Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-06
Our New York Dispatches.
End of the Coal Panic-AIleged DishOn.
esty of n COlIectOr-New Minister from
ChicagO-The AstOr House PROPRIETOR
Tweed TO be GIOrifed by Statue-Yachl
Cruise, etc.

SAuA5S3 NaNs
New YORK, March 5.-The coal panic in this
city is fully ended. The opening of navigation
on the Hudson and the connecting canals rem
ders available supply sufficient to last till min
ing is resumed.
suit has been begun against the sureties Of
eX-Colector Morgan L. Harris of the eighth
district of this city, for the amount of his bonds
S20O,O0O the government having lost nearly
S250,OOO through his acceptance of worthless
bonds from whiskey dealers. Augustus Schell
and Charles Devlin were among the bondSmen.
/ Rev DIR. Rylance, lately of Chicago entered
upon his duties as rector of st. Marks Episco-
pal church in this city, to-day. He denies the
recent report that he left Chicago in consequence
of difficulties with Bishop Whitehouse.
The creditors ofC. A. Stetson's sons, proprie-
tors of the Aston house, yesterday agreed to ac-
cept Stetson's proposal to pay twenty per cent
of their Indebtedness, five per cent at the close
of each year for four years. The liabilities
amount to nearly 100000, and it is estimated
that the house cannot earn more than S25, 900
per year.
Subscriptions for the Tweed statue will open
tomorrow, and it is expected that the entire
amount necessary, S3O00O will be contributed
during the month.
George L. Lorillard's yacht "EnchantreSs"
leaves tomorrow for a five months cruise TO
Madeira, Cowes and thence up the Mediterra-
mean.
Samuel Crump, well-knOwn printer of this
city, was held in $4,000 bail. yesterday, for exam
inatlon for printing the forged labels, "Cole-
man Mustard" trade mark. A civil suit was
previously pending against him to recover $780,
900 for the same offence, and in which he had
given $50, 900 bonds to discontinue the business.
The genuine trade mark is the property of Eng
fish merchants.
Deaths of the week, 514; an increase of 80
mostly by small poX.
There were twelve child murders in this city
during the week by unmarried and unknown
mothers.
1t is believed that there have been at least two
hundred cases of small pOX in this city and
Brooklyn during the past week.
While dragging the Hudson river Yesterday
for the murdered body of Comyn, another body
was brought to the surface of some unknown
man, who was also probably murdered and
thrown overheard.
Frederick Miller, who was convicted in the
Hudson, N j., courts of incest, was yesterday
sentenced to the state prison for four years. His
wife, Barbara, who followed the profession of a
procuress, was sent to the same institution for
six years.
At the dedication of the large Baptist church
at Hunters Point, next Wednesday, all the Bap-
fist clergymen of this city and Brooklyn, and
Rev. Drs. Evarts of Chicago and Fulton of Bos-
ton, will participate in the exercises.
young boy named Charles NJ. Gaines on
Friday gave an infant brother a swallow of
creosote while their mothers back was turned,
SlC DclllS cHHuSeu ClSdTluH closet OF q lot OF
old medicine bottles. The child died within an
hour.
Angelina Lippincott brought suit in the SUI
perior court to recover $4,000 for the loss of her
husband, who was killed by a careless explosion
on the land of James Niblo, the defendant in the
suit. The jury yesterday returned a sealed YER
dict in favor of the plaintiff, assessing damages
at $4,000.
L. B. Reynolds and John Longhred. two
Brooklyn roughs while discussing with some
police officers on Friday night on the mpropre-
ty of interfering in fight, beat the officers, and
Longhred shot one in the leg. They are prom
inent ward politicians, and Justice Walsh re-
leased them on small bail. The officer will prob
ably lose his limb.
By the fall of two-story shanty in SD street,
yesterday, some $500 worth of property was
destroyed, the building and its contents going
to ruin, and one on which it fell being seriously
damaged. Two cases of virulent small poX were
developed by the fall of the house, the sick per-
sons narrowly escaping being crushed to death.
James Hadden came to this city on Friday,
from Danbury, CT. His first business was to
get drunk. Last night he found himself wan
dering around in Grand street. He met Julia
Wilson, an Amazonian, who stole $3.50 and all
his clothes from him, leaving him a few old
rags. While making complaint against the
wench to-day in court he was taken in fit
and the case was adjourned to be tried Monday,
if he lives.
The Lower California company having adver-
tised for three hundred men, women and families
to collect moss at Magdalene below San Diego,
on the Pacific coast, a large number of applicants
presented themselves to the agents and received
orders for free passage IN the steamship Ocean
Queen, which left to-day, taking out 375 persons,
of whom thirty were men with families, the re-
mainder, with the exception of ten women, being
single men. Before the vessel sailed, yesterday
siXty-four able-boded young fellows presented
themselves at the pier to the agents, and begged
to be taken aboard The conditions and terms
were explained to them, and having complied,
they were taken with the others, the majority of
whom were Germans.
Governor Hoffman has declined to grant any
further respite to the Haytien, John Thomas,
under sentence of death for murder. The coun-
sci of the condemned man urged a further respite
on the grounds that he wished to press further
points of law before the court of appeals, and
also urged that the Haytien government, which
had recently, out of courtesy TO the American
government, committed the sentence of an Amer
lean murderer, would probably request a SINH
lar courtesy of the American government, if
time were given for them to be heard from.
Thomas will be hung next Friday. When the
intelligence that his fate was sealed reached
Thomas he received the news without any out
ward emotion, and seemed resigned to his fate.
About fortnight ago, a resident of this CITY
named Morris Comyn, suddenly disappeared
from his home, and has not since been heard
from. A brother had his fears for the safety of
Morris aroused by his prolonged absence, and
has for the last three or four days interested
himself in ferreting out the mystery. His efforts
have probably succeeded in the discovery of a
murder. Mr.. Comyn has learned that his broth
er Morris spent the best part of the day when
last seen in Jersey city, and that, with friend
named Patrick Hennessy, he remained for some
hours at the residence, on North First street, of
Mrs. Carmody. The two finally went away, and
as Comyn was pretty drunk, Hennessy under
took to take him to his home. They came over
by the Pavonia ferry to this city, and Hennessy
went back without his companion. He was then
covered with blood. The next day a pool of
blood was found at the Chambers street ferry,
as that worn on the day of his disappearance
by Comyn. Hennessy has been arrested on sus-
picion of having murdered him.