Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-20
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CITY NEWS.

The city council will meet this evening.
notice tells where tickets may be purchased
for the masquerade ball of Friday night.
Messrs. Barnard 6 Sumner have new adj
vertsement in the paper this morning, replete
with information relative to their fresh stock of
goods
The expressman Hapne, who was shot by
Filkins at Albany, spent Friday and Saturday
in this city, visiting his friends at the Merchants
Union office.
The funeral of Rev. Mr.. Scandlin will be at
tended at the Unitarian church in Grafton at
eleven O'Clock to-day. Members of the Fifteenth
regiment association and of the Grand Army OF
the Republic will find notices of interest TO
them in this connection in another column.
The members of the Frohsinn society will Gel
citrate the thirteenth anniversary of the organi-
cation of that body, this evening After pro-
logue, a drama, ode Gefaehrliche Nachiar-
schaft, dangerous Neighbors-will be given;
then the usual amount of dancing will occupy
the attention of the company.
1t was indeed strange that such an actor as
Wyzeman Marshall should have so poor ar au-
dience as he did Saturday evening. But people
here 90 by fits and starts in the matter of thea
ter patronage. Mr. Leslie goes to Webster with
u company to play the four first nights this
week. The company will include Miss Fanny
Herring, Yankee Locke and Thomas Burns.
A large grindstone in Merrifeld's building,
shop of Davis & Garfield, burst while revolving
at great speed, Saturday forenoon, but fortu-
nately no one was much hurt. One man re-
ceived slight injury in the face. The heavy
stone divided into three pieces, which were
thrown with force against the beams overhead,
and one in coming down obliquely knocked
hole through the wall of the building.
The TRACKS ON TIE COMMON. The follow
ing resolution was unanimously adopted lat
special meeting of the directors of the Worces-
ter and Nashua railroad company Saturday:
Resolved that whereas many years since the rail-
way tracks were laid by the Norwich and WOrces-
ter railroad company and by the Worcester and
Nashua railroad company across the common and
extending to Foster street depot, afording the most
direct and convenient connection between said roads
and with the passenger trains to aud from the Bos-
ton and Worcester and trains of the Boston, Cin-
ton and Fitchburg railroad companies at Worces-
ter, and sad depot is so located as to best accom-
modate persons arriving at or leaving Worcester by
rail and believing that the interests of the public
and the prompt and convenient transactions of bus
iness between this road and other connecting roads,
would De lnJurlOusly anecUed by tne removal OF the
tracks now laid across the common, and adjacent
Streets the directors of this road do hereby
strate against the granting of the petition of the
city of Worcester for any legislation authorizing
the removal of said tracks in any other mode than
that provided in chapter 264, Statutes of 1863.
MCNICIPAL COURT, URDAY.-Samuel G.
Barney was convicted on two complaints, one
for selling leased property and the other for sell
ling mortgaged property, and he was sentenced
to the house of correction for three months on
each complaint. The property consisted of
household furniture. Heine Lecerc charged with
forging four orders for the delivery of goods,
prescr iptions for gin, to which he signed DR..
Jacques name, was held in $1,000 for trial at the
superior court. Samuel Harvey, a colored man,
and Catherine Coward, a white woman, were
each sentenced to the house of correction for
three months for fOrncation. The Coward
woman has been in the city thirteen months,
nine of which have been spent in Jail. Mary ].
Vickers and Catherine Carlton were each fined
So and costs for disturbing the peace Cathe-
rine paid and Mary J. was committed. For
second offenses of drunkenness, Edward
Handrahan was fined 50 and costs, Hugh
O'Bren So and costs, John NfcGovern So and
COSTS and Geo. l.. Hodges SO and costs.
Handrahan and Hodges were committed on
non-payment. Twelve were fined (or. drunken
ness, first offense, and of the number six were
committed to Jail on non-payment: Peter Ward,
Michael Lannigan, Timothy Martin, Andrew
Daggett Timothy Holland and Peter McManus.