Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-30
Our New York Dispatches.

New YORK, Nov. 29.-Judgc Bedford this
morning extended the term Of the court TO the
18th Of December, in order that the grand jury
would have time to investigate the important
eases brought before them.
Connolly still TemaiuS at the New York hotel,
waiting for quarter of million dollars to com
plete his bail bond.
Senator Genet says he will sue those charging
him with frauds in connection with the non
building of the Harlem court house.
Controller Green has removed ten more court
employees, whose salaries amount to twelve
thousand dollars.
Three more fraudulent inspectors have been
arrested.
Connolly's friends complain that too great Sc
verify has been used in examining his suretes.
As Connolly was reporteda partner in the profits
of the Ludlow street sponging house, he now
deserves to he sent there.
Judge Brady, it appears, granted the order Of
arrest for Mayor Hall, on similar complaint to
those against Tweed and Connolly. The fact
was known at city hall during the forenoon,
and Hall soon disappeared, it is supposed, to
secure bondsmen and save annoyance of re-
manning in custody Thanksgiving. His bail
bonds will be for 81 100000, requiring sureties
to justify in S2,000,0O0.
Connolly has been committed to Ludlow
street jail. Ii is rumored that his property has
been largely invested in foreign funds by his
son, who recently visited Europe. Connolly had
an interview with Controller Green this after
noon; object unknown.
The receiver of the Bowling Green savings
bank states that the assets are S451 900, and the
liabilities S474,000 If the securities realize the
full value, the deposiorS will receive ninety-dve
per cent, less necessary expenses. The loans
will include Sl4S,000 on personal security, with
out collateral,
The receiver of the Guardian savings bank re-
ports that all depositors will be paid in full, the
smaller ones at once.
The Catholic outrages on the public schools
at Hunters point were continued yesterday.
One boy told the MASTER when the Lords prayer
was being read, to take the Bible and 90 to hell
with it. Thirteen scholars were dismissed for
riotOus conduct. All the windows in the lower
portion of one of the schools were smashed by
stones. A woman entered the school and used
the most obscene and blasphemous language in
the presence Of little girls, and was elected by
the police with a hard struggle Principal Sci
bert's life is threatened.
One hundred thousand tons of Scran' on coal
was sold atnoon, to-day the prices ranging from
1885 for lump to $40 for stove, falling off
from the prices realized at the last monthly
sale except in chestnut, which ranged from
S3.S5 to S4.20.
Charles H. Wallace, a clerk in Tiffany's Jew
elry store, was committed for trial to-day,
charged with stealing SIC 900 worth of iewelry
1t is stated that an order has been obtained
from Judge Brady in the supreme court, to-day,
tllJOluluH duu restraining w, NJ. lWCCu IIOl
diSpOsng of his property; also to show cause at
the special term of the supreme court at Al
bany why the order should not be made abSo-
Lutte.
Saroni, charged with forging one hundred
thousand dollars worth of paper, is brother
in-law Of Pike, the Opera-house owner During
the examination of the effects Of his firm, over
siXty-thousand dollars worth of lottery-tcket
coupons were found in his private drawer. 1t
has also leaked out that sixteen years ago he
had been discovered in similar ior9ed-note Oper-
atoms, amounting to over 5000 900, but them his
brother paid the deficiency and hushed it up.
The trunk line have just advanced their
freight rates largely; in some cases the summer
tariff has been trebleG. FirstclaSs rates to Chi
cago are put up from 80 cents TO ST per cwt,
and in about the same proportion to all promi-
nent western points.
Yesterday the Grand Duke Alexis reviewed
the fire brigade and attended the naval ball in
Brooklyn. After the eyOlutions of the iremen,
a false alarm was sounded, and they went
through the work of putting out fire in the
Everett house, opposite the quarters of Alexis,
which pleased him much.
A verdict was given for the United States in
the case against Harver Barnes, to recover
S54,5 on account of fraudulent invoices of
imported sugar and molasSes.
The health officers report that the cholera has
disappeared from the steamer Franklin She
will be allowed 10 come to the city, Sunday.
Coal fell fifty cents per ton at auction, to-day,
spite of the cold weather.
General Burnside sailed for Europe in the
Scotia.
Catherine DAILY, residing on West SD street,
was arrested for the murder Of her husband with
a Ratchet
The government steamer General McAlister,
to be used in dredging the bar at the mouth of
the Mississippi, was launched to-day.
Rev. w. c. Langdon, the head of the mission
of the American Protestant Episcopal church
at Florence, sails Saturday. The mission will
hereafter be under the direct jurisdiction Of the
general convention.
Hiram Howe, well known jockey has been
indicted by the grand jury OF Queens county
for serious assault ON Del SammiS, and admit
ted to bail in $4,000
An attempt 10 burn the extensive stables of
the Brooklyn Cross Town railroad, at Green
point, was frustrated, and the incendiary, Pat
rick AlcNamee, was arrested
The Brooklyn reform committee will ask per-
Sonal and financial aid from the citizens in
bringing to justice any defrauders of the treas
ury.
A portion of the Erie basin, of South Brook
lyn, gave way last Friday, from the pressure of
an immense stock OF grain in the warehouses;
damage $4,000,
James Kelly, charged with shooting Alderman
Stewart of Brooklyn was committed in default
of bail, to await the action of the grand Jury
There is lul to-day in the Bible war at
Hunters Point. The Lords prayer was read in
the school, without interruption. Kate Dennew,
expelled as leader of disturbances, has applied
for re-admission, but was refused Some sus-
pended scholars were allowed to return. Four
policemen remain on duty in the school, The
principal is still subjected to insult in the
streets, but expresses the beefthat the Catholics
OF the place do not generally approve Of the dis
turhances.
Mrs. Lyman Fiske, wife of the proprietor of
TayloTs hotel, Jersey City, was seriously injured
being thrown from a carriage.
Is is announced that James S. Morgan & Co.
London, have borrowed S5,0O0,00O for the Penn
sylvania railroad, ON debenturcs of the leased
Philadelphia and Erie railroad, and that the
offers therefor have reached S12 800 900.