Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-05

meopathic disptnsary in this city, If which, il
IS stated, 24S0 were cared. The dispCusary has
been ~ opcratiou about seventeen years, treat
ing 241 40 cases
An explosion of foul air occurred last night
VI the main sewer Of Third avenue, AT 31th
street. Inc covers were thrown off OF the man
notes. ana the flames reached the height of fifty
feet; no DAMAGE
The Ciuzens anti-monOpoy association or
canned on FRIDAY NJ ht, and resolutions were
adopted looking TO the action OF the legislature
for reducing the price of gas to cost A peti-
lion was also prepared in favor Of Il surface rail-
road on Broadway.
1t is probable that hostiltics will ne rcopencd
on Monday between the officers of the New York
Central and Hudson River railroad and the me
chanicS, in consequence of the order to discharge
certain Trades union men.
The Fisk estate has disposed of the Central
park gardens to the persons from whom the col
onel purchased them in November. The interest
of the Fisk family in the Sunday concerts at the
grand opera house has also ceased.
At Albany, the charter of the committee Of
seventy was reported with only one important
amer dmcnt which provides for the municipal
elections this year on the third Tuesday of
March. After this ycarit is on the second Tues
day of April.
As expected, in the case Of Mrs. Eliza Fuller,
who charged Thomas v Sproue with larceny,
Judge Fowler has dismissed the complaint. 1t
will he rccolected that Sproul charged that It
was a conspiracy against him on account of his
exposing some So-called spiritual tricks.
A dishonest domestic named Christina Burk
has been arrested, who admitted that she has
two husbands living, ana that her parents sent
her away from Germany because she bad robbed
houses there where she had lived, and they
wished to avoid the scandal that would be
caused by trial
Commissioner Van Mort has sent Controller
Green detailed statement of the estimated ex-
Lenses Of the department ofpu6lic works for
the current year, placing them at S2,6I7 1917
The largest item is Or lamps and gas, 81 49,
107
At meeting held in Masonic hail. Friday
cyCuiug, il was resolved to present to the legis-
lature petition, asking for free gas and free
halls, and also that the railroads be managed
by the government, the conductors having the
same rights as the police.
committee of marketmen visited Control
Ter Green, on Friday, aud formally thanked him
| for appointing Col Thomas f. Deyoe to the
| suprrntendeucY of markets. They earnestly
| asked that he might be vested at once with the
| power necessary to carry on the work of re-
| form.
| A story is current that Oakley Hall has fixed
| upon the first of next March for the day of his
resignation. He declares he will he able TO
Prove bis character as honorable rs that of any
man in New York, but he cannot eXculpat
liimself fully until he is out of Office.
The worst thief that ever infested this city,
who was arrested for robhing Bakers banking
house of over $50, 900 worth of bonds, was sue
CcSsul yesterday in obtaining an adjournment
Of his case for week. Many people begin to
think il is simply impossible for the law, as
dealt out in New York, to ever catch Dutch
lleinrichs in its clutches.