Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-18
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CITY NEWS.

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Edmund Riley, James Clinch and Frederick
A. Billings were the three persons who paid
fines of two dollars and costs each in the mu-
nicpal court yesterday.
Mr.. SINNERS announcement of books of
which he has the agency will be noticed by our
readers. The violiue ink advertised by him we
recommend as being very superior, flowing
easily and holding well its color.
We notice the name of midshipman Chas
Bartlett of this city in the list of naval officers
ordered to the Wabash, the United States war
steamer that has Just taken Gen. sherman,
Lieut.. Grant and party to Europe.
Mrs. Warfeld, the woman who was taken in
a fit of insanity at her home in Blackstone last
Wednesday, and killed her infant month old
by trying to chop its head off with an AK, has
been brought to the lunatic hospital in this
city.
The agent Of Theodore Thomas was in town
yesterday, completing arrangements for the
great orchestral concert to be given ON the Both
notwithstanding night AT another time
we shall allude to the orchestra as now organ
lied, and its extraordinary wealth of solo
talent.
tertainingly at Mechanics hall last evening, the
galleries and floor being filled. They had all the
attractions OF the other leyees, and few hours
of dancing afterward, in which there seemed to
be much enjoyment to the participants.
Another public temperance meeting will he
held in the Summer street chapel, tomorrow
evening. Rev. Mr.. Cheeyer is to preside and
the opening address will be given by Thomas
Moore Tyrrell, a prominent ,ificer of the Olive
Branch Temple of Hor evidence. Mr.. Tyr
rell is an efficient ser and an agreeable
speaker.
The work on the new high school building is
progressing as rapidly toward completion as
circumstances will admit. Worllnen are en-
gagged putting in a bank wall in front three
and half feet high from the sidewalk on Maple
street. The old building is being fitted up for a
ward room in the basement, With school rooms
above.
At a recent meeting of the trustees of the
Worcester five cents saving bank, the resigna-
ton Of Mr.. Clarendon Harris as treasurer was
received and accepted, and Mr. George W
Wheeler, the present city treasurer, was elected
in his stead 1t is understood that the change
election of a new city treasurer. by the city
council of 1872.
The concert to be given at the Church OF the
Unity, next Tuesday evening, will give the
many friends of Miss Mary L Ingraham an OPP
portunity to hear her in some favorte concert
selections. Mrs. Hamilton, who will also sing
on that occasion, has not been heard in concert
here, where she is such Il great layorte, for a
long time. The programme, which we shall
publish on Monday, will announce some very at
tractive music, in the performance of which a
number of our vocalists and panists will take
part, among them Mr.. aud Mrs. Richards,
Messrs. b. d. Allen, S. r. Leland, and Messrs
Story and Mason; also Miss Persis Bell, the
wonderful child violinist.
The bogus parson, Samuel II. Seymour,
charged with forgery and obtaining money on
false pretences i'll this city, was in the police
court in Lowell yesterday forenoon for exami-
nation, but no facts were elected that have not
already appeared in the Spy. An attempt was
made to quash the complaint of forgery, first
because the full name of the person by whom
the forged order was signed, is not set forth in
said complaint, and secondly, because neither
set forth in said complaint, and no sufficient
reason is therein alleged for not setting out the
same. The prisoner was, on the charge of for
gerry, ordered TO give bonds in $1,000, and to
appear before the supreme court in February
Anol. pros. was entered ON the complaint of
obtaining money on false pretcnces. He was re-
manded 10 Jail.
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG goes success
fully on at Horticultural hall and Col Batchel-
der interested larger audience last evening by
his account of the generals who figured in the
battle, speaking particularly of those who were
killed or wounded. The colonel readily pointed
out any officer concerning whom inquiry was
made in the audience, and gave the important
facts relating to the particular command of each
The interest in this magnificent picture will in
crease as its fine execution and historic value
comes TO be understood. People who wish to see
it should not all wait until the last exhibition,
and no one should lose the opportunity to see it.
The subject of the lecture accompanying its
exhibition this evening will be ARTILLERY at
Gettysburg" description of the battle from an
artillery standpoint. The movements OF fifty
eight batteries will be explained, intcrspersed
with numerous incidents. The position and
movements of regiments will be given when re-
quired,
Col. Bachelor has exhibited the picture and
delivered lecture upon the battle to the school
children of nearly every CITY in New England
and it seems TO us that it would be well if an
arrangement could be made by which the youth
of the Worcester schools could benefit by its ex-
hibition here. An exchange says, in this con-
nection: at It's to be commended that our school
children have been given an opportunity to visit
the painting. and listen to the lectures on the
battle, as it has given them a clear and compre-
hensive idea of all the preliminary movements
made just previous to the engagement, as well
as the fight itself, forming a chapter of history
that for accuracy and uuthluness will never be
found in any school book" After the eXhb-
ton of the picture had closed in Boston, it was
resumed at the urgent request of John d. Phil
brick, superintendent of schools, who desired
that the teachers and pupils should see the pic
ture and hear the lecture.
The female party to the matchmaking case
which recently came before the New York courts
and terminated by the discharge of the lawyer
Mclaughlin, accused of stealing iewelry from Mrs
Jennie Browne formerly a resident of this city,
where her father was wellknown and verv pop
ular twenty years ago, or thcreabouts The fol-
lowing account of her proceedings taken from
the Boston Journal Of the 10Th, will be read with
surprise by many of our citizens who knew the
family well:
an the winter of 1S69-7O, Lawrence McLaugh-
lin, Boston lawyer, who is well known, not