Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-06
New York.
TIE LARoR MovEMENrI

New YORK, June 5.-Goyernor Hoffman, in
reply to Il communication from the furniture
employers, says he has no control over the New
York police, but it is his duty to do all in his
power to preserve the public peace, and to see
that the laws are fully and firmly enforced, and
that capital and labor have an equal interest in
the discharge of that duty. The chairman of
the furniture manufacturers has since protested
to the governor against the way in which the
eghl-hour question IS preciptated upon them
by the league, to the injury alike of capt.
tai and labor, employe and employ
ers and it becomes us, he says, as
law-abding citizens, to submit to the gov
cTnOr, whether n secret organization with no
known responsibility does not, in organizing
movements as recently, tranSgrcss law; and
whether they do not, i'll carrying out what they
call philanthrOpic movement, in their method
OF carrying it out, conspire against the peace,
good order and law of the state.
The car drivers have apparently given up
their meditated strike. The carpenters at
Prospect park threaten TO strike for eight hours,
aud the Brooklyn BARRIERS for twelve hours
with holiday SUNDAYS.
A SHOOTING SHOEMAKER.
Peter Eager, a Brooklyn shoemaker, shot
Louis Meyers, customer, in the abdomen, to-
night, in Il quarrel.
TIE COURTS.
In the case of q. b. Lamor VS.. Charles A.
Dana, for false Imprisonment while the latter
was assistant secretary of war, Judge Woodruff
u TCllOft Tue DdHk from the United
States circuit to the state court
In the supreme court of chambers, today ap-
plcation was made to Judge Barrett for an in
junction restraining the officers of the Northern
Pacific railroad from using subscriptions TO
bonds of the company in the purchase of stocks
OF other railway companies. Argument post
poned until Monday.
Judge Brady has issued an order in the case
of Gordon VS.. Jay Gould, that the complaint of
Gordon shall be struck off the list unless he
EI,n MI.
testify.
Owen Geoghcgan was acquitted of leloniOus
assault on Michael Mentally at the Tammany
primaries last April. 0'Connel and IennesSy,
the other assailants, are non est.
i. j. Mcllvaine was committed to-day in de-
fault of $4,000 bail, for passing worthless
check for $3.50 on Wall street firm.
The grand jury to day found an Indictment
against Abram Nelson on charge of purlOinng
the private correspondence OF Phelps, Dodge &
Co.
The injunction case of Josyn against the Pa
cihc Mail company, was argued To-day in the
common pleas. Decision reserved.
Counsel for Mrs. Fanny Hyde, the alleged
murderess OF George W. Watson has renewed
her application to have the tIial postponed I'M
Ill October next on account of the absence of a
necessary witness in Europe.
The jury in the United States court dismissed
lilty-iive counts against Matthew Brady, a
Brooklyn distiller, for alleged violation of filty-
seven sections Of the internal revenue k.w, and
returned verdict for the government in two
counts with penalties of $1,000.
MORTALITY ON sHIPBoARD.
The Castle Garden committee, who inyesti-
gated the causes of the great mortality on board
the German bark Althera have reported that
the laws of both the German empire and the
United States do not require such vessels 10
have physicians on board; that the officers took
all possible care of the sick and that the bark
was properly provsioned. They recommend
law requiring every sailing vessel carrying over
100 passengers TO have acompetent physician on
board.
THE BREWERS NATIONAL CONGRESS
Held its opening session here to-day The
principal business of the congress is the receiy-
ing of reports for organizing for the ensuing
year; the deliberatiOn on the various points re-
lating TO the malt interest, among which are
the present statutes of internal revenue taxa-
ton; the new bung arrangement for at
taching 10 the cask; the erection of brewers
academy; and AS the brewers term it, the
"menacing attitude of temperance fanatics and
political swinders toward the malt business"
SYNOD OF THE REFORMED CHURCH.
A general synod of the reformed church in
America convened in Brook Ign this afternoon.
The session is likely to )ntinue ten days. Or
ganiLatiOn was only effected TO day.
100000 JOB.
Alfred Llrgrave, the dry goods jobber who
disappeared on the 9th of May, is said to have
carried off nearly 100000, and left debts of a
quarter of a million
THE TWEED FAMILY
Most OF the Tweed family, not including
"Boss," sailed for Europe in the Cuba.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A body of one of the victims of the explosion
Of the Epsilon was found yesterday and recog.
nized as Capt. HolIenback.