Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-17
CITY AND COUNTY.
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS,
At the State Lunac Hospital in Worcester for the week
ending July Is 1850.
Amount Of AN durIng DC wed lO6 nj
EIunicipnl AHairs.

The regular meeting of the city government
was held last evening. In the board of mayor
and aldermen, Mr.. Tolman was chosen to pre-
side in the absence of the mayor. The peti.
ton of Timothy Parker and d. f. Parker,
farmers and dealers in wood and lumber, in
Holden, for leave to drive their oxen into the
city, was granted. The petition OF Mr..
Dougherty was referred to the mayor and city
clerk, with authority to act.
The second quarterly report of the city
marshal was read and accepted. 1t represents
that POI arrests were made, and l75 com
plants entered in the police court during the
quarter ending July LIST, most of which were
for drunkenness, for disturbing the peace, as
sault and battery larceny, &C., &c. There
were 367 poor persons supplied with food and
lodging during the quarter. The expenses of
the department were S2,l09 68; receipts
S4l1 "A expenses over receipts 81 sos "a.
The highway commissioner made his quar-.
terly report, representing that the expenses of
| the department for the quarter had been $4,-
424 81 and for the six months ending July
LIST, over receipts Sc, 1888 SO. The report was
accepted and sent down for concurrence to the
other board.
The report of the committee on sidewalks,
providing for setting the curb stones and paw
ing the cutters on the east side of Hanover
street, from Prospect to Laurel, had its sec
ond reading, and its recommendations were
adopted
Mr.. Draper offered an order to authorize
and request the committee on sidewalks to
have the curb stones set and the gut
tiers paved in front of the estate o.
the Worcester Gas Light Company, OF
Lincoln street, under the usual conditions ha6
its first reading, and was laid over. He also
offered an order insructing the street com
missioner to cause so much of the street il
front of the engine house in Bigelow Cour
as the committee on fire department shall
approve; referred to committee on side
walks
The claim Of Messrs Harrington & Co., milk
dealers, for damages to their team and commod
tiles, 4th of July, caused by defect on Franklin
street, was referred to the committee on
claims. The petition Of Abraham Peaslee wa.
referred with power to act. The petition Of
H. A. Hatch, to be appreciated as common
: victualer in Piper's Block, was laid on the
table.
Messrs. Thayer and Haywood of the board
of aldermen, and Messrs. Fitch, Hakes, and
Brown of the council, were appointed com
mittee to confer with Mr.. Willard Brown rela
tive to the settlement of the suit now pending
between him and the city.
The committee on the fire department with
the chief engineer, were authorized in con
currence to purchase hose carriage for the
new steam fire engine, at an expense moi
exceeding $500. VIM. L. Nichols was elected
by concurrent vote, field driver in the Tatnuck
district. The claim OF Tourtellot & Peck, fol
remuneration for making plans for the public
library building, was referred to joint com
mittee consisting Of Aldermen Messenger and
Thayer and Councilmen Valentine, A. G.
Walker and Goddard.
The committee on sewers made an elaborate
report, accompanied with an order instructine
the highway commissioner, under the direc
ton of the committee on sewers and in accord
ance with specifications made by Phineha
Ball, to cause brick sewer and cesspool t,
be constructed on Union street, from near tn,
railroad bridge, through Union street to tn,
canal at the bridge, near Merriheld's buildings
on the condition that Mr.. Dwight Foster, ant
the Boston and Worcester, and the Worcester
and Nashua railroad companies. or eithel
Of them, construct similar sewer, according
to the same plan, at their cost, for tbs
purpose Of draining Foster and Waldo streets
and their own premises, to connect with
the Union street sewer, and to be transferred
when completed to the city. The cost of the
entire work, according to the estimates of Mr.
Ball, will be about 81, l7S 90, Of which s503 50
would have to be borne by the city The re-
port was accepted, the order had its first read
! ing, and lies over