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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-15
EDUCATIONAL,
Presentation OF silver MeLals at Grammar
School No. az.

Presentation OF silver Medals at Grammar
School No. az.
There were some very interesting exercises yes.
terday Grammar School No. 81, In Eighty sevent h
street. between Third and Fourth avenues. The
occasion the presentation or some silver medals
by Mr.. John Straiton, one Of the trustees OF the
Twelfth ward, to pupils IN the various classes ex-
ceiling in good conduct and general
department. during the month Of March, in
accordance with previous announcement Of his to
this eject. There was q large attendance OF tho
esed In the success OF our public school system. It
was found that there were twelve In the male If
the female and eleven In the primary depart.
Judge Larromore, on behalf OF Mr.. straiton, made
the presentations. The Judge, who Is always happy
In talking to school children was particularly
To present medals for the best scholarship. The
present was new idea, and 1t met with his most
hearty approval. GoOu order was everything In a
schOolroom, and he was pleased to see 1t properly
appreciated ana rewarded. In the course OF his re-
marks ne referred to his association during many
years past with Mr.. Straiton in connection with
public schools, and he was sure that his zeal and
earnestness OF endeavOr to advance the interests OF
the schools, and more particularly IN the Twelfth
ward, where lie mad so long been trustee, were not
excelled by any person in the city. Speeches were
aise made by Mr.. Lawson N. Fuller, former trustee,
ana David II. Knapp, and the remarks of both were
likewise peculiarly felictous ana characterized by
The medals are OF solid silver and oval shaped,
ana were struck by Mr. Stralt0n for this purpose.
On one side are the words, Exoelsior-Awarded
by j. Strait0n" and on the other was engraved the
name OF each recipient There are 1900 scholars in
attendance In the male department OF this school.
owen: OF the female department. Miss Margaret
Cornell, and OF the primary department. Miss Mar.
garet Mackeon. The exercises In all the depart
ing and callsthenlcs and reflected the highest
credit on the teachers.
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REcEpTIOa ON voAao THE ocfASICA.

The New Steamship Inspected by LADIES'.
Ter First Passengers from, New York.
select party, principally composed OF ladies.
visited yesterday the magnificent steamship
Oceanca, OF the new line, and Inspected her nom
stem to stern In honor OF the fair guests the ship
was gally dressed with nags or all nations. Numers
Gus steam vessels, as they passed up and down.
screamed repeated salutes with their whistles. In
the cabins q splendid banquet was spread. NO
speeches were made, but tine the company aid
count Among those present were Messrs. Ismay
aud j. Haddick. large shareholders In the
White star line, to which the Oceanica belongs; Mr..
Jer OF London; Mr. Douglas OF Liverpool; Captain
Dlgby Murray, and the vast number OF beautiful
re- en- tatives, before alluded TO- OF New York and
Jersey CITY. Mr.. Sparks, the agens, stated tha3
every berth was engaged for to-day's homewald
Among those who proceed to Liverpool by thu
Oceanlca are Mr.. Clement Dixon, OF San Franciscol
Major Darling, United States Army: General Ward
ana family; g. Fraser, attacne OF the British Cod
saate; 2. II. Ismay, q. w. Vol. and Messrs. Dous1
La, Lyme Ritoon end Grav. managers Of The Inc u
England
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A LANDLORD CENSUBED.

Coroner schirmer yesterday held an Inquest al l42
Cherry street on the body OF Mrs. winirred Murphy,
the woman who was killed on Thursday afternoon
by falling through the Gre escape from the fourth
story OF the premises to the pavement, while hang.
ing ont shawl to dry. The house Ia being painted
and the trap ON the IRE escape had been removed
and others In the house were aware. The
landlord had also ordered the pulley
lines to be removed tn the painting was finished.
In their verdict or accidental death the Jury ce n
suFcd the owner OF the house tor not using more
precauiou In notifying the people Of the house.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-15

young citizen OF Brussels, named Pierre Dewey.
net, VINO recently paid visit 10 Paris out OF pure
curiosity, having been heard speaking Flemish in
cafe, was taken fOr German, arrested as Prus-
sian spy, and shot, III spite Of al his prOteStatlons.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-10
The Miners.


