Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-23
Gaurtester Daily Spp.
CITY NEWS.

Joseph Redl has a notice this morning in re-
gard to his removal.
The Father Mathew society will hold public
temperance meeting, this evening, in st, Johns
church, Temple street.
The hospitality section of the Peoples club
will hold their regular meeting at five O'Clock
this afternoon, at their rooms,
o. NJ. Ball & Co., IS Main street, have lot Of
very nice shad, fresh and inviting, which they
are ready to deliver to customers. There will
undoubtedly be prompt demand for them.
The First national bank of this city will be
closed between the hours of II and O'Clock, to-
day, during the funeral services OF Mrs. h. A
Goodnow, wife of the president of the bank.
Rising Star lodge of Good Templars had
pleasant social gathering at Temperance hall.
The exercises consisted ofyoca and instrumental
music, short speeches, etc.
Abbott sold DR.. Mignaults estate on Pearl
street yesterday, for S14, 10O to Elias T. Balloon.
The A. NJ. Barrows estate at Webster square has
also been sold by him, to Mrs. Nancy Harring-
ton, for $1,000.
Those coal pits along the Boston and Albany
road, by means of which the old ties are con-
verted into money, are again smoking-ive at
Millbury, five at birmingham, and several at
other points The ties thrown aside during the
winter will soon be used up.
A meeting was held last evening for the pur-
pose of making arrangements for organizing
lodge of the Knights of Pythas in this city.
The organization will soon be effected, with
thirty-three charter members, and the name will
lao ;,,.I re o 1ota
The theater was filled last evening, every part
of it, the upper gallery with enthusiastic boys.
7 he piece-"Sreets of New York"-which has
been played here before, has several scenes and
characters that keep alive its popularity, and
make it successful in drawing houses many
times where play of more merit would go beg
ging for an audience.
Among the dodgers at the police station last
night was family of Canadians, consisting of
eleven children between the ages of one year
and fourteen, and the mother only thirty-six
They came in on the late Nashua train, and will
go on this morning to swell the population of
Rhode Island
The peoples concerts, about which a para
graph appeared a short time ago, are advertised
this morning, and the first of a series will be Civ
en- on the evening of April 3D., under the manage,
ment of Mr.. Reed of Boston. The musical talent
employed includes Halls full military band aud
several singers whose names appear. The price
Of admission is a mere trife.
"A. Plympton & Co., successors to VIM. D
Fenno & Son, at 104 Main street, make announce
ment of their stock in another place. They
have new regulator of +. Howard & Co.'S
make, Boston, which cost $3.50, and is said to
keep perfect time, not varying five seconds in
year. 1t is compared weekly with observa-
tory time at Cambridge, by telegraph. The
moving power is a twelve ounce weight.
The son of Mr.. Burnham who lost his left eye
last week, met with the accident under the fol-
lowing circumstances. He was playing with
other boys, one of whom had a small loaded
pistol, the muzzle of which he inserted in glass
bottle and then fired it, The bottle of course
was broken into fragments, one of which in
jured the Burnham boy as we have mentioned
1t should be a warning to others.
AT the weekly meeting of the horticultural
society, the following entries were made: &c.
Lowell of West Boylston-Appes: Scarlet Gille-
flower. D. B. Comins-Apples: Washington
and Nonsuch. JIM. Earle-Apples: Fine sweet
variety, not yet identified, grown by j. H. Brooks
and shown here at various times. j. F. Allen
Apples Baldwin, Northern Spy and Hubbards.
ton Nonsuch. Pears: Vicar of Winfield and
Beurre Langelier. j. X. L. Pickford-Applcs
Yellow BellfiOwer. The library will be open
this afternoon at the usual hour The commit
tee on premiums are requested to meet at four
O'Clock.