Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-29

IN LIMBO.
New YORK, Feb. 2S.-StiIlman, the lawyer
who offended Judge Barnard, yesterday, and
was ordered to be imprisoned for one day in adj
dition TO the fine of SIS, spent last night in Lud-
low street Jail
COMPROMISE.
AT meeting of the depOsitors of the Bowling
Green savings bank, last evening, the PROPOSE
ton of President Smith to pay $4,000 as a com
promise with the deposiIOIs, was accepted. The
| amount OF deficiency in the bank is S146,O00.
FOR FRANCE.
About five hundred French citizens met last
evening to further the subscription for the pay
ment Of the German war indemnity. A com
mittee of collection was appointed.
TEA AND COFFEE.
The importers of the grOcerS' board of trade
in this city petition congress, asking that, in
case of reduction in the duly on tea and coffee,
ninety days time be granted before the law takes
effect.
ACCIDENT.
The daughter of Rev. DIR. Rogers was blown
from the platform of Il train ON the New Haven
railroad yesterday afternoon and fatally injured.
Owing to the doors Of the passenger cars being
locked, she could not gain Abundance, she hav-
ing got on the train at Harlem to join her father
who ofiicated at the funeral services of LegTand
Lockwood, and was in the car en- route to Nor
walk. The high gale at the time blew her from
the platform She was taken to a hotel and is
believed to be fatally injured.
HELD FOR TRIAL.
Eight of the rOughs Of the Nineteenth street
gang, who nearly murdered Officer FULLY on
Sunday, were held for trial. Ono of them,
named Clemens, is heir to $50 900 worth of real
estate III this city, but his mother declined to 90
bail for him. Officer Tully is still in q danger
GUS condition.
ANOTHER swINDLE.
The Times states that Hank Smith, the Tam.
many republican chairman of the police COM
missioners, who was denounced as n swinder at
the meeting of the depOsitoTs of the Bowling
Green savings bank last night, is the recipient
OF leases, for nominal sums, of several of the
most valuable piers on the North river, belong
ing to the city. One of them he has not paid
any rent Tor for several years, the city being thus
swndled in the one instance Of over fifty thou
sand dollars.
THE STOKES CASE.
In the Stokes case, today, the district attor-
ney said he had no witnesses to examine, but filed
the precept calling for grand jury, the return
thereto, the proclamation of the sheriff and his
notice of the publication. Graham, one of
Stokes counsel, then argued that proof bad
been given that the grand jury was not regular
ly or legally organized.
JURORS TO TRY MAYOR HALL.
In the common pleas court the effort to obtain
jury was recommended this morning. All sorts
of questions are asked the citizens, and up to
one O'Clock no new jurymen were found accep-
table. Eleven jurors were obtained.
Ell LE1ERA.
The wife of George Winans, the sick depot
master at Hampstead, l.. l., beat him so brutaly
on Sunday that he died yesterday. The virago
was arrested.
John NJ. Boyd, shoe manufacturer was bru-
tally beaten at the corner of Warren street and
Broadway last evening, by striking Crispins,
they mStaklng him for Il Bon-sOciety man at
work at Tasker's factory. He lies in danger.
Gus condition at the hospital.
Edward l.. Cooper, son of Peter Cooper, and
Henry l.. Hognet have been elected commission
efs Of emigration in the place OF Bell and Hus.
ted.
Richard d. Cook, doorkeeper of Military hall,
on the Bowery, shot John Donahue, drunken
rough, while assaultidg him last night and try
ing 10 force his way into the hall.
Fisb's horses, carriages, etc, was sold at auc-
ton to-day, about thirty horses bringing prices
from $500 to $500. The total received was
about fifty thousand dollars.
In the first of fifteen suits against the Atlantic
mail company, aggregating penalties amount.
ing to thirty thousand dollars, on allegations
that cigars have been landed from its vessels
without payment of duty, Judge Woodruff has
given decision in favor of the United States.
Ex-Judge Troy, of Brooklyn, has sued the
Brooklyn Eagle for $4,000, for alleged libel
Henry Coulter, OF Pittsburg, has accepted the
challenge of Ellis Ward, to row five-mile race
for ono thousand dollars side, on condition
that the rowing be at Plttsburg or PHILADELPHIA
Henry Ward Beecher delivered an address to-
night before the graduating class of the. college
OF physicians and surgeons. w. 7. Bull, of
Rhode Island, took the fifty dollar faculty prize
The German society OF the city of New York
amended its bylaws by abolishing the system of
employing voluntary physicians for the poor
and adopting a system of paid medical aid.
The Tammany general committee, at a meet
ing tonight, took no action upon the question
of the regularity of the new committee.
The counsel will sum up tomorrow in the pre-
lminary Stokes trial.