SCRANTON, PA, May "a riot occurred to-
day at Hyde Park. The laborers and miners
who desired to resume work were holding a
meeting near Hampton, when they were as
saulted with stones by the wives of the miners
who resist resumption. A crowd of these
miners were little way off, urging on the wo-
men, believing that the laborerS would not re-
turn the assault on the females. The laborers
then moved further off toward strip of woods.
They were followed up by the miners, who,
meantime, had been greatly reinforced. The
men and women then unitedly assaulted the
laborers and stones were freely used on both
sides. A woman named Smith was seriously
wounded in the head by a stone, and as the af-
fray increased in violence, pistols were drawn
and fired. A man named VIM. Cove one of the
assaulting party, was severely wounded in the
thigh. Another named Mcdonald, was shot in
the head, and about ten or twelve Others most
brutally beaten, some of whom will probably
die. The military was ordered to the scene of
the disturbance, but arrived too late to do any
good.
This riot is generally admitted to have been
only one result of the 'W. b. A." demonstration,
on Monday, when the miners were infamed by
appeals TO their passions by Kealy, president
of the general council. Great excitement has
prevailed here to day. During the day, a mob
Of several hundred rioters visited the works of
Morris & Weeks, and drove cut the men at
work there. What the end will be, no one can
tell A large body of troops will arrive to-mor-
row, but, as most of them will be from the coal
regions, not much confidence is felt.
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kirP Record.

AT FAQUENDos, PA.-Loss $1,000
PITTsBURG, May 9.-The loss by fire at Fa-
quendos, Sunday, will probably reach 500, OOO
There was but little insurance on the property.
The origin of the fire is unknown. The flames
swept off everything on the west side of the
street, including stores, dwelling houses and
hotels. Fishers office and Grandison's ware
house on the east side were also consumed, and
but few scattering buildings remain,
AT TRoF-LoSs SID, 000
Troy, N. Y, May 9.-The Manufacturers
Hall, on the Rensselaer, county fair grounds,
was burned last night. 1t was occupied as a
paper box factory by Z. Waters & Sons, who
lose $4,000; insured for $4,000. Loss on the
building $1,000; insured,
AT AUBURN-LOsS OF LIFE,
AUBURN, N, Y, May 9,-Three children were
burned to death in this city, yesterday after
noon, They were at play in an clubhouse where
there was barrel of fireworks, which exploded,
and 1t is presumed that they were playing with
matches and set fire to the contents of the bar
rel. Two of the children were probably in
stantly killed by the explosion, the third lin
gered for some hours. The youngest child, aged
four, was the son of Mr.. Mitchell, glider, the
others were children of Mr., McCarty, of Capt.
tol street, where the accident occurred, A lady
named Higgins, after visiting the scene of the
disaster, was so shocked by the horrible sight
that she died at ten O'Clock the same evening.
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LATEST NEWS.
BY TELEGRAPH
70 THE WORCESTER DAILY sPK
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, d. c., May o.

FREsHET AT HARPER's FERRY.
The following dispatch has been received
from Harper's Ferry, dated the Sth: The
freshet is very high here. All the temporary
bridges on the Winchester and Potomac branch
and the Baltimore and Ohio railroad are
weighted down with cars loaded with coal, to
keep them from washing away. The water is
receding slowly, and by night we will be able
to see the amount of damage done. Trains are
stopped on the Winchester and Potomac
branch.
A large body of water is passing down
through the Halls island property, on the Shen-
andoah, and fears are entertained that it will do
serious damage. The rain storm, which has
continued here since last midnight, renews the
apprehensions of a serious freshet Yesterday
morning the temporary supports under the rail-
road bridge across the Potomac were knocked
away by driftwood floating on the strong cur
rent of the river Travel across the bridge is
suspended.
The work of pumping out the iron steamer
Hercules at Georgetown has been suspended
until the freshet subsidies. The river is very
high, and large quantities of drift wood are
floating down from the upper Potomac. The
fish wharf is entirely submerged by the flood.
Heavy rains, Friday night, undermined the
track Of the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas
railroad, one and half miles south of Glasgow
station; but, it being apparently all right, the
southern bound freight train, Saturday morn
ing, was running over it at the usual speed,
when the embankment gave way, precipitating
the engine and two cars down the bank, and
damaging them very seriously, and also badly
injuring c. Mayhugh, engineer, and Paul Goods
by, fireman.
DIVORCE.
decree has been issued by Judge McArther,
in the equity court, diyorcing Cecilia Young
Kretschman, well known in musical circles,
from the bonds of matrimony with Julien C.
Kretschman.
MILITARY RECEPTION.
The fifth Maryland regiment, which will visit
Mount Vernon tomorrow has been rendered a
collation. at the Arlington house upon their re-
turn to this city, by the governor of the terrific
ry, the mayors of Washington and Georgetown
and other citizens.
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Central and South America.
AspinwnlI Htems-WRrs and RebeIIiOns-
Lima Captured by Insurgents, etc.

