Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-31
Domestic Notes.

ITEMS FROM NEW YORK.
New YORK, March 3O.-The students of
Princeton college have been allowed three weeks
on account of small poX.
Bergh, while making raid on the Williams
burg car drivers yesterday, was assaulted by the
drivers, but the police rescued him and arrested
two of his assailants.
There is great difficulty in obtaining a jury to
try Isaac v Buckhart at White Plains for the
murder of his wife and Alfred Kendall. Two
hundred names wore drawn yesterday, and only
three jurors obtained.
Stevens polytechnic institute, at Hoboken,
was opened last evening with a lecture on light
by Professor Morton. The institution is fur
nished with the finest collection of apparatus in
the country. The inductive coil used was made
by L. S. Richie of Boston, and is the most pow
| erful one in the world. The coil contains fifty
miles of wire, and throws Il spark four feet in
leHgth.
A petition for a bond and writ of error issued
by Associate Justice Sprague of the United
| States supreme court was filed yesterday in the
county clerks office of Kings county, in the
case of Dyke against the Erie railway. The
| ground taken is that injuries were sustained in
| Pennsylvania, where the law of that state limit
| ed the damages for such action to S3000 Fred
erick A. Lane signs the petition as counsel for
| the Erie company.
| The board of chosen freeholders of Paterson,
N. j., have voted to build SO 900 iron bridge
across the Passaic river, on the present site of
the Lincoln bridge.
Kuroda, the Japanese minister to Russia with
his secretary, arrived in this city last night from
San Francisco, accompanied by thirteen Japan
ese students, three of whom 90 to Europe to
attend school; the rest will pursue their studies
in this country.
Daniel Stewart, of Stamford, Conn was suf-
located by escaping gas in room at the Put
nam house, last night.
The colored citizens procession, this after
noon, in the celebration of the adoption of the
18th amendment, numbered several thousand,
including two eolored militia companies and
number of civic and benevolent societies. The
designated line of march was fully performed,
despite severe rain storm. and the whole affair
passed off successfully.
Daniel d. Howard, formerly proprietor of the
Irving house, in this city, died at Geneva, Swift
zerland, yesterday. He was native of Burling-
ton, Vermont.
The pilot boat J. D. Jones, No. Is, while in
the act of boarding the steamship City of Wash
ington, Tuesday night, $50 miles east of Sandy
Hook, was run into and sunk, the crew having
barely time to save their lives, losing clothing,
&c. The Jones is valued at $4,000.
DOMINION PARLIAMENT.
OTTAWA, Ontario, March 30-In the house
of commons last night, Langevin, minister of
public works, explained the canal policy of the
government in connection with the report of the
commissioners. No vote would be asked for the
Sault st. Marie canal this session, but about
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lively for charging the Weland and Ottawa
canals. In accordance partly with the recon-
mendation of the commissioners nothing could
be done with the Chambly canal, the Murray
Bay canal, and the deepening of the st. Law
renee between Montreal and Quebec, but there
would be an item Of one hundred thousand dol
lars in supplementary estimates for deepening
the river between Kingston and Montreal.
Mr. Mackenzie alluded to the importance of
rendering our commerce Independent of Ameri-
can highways after last year, and regretted that
nothing was to be done in relation to Sault St.
Marie canal, though action had been promised
at the beginning of the session. He did not
think that the enlargement of Welland canal
would produce the results anticipated, but that
it would rather benfit 0swego. He thought the
best line for western trade was large canal
along the Ottawa, which Mr.. Standby said could
be constructed for S12 600. There was no
reference to the mining trade of Lake Superior
or the Rideau canal. He blamed the govern
ment for not being prepared to announce some
policy for the future. The debate on the admis-
sion of British Columbia and the construction
of the Pacific railroad was continued last night,
and will be resumed to-day. 1t is meeting with
considerable opposition.