Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-15
Miscellaneous Dispatches.
Domestic Notes,

ITEMS FROM NEW YORK.
NEW YORK. April 14.-The New York council
Of reform last night prepared plan for purify
ing the enrolment and primary elections, anG
adopted resolutions urging republican legis
lators to defeat Tammany's jobs.
Mayor Kal6feisch of Brooklyn is very i'll.
The girls ofthe Eagle carpet bag mandatory
in Newark struck yesterday for the reinstate
ment of their foreman, who had been dis
charged. They paraded the streets in front Of
the factory, and their employers struck from
their list of employees the names of all the par
Elephants, and advertised for new hanGs.
Judge Brady yesterday granted an injunction
aginst the Indiana and Illinois Central railroad
and A. L. Ravel and Others in the suit of VIM.
H. Noble. The injunction restrainslthe railroad
company and other defendants in the suit from
disposing of any bonds purporting to be made
by the Indiana and Illinois Central railroad
company, and purporting to be secured by
mortgage to the Union trust company, dated
April /, 1870. Judge Brady also granted an at
tachment against the property of Santa Anna in
the suit of Williams & Guion, to recover an old
claim of $4,000.
VIM. A. Darling, the new appraiser of this
port, took the oath of office yesterday, and will
enter upon his duties Monday.
Lefferts Bergen, wealthy Hyde Park farmer,
committed suicide yesterday. He is supposed to
have been insane since he was shot and robbed
of $4,000 year ago.
L. w. Spencer's hotel at Old Bridge, Middle
sex county, was burned yesterday. Loss $751;
600; no insurance.
STRIKE IN THE BOOT AND SHOE ESTABLISH
MENTs.
BALTIMORE, April 14.-The boot and shoe
manufacturers of this city, having ascertained
that the female operatives employed by them
had organized secret order to prevent manu-
iaeturers from employing girls and women moi
members of their ORDER discharged all the
female operatives elonging to the organization
at the same time offering to continue them a
work upon their withdrawal from the society
The proposition was declined by them. The
action of the women was Immediately made
known to the iourneymen members of the ST.
Crispin association, who at once struck, anC
there was an immediate suspension Of work in
the shoe factories throughout the city. Abou
two thousand hands are thus out of employ
ment.
MUTINY.
SAN Francisco, April 1S.-The crew of the
| whaler Romar of New Bedford, Captain June
gan, mutinied at Marquesas Islands on March
| II. Seventeen mutineers escaped, after severely
wounding the first and second mates, and took
with them three boats. As they intended to re
turn and run the ship ashore the captain put tC
| sea.
BRIDGE BURNED.
| CINCINNATI, April 14.-The bridge on the
| Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette rail
road, between Guilford and Lawrensburg, wa
| DurlleQ last ulgnt.
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, April 14.-President Grant ha
deferred his visit to the Pacific coast until tn
fall. The business before the joint high com
mission and the enforcement of the kuklux bill
will require his personal attention at Washing
ton during the summer.
| NEW YORK LEGISLATURE.
ALBANY, N. Y, April 1.-THE republicans il
caucus this morning resolved to stand firm
though there are fears that one of their number
will prove unreliable. The house has gone into
| committee of the whole on the special electior
| bill to fill the seat Of Irving.
The democrats are still determined to carry
| out their declaration. An exciting debate is
now III A. NJ being held on the question o
| putting the special election bill on its passage
MISSISSIPPI STATE LEGISLATURE.
JACKSON, Miss, April ia bill passed the
| house to-day to establish and maintain an agri
cultural and mechanical college. A bill was in
troduced to create constablery force for thu
safety of the peoples lives and property.
SUDDEN DEATH.
PHILADELPHIA, April 14.-Mrs. Livingston
K. Shewell, attached TO a company performing
at Niblo's garden, New York, died suddenly thi
morning of heart disease.