Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-12-14


ms pstton e Fraheis Merrick, for PERMISSION to
eonsrue dram from Ashland street to Pleasant street
was referred % a special Committee.
The psliticno q Isaac DAVIS for compensation for
damage done TO his estate Main Street, BY alteration
of the grade of the Sidewalk, referred the
Cby GoveFnment.
The yeint Special Committee, to whom referred
the subject of the purchase of lot of land for COM
mon, reported in favor of the purchase Of lot owned
by Levi Lincoln and John Hammond. near the land
lately eaclosed by the Agricultural Society, The Board
unanimously adopted the report.
Thirty dollars by the Joint Standing Com.
mittee on Water, to Samuel Putnam for loss sustained
by him from the water of Bell Pond ---
The petition Of the abuttos On Oxford Street. for the
privilege Of making drain in said street 10 the sewer
on Pleasant street. was referred to Special Commit
tee with power to act.
The decree, making Edward and Laurel Streets pub.
lie highways. came up from the other Board non-con
Cured in. AID White moved fo1 Committee Of Con
ference, Aids White. Williams, and Valentine were
appointed on the Committee Tor this Board. IS.
AID Harding presented majority report from the
Special Committee appointed consider the sub
ject of the second Parish bell, in favor of paying 10
sale bell The subject recommitted with nstrac
tions tie report a bill Of expenses
The Committee Of Confer ence, on certain accounts
due The City for grading Streets reported in favor
of enforcing the collection Of sad accounts forthwith
Adopted.
The ordinance, in relation to the salary Of the Mayor
passed 10 be engrossed. m s
The Board meet on Monday next, at 7o'rlock P, M &
HoT Gem; Life Scenes in Nep York Illustrated
by Scion RAbmsop, published by Dewitt & Dav-
export, New York. Az
This book, which bears so Quaint and homey a
title, is, in opinion, one of The most touchingly
terrible productions Of American literature. is
to New York what the mysteries of Paris were to
L'Isse de Cite; what the Journal of a London
Home Missionary was 10 w Westminster and the Mi
nories. It hits the curtain from neither world un.
dreamed Of MYTHOLOGY, and exposes TO the world
above, shapes of suffering aud of sin that oulriya
in theirterrble reallts,ih Imagined horrors Of Dam
ties Inferno. "A little girl wandered through the
streets Of New York at midnight crying Hot Corn.
The hour, the tender years of The child, and the
melancholy music Of her voice, arrested the atten
tion OF the benevolent author Of this book and made
him reason with himself; 'sWhy does she cry shot
corn?" Why do so many like her cry hot corn?--
The battle Of HE is for the strong and heartyDot
iot Tue Hdgle auQ tue young my is thls tender
child forced @ wander the streets at midnghtto cry
hot cora2''' To follow these questions their logical
consequences, the author was obliged TO enter The
abodes Of wretchedness and vice, and behold the
ravages made BY misery and disease, in the pent mp
purlieus Of crowded city. He went down into The
Five Points, and there saw such life scenes have
no parallel for wretchedners this broad continent
He beheld rum triumphant over manhood, mother.
hood, youth, and beauty. He saw sights andsheard
tales,whn stones throw d the palaces Of Broad
way, that will maze the reader thrill with horror,
and cause the big tear 70 start from the plying eye.
The sketches contained in this book were origi-
nally printed in The New York Tribune, and have
been the means Of calling attention to the subject
which is 50 graphically treated in them. Its to be
hoped that their circulation in their present form
will nduqe stiI greater interest the subject Of
social reform.
This book is for sale by E. N. Tucker, &c MAN
Street.