Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-02

The New York specie shipment Saturday
amounted to S12S,077.
Marshal Serrano has been proposed for the
presidency of the Spanish cortes.
The Illinois state fair at Chicago closed FRI
day, failure financially.
Secretary Boutwell, addressed an immense au-
dience in Cleveland, Ohio, Friday night.
The White house is being placed in thorough
order for the reception of the presidents faml y.
There were 552 deaths in New York during
the last week.
The disarmament Of the national guards of
Bordeaux has been completed.
K. j. Morris was reelected mayor of Cincin-
natl on Saturday by decisive vote.
A girl named Mary johnson was killed at
the Harlem crossing by being run over by the
Boston train on Saturday night.
The largest amount of silver bullion ever re-
ceived at Salt Lake City in one day, arrived Sat
urday night from Phoebe yalley-S490OO
At Charleston, S. C., there were no deaths
from yellow fever yesterday. The physicians
report marked decrease in cases.
VIM. Ii. Pritchard, cOlored man, was hanged
near Baltimore, Friday, for committing ielo-
NOUS assault.
The New York board of supervisors have
passed the annual tax levy, the amount of
which is S23 1862, 52762.
All is quiet in Spain, and the recent agitation
on the part of the CariSts was utterly unsuccess-
full. The elections were held on Sunday.
Second Lieut.. Frank A. Page of Vermont, 10th
infantry, has been retired, on account of wounds
received in the service.
Nearly twenty persons have committed sui
eide by jumping from the st. Louis ferry boats
during the past three mouths.
The Pottsville Miners Journal says the Read
ing railroad company gives notice that it will
again advance the tolls on the LIST of October at
the rate of fifteen cents per ton.
The contract for building the bridge across the
Missouri river at AtchiSon, Kansas has been
m l. n RnnOar nf fnr
O0O and it is to be finished in twelve months.
About two hundred railway ticket agents who
have been holding convention in Philadelphia,
passed through New York on their way home
on Saturday.
Isaac Smith died of yellow fever in Cincin.
natl on Saturday, having contracted the disease
from viewing the body of his brother in Natchez
a few days since.
The British revenue returns for the wear clos
ing to-day show decrease, as compared with
the year snding Sept. 30, 1870, of over half a
million pounds sterling.
George II. Mumord, a prominent citizen of
Rochester, n. Y, died of apopexy, Saturday
evening. He was for MANY years officially con.
nected with the Western Union telegraph com.
pany,
The president will not return to Washington
before Wednesday next. Secretary Robson
will leave ON Monday or Tuesday for Ohio, 10
deliver two or three speeches before the close oil
the campaign there next week.
Sheriff Gallagher and Daniel Mccarthy, New
York politicians, in Il general row Friday night
in liquor saloon on Chambers street, each had
a leg broken.
Chief Justice Chase, with his daughter, Mrs.
Sprague, arrived in New York on Friday morn
ing, and left in the afternoon for Naragansett,
K. |.
The Algerian instruction has occasioned
much agitation on the frontier of Tunis, and
dispatches from that quarter note continual
increase in the disturbance.
The clerks in the New York city department
offices have received communications signed
by Tweed, asking a contribution of two per
cent on their annual salaries to 20 to the Tam
many election fund.
The treasurer of the United States reports
that the total amount of United States currency
outstanding at this date is 1885,, 625, 143.
Capt. McLillan OF the steamship Britannia,