AsPINwALL, May 6.-The insurgent army is
advancing toward Santiago de Yoagnas, threat
ening Panama Immediately, and consequently
there is great alarm. The president, in pro-
clamaton, notifies the troops to prepare for a
fight, and they have been supplied with arms
and ammunition. The railroad depot has been
delivered over to the commander of the national
troops for safe keeping. Peace commissioners
have started to confer with the rebels, and also
proper officers, to reclaim the steamer Montijo
and the prisoners on board. Herrara, the rebel
commander, has notified the United States con-
sui not to interfere with the United States steamer
cause he says the United States officers will not
be permitted to come on board that vessel, and
he will fight them to the bitter end. The Resaca
will leave the isthmus of Darien on the 10th,
and thenceforth the foreigners will be unpro-
teCted.
All the foreign consuls have addressed the
president, begging him to have the national
troops remain for the protection of the lives and
property of foreigners.
The insurgents have captured the city of
Lima, the capital of Peru.
Advices from Buenos Ayres state that the av.
erage death rate from vomito is $50 daily. Five
thousand persons died in five weeks. Sixty
thousand fled from the city.
The vomito is making frghtful ravages at
Valparaiso.
At Venezuela a decree has been issued that all
merchandise imported for New Granada, and
passing through Venezuela, shall pay the regu-
lar Venezuela duties.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-10
Our New York DISPATCHES.
Murder in the Second Dcgree-ROyRI
COmmis siOners Off for HOme-Death of
n Priest, etc.

New York, MAY 9-John w. Devine to-day
pleaded guilty of the second degree of murder in
killing Garrett W. Nostrand, wealthy drover
of Syosset, L. L., last winter.
Lords Goderich and Tenterden, with Mr..
Cremer, secretary of the high commission, leave
for Boston tomorrow.
The Delaware and Hudson canal company to-
day reelected its board of directors. The net
profits of last years business amounted TO
S6,51S,S2S; and the loss on account of the
drouth in September is estimated at 100000
tons.
Rev. VIM. Mcclellan, Catholic clergyman, of
Sing Sing, died suddenly in this city this morn
ing.
Sidney Mason, formerly one of the prominent
shipping merchants of this city, and later presi.
dent of the South avenue railroad company,
died yesterday.
The iron manufacturers of the Atlantic sta ties
are in session to-day, at the Aston house, the
purpose of the meeting being to establish a uni
form advance for extra sizes upon the local mill
price for bar iron The report of the committee
appointed to take suitable action on the subject
is now under consideration.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-10

AN INGENIOUS SEAL.-The photographer for
the treasury department at Washington is now
engaged in preparing the seals for the new locks
to be used by that department in the transporta.
ton OF merchandise in bond and in other cases
where the protection they will afford is necessa-
ry, These seals are very ingenious. The lock
itself is nothing more than an ordinary paddock
but 1t is provided with an arrangement by which
small piece of glass, about an inch square, is
passed over the keyhole, and held in place by
little spring that cannot be reached without
breaking the glass itself. There is no possibili-
ty OF the lock being picked or opened without
breaking this piece of glass. Now comes in the
value of the photography. A large sheet of
glass, red on one side, is prepared in New York
by marking it off into squares of the proper
size. And on each square is marked a num-
Der in figures, and irregular spots in
red, the rest Of the red surface being cut
away by hydrohuoric acid One of these sheets
cannot be duplicated. The photographer re-
eeiyes them here and makes three photographs
which give perfect fac SMILES of the figures and
spots on the glass, and then both glass and pho
tographs are cut into squares and packed in
boxes, each square of glass having with it the
three copies on paper, and sent to the officers
who will use them. The officer in New York,
for Instance, whose duty 1t is, when a car is
loaded with bonded goods for Cincinnati, locks
the door with one OF these locks, and forwards
to the officer who Is to open it photograph of
the piece of glass which he has put over the key
hole, and if on the arrival of the car the lock
should have been disturbed the inspector knows
it in an instant. The work of preparing the
seals will give constant employment to two or
three persons,
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resembling those used by Daguerre in the carly
days of photography. On each of these plates
was faint image of the house of Soho, so I'M
mistakably taken from nature, and so evidently
produced by the aid of light, that all experts of
any authority at once pronounced them to he
photographed pictures taken directly by means
of camera. Attached to these plates was
memorandum stating that they were sun-pic-
lures representing the house prior to certain al
teratons made in 1891. Subsequent investiga-
ton proved that there had once been found
camera in Boulton's library answering in de-
scription TO the kind of instrument required for
plates of that size. This evidence, if substan-
tiated, will go far to prove that the discoveries
Of Niepce and Daguerre were anticipated by
Boultou.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-10

