Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-14
woRCEsTER
FRIDAY. JUNE "A, 1879.

The New York Herald has another dispatch
concerning DR.. Livingstone. 1t comes, profess
edly, from Bombay by way Of London. 1t dis
appoints expectation, for it says the Doctor re-
fuses 10 come home, at present, having decided
to undertake certain.subterranean explorations,
and reports that Stanley was at Ugogo, further
from the coast than was stated in the previous
dispatch, which said he was near it. We are
told again, however, that Stanley IS freighted
with letters irem Livingstone; but, if he is al
ways coming and never comes, always in view
making signs and forever retreating into the
distance, he may finally vanish, letters and all
and be never more heard of, We have serious
misgivings in regard to that underground pas
sage which Livingstone stays TO explore We
suspect that it has been invented with view 10
the final disappearance of both Livingstone and
Stanley.
The people of Hartford seem to be agitated
by a railroad question. Certain parties inter
ested in the New York and Montreal road de
sire TO get control of the Connecticut Western
railroad for the benefit of their enterprise.
Therefore, they propose to have the city of
tiOiu SUI iiiGNi IT'S SApCh IA NOuutN tiNt
Western, and meeting of the citizens has been
called to consider this proposition. The Courant
mentions Geo. H Brown, president OF the New
York and Montreal corporation, az chief actor
in the movement, and intimates that he had it
in view when he managed to defeat the wish of
Hartford in regard to the location of the Con-
necticut Western. OF course, the Courant does
not favor his plans; and it sees good reason for
defeating them, in the fact that he expects or
hopes TO get the city's stock at one third of its
par value. If he and his associates get control
of the Connecticut Western, they will use it as
part of a line from the Hudson river to Boston,
by way of Springfield We suppose The rutch-
hess and Columbia road is now a part of their
line, and they will put bridge across the Hud-
son, at Poughkeepsie. Hartford now has rail-
road communication with Poughkeepsie by
means of the Connecticut Western and its con-
nections, which was celebrated, yesterday, in
Hartford, by the reception and entertainment Of
a company of gentlemen from Poughkeepsie,
who made an excursion over this new route to
Hartford
A city item il the Springfield Union says
"Tbere are rumors floating in the air that Rev.
J. o. Peck, of Trinity Methodist church, has re-
ceived call from the Metropolitan church at
Washington" Rumor is proyerbially great
story-teler Ia this case, the STORY is not told
shrewdly. Ministers of the Methodist Episcopal
church do not receive calls" They are ap-
pointed or stationed by their bishops, in the
places where they preach and the appoint
ments IS made by the bishops, are usually an
nounced at the close of the annual conferences.
Churches, or rather, societies" Of this demon
ination, do not give their ministers "cas."
Therefore, this rumor that Rev. ]. O. Peck has
been ''called, as represented, is absurd. More
over, TO get from bishop an appointment TO a
church in Washington, he must belong to the
conference with which the Washington church
is connected.