Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-23
Abbrer,n,cd Ipisnn1ches.

VIM. Duffy has been arrested in Brooklyn for
| the alleged murder of his wife.
Washington territory has voted against call
| ing Il convention to form a state constitution.
Timothy st. John of Brooklyn is another miss
| ing man; Elmer Brown, school boy of Brook
| Ign, IS also missing.
Another large batch OF men was discharged
| lrem the Brooklyn navy yard yesterday, max
Ing twelve hundred 50 far discharged this
week.
The silk manufacturers of Paterson have re
solved TO pay no more wages, nor hire strikers
at any price unless they return to work this
week. The strikers refuse, and there is no pros
poCt of a settlement.
Henry Slader, aged 10, is charged with max
ing vicious attacks on thirteen children in Will
amsburg with knife or other sharp nstru.
ment, cutting their clothes off, and njuring
them. Sader will be arrested.
The official canvass of the vote in Ohio for
president and vcepreSident gives Grant 28l ,S52,
Greeley pa 321, Black POO, 0'Cnnnor 1168,
scattering 1862, total vote cast $40 59S; Grants
majority over Greeley, 81 ,531.
The celebrated stallion Socrates, owned by
Nj. RalphS of Philadelphia, aud valued at S40,-
600, and the noted trottcr Cdmors, owned by
Lon Morris of Boston and valued at $50, 900,
died yesterday of drOpSy.
Adiutant General Siegel telegraphs TO Gov
ernor Brown from Lafayette county, Mo-, that
everything is quiet there. The county aulhori-
ties deny that there has been any necessity for
outside interference, and say they are per-
lectly able to enforce the laws and maintain
order
A Brooklyn jury on Thursday rendered YER
dict against the CTOss-lOwn railroad company
for $4,000 for damages sustained by the plaintiff,
VIM. EallOn, while riding in one of their cars
il appearing to have been an accident caused by
plaintiffs negligence, the court Immediately set
aside the verdict
The British colonsts in New York favoring
annexation had meeting Thursday night and
decided to communicate with the cOlonists of
Buffalo, Chicago, st. Louis and New Or
leans, with reference to choosing influential
men 10 cooperate with anneXatiOnists in
Canada.
The New York senate has confirmed the GOV
ernmenps nomination of 7. w. Chapman, re-
publican superintendent of the insurance de-
partment, and Hooper c. Van VOreSt, Judge of
the superior court of New York, vice McCunn
from now until January first, when he will take
the office by virtue of recent election. The com
mission to revise the state constitution were also
confirmed.
letter from Arizona states that no conf
dence is felt there in the promises of peace made
| by chief Cochise and other Apaches to Gen
| Howard; that Gen. Crook has been Furnishing
| the maraudIDg Indians who lately murdered
| Lieut.. Stewart and several settlers, and
that if let alone by meddling Indian agents,
| Crook VIII soon teach the Indians to do what is
| right
The American free religious association,
which opened its session in Philadelphia Tues
| day, resumed its sittings in Brooklyn Thursday.
| Inc association has no creed TO limit fellowship,
but is established on the principles Of truth,
seeking not truth found, and includes spiritual
lists and Jews, as well as Christians. Among
| the officers are Rev. .. rockingham, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Gerritt Smith, T.. h. Ward,
Michigan; +. S. Pott, California; and Rabbi
Wise, Ohio.