Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-20
New York.
THE NEW CITY CHARTER.

THE NEW CITY CHARTER.
New YORK, March 19.--At a meeting of the
committee OF seventy, last night, it was voted to
vigorously press the new city charter, now he
fore the legislature, and several additional cili-
zens were appointed on the committee to pro-
coed TO Albany to urge its passage.
ERIE MATTERS
1t is reported that consolidation of Heath
and Raphael and the McIIenry and BischOtfsein
interests in Erie in England has been effected
which, ifcorrect, will narrow the contest for the
control of the road 10 American and English
parties. IL is stated also that of $50 900 shares
less than 100000 are now owned in America
large numbers having been bought by agents of
foreign houses in this city the past week. An
other report states that Gen. Mcclellan has con-
cluded TO resign the dictatorship of Erie on ac-
count of his connection with the Atlantic and
Great Western road.
A TIMELY DISCOVERY.
The projected Jail delivery at the Essex
prison, New jersey, was most admirably
planned. Deputy Sheriff johnson went into
the cellar under the workshop and arrested
three prisoners named Vanderhoff, Collins and
Romano in the act of breaking off bars from
the window. plug had been put into the
heating apparatus opening into the inner hall
Of the Jail As soon as the bars were cut the
plug was to have been Withdrawn by means of
a string, and in an instant the Jail would have
been filled with steam. In the confusion the
prisoners arrested and ten others would have
attempted to escape. An examination of the
heating apparatus showed that in II few min
uteS the boiler would have burst. A colored
man revealed the plot after his arrest.
MAYOR HALLS TRIAL.
The trial of Mayor Hall was brought before
the court to-day, and arguments are being heard
relative to the nature of future proceedings,
whether TO draw another Juror f.on the uneX-
hausted panel to take the place of the deceased
juror or discharge the present jury and draw a
new one for the trial.
The trial was a mere wrangle between the
counsel Judge DAILY finally postponed his de-
cision as to the jury until Thursday.
MISCELLANEOUS.
President StOckwell of the Pacific Mail com
pany yesterday refused to answer the query of
the referee as to whether the money OF the
company had been used by the directors of the
company, and the supreme court will decide
whether he shall respond TO the question.
The Tribune says it is satisfied that the
statements made that eX-Conroller Connolly
had been convicted of criminal offence in Phil
adelphia and pardoned by the governor of
Pennsylvania, were without foundation.
The corner stone Of the new normal college
was laid to-day.
No complaints appeared to-day before the as
senbly committee to inquire into the abuses in
the registers office
L. Won Hoffman, banker, testified before
another assembly committee that, in his opinion,
Judge Barnard was unduly influenced in the APP
polntment OF receiver of Erie shares, and Geo.
Opdyke thought the reputation Of the New
York judiciary has uniavOra5ly affected Ameri-
can securities abroad. tx Judge Birdseye testi-
fed to the belief that Blrnard's conduct was
sometimes undignIied but that his decisions
were not governed by corrupt motives,
President Stockwel of the Pacific Mail COM
pany testified before referee to loans of the
company's funds to various parties.
The motion to have the widow substituted as
plaintiff IN the suits brought by James Fisk,
has been denied, owing to irregplauty OF form,
with leave to renew it on new papers
Six deaths have occurred in Brooklyn since
the 14th inst from cerebro spinal meningitis,
which has appeared to some extent in all parts
of that city.
1yphus and typhoid fever are prevalent in the
House of the Good Shepherd, Brooklyn, There
are forty-two cases now there, including four of
Sisters of Mercy, while another of them has
died. The physicians are as yet unable to check
the disease, and the patients are to be removed
to the county hospitals for contagious Diseases
large number Of house painters il Brook
Ign struck to-day. The police had to protect
those working.
The barque Helen A. of Shelburle, N. s., from
Wilmington for Rotterdam, was abandoned and
sinking March 12tb; crew saved by the barque
James u. Ward and brought here.