Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-14
0Qturtestrr Gully Spp.
CITY NEWS.

The American Society of Hibernans went to
Rocky Point on their annual excursion, Satur-
day. The party filled sixteen cars.
Mr.. Henry C. Wadsworth, of the firm of
Ethan Allen & Co., sailed for Europe, Satur-
day.
Two bats came into the office con fly" Tor
rather after fly last night, and made short
stop"
young man who hired team and started
for ride, yesterday afternoon, led the horse
back to the stable shortly after. The carriage
was left wreck on Park street.
The formal resignation of Clark Jillson, Esq,
as clerk of the municipal court, was received
and accepted on the opening of the court Sat
urday morning by Judge Williams.
Twenty members of the Turner society of this
city took the train for Springfield last evening,
and will be present at the Turner festival in that
city to-day.
Rev. Alanson Wilcox, for the past three years
pastor of Christ church in this city has received
and accepted a call from Lakewood Place,
Pittsburg, Pa. The congregation of Christ
church regrets to lose so Jealous a worker as
Mr.. Wilcox has proved himself.
The local passenger. rates upon the Boston
and Albany railroad, on and after Oct. /, are to
be reduced to three cents a mile for all distances
of twenty miles and under, and to two and
eighty-three one.hundredths cents mile for all
distances over twenty miles, where the present
rates are above those figures.
splendid piece of work in the way of cur
tain painting was done by Fred. Revere on the
costly ones at the large windows of Clark &
Sawyer's new store in TaylOr's block. Those at
the windows of John d. Chollars store, in the
same block, the work of T. NJ. Woodward, are
also fine specimens of painting.
Coroner ]. Marcus Rice, held an inquest Sat
urday afternoon on the body of Thomas Riley,
killed by the cars near the freight house of the
Nashua road on Friday The jurors were
Messrs. Emory Banister, d. F. Parker, A. w.
Sawyer, Franklin Whipple, Joseph Chase and l..
B. Wetherbee. The verdict exOnerated the rail
road employees.
In the municipal court Saturday Edward
Kenney Of Leicester was fined $40 and costs for
keeping liquor; and paid. Frank Kelley, for
assault and battery was fined So and
costs, but c0nld not Ipay, and was
therefore committed along with James Boyle,
who could not pay his fine of So and costs for
drunkenness. Thomas B. Cushing and Tim
othy Gillhooly were each fined So and costs for
drunkenness, and paid.
Eliza King, an old offender was brought from
her house on Canterbury street last night, in a
dangerously drunken condition, and locked up.
When the officers arrived at the house she had
broken the nose off the tea-kettle, and was about
to destroy that feature on the face of "the old
man." If she had been allowed to go on. she
would in short time have been surrounded by
a rare collection of broken noses, at the rate sh
was slashing around when arrested.
Mr.. SAMUEL Willard has been arrested,
charged with setting fire to the barn of Mr..
Dexter IL. Perry, which was burned at Quinsig-
almond Il few evenings since. He was arraigned
in the municipal court Saturday morning, and
pleaded not guilty. The case was continued
till Wednesday, He was neighbor of Mr..
Perry's.
Fire was discovered Friday night on the out
side of a house owned by Michael Quinn, in
Hopevile, near st, Johns cemetery. Some in
fammabe fluid had been put on the outside of
the house before it was set on fire, but as one of
the inmates happened to be awake, it was
promptly discovered and extinguished Quinn
has lost two houses by fire within the last year.
State Constable Hair, accompanied by City
Marshal James M. brennan and Assistant Mar
shall Washburn, visited the gambling establish
ment kept by George Sawyer, in Piper block
Saturday evening, going in upon room full of
such as frequent these places, at about eleven
o'clock. The furniture and paraphernalia of
thereon and business were attached, and the
proprietor and all present put under bail for APP
pearance at the municipal court, having first
been taken to the police station. The gamblers
were greatly astonished at the interruption of
their playing by the official party, and in "the
game that ensued" were 10th to "take hand p
but they saw that they were in for it, and aban-
doned their cards, chips and scrip to accept the
situation