Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-01
dNurtesttr 4aiIp Spp.
CITY NEWS.


1t is stated that the temperance voters are 10
be literally "drummed up" this morning.
Tony Pastor and company will appear at MI.
sic han Monday evening" July TO-
The great menagerie comes week from to-
day.
Kate Reynolds will play at Music hall on the
night of the fourth.
About all of the many kinds of berries have
made their appearance thus early in the season
at the fruit stand of Taft, Bliss & Rice.
The auction sale of seats in the Universalist
church will be resumed this afternoon at half
past one O'Clock.
The annual examination of the high school
closed yesterday. The examination of candi-
dates for admission will take place o.day.
AT the annual meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa
society of Harvard college, held yesterday
morning. Hon. Geo. +. Hoar, of this city, was
elected an honorary member.
Stones omnibuses will run from Webster
square to Leicester, next Tuesday forenoon, to
accommodate those who wish to attend the
celebration in that town.
The open air concert on Salem square last
evening, by the Worcester brass band, was
greatly enjoyed, for the evenings arc delightful
for this season of the year-clear and cool. The
band occupied the hay scales.
The address and poem at the Dread gradua-
alton exercises will take place on Monday even
ing next, at DR.. Cutters church, and the COM
menccment exercises will occur in the First
Baptist church on Wednesday evening The
public are invited. See advertisement.
We are desired to say that Company A., Safe
Guard, do not dissolve their connection with
the battalion, as might perhaps, be inferred
from their intention OF securing an independent
armory.
The work upon the new Methodist church on
Walnut street, has progressed SO far that the
yestry will be ready for occupancy, for the regu-
lar church services, one week from tomorrow
The remainder of the building will not, prob
ably, be finished before October.
The bell for Trinity church was suspended in
its place yesterday. Its reverberating tones are
hailed with joy by the residents of that section.
The bell was cast in Sheffield, England, and the
iron work furnished at the Norway iron works,
South Boston.
The view from the upper windows in the
tower of the new high school house is the most
lofty in the city or vicinity. The churches,
school houses, and in fact every building in the
city is plainly to be seen, while the surrounding
villages seem surprisingly near, and Mount
Wachusctt looms up in the northern horizon so
clearly as to show the open fields near its base.
The temperance men will have headquarters
at W. Mecorney's to-day, and while the voting
is going on returns will be received and read
there, and other necessary business transacted;
the rallying committees for the wards voting at
city hall and other places in the vicinity, will
report there for orders.
The sale of pews in the new Universalist
church Thursday evening was very successful,
SOS being taken in premiums. Mr.. Joseph E.
Stearns secured the first choice, at premium
of $40, and four or five subsequent choices
brought the same amount while large num-
Der of S35, $50, S95 and $40 premiums were
paid.
Tickets for the dinner table at the Leicester
celebration can be had at Mars in this city
during the day, and at the post office and town
houSeia Leicester up TO the time of dining, if
they are not all previously taken. The address
will be at ten A. NJ. on Tuesday. and the dinner
as early as one p. NJ.
We understand that the young people of one
of the churches in this city are making arrange
mentS for an excursion, which promises to be
one of the most popular of the season, as it
contemplates a new route, embracing several
features of special interest. The expenses,
also, are to be at a very low figure AS soon as
the arrangements are completed, they will be
published
The New England Nicholson pavement COM
pany have Just finished handsome little job of
wood paving in the driveway between Taylors
new block and the Davis estate, at an expense
TO Mr.. Taylor of $500 to $1,000. movement
has been started to have this kind of paving put
down on that portion of Pleasant street to be
repaved, and the people Of Portland street de-
sire il, also.
The teachers drawing class at the Free insti-
tute will open next Monday. There will be
twenty lessons in the course, for the special &C.
commodatiOn of teachers in the public schools.
1t will be little tedious for the teachers, just re-
leased from a years work, to undertake this
work; but, with the intrinsic charm of the
drawing, the enthusiasm of the teacher, and the
agreeable character of the surroundings, the
fortnight will pass easily and profitably.
The festival at Temperance hall last night,
given by Rising Star lodge, was a profitable
one TO that organization, and was attended by
as many as could stand in thehall, all of whom
were most graciously treated at the strawberry
and ice cream tables. The American brass
band of this city furnished very creditable music
gratuitously. This is newly organized band
of twenty pieces, led by Mr.. G. H. Southland.
There was also some speaking and singing
during the evening.
At the bearing of parties owning property on
Winter and Mechanic streets, before the board
of aldermen, Thursday evening, it was a re-
markable fact that, although most of them
petitioned for the changes made, they declare
that their estates have not been bettered, and
some claim that they have been damaged, now
that it comes 10 a matter of assessments for
letterments. One Irish woman, when asked
BY an alderman why she put higher price on
her property, if it had been damaged instead of
betiered, said: "Faith, and how should know
whether it had been bettered or not, if didn't
ak bigger price"