Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-21

Considerable excitement was occasioped on
Monday ut Pittston, Pa, by the strange fury of
mule, which bit several horses and mules. 1t
is believed to have been seized with the hydro
phobia, and died in great agony. The bitten
animals have been corrallcd.
Drake DeKay, secretary of the lower Cailor.
mia company, publishes long card, claiming
that the country at Magdalena is most fertile
aud healthy, and charging that the alleged vic
tins are cheats aud swindlers who shipped al
New York as moss-gatherers simply to get d
free passage to NIagdaleua bay. He says they
were prizc-fightCrS, thieves, pickpOckets and
dock rats who comprised the expedition.
The pumps were started Monday at the West
Pittson shaft, the scene of the latest mining hor
FOR, and a new breaker is nearly ready. All
but two of the miners taken from the pit alive
are able to work, and are employed at the shaft.
The miners have appointed committee to iu-
vestigate the recent disaster, and already there
is a report that they have discovered proof of a
collision between the mine inspector, Williams,
aud the owners of the shaft
A Paris correspondent states that on the 21st
of May, when 1t was made known to General
Fahrice commanding the Prussian forces 10 the
northward of Paris, that party of communists
were preparing to pillage Minister Washburne' s
house, he Immediately informed Mr.. Washburne
that if he was not in person and property held
inyoate, that Paris should be bombarded within
twenty -four hours. Thus Paris was at the
mercy OF Ine ANleTlCdH HllIloteT, ana Ut HIS
word a thousand guns would have poured their
iron hail upon the city.
Ii is now said that the dispute between the
revenue department and the New York Central
railroad company, with reference to the tax on
the so per cent dividend of the latter corpora
ton, has been settled by reference of the whole
affair to a couple of auditors, who will make an
investigation of the cOmpany's affairs, and re-
port how much of the dividend represents the
earnings previous to the passage of the law i'm
posing tax on dividends. The proportion once
settled, the last claim of the company to eX-
empton will be quoted, and the payment of the
tax will follow.
The statement, to the effect that there would
be movement next winter TO have Sumner re-
turned to his old position at the head of the
foreign relations committee, had its origin in a
suggestion to that effect made by prominent
administration senator in a conversation on the
best policy to pursue in healing the differences
ut present supposed to be existing in the re-
publican party. So far as Sumner and his
friends are concerned, they will make no efforts
in this direction.
dispatch from Long Branch says: 1t is
stated here by persons, very close to the presi-
dent that last week positive information was
laid before him that Col. Clifford Thompson,
late Gen. Pleasanton's chief clerk in the internal
revenue bureau, sold TO the officers of the New
York Central railroad company, two days in
advance of the PRONUNCIATION of the commits
sloners decision in the great scrip tax case, sAc
information about it as enabled these officers to
save themselves from loss. This information
was given to the president, and the resignation
of Col. Thompson promptly followed
statement issued from the internal revenue
office shows that the amount due the govern
Inent by ex-collectors of internal revenue is
50 ,S13 105 49, Suits for the recovery of the
amounts due have been commenced in many in.
stances and Judgment in many cases obtained
1t is Thought that the government will not lOs'
a considerable sum, as the bonds in most case'
are considered good, and ample payments ar
being made almost daily in the treasury upor
| these accounts, and ut the expiration of tn
| present year the amount remaining unpaid will
| be very materially lessened.
A Washington dispatch says: Bowen, the biga
| mist, is furnished with meals from his owl
home, aud is daily visited by numbers of friends
1t is the general belief that he will be speedily
pardOned by the president. The case was favor
| ably considered in the cabinet meeting or
| Friday, and the distrctattorney has recon
mended pardon. The papers are in the hands
of the Encouragement and will be forwarded to
the president to-day. Friends of Mr.. Bowen
| express positive belief that he will get his seal
| in congress from the second district of Soutl
| Carolina over the colorcd sitting member wh'
was declared elected by four hundred majority