Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-29
ljourned for one week.
Common Council.

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Various matters were introduced from the
other board, and passed in concurrence.
The following order, introduced by Mr..
Stowen, had its first reading:
Ordered, That the Mayor be authorized to
draw his order for the payment of Twelve
Thousand Dollars, to the Old South Parish
Society, when they shall make good Deed
of release to the city, of all their rights to
maintain House of Worehip upon the Com
mon; or, that the Mayor be empowered to re-
fer to five disinterested men, not citizens of
Worcester, to be appointed by Hon. Lemuel
Shaw, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
under the power of arbitration pointed out by
the Revised Statutes, what sum of money, if
any, after full hearing of the parties, the
City of Worcester shall pay the Old South
Parish, to make a Deed of release of all their
rights to maintain House of Worship on the
Common, in Worcester.
IMPORTANT. The great question, which for
few days past, has chiefly engaged the atten-
ton of the supernumeraries who congregate at
the office of the Clerk of the Weather, is,
whether, during the severity of the gale, last
Friday night, the vane on the Methodist
Church, on Park Street, changed its position
or not. 1t has pointed directly to the South
West for more than seven years, with a firm
ness and persistence that would have done
credit to Wesley or Whitfield. 1t is affirm
ed now, however. that the gale was too much
for it, and that it varied slightly from its in
tegrity; but this is resolutely denied, on the
other hand, and it is anticipated that heavy bets
may be based on the issue thus presented. If
there should be, the question will probably be
| settled, at the same time with those other
much mooted questions-"Who was the man
in the claret-colored coat" and "Who struck
Billy Patterson
"WE'RE ALL DoDGINe" Our readers
will see by advertisement, that Dodge, with
his " Bards,' will sing at the CITY HALL,
this evening. Of Mr.. Dodge himself, there is
no occasion to say anything to Worcester
audience, but of his company, we are author
lied to say, that they have never before been
SO effective as at the present time. The best
of those who were with him when last here
have been retained, and the places Of the 9TH
| ers supplied by first-rate singers, whose per-
formances give great satisfaction, even to the
most fastidious. Dodge would like to accom-
modate everybody, if he could, but feels
obliged to limit his company to as many as
| can get into the Hall. The only safety, there
fore, will be in going early.
MErEoR1c-There were brilliant displays Of
! the Auora Borealis, both on Monday and Tues
day mornings About midnight on Monday, a
column, apparently Of living fire, shot up in
the West, extending from the horizon to the
zenith, with perfectly clear sky on either
side of it, the "merry dancers" being at the
same time at play in the North. 1t exhibited
the usual characteristics of such meteoric dis-
plays, but was the most brilliant that has oc
CURED for many years.
A Cross Doc was shot in Main Street yes
terday morning opposite Brinley Hall, by q
young man towards whom he had manifested
his ''dental symptoms in very unbecoming
manner.