Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-01
Abbrerln,cd ni.nntcl,es.

Eight thousand men have sailed from Cadiz
for Cuba.
| The investigating committee are attending to
their duties at New Orleans.
The merchants Of New York are taking meas
urcs to oppose in the Maryland legislature the
| passage of the bill now before that body, pro-
yiding that all nonresident traders shall pay
license fee Of $500 prior to selling goods in Bal
timore or any part OF the state
The Chicago sanitary superintendent reports
nineteen deaths from small poX the past week,
and the disease is on the increase. There are
now thirty-iour patients in the hospitals.
Steamship Moses Taylor has sailed from San
francisco for Ecuador, with divers and ma
chnery for raising the treasure sunk in the
Spanish frigate Lcrcadia, in 1902.
ship Almifa, reported burned at sea, is
thought TO be the Amira which sailed from
Brunswick, Georgia. Sept. 16, for Liverpool, and
has not been heard Of since.
In the New Jersey legislature, today a bill
TO incorporate narrow gauge railroad COM
pany, to construct road from Camden to Jer-
sey City, was introduced.
The Mariposa estate was sold yesterday and
was purchased by Judge Heydenfeldt for $780,
900, in the interest of the Marposa company of
New Yo;k.
The sailing of the steamship China from San
Francisco Tor Japan and China is postponed to
Sunday, on account of the snow blockade on
the Pacific road.
AT Savannah, Ca, yesterday, the cotton on
board the Spanish bark Clementna, loading for
Liverpool, was discovered 10 be on fire, but was
soon eXtin9uished. The vessel was uninjured;
damage to cargo unknown.
The steamer Great Republic, which is char
tered TO convey the Grand Duke Alexis from
Memphis to New Orleans, is frozen in an ice
gorge near Columbus, Ohio, and it is feared that
she will he held there for several days
HA japanese party, numbering one hundred
and six persons, left San Francisco for the east
yesterday morning in a special train consisting
Of five palace cars. On arriving at Sacramento,
last night, the embassy was received by the leg
SIature.
Property and life arc inanilestly becoming so
insecure from the depredations of midnight dcs-
peradoes, both in Brooklyn and New York,
that it is suggested that the people should as
semble en- masse and consider what is to be
done.
The Brooklyn excise commissioners have con-
cluded that much of the crime of that city is
owing to violation Of the excise law, in keeping
liquor saloons open after legitimate hours, and
they are determined TO rigidly enforce the law
in future.
Il is said that the congressional committee
now engaged in investigating the account of the
treasury department. have stumbled across some
startling facts III connection with the sale of
arms by our government TO the French, during
the late Franco-Prussian war. 1t is said the
committee are trying to keep the matter as quiet
as possible until they make their final report.
Information is received to the effect that three
persons were killed and seven wounded by the
collision between the freight and passenger
trans at Crookville, Ala, on Thursday last.
At the time of the accident the trains were rum
ming at such speed that the tender Of the freight
train was torn from the trucks and forced entire
" through the express car, and into the nrst
coach Of the passenger train.
A Matamoras dispatch says: "Gen. Ouiro2a
fanked Cortina on the Both and now holds pos
session this side Of Camargo, intercepting COM
mnnications Cortina had previously tele- |
eraphed Tor reinforcements, which could not be
SHARED. Ouiroga has received 600 reinforce
ments. making his command 20O0 Cortina has
only 900. II is supposed that Quiroga will adj