Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-05
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Queen Victoria is still indisposed and confined
to the house.
An English student has fallen a victim to an
attempt to climb the Alps without guide.
The progress OF KingiAmadeus from Albacete
TO valencia was one continuous ovation.
Reports of the cotton crop in Tennessee are
very uniavorable.
In the French assembly, yesterday, bill pro-
vidng for tax on newspapers was adopted.
fearful hurricane occurred on the 22d ult.
in the Bahamas.
The Yarmouth delegation from Louisiana
will meet the president, at Long Branch, to-day.
serious drouth is prevailing in southern IL
linois.
An Episcopal church was formally conse-
Grated at Salt Lake on Sunday.
At Charleston, yesterday, four deaths from
yellow fever occurred; all unacCmated cases.
Eight Aublin rioters, arrested Sunday, have
been sentenced to three and four months i'm
priSonment.
Mayor Schriven, of Savannah, telegraphs that
there is not, nor has there been, this year, any
yellow fever in that city.
Fatal cases of cholera have occurred at Dant-
zc, Elbing, Altoona, Coblentz, Leipzig and vi
enna
The barque Ermaudine capszed in gale near
the English coast, and all on board were lost.
The total warrants drawn by the treasury de-
partment during the month Of August were
49, 7S9 673.7S.
A disastrous typhon visited Hong Kong and
vicinity on the21st Twelve vessels were driven
ashore, and much damaged. One was an Amer
lean bark.
Emperor William after his interview at Salz-
burg with Emperor Francis Joseph, will 90 to
Munich, where he is expected to arrive on
Friday or Saturday
The weather report, dated at one O'Clock, this
morning, propheseS: "Northerly winds, with
out material change in the weather." for this
vicinity.
AT San ErauciscO ctnor,or AIoely, ,I,-o,.;-,l
to sail for China on thei 10th, has been ordered
to sail on Saturday next, and bring another
cargo OF teas TO be transported overland to New
York.
The ship Springfield, of Boston, commanded
by Capt. Dwight, of Springfield, Mass, from
Akyab, for Falmouth, with rice, put into Algoa
bay on the southeast coast of Africa, July 18th
with loss of her sails.
While two men were applying benzine TO the
ceiling of house in Shamburg, Penn, yester-
day morning, for the purpose of killing bed
bugs, an explosion occurred from the gas gen
Grated by the benzne, badly burning the men
and killing Mrs Schneider.
A northern insurance company has through
its attorney, obtained temporary suspension
OF the payment of certain taxes against the
company ON the ground that the collection
thereof is not authorized by law The suspen-
sion is ordered for twenty days, to give the
solicitor an opportunity to investigate the mat
ter.
The secretary of war has decided to allow the
claims of hospital stewards detailed as clerks at
forty cents per day for the whole period of SER
vice as clerks. The second comptroller concurs
in the justice of these claims, which have al
ready been filed to the amount of S125, O0O
strong effort will be made to obtain legisla-
ton by congress at the coming session extend
ing the additional bounty act granting bounties
to soldiers The opinion of the second auditor
is decidedly favorable, and he believes that fur
Their time ought to be given delinquent claimants
in which to put in evidence to sustain their
claims.
The whole number of deaths during the re-
cent gale, at St. Thomas, is about thirty. A
large number were wounded. The colonial
council appropriated $4,000 Tor the relief of the
sufferers. The gale was also felt at Porto Rico
but not so violently. Fajardi, in east Porto
Rico, is believed to have suffered, it being near
the supposed centre of the gale.
Accounts received at Mobile by responsible
merchants say the cotton prospects in Alabama
and Mississippi are very discouraging. Thee routh
in some localities is excessive, while there is too
much rain in others. There is injury also from
the worm. Planters are holding back for high
err prices.