HAVANA, May 9.-The insurgents laid trap
to capture or kill Valmaseda at Canto del En-
barcadero, while returning from Manzanillo, ac-
companied by only few staff officers. The in
surgents attempted first to surprise the Spanish
detachment. twenty-five men were entrenched
at the mouth of the Canto. A lieutenant, in
command of the Spaniards, saw the insurgents
coming, and devined their purpose. He waited
until they came close to his position when he
nred a few volleys into them, killing over fifty
The remainder retreated
Inc insurgents, defeated in the attempt to
t YAK, me post, abandoned the plan against Gen
VVai,maseda, who came later in little steamer.
taincy, for his conduct. ~ up
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-10

THE DIsCovERER OF PHoToGRAPHY.-One
of the most interesting questions in scientific
circles yeI undetermined is the name of the origi-
nal discoverer of photography, and certainly
one of the most pertinent circumstances tending
to solve the mystery is that which is now related
of an old house at Soho, near Birmingham,
where tie renowned engineering establishment
of Watt & Boulton was originally founded, and
in which house Boulton lived. He died in 1909,
and on removing the contents of his library
many years after, there was found large figure
paper, ntricatey cut at the joining place SO that
the line of union might fall at the edge Of a
shadow, and not be perceived when the two
halves were put together to form the complete
picture. Further research also led to the dis
covery of couple of sivered-metal plates, each
about the size OF sheet Of notepaper, precisely
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-10

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9.-The deposition of
Ben Holiday, defendant in the suit of Simon
G. Elliott for the recovery of half interest in
the Oregon Central, now the Oregon and Califor-
mia railroad, alleged to have been fraudulently
transferred by Holiday, is the largest ever
taken on the PIcitic coast. The revelations made
as to how railroad matters are managed, it is
said, will be interesting to the public.
Five thousand California horses, in charge of
fifty men from Kern and Tulare counties, are be-
ing driven overland in one band to Denver, Col
nrndn
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-10
The National Game,

WHITE STOCKINGS VS.. FOREST CITY.
CHICAGO, May 9,-Yesterday the White
Stockings of Chicago defeated the Forest City
of Cleyeland-14 to -.
ATHLETICS VS.. ECKFoRDs,
New YORK, May 9.-Athetics, of Philadel-
phia, ten; Eckfords, four.
BoSToNs VS.. LAWMAKERS.
Troy, N. Y, May 9.-Bostons, nine; Hay
makers five
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-10
weather Record,

WASHINGTON, May TT 80 p. NJ.
SYNoPsIs.-Ihe weather remains unchanged
on the Pacific coast. The low pressure which
prevailed Monday evening in the lower Missouri
valley has moved south and east into Tennessee.
The barometer is highest in Wisconsin, and has
risen on all the lakes, 1t has risen, only to fall
again, on the gulf and south Atlantic coast,
Brisk north winds are reported from Lake
Michigan and Illinois. Elsewhere they have
been fresh and light. Cloudy weather and light
rains have spread from the Ohio valley eastward
to the Atlantic. Clear and partially cloudy
weather has prevailed on the lakes.
PRoBABILITIEs-Iti is probable that ran and
clouds will, on Wednesday, advance along the
Atlantic coast, with clear cool weather on the
lakes, and cloudy and clearing weather in the
interior,
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-10

CINCINNATI, May 9.-The seventh annual
meeting of the homeopathic medical society
beganito-day. Between thirty and forty mem
bers were present, Including one lady, Mrs. DIR.
Chase of Cleveland
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Criminal Record.

a
CHICAGO, May 81. NJ. Kimball of Zanes-
vile, Wis, lately raised a large amount of
money on forged paper and left for Clinton, Iowa,
where he was arrested and taken back to Zanes-
vile. Sunday he committed suicide, and his
young wife died of a broken heart, caused by
his dismrace. She leaves four little chidren
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

LoGANsPoRT, Ind, May 9.-The corner stone
of the Smithson educational college was laid to-
day, under the auspices of the Masonic fraterni-
ty. II was one Of the grandest public affairs
ever witnessed in this city. The procession was
over mile and halt in length,
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Mnsty Conformation.

ST.. JOHN, May 9.-The fishery provisions of
the treaty at Washington are very strongly con-
demned here. Hopes are entertained that they
will not be ratified by the Canadian parliament
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RICHMOND, May 9.-The total registration
here shows majority OF 900 for the whites.
Samuel b. Smith, a prominent bank officer
died here this morning, V''''s''
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pATENT OFFICE BUSINESS-Amer1
A can ana Foreign Patents procured Rejected Ap-
pcatons re-argued; Interference Gases Prosecuted;
Opinions given as to the validity and infringement Of
ltents an suits prosecuted snd defended the u -
Courts by
THOs. II DODGE.
formerly Principal Examiner and Chairman OF 1.-THE
Board of Appeals u 8, Patent ofdce) Counsellor at
Law, and Advocate in Patent Cases Office Dodges
Block, corner Park and Portland sts Worcester Mass
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