Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-04
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CITY NEWS.

usualN large NUMBER OF prisoners last night
Miss Dana's school, which, by mistake, was
announced to commence Monday, Aug. 2Sth,
will begin to-day.
The Renlorth and Taylor Winship crews which
left Halifax Saturday morning will pass through
this city tonight on their way to Saratoga.
Mrs. Mctcalr, formerly teacher in the WOr-
ceStcr high school, will open private school in
Chaplin block, next Monday.
Two boys named McCann and Redgate, cs
capped from the state reform school at Westboro
on Saturday The first named belongs in this
city.
Mrs Knoxs Kindergarten" or school, after
the Frnbcl system, for young children from
two-and-aha or three years to seven, will open
at the corner of Pearl and Chestnut streets this
morning.
The commissioners recently appointed, in pur-
suancc of an act of the legislature, to settle the
question of the location of the union passenger
station in this city, will have hearing on the
matter at City hall next Monday, 18th inst.
The freman's muster at Portsmouth takes
place on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
and some interest is felt that full company
should attend it from this city, with Niagara
ShSllO W. D. n ilNttluS VI lHC COulpduN W
promote that object will be held at the house of
steamer No. 1, this evening.
In the municipal court on Saturday, Judge
Williams sentenced Patrick D. Moore, who
pleaded guilty to the complaint against him
for swindling, TO the house of correction for one
year. John Gleason, for breaking glass, was
fined SO aud costs, and for drunkenness 80 and
costs.
Moses Dollcn of this city won the first purse
of $50 by entering his black stallion, Clifford
at the horse trot at Quinebaug park, Killingly,
Ct last Friday, in the race for horses that have
never beaten three minutes. On the next day
he took the first prize of 500, in the race for
horses that never beat As.
Several Of our citizens have pleasant rccollec
tons of clam bake on the last day of August
at Annawomscutt on the Narragansett bay
Gideon l.. Spencer, Esq, one of the oldest di
rectors of the Providence aud Worcester railroad,
was the hOspitable host on the occasion. Like
the famous reunion at Coles this season, it was
gathering of solid men; in fact it was a more
POnd-erous affair than the other.
The Lowell Courier of August 81 states that
a subscription is being raised to purchase
city, to use in the regatta to AXE place there this
week, in which he is to row against O'Leary of
this city and others OLeary has no intention
of entering the Lowell regatta, but will I'M
doubtedly accommodate Landers if he has any
desire to test his abilities as an OarSman at some
future date.
John Hurley one of the boys arrested for
breaking into Lewis & Thayer's saloon, who
escaped from the lookup two weeks ago, was
found last evening by the police sleeping in an
outshed in the rear of his mothers residence,
on Shrewsbury street. She had kept him con-
cealed from the officers, in ono place and anoth-
err, till now. JOhnwas putin the lookup again,
and will this time get his deserts.
The case of the impostor, Patrick d. Moore
having been disposed of, another has turned up
in the person of one calling himself Edward
Adams, who says he served in the twenty-eghth
Massachusetts regiment, and that he was
wounded in the wrist, and he is soliciting charity
on the ground of having four children sick with
erysipeas 1t has been discovered that he is an
impOstor.
For the benefit of the people in this vicinity
who desire TO attend the temperance mass
tickets at half fare will be sold on the Prov-
dence railroad. If the day promises to be
pleasant, there will be a large gathering OF
temperance men and women on that occasion.
Many interesting speakers are to be present.
Gov. PadeIford will preside, and the American
brass band and the Hutchinson family will fur
nish the music.
Rev. Mr.. McKeown addressed large congre-
cation on the vacant lot on the corner of Wav-
erly and Coral streets, in this city, yesterday
afternoon at five o'clock. One object in view
in the holding of the meeting was to draw at.
tenton to the proposed enterprise of the erection
of a new church on that spot We understand
plans have been drawn by Mr.. A. p. Cutting for
neat wooden structure to be erected there, to
cost $1,000 if the project should meet with suf1-
cient faior by the public.
The NORMAL SCHOOL LoCATIoN.-Th gov
crnor and council on Saturday finally decided
the matter of the location of the Normal school
which the legislature instructed the board OF
education to build in this city. The order of the
council is as follows:
Ordered, that the trustees of the Worcester luua-
tic hospital are hereby authorized and directed to
convey TO the board of education and its successors
in trust for the commonwealth, tract of land stu
ate in the city of Worcester of not more than five
acres, substantially in accordance with plan drawn
by Phinehas Ball, city engineer of Worcester,
dated August 1871, intending hereby to locate five
acres of land situate two hundred and fifty feet east
ery of Mulberry street and north of line drawn five
hundred feet south of the sOutherly line of Prospect
street when extended east as proposed on said
plan. The conveyance of said land to include a
right of way thereto from East Central street. the
same is hereby determined to be necessary and de-
sirable.
And it is further recommended, that the said
trustees should reserve from the land owned by the
commonwealth such portion of land as will be nee.
essary to construct the streets, as shown on said
plan, around said land hereby located for the Nor
NAL school in Worcester, referred to In the re-
solve, chapter 70 oflS11.
Nothing now remains to prevent the board of
education from taking immediate steps to erect
the necessary building, the foundation of which
should be put in this fall.
A DRUNKEN SPREE.-Two persons, calling
their names Thomas Moriarty and Patrick
Haley, having fired themselves up to an nsufTer-
able state of intoXicaton, drove up Main street
at rapid rate last evening, furiously whipping
up their horse at short intervals When nearly
opposite the Third Baptist church, one of them
lost his hat, and tell PROSTATE in the middle of
the highway in the effort to get out of the
wagon to pick it up. Sympathizipg BY
stander picked him and his hat up, and put him
aboard the team, and the two fellows drove on
again, but were subsequently brought to a stand
just beyond New Worcester by coming into col
lision with the team of Mr.. A. W. Ward, very
much damaging it. Morarty and Haley were
then arrested and taken to the lookup. They
claimed to be on their way home, in Spencer.
Some jugs filled with very poor liquor, which
the officers took possession of with their team,
indicated the cause of the whole difficulty.
THE PEOPLES CLUB FAIR-The fair for the
benefit of the Peoples club, to be held in Me-
chanics hall the first week in October, promises
unusual attractions. The committee on amuse-
ment propose to offer entertainments on each
evening of the fair in Washburn hall The ar
rangements for the fancy tables are in the
hands of interested and efficient committees,
who will spare no effort to make their respective
tables attractive To this end, they would iu-
vito the cordial cooperation of all who are will
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