Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-20
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CITY NEWS.

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CITY NEWS.
The telegraph brings us one of General
Devens' eloquent speeches, made yesterday at
the second triennial reunion of the army OF the
James, held in New York.
While some repairs !are going. on in MIR.
Wizards studio in Exchange building he
will finish several of the portraits upon which
he is engaged, at the studio in his Strawbridge
residence.
Henry Cushman, brakeman on night
freight train on the Boston and Albany road,
was severely crushed about the hip and abdo-
men while Stacking cars at Cordayille, Tues
dav night, He was brought back to this city
and carried to his home on Central street, where
DIR. Donaldson attended to his injuries.
The library of the Horticultural society will
be open as usual this afternoon at three o'clock
Visitors are always welcome, whether mem
bers or not and will rarely fail to see upon the
tables fine specimens of horticultural skill,
while the large and very valuable collection Of
books upon fruit, flowers, etc, is well worth
inspection. Next Thursday an exhibition of
unusual interest may be expected.
b. B. Huse, bread pedder, who drives for
Plaisted Bros, of this city, was thrown from
his wagon in Brimfeld, Tuesday night, when
near the house of j. c. Dix, iniuring his head
and fracturing his ankle. He was found by Mr.
Dix unable to rise, and was cared for by him.
Mr.. Huse has driven the bread wagon for
thirty years, and this is the first accident he has
met with in that time.
The religious zeal manifested at a colored
class meeting held in Taylors hall, last evening,
misled many people lowing TO the vehement
manner of one or two speakers), and for time
Front street was filled with people, at loss to
account for the noise. If the injunction that
counsels moderation in all things" were re-
garded by the good people who carry on these
meetings, the object for which they assemble
would perhaps he as effectually promoted, and
they would provoke less ridicule.
MINI ClPAL CoURT-The sameness of the
business before the municipal court is monoto-
nous as a hundred-mie ride in stage-coach,
but there seems to be plenty of it this season.
The following named offenders were fined yes
terday: Barney Conroy, for a second offence of
drunkenness, SO and COSTS jeremiah Hanlon,
complained of for common drunkenness, SO
and COSTS Daniel Kimbal, violation of city or
dinance, So and costs; Mary Ann Brady, liquor
nuisance, $50 and costs; Michael Monahan,
drunkenness, SIS and costs; Owen Sullivan and
Patrick Sullivan, drunkenness, 81 and costs.
John Kelley paid costs of court for assault and
battery, and Charles McGarr for firing off a
pistol in the street. was let off in the same man
ner. The two Sullivans and Conroy were com
mitted to Jail on non-payment of their fines.
DROPPED DEAD.-A German named Jacob
Bueboltz fell dead in the picker room of the
Adriatic mill, yesterday afternoon. He spoke
to a companion once or twice short time be-
fore he was found, about feeling unwell; and
the man told him to 90 and lie down awhile,
and perhaps he would feel better. He left his
machine in the care Of this man and started OIL,
after which no particular thought was given to
Inc eqtter COR nearly an hour, when, in stepping
around to clear away the accumulated stock, the
man who was tending the pickers stumbled
mpon the legs of Bucholtz, who lay dead, his
body partially covered. He had been at work
in the mill about two months, and had been in
this country eighteen years. His age was fifty
six years, and he leaves a wife and two daugh-
tiers, who live near the mill. City Marshal
brennan and Coroner Rice examined the body,
and, as it was plainly death from natural
causes, no inquest was thought to be necessary.
He formerly lived at Mill Village, Dedham.
INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF ROBERT Cos
GRovE.-Robert Cosgrove, the hero of this par
agraph, has attained an age barely past middle
life. and vet how varied the fortunes of Robert!
On several occasions he has been legally
weighed in the municipal court scales, and
found wanting every Underwriting friends to
pay his fine. About three months ago he was
sent to jail for a term of three months
on charge of drunkenness, second
offence, and was transferred to the
county Jail at Fitchburg. Yesterday
his term of confinement expired, land Robert
came very near expiring, tool so, full of buoy
ant thoughts of the opportunity his liberty
offered for more drinking, he trudgcd to Wor-
cester during the day, got drunk in the evening,
went to bed in a two-story boarding house near
the Adriatc mill, at late hour, and fell out OF
the attic window to the ground atprecisely hall
past tweve and who shall say that was not
lively DAYS work-lively indeed, when we con-
slider that death did not result from the fearful
midnight fall. Word was sent to the police
office and Assistant Marshal Wilson called DR..
Wood to accompany him to the scene, where
they found Robert in a fair way to recover.
Editors Spy: As many persons are making
anxious inquiries concerning the progress OF the
~Cott excursionists," permit me to give through
your paper few statements. To begin with,
we have sold over 300 tickets and received the
money. We are sorry we have not 100 more to
sell. in order to accommodate about that num-
BIER who are very anxious to go with us. we
have a most select company, as usual. The
prospects are bright for a delightful trip to the
British provinces and the coast OF Maine. Our
numbers are somewhat scattered. Worcester
has purchased 1903 tickets Marlboro 40, Boston
Is, Westboro IA, West Brooktield ID, Oakdale
10, Springfield 6, Orange 6, Tufts college .,
Ouancy 8. The following towns and cities are
well represented: Hartford Ct, New York city,
Salem, Mass, Northampton, Fitchburg, Gard
ner, Shrewsbury, Natick, Oxford, Westtield,
South Dedham, Westminster, Leicester, Mill
> bury. Belchertown, Warren, and Norwich, Ct
We start on our journey next Tuesday morning
(25th inst), from the Foster street depot at pre-
cisely 80. We hope for pleasant trip.