Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-06
Miscellaneous Dispatches.


ITEMS FROM NEW YORK.
New YORK, May 5.-A large meeting of the
bar association, last night, adopted a series of
resolutions condemning in the severeSt terms
the recent act of the legislature amending the
code procedure in the courts of this state, and
appointed a committee of twelve TO present
remonstrance to the governor. William NJ.
Eyarts, Samuel j. Iilden, James Ematt James
G. Carter, Henry Z. Davies, Theodore W.
Dwight are among the committee. 1t was also
resolved to prepare memorial for general sig
nature by the lawyers of the city. Mr.. EVarts,
in his remarks upon the bill, stated that it was
doubtful ii the legislature knew they had passed
it. The first knowledge that came to any mem
Der of the bar here was from the judge of the
court of appeals, who communicated it to a law
yer here. He communicated it to newspaper,
which was the first the bar generally knew of it,
The creditors of the Alabama and Chatta-
nooga railroad company have filed petition,
which Judge Blatchford will hear on Saturday,
that the company be declared bankrupt and a
receiver appointed.
Ambrose Woodruff, prominent merchant of
Lynchburg, Va, has defrauded the banks and
business men of that city to the amount of $780,
900 and fled TO Europe. 1t is also reported that
he has taken over 100000 belonging to the
minor children of deceased neighbOr, of whom
he is guardian.
The dock commissioners yesterday resolved to
issue one million of city bonds, to be expended
in repairing and rebuilding the docks.
The difficulties which arose last fall between
rival railroad lines, between this city and Wash
ington, have been amcably settled
The Princeton college base ball club leaves
June 90 on an extended tour, which will include
| games with the Boston and most of the New
| England college mines.
The bill of complaint in the suit of James
Fisk, Jr against the Union Pdcitic railroad and
| Credit Mobilier, Which originally began in the
| supreme court, was filed this morning in the
clerks office OF the United States circuit court,
| n of n,n1
| case in which Fisk accuses the Union Pacific
| company, Credit Mobilier and other defendants.
OF conspiracy to forward the interest of certain
/ stockholders.
Mrs. Anne Claflin, mother of Mesdames
| Woodruff and Claflin, has applied for warrant
for the arrest of James II Blood, alias DR.. j. Isl.
| Harvey, partner in the firm Of Woodruff, Claflin
Co., Tor alternating the affections of her dau0h-
tiers, and alleged threatening the life of depo-
nent, and to lock her in the lunatic asylum.
| Chauncey E. Council, a prominent manufac-
turer of Newark, N. j., was fatally injured yes
teIday by stick of wood flying from a circular
| saw and fractuIing his skull.
| SURRENDER OF STRIKERS,
| ROCHESTER, N. Y, May 5.--The strikers at
the canal break have surrendered, and both the
men and the teams are at work this morning.
| The military sent last night from this CITY are
| still on the ground.
There were two or three skirmishes at the
| canal break this morning, as the laborers were
| assembling 10 WORK. several arrests were made
and the prisoners brought to this city and lodged
| in Jail.
FROM CHICAGO.
| CHICAGO, May 4.-The Northwestern Press
association was in session here to-day, and elect
ed the following officers: President, S, A, D.
| Balcombe; secretary, l.. NJ. Haverstick; Treasure
er, L. L. Merritt.
Susan Altman, aged twenty-five, drowned her.
| self at Marengo, Iowa, yesterday, having been
seduced, under promise of marriage, by Samuel
f. Norton, who has fled, leaving behing new.
ly married wife.
| FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, May 5-About one hundred
workmen are employed in the capitol in Der.
fecting the ventilation Of the house hall, en-.
largirg the doorways leading from the rotunda
| to the house and senate, laying a new floor in
the house, removing the Columbus bronze doors
| from the old hall of the house to the eastern
entrance of the rotunda, ETC., congress having
appropriated S200 900 to make various improve.
ments about the building.
The president has received and has referred To
the attorney general authenticated statements
of recent kuklux outrages in Fairfield county
South Carolina, and il is probable that the new
law will be first put in force in the Palmetto
state. A company of the third artillery from
Fort Riley in Kansas reached Charleston on
Wednesday, and other regular troops are on the
way there The president is opposed to the en-
listment of militia to enforce the United States
laws; but he will not hesitate to send every
availab c regular soldier to South Carolina i
necessary.