Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-17

Secretary Boutwell, has postponed his visit to
Groton until next week.
At Baltimore, yesterday Athletics, 81 Pas
times, IA
About $4,000 persons are daily arriving in
Paris from the country.
A flood in the Columbia river is Overlooking
the lower rart of the city of Portland, Oregon.
On Thursday the ship Panama, laden with
wheat, sailed from Portland, Oregon, for Cork
On Thursday over seventy horses died in New
York city Of the mysterious new plague.
AT Memphis the dry docks are still in pre-
carious condition, despite the efforts to saw
them.
Arrivals out, Scotia at Liverpool; Westphalia
at Plymouth; Darien in the Clyde. All from
York
aging in the town of Beekman, N. Y. Whole
fields were destroyed, and the apple and cherry
trees entirely stripped.
Miss Rye took out 113 children on the steam.
| ship Prussian, which sailed from London, on
Thursdayifor Quebec.
AT Gettysburg, the monument to Gen. Rev.
nOlds, erected by the first army corps, is now
ready to receive the statue of the general, which
| will be finished in October. The stone for thu
monument came IRON Massachusetts.
An Illinois dispatch says: The wheat crop il
| this section was never better than this season
The harvest;is about ten days earlier than usual
few days ago, fourteen persons were
drowned by an accident on Moray Firth, Scot
land
The pope has announced his intention of re
pairing to Corsica if King Victor Emanuel
should enter Rome.
Archbishop McClosky administered the rite OF
confirmation on Thursday, at St. Francis Xay.
iers church, New York, to 1000 persons
The largest block of marble ever received in
this part of the country has just arrived at New
York from San Francisco. 1t weighs seventy
tons, and is designed for one of the basins of a
new foundation at Central park, which will
measure seventeen feet square. The cost is
$4,000.
Thurlow Weed and the late Edwin Crosswell
were lifelong political antagonists at Albany
few years ago Weed privately circulated a
subscription and raised funds which relieved
Crosswell from financial embarrassment, after
which they were the warmest friends.
The New York young mems republican state
association has organized. 1t aims solely tC
prevent the state being lost this fall through the
quarrel between Senators Conklin and Fenton,
The organization has extended over all the state
embracing several journalists and is to hold a
large convention at Binghamton, June 49,
The monthly report of the bureau of satisfies
No. 8, shows that the exports for March ex-
ceeded the imports by S4,724, 900, that for the
nine months ending March 81, 1871, the exports
exceeded the imports by So, 952, 307, as com
pared with the excess of S743 401 during the
corresponding period of 1870. Nearly two.
thirds of both the exports and imports was car
ried in foreign vessels.
The twenty-fitth anniversary of the pOntificate
OF Plus TX. was extensively celebrated through
out the country yesterday. Imposing demonstra-
tons occurred at Washington, Albany, BurIiDg-
ton, VT, Cleveland and other cities, from several
of which congratulatory kilograms were sent to
the pope. In some of the cities of Maine, the
exercises were very imposing.