Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-21
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CITY NEWS.

hall, tomorrow, will open at ten O'clock A. NJ.
Among tho names registered at Bowles Broth
ers & Co., London, June 8, were J. G. Avery
and A. c. Downing, Worcester.
Herbert NJ. Rice, of the firm ofrhwing & Rice,
has been appointed and received his commission
as justice of the peace for Worcester county.
A strawberry festival at the hall of the Qun-
sigamond grammar school is special attrac-
tion for this evening.
The Worcester safe deposit and trust COM
pany have declared dividend of four per cent,
payable July /.
clear day is hoped for by the Turner's for
their picnic at Davis cottage, postponed from
Monday
The strawberry festival of the Shrewsbury
Farmers club will be continued this evening,
with the hope that more favorable weather may
add TO its success.
st. Paul's Sunday school will hold strawberry
festival this evening, at Mechanics hall, com
mencng at 7 80 o'clock. Songs, tableauX, &c.
will be presented as attractions.
Those who have engaged dinner tickets for the
fourth of July celebration at leicester, and those
who wish to do so, will find them at A. Mars
265 Main street, during the present week.
Messrs. James Russell, James W. Weir, Wal
ter DenhOlm, James Tuis, and Thomas Pro-
van, have been appointed by the St. Andrews
society committee of arrangements to prepare
for an evening entertainment whereby the CEN
tennial of Sir Walter Scott may be appropriate
ly celebrated next August.
Messrs. Blake & Robinson have made a pro-
position to the city to strike the correct Cam
bridge time once each day. by means of the fire
alarm telegraph. The hour has not been fully
decided upon, but it is thought that quarter
past twelve will accommodate the greatest num-
Der of people.
The church bells, big gongs and little gongs,
were jangng away all over the city yesterday
for the benefit of the members of the city
government, to whose attention the working of
the new fire alarm telegraph had been called by
the committee on fire department They ex-
pressed themselves well pleased with what they
saw and heard; and the citizens generally OK
press themselves so well satisfied with what
they have heard of the noise, that they will be
content to have this frequent striking of the
bells cease, and wait for actual business, at the
same time acknowledging the necessity of the
experiments. There seems to be nothing wrong
in the matter, aud no reason to doubt the eff
cheney of the telegraph,
Rain, rain, rain, thicker, faster and more of
it, seems to be the order of things in the way of
weather, just now. The shower that burst upon
us in torrents, sending rivers of water through
the streets at about four o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon, toned down into protracted rain
cOpious, but not so violent as at the START and,
indeed, we seldom see rain pouring down at the
rate it did for the space of half an hour yester-
day afternoon. Fave cutters and spouts were
of very little account, and in several instances
a stream was formed that made mischief in
cellars and ground floors.
Dr. Munroe, who has had the superintendent
of putting up the telegraph in this city for
Gamewell & Co. of New York, entertained
party of gentlemen from other cities, yesterday
who came TO observe the operations of the CON-
pleted system, by dinner at the Lincoln house,
at which chief engineer Gould and several other
city officials were also present by invitation.
The parties visiting the city were chief engineer
Rowland of New Bedford, accompanied by the
committee on fire department from the city
council of that city, and chief engineer Breed
of Lynn, accompanied by similar committee.
In both of these cities, it has been decided to
introduce the fire alarm telegraph.
TECHNICAL SCHooL.-The oral examination,
which has heretofore occurred on the last Fri
day in June, will take place this year in connec-
ton with the graduation of the senior class,
Wednesday, July &C. At that time there will be
the customary exhibition OF the work OF the
students in the drawing rooms laboratory, shop,
and civil engineering department, and the senior
class will be examined on the studies of the
course.
MUNICIPAL CoURT.-In the municipal court,
yesterday, William S. Reed, Mary Boyle, and
Ellen Clark, for drunkenness were fined three
dollars and costs each, and committed in de-
fault. Thomas Curran and John Lapine, for
drunkenness were fined three dollars and costs,
and paid. William ODwyer, for assault ond
battery, was fined fifteen dollars and COSTS and
committed Mary Glynn, common drunkard,
was sentenced to six months in the house of
correction. Thomas Enright, for keeping open
shop on Sunday, was fined fifteen dollars and
costs, and paid. Andrew Martin, for selling
liquor, was fined ten dollars and costs, and
paid. Eli Goulding and Thomas Madden, for
obstructiDg the street with building material,
were fined five dollars and costs, and paid.
James Lee, for breaking and entering, and also
for larceny, was bound over TO the superior
court in $4,000 and committed in default Of bail.
The WARREN AND SPENCER BURGLARS
VIM. ]. Sutherland and James Lee, of Boston,
were before justice Titus, of the municipal
court, yesterday charged with breaking and en-
tering the store OF Charles w. lockwood, of |
Warren. Several witnesses were examined, in
Guiding Mr. lockwood, who testified that his
store in Warren was broken into on the 2Sth of
last April; that quantity of goods was stolen;
that he subsequently found some of them,
(shawls, pants, vests, velvet sack and some vel
vet in piece) in Boston, and identified goods
in the court room as those that he found.
Cornelia Mckay, of Boston, daughter of a
woman with whom Lee boarded testified to see
ing the goods in his room; that he took off the
tags and burned them; and that she saw some
of the goods in store day or two afterward and
Emma Briggs of Boston testified that she bought
some goods of Lee, who protested to be peddler,
that afterwards he told her to deny buying them
of him, and subsequently told her to destroy
them and he would make it right with her; and |
that she accordingly burned them. The OK
animation lasted several hours, and resulted in |
the discharge of Sutherland, and the binding |
oyer Of Lee in $4,000 to the superior court. Both
are held in $4,000 bail for appearance on the 9th,
to answer the charge of breaking and entering |
the store of T. B. ingalls, of Spencer; and the two
women, Mckay and Briggs, are under bonds to |
appear as witnesses at the superior court.
COUNTY NEWS.
John B. Cough is filling the great Pavilion at |