnet.
The scarlet fever has become very prevalent
and fatal in Bro Iklyn. Four children died
in one house and three IN another.
The steamer Quaker City, which was lately
lost BY the explosion of her boilers at sea- was
on her way from Hlyti to this city to be sold.-
The CARO-, consisting Of five hundred tons of
logwood and large amount OF specie, was full
ly insured.
The general term of the supreme court at
Albany has affirmed the order of judge Rose
krans, striking from the records of the court
certain affidavits in the case of Thompson
against the Erie railway company as scandalous
and impertinent.
Communications were submitted in the board
of Ihealth yesterday warning the authorities
against all vessI Is and passengers from Rotter-
dam and Liverpool, in which ports small poX is
very prevalent. Health officer CIrnochan COM
planned that many vessels from foreign ports now
elude quarantine by coming through Long
Island Sound, eleven having arrived by this
route within the last two days.
In the United States circuit court this morn
ing, the Boston, Hartford and Erie railway com
pany, through Frederick A. Lane, counsel, and
the president, Withdrew its petition for bill of
review Of Judge Blatchford's recent decision,
that the company was Cuisines corporation"
within the meaning of the bankruptcy act, and
Judge Woodruff directed that the necessary or.
der to that effect be entered. The Adams express
company and James Alden will now prosecute
the proceedings in bankruptcy before Judge
Blatchford.
STORM IN THE WEST.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. PA tornado lasting about
thirty minutes, passed over jefferson City last
night. Portions of the penitentiory were I'M
rooted, The building was damaged $4,000. A
guard was fatally injured. The roofs of the
Lincoln institute and other buildings were par
TALLY removed.
FORT ScoTT, Kansas, Feb. ga terrific
thunder storm, accompanied by a violent wind,
passed over Baxter Springs last night and de.
moished a number of buildings, including an
unfinished Presbyterian church and a large
two-story building. The ruins were subsequent
ly burned, together with the adjacent store of
Arthur & Goizier. Total loss s21 900; no insur-
ance.