Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-13

New YORK, March IA man was arrested
at the Grand Central hotel, last night, for For
roster, the supposed Nathan murderer. He
lives in Providence, r. |. Detective Woolrage
said, a few minutes before the arrest was made
that he would not take $4,000 for his share of
the reward.
The occupants Of the tenement house in which
the small poX patients are confined, at Long
Island city, attacked carpenter building
frame about the house; but, with the aid of the
police, the infested locality was soon shut in
from the outside world. The guards at Hunters
Point have been obliged, in several instances, to
use force to prevent the landing of bodies of
persons at that place who have died of small poX
at BlaCkwelPs Island.
The British ship Chancellor cleared from Mo-
bile, Friday, for Liverpool, with 5672 bales of
cotton, weighing 2,S44 400 pounds, the largest
cargo cleared since the war.
Gen. Mcdowell has ordered general inSpec-
ton of all quartermaSters' stores, camp and gar
rison equipage and ordnance stores in the de-
partment of the east, with view of condemna-
ton.
c. Kinney Smith, formerly night manager of
the Western Union telegraph company, and re-
Gently manager of the Atlantic and Pacific COM
pany's lines, has been appointed superintendent
of the fire alarm telegraph in this city.
Surrogate Hutcbings has decided the celebrat-
cd Taylor will case, involving over a million
dollars, in favor of the defendants, and admitted
the will to probate
The collections announced to be take in the
churches to-day, in aid of the French, were, i'm
many instances, postponed, on account of the
weather, and where taken were quite small the
largest being about $1,000, taken at Bishop Pot
ter's, Grace church.
The case in which Geo. w. Chadwick, a bro
ker, was charged with altering and negotiating
a $4,000 stolen U. S. bond, was summed up
in the U. S. circuit court yesterday. The de-
fence not putting in any testimony, it was con-
tended by District Attorney Davies that the de-
PENDENT having failed to show how he came by
the bond, the inference was irresistible that he
obtained il dishonesty. The jury, after a brief
absence, found Chadwick guilty, and he was
remanded for sentence.
motion for an arrest of Judgment in the
case of Charles Pardue, convicted of firing the
ship Robert Edwards, was argued before Judge
Woodruff, yesterday, and denied. Meredith and
Allen, Pardue's confederates, were, by consent
of the district attorney, allowed to plead guilty
to an attempt to fire the vessel
The charge against Moses W. Hawkes. of Bos-
ton, of obtaining $4,000 in bonds from Mr.
Soule by false pretenses, has been dismissed
and the accused discharged.
Thomas Kennedy, prominent merchant of
this citya for the past fifty years, died Friday
night, aged seventy-four
A Hong Kong letter, January 18th, states
that not merely the building and furniture of
the British consulate at Shanghai were recently
destroyed by fire, but also the records of con-
Chinese correspondence in the interpreter Office
original Chinese title deeds, of foreign owned
property, ships registers, consular accounts of
the previous years, and register of deaths were
lost. English versonsIof title deeds were saved.
Two serious fires are reported in the imperial
palace OF PekiD.
Last week Saturday night two young women
named Maggie futile and Isabella Gragon who
put up at the Montauk house, made great row,
and claimed that an attempt at rape had been
made upon them by one John Kerr and another
man. A young man named Robinson attacked
Kerr and wounded him in the house and was
arrested. Subsequently the trial was called,
but the girls could not be found, and search be-
ing made they proved to be in Baltimore
whence they fed to escape threatened injury
from friends of their assailants. To-day they
were arrested in Baltimore and brought to
Brooklyn tonight
The "association of humanitarian pioneers"
will send two hundred coonists from this port
on the 25th inst. to Charlotte harbor, Manatte
county, Florida. None but agriculturists and
mechanics are allowed to join the colonists.
James 4. Bailey, Roman Catholic bishop of
New Jersey, in lecture on the Roman ques-
tion, this evening, at St. Josephs church, strong
ly denounced Victor Emanuel and Garibaldi,
and prophesied that the pope would soon rule
again in Rome AT the conclusion of the lee
ture, Father Farrell, pastor of st. Joseph's,
whose championship of Italian unity recently
caused a great sensation, thanked the large
audience for their attendance.