Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-30
Miscellaneous Dispatches.
Domestic Notes.
ITEMS FROM NEW YORK.

LIENS fhOM NEW 1Ohh.
New YORK, Jan. 2S.-The Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western and Erie railroads have
agreed on a truce in regard to use of the Bergen
tunnel and the other conflicting interests of the
corporations The former company win pay the
tolls fixed by the courts for the use of the tun-
mel receiving also in return equal rights of way
with the Erie until the expiration of the Stevens
contract Neither company will interfere with
the others legislation, and the Lackawana will
probably ask for charters for a number of short
branch roads in the upper portion of the state
and for new tunnel through Bergen.
The Grand lodge of the knights of Pythias,
we terday declined to receive a petition from the
Pythias sisterhood Of Newark, N. j., asking a
formal alliance with the order of the knights.i
Reddy, the blacksmith, was released last night
in $4,000 bail, furnished by Michael Skelly.
Rev. DIR. Byron Sunderland accepts the call of
the Forty-third street Presbyterian church of
this city.
The Aleppo, for Liverpool, yesterday, took out
S47 900 worth Of muskets, and the Columbia, for
Havana. $4,000 worth.
Governors Clahn Of Massachusetts and En-
gsh Of Connecticut are in town.
The fines due from the railroad companies of
this state for not making the annual returns re-
quired by laws, amount to nearly $4,000.
The convention of Pennsylvania and Western
railroad men, which adjourned last evening
after several days session, arranged that on
Monday next their agents at Washington should
tlluGdNOE 10 SECURE Il SUSPENSION OF Ile rules OF
the house, and substitute for the bill now pend
ing in the committee measure specially framed
in their interest, and under which they hope to
be able TO dispose, on their own terms, TO emil
grants lands which they have received from gov
eminent and otherwise acquired.
Francis =. Sage one of the oldest and most
prominent members of the -four and grain trade
Of this city, died Thursday evening.
The creditors of the Suffolk county bank, at
Sag Harbor, are taking measures to close it out
through bankruptcy proceedings.
The post office of this city sent last year
6,254, SAB foreign letters, and received ABA 1856
from the English mails, receiving yesterday the
frsttor more than a week
Outside friends aided Irwin the burglar TO es.
cape from the Raymond street jail. He had BY
some means become possessed OF an instrument
with which he tore out portion of the plaster
ing and lath work of the wall of the retiring
room, adjoining his cell, and made a hole about
foot square, through which he crowded into
the adjoining debtors room, which was unoc-
cupied He then proceeded to the door leading
into the corridor which, fortunately for him,
had been left unlocked, though it had been
fastened. Irwin would have experienced little
or no trouble in making hole in the thin part-
ton which separated the room from the corridor.
Once in the corridor, Irwin found it easy to es-
cape. He quietly descended the stairway to the
lower corridor, within twenty feet of the keepers
rooms and dozen feet from the front jail, and
pIOCSSuiuI dlOuS llG COITluOIy UpG.seu Il WINDOW
and descended another stairway and was in the
jail yard. Then he coolly walked to the gate,
PRED off the lock and staple and waIked;out
free man.
THE INDIAN BUREAU INVESTIGATION,
WAsHINGToN, Jan. 2S.-rhe subcommittee
of the committee on appropriations continue
their investigations as to the conduct of the In
dian bureau. Last night they examined two
merchants of New York with reference to the
purchase of goods for the Usage Indians, the
object being to ascertain whether extraordinary
prices were paid. 1t appeared that the goods
were sold at the lowest market price. General
Mcigs and Major Dubarry, of the quartermaster's
department, were examined as to contracts for
transportation, and whether the Indian depart
ment could not have transported the goods
under the contract with the war department.
Their testimony was to the effect that this could
have been done instead of by special contract.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
ST. LOUIS, No., Jan. ga delegation of
prominent women of this state, accompanied by
Mrs. Livermore, will 20 to Jefferson CITY next
week, to urge the Legislature to memorabilia
congress to recognize and establish woman's
right to suffrage.
LIBEL SUIT.
CINCINNATI, o., Jan. PSF. H. ROLAND, city
editor of the Leader, has sued Frank Leslie for
$4,000 damages for publishing a story of his,
ROLAND, being whipped by a woman.