Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-09


Mr.. Edmund Maurice the son of Prof. +. d.
Maurice, is writing a series Of lives of English
popular leaders. The first, of Stephen Langton.
is finished the second is to be of Wat Tyler,
and to include an account of slavery and serf-
dom in England from before the Norman con-
quest to Wat Tyler's time Even in 1549 A. D.,
the Norfolk rebels under Kett said, ave pray
that all bonde men may be made fire, for God
made all fire with his precious blode sheddy-
ing"
The Hon. jeremiah S. Black being interviewed
concerning the Cincinnati convention said that
those republicans who bad signed the "call" for
it had gone so far that no retreat was open to
them. When they met at Cincinnati they
would have to burn their bridges behind them
and sink their ships. At present, so far as the
republican party is concerned, their detection is
insignificant and could have little weight with
the democratic party. As between republicans,
ifSenatorI Irumbull for instance, should be nom
mated by the convention, he could support
president Grant Just as readily. Trumbull was
the author of the reconstruction acts, and the
democratic party could have no sympathy with
him or any other man identified as he had been
with all the leading measures of the republican
party.
According to a cable dispatch to the associated
press, the young king Of Bavaria is betrothed to
the eldest daughter of Prince Frederick Charles
of Prussia. The king has been for some years
the prime, available man whose hand the prin-
cesses Of Catholic Europe have been ambitious
to win He is now twenty-Seven years old, is
one of the handsomest men in Europe, is de-
scribed as of a dreamy, poetic temperament, is
noted in the art world as being the special friend
and patron of Wagner and his school of music,
and he is-a king. His succession TO the throne
dates from the death of his father Macmillan
H., in 1864. The young lady who will in time be
queen OF Bavaria was born IN 1855. Her father
is the distinguished officer who was so plomin-
ent in the recent Franco German war, and her
mother is a princess Of the ducal house of An
halt. Her names are Observation-Disclosures
Frederick.
The ex-queen of Spain, Donna Isabella, has
been defeated in a law suit at Paris. The action
was brought by NM. Mellerio, the jewellers, of
No, Rue de la PAX, for 161 900 francs, the
price of goods sold and delivered to the queen
in the years 1866, 1867 and 1868 The queen de-
INJURED on two grounds: First, that the plain
titfs were not Frenchmen, and so not entitled
to sue foreigner in French courts; and second,
that she was privileged as sovereign from an
swering any action. On both points the court
of first instance Oyerrued the demurrer, hold
ing that the nationality Of the plaintiff, whose
father fought under Dumouriez in 1892, was
clearly establishes; and further, that the jewels
mentioned in their bill (among which were chill
dren's tech, gold mounted, bracelets of the hair
of the Young princess, a silver coffee pot, and
variety of wedding presents to the Princess Cir
genti) could not be considered as furnished to
the state of Spain, but were supplied to Donna
Isabella on her own personal credit The cause
will soon come on for hearing on the merits,
when judgments will probably pass for the
amount claimed
A correspondent says a scheme is on foot to
bring Henry Ward Beecher to New York city.
The other Sunday morning he preached in
Stenway Hall to q regular mass meeting. 1t is
said that he never preached in New York on a
Sunday morning but once before, and that was
twenty years ago. When it was proposed to
build Mr., Beecher new church he met cer.
gyman in Union square, and said, "The mis-
take of my life was that when came from the
west did not plant myself here instead of
Brooklyn. ls is an even chance now, whether
shall not build in this city," The new church
was not butt, and Mr.. Beecher remains in
Brooklyn. A number of bankers are seriously
entertaining the proposition of bringing Mr.,
Beecner TO New York, even now. The site Sc
lected is near Fifth Avenue hotel 1t is pro-
posed TO build the largest church in America
and make it metropolitan in size, congregation,
and salary. The men moving in the matter
have got the enterprise, the pluck, and the
stamps. Whether Mr.. Beecher would listen TO
such proposal or not is a question.