Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-23
AhhreYIn1ed Disnn,ches.


The ten word minimum has been abolished
by European cables.
The queen presided at meeting of the priv,
council, held at Windsor Castle, yesterday,
A charter has been granted for bridging an,
tunnelng the Mississippi river at Memphis.
The Florida legislature convened yesterday
without a quorum, and adjourned TO Tuesday
Two vessels arrived at Erie, Pa, yesterday
from Chicago with grain the earliest of the
season.
On Sunday a water-spout delighted the coun
try around Timber Creek, Pa. The spout LASTED
but two minutes.
Navigation by the lake and canal is being re
sumed, although there is considerable ice yet in
the lake.
The steamer Neva is reported wrecked on The
island Of Banca, in the Malay archipelago
crew and passengers saved.
The radicals of Paris are rejoicing over evil
dences OF the growth Of republican ideas in the
departments.
The arrival of the Atalanta boat crew at Liy-
e!poo is looked forward 10 with considerable in
terest by those interested in the forthcoming
race. The crew is expected there Tuesday.
Pottsville, Pa, dispatch says that 1876 pud-
oilers IN the employ of Atkins Brothers and Ben
iamin Haywood, are on strike. This action
throws out of employment 700 iron workers.
convict in the state prison at Auburn
stabbed one of the keepers in three places, YES
terday morning, but not fatally. The keeper
suOI tHc CouNlCi through the arm, when other
keepers subdued the convict
Hundreds of farm horses and mules in Mlssis-
sipp, on the Pearl river, have died from attacks
| of buffalo gnatS. Many farmers have no team
| to cultivate their crops
Th3 Baptist ministers of Philadelphia have
| arranged to attend the funeral services of Rev.
| DIR. Idle at Springfield, Mass. Deceased was for
| twenty years pastor of the FIRST Baptist church
| in Philadelphia.
Judge Woods of the United States circuit
| court having confirmed the decree of bankrupt
| cy of the Alabama and Chattanooga railroad il
| was sold yesterday. Gov. Lindsay bought it lol
| the state of Alabama, which is thereby expected
| to be saved from loss.
The government has abandoned the charge Of
murder against John Rodger of Union county
S. C. His trial for conspiracy has begun
| Four witnesses were called by the government
and testified to their participation in several
| murders.
The celebration at Richmond, Va, Yesterday
| of the anniversary of the fifteenth amendment,
was the most successful affair ever gotten up by
| the cOored people The procession was over 4
mile long, and composed of thirty-three military
| and civic organizations.
The supreme court decided Yesterday Chief
Justice Chase dissenting, that contracts made in
| the south, before the war, for the payment Of
| slaves are valid and binding, although slavery
may have been abolished by the new constitu.
| tions of these states, which constitutions abro-
| gated all such contracts.
The English mail steamer from Aspinwall,
| just arrived at jamaica, reports the American
steamer Ocean Queen ashore in the harhor of
ASpinwall, and that she sprung a leak, receiving
injuries quite severe. She was announced
TO sail on the 10th inst. il her repairs were com
peted.