Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-04
dMurrester Daily Spp.
CITY NEWS.

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speak again at Mechanics hall this evening.
/ Prof. J. H. Seelye will preach for the Plymouth
society tomorrow.
Charles Allen, Esq, has been commissioned
and qualified as justice of the peace
The poultry show will begin Tuesday in Horti-
cultural hail.
The quarterly meeting Of the Worcester CEN
tral district temperance union is to be held at
Auburn next week Thursday
The Catholic temperance meeting, tomorrow
evening, will be held in the vestry Of the church
of st. Anne.
The regular meeting of the teachers OF the
public schools will take place at the hlgh
school, this afternoon at % o'clock.
The third discourse in Rev. Mr.. Halls series
on religion will be given tomorrow evening, at
seven o'clock. Subject-Jesus Christ.
The fifth assembly of the City Guards will
take place at horticultural hall, Monday eve
ming.
Tn tickets for the State Guard ball. at Me-
chanics hall, on the 18th, are now for sale by
the members of the battalion.
Duprez & Benedict's MINISTRIES will give a con-
cert in Music hall, Monday evening. Ii is one
of the oldest and best troops new on the road.
st. Patrick's Day will be celebrated with un-
usual ardor this year by the Iish citizens of this
city. Three bands of music will accompany the
procession.
An unusually large and happy throng of
children gathered at the residence of Mr.. Geo.
A. Gates, on Highland street, last evening, to
celebrate the birthday anniversary of Mr..
Gates eldest daughter, Miss Hattie.
Rev. Mr.. McKeown will preach in Washburn
hall tomorrow morning on the question, ''Haye
we Saviour with some notice of the remarks
of Pref Denton at the funeral of the late B. G.
Howes. In the afternoon the sacrament will be
administered.
William Mead, brakeman on the Merchants
Union express train, coming east, yesterday
morning, fell from the cars soon after passing
West BrOokfeld. He was not missed till after
the arrival Of the train here, when several men
Immediately went back in search of him. He
was found at the station of West Brookfeld, his
arm having been run over by the cars, and so
badly crushed that amputatiOn was necessary.
He will probably recover,
The plays, "a Naval Engagement" and "Out
to Nurse given by ladies and gentlemen con.
nected with the Salem street church, at Horti-
cultural hail, last evening, were very entertain
inT, the fair-sized audience approaching the eff
forts of those taking part, and bestowing liber-
al applause upon the acting. Where all did so
well, it is, perhaps, not in good taste to partcu-
larize, but Miss Jennie Fitch and Mr. Aborn de-
serve special mention for the credit with which
they performed. The picked-up orchestra, led
by Mr.. Clarence W. Steere, played well-better
than some orchestras heard i'll Music hail.
Anthony Chase, Esq, has partially completed
the grading of his estate, corner of Main and
Corbett streets, TO level with the highway,
and moved his house to the rear of the lot so as
to have it front on Corbett street, (now called
Chatham street.) He has frontage of 1856 feet
on Main street, his whole estate comprising
about 10000 square feet, for which he gave,
thirty years ago, about twenty cents per foot,
house included, a somewhat different figure
from the present value of real estate in that sec
ton, jumping from less than a quarter of dol
lar to 81 and So per square foot in little more
than quarter of century.
MUNICIPAL CoURT.-Before the Webster case
was called on in the municipal court, yesterday
the following were disposed of: John Maloney
was held in 5000 for his appearance before the
superior court, on a charge of committing an
assault with dangerous weapon upon Michael
LAWN. Dennis Sullivan was fined SIS and costs
for keeping an unlicensed dog, but it appearing
that defendant is a very poor man, the case was
put on file Timothy Cronan, who failed to APP
pear as a witness in case after being duly
summoned, was fined IS and costs for contempt
of court. James Wilson, for a second offence of
drunkenness, was sent, need to the house of cor
rection for three months.
TuEATRE.-There was a larger audience at
the theatre last evening than on Thursday, but
not such an attendance as the character of the
was kept up from first to last but the burlesque
OF Cinderella was the best In this, Leffingwell
as the gushing "Clorinda," was perfectly ire
sstible, and was frequently called out, as he
had been in the first piece, with Belle Hewitt
Miss Lima Edwin herself took the character of
the much-abused "Cinderella," who came out
all right in the end. By doing so well this
time, the company has taken the proper course
to insure good patronage when it shall come
again, which, we understand, will be soon.
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The WORCESTER CITY DIREcToRY, for
1871, has come around to crowd its counterpart
of 20 off the shelf; and they look so much alike
that without glancing at the date one would be
as likely to look in the one as the other, and so
they must be kept separate in order to correctly
ascertain at a moments notice the residence of
Mr.. Smith, since he changed his place of living
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tory this year-the largest family in the whole
book, from Abbott, at the beginning of the AS,
to Zimmerman, at the end of the rs. OF Sull-
vans there are 90; Browns, So; Kelleys, 75;
Murphys, 81; Harringtons, so; Moores, so;
Walkers, 43, and so on. 1t is, in fact, book
that almost anybody here can pick up and read
something about his friends in; and nobody
need be lonesome who is able to possess himself
of a copy. The first pages are devoted to gen.
eral information respecting the city, carefully
prepared and arranged. Published by Henry j.
Rowland, printed by Tyler & Seagrave, and for
sale by L. H. BigeIow.
A CASE FROM WEBSTER occupied the time of
Judge Williams, at the municipal court, nearly
all of yesterday, and was finally postponed
WibuOup uOSioiOu' AhV pdAtleS iuIeTeStCu are
from Webster, the charge of assault with intent
TO rayish being made against James S. Marshall,
by girl of fourteen years, named Mary j. Nor
ris. Marshall is a barber, and the complainant
asserts that on Saturday evening, November
Sd, she went to MarshalPs barber shop to carry
some washing, and before leaving she was as
sauted by him. The defendant attempts to
prove an alibi. This affair has created much
scandalous talk in Webster, and one of the de-
PENDANTS claims is that the suit is brought by
means of matchmaking, and that certain men
owing him spite put the girl up to the COM
plant. After hearing evidence from some half
dozen witnesses, and sitting until past six
O'Clock in the afternoon, the court postponed the
case until Monday, and the defendant was placed
under 5000 bonds. Very of this city and Tin
gier of Webster, for the government Staples OF
this city and Stockwell of Webster, for the de.
PENDANT. The court room was crowded during