Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-31
Our New York Dispatches.
To Pay Rent for samnna BRy-A Sui
Embellishments in Favor of am Eight
Hour System, etc.

NEW YORK, July 80
Eight handred new buildings have beer
erected in this city since January.
ffteen-foot rubber raft is being built here ioi
an ocean trip to England.
The sailors retreat, ON Staten island will
hereafter be used as a United States naval hos
pital.
Six steamers sailed for Europe yesterday, the
Calabria, City of Washington, St.lLaurent, Eng
land, India and Deutschland.
The arrests made by the police during the
weed ending at six o'clock, yesterday morning
were ,534 in number.
Thomas Barnett of Haverstraw, was found
lying stupidity drunk in the Five Points, Friday
night, with 1920 in his pockets.
In the cass Of John S. Kerwin, charged with
postotfice embezzlemcnt, the government hay
Ing closed its case, Commissioner Shields adj
mitted him to pail.
Yesterday morning, Henry Beckel, while TEN.
porarily deranged committed suicide by hang.
ing himself in stable where he had been EN-.
plOyed.
The fire marshal reports sixteen fires for tn {
week ending at noon yesterday, causing loss
of property of $685. upon which there is an
insurance of $4,000.
The trades and workingmen's unions, of this
city, have resolved to hold mass meeting at an
early day, to sustain the Albany stone cutters
in efforts to secure an eight hour law.
Eugene Callahan, Of Brooklyn, while return.
ing from Rockway, on the Southside railway
train, this morning, fell dead in one of the cars
lie formerly lived near Boston.
mass meeting of all the German societies
has been summoned by the newly formed Ger.
man American association, for Thursday eve
ming next, to consider the occurrence Of July
18th.
ID. +. Moore, jeweller, doing business in Mas.
sau street, near Maiden Lane, was arrested,
yesterday, on charge of smuggling diamonds
and was held for examination in $4,000 bail
by Commissioner Davenport.
The steamer PERT, which sailed yesterday for
San Domingo, took out $3.50, 900, to pay the sec
ond instalment of the rental of SANTANA bay
aud also quantity of arms for the use of the
Dominican government.
Amelia Myers, keeper of an intelligence office
at the corner Of Bowery and First street, and
Louisa Hetrier, atlas Madame Hines, of No. TO-
Forsyth street, have been committed for trial
by Justice Hogan, charged with having been
engaged in an outrageous conspiracy to abduct
a young girl named Johanna Parker, aged is
years, who had recently arrived in this city
from New Rochelle.
During the storm, Friday night, there was a
singular freak of the lightning in a house in
Magnolia street, Newark. Flashing down the
chimney, partly destroying it, it burst through
the fireplace and shivered to pieces handsome
ring on the finger of a lady. Her child, an in
FAINT was affected so that it dropped to the floor
stunned. The effect of the lightning was also
seriously felt in other sections of the city, al
though no serious accidents are reported.
The case of Mr.. Bloomfield, charged by widow
Eliza Murphy with borrowing $500 of her under
promise OF marrying her, and then spending a
portion of the money for furniture and mar.
rylng another woman, came up yesterday,
Bloomfield offered to make restitution of the
money on hand, and give security for what had
been spent, but the irate widow would not hear
to any settlement except such as the court would
adlGdge, and Bloomfield will await in prison his
trial on Wednesday next
The Courier of to-day publishes an interview
with Comptroller Connolly, of which the fol-
lowing is the substance: He says that the bills
and vouchers printed by the Times, which shows
that nearly ten millions of dollars were paid
out to three firms for services covering less than
two years, were actually the accumulatons of
five or six years. The Times, he says, is ac.
tuated by desire to make political capital out
Of this affair, knowing that the popular outcry
about the Orangemen riots, supplemented by
this so called expose of frauds, would give
the republicans tremendous advantage. Mr.
Connolly says, moreover that Tammany is pre-
pared to meet the Times or any other attacking
party. He attributes what he terms "these if
Irregularities" to the system in vogue under the
late republican legislature of governing the city
by commissions Under this system, he saws,
the appropriations were always insufficient, and
the city was forced into debt, of which these are
the accumulatons.
A terrible tragedy of yesterday morning was
briefly as follows: Mr. Cooper, who is a wealthy
retired produce merchant, while eating break
fast with his family, was seized with sudden
fit of insanity, and grasped the carving knife,
arose and made a desperate plunge with it at
his wife. She would certainly have been slain
but that she threw up her hand and the blade
passed through it from the palm to the back, be-
tween the bones. 1t is sorry wound to look
at but it saved her life. Still holding the
weapon the Infatuated man dashed with uplifted
arm at the servant girl. Here he was baffled.
She, seeing escape only in boldness, assaiIed the
maniac and drove him from the room. He fed
up stairs, taking the knife with him, and shut
himself in his own room. The servant girl now
turned her attention to her bleeding mistress,
and had as much as she could do to relieve her
Upon going to Mr.. COoper'S room, the door was
burst open, and he was found with his throat
cut from ear to ear almost. He seemed to be in
the last agonies, and doctor was Immediately
sent for. DR.. Wright sewed up the wound and
did all that he could to preserve the life of the
unfortunate man, but he died this evening. Iu-
sanity is hereditary in the family. Both will
probably recover.