Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-06
GNurtester 9aiIp SPY,
CITY NEWS.

The National cornet band will give concert
in Salem square this evening.
Boy wanted to carry morning papers on the
Pleasant and Newton streets route. Apply at
the SPY office at once.
A full list of the admissions to the High
school of the 2O7 examined, will be published
tomorrow morning.
Charles r. johnson and Albert S. Thayer, who
were recently graduated from the high school In
this city, were admitted TO Harvard college at
the examination last week.
The Old South society have their annual ex-
cursion to-day, going to South birmingham.
The Unitarian societies go to the same place
Saturday See advertisements for particulars
valuable horse belonging to p l.. Moen,
Esq., ran down Bowdon street last evening at a
frightlul rate of speed, and when at the corner
of West street fell and broke his neck. The
carriage was badly damaged
The excursion to Rocky Point by the Grand
Army post of this'Sity will be taken tomorrow,
and the friends of the post, as well as members,
are expected to swell the party to size that
will surpass all other excursions.
AT the last weekly meeting of the Horticul-
tural society the following entries were made
Priestly Young, cherries, Napoleon Bigarreau;
L. w. Lincoln, cherries Elton; Mrs. j. NJ. Rice,
cherries, Black Tartarian; F. j. Kenney, straw
berries, Seeding No. 10. The library will be
open as usual this afternoon
Complaint is made that a house on Washing
ton street was maliciously assaulted early on
the morning Of the 4th by party of ruffianly
boys with pistols, anvil cannon, and smaller
cannon, and two shots, in which gravel stones
were used, were fred into the windows, near
one of which the lady of the house was sit
ting, and narrowly escaped serious injury from
the broken glass and stones
The Commencement Exercises of the Dread
Institute took place last eveningin the First
Baptist church. The graduating class is said
to be the largest in the history of this institu
ton, aud, we are told in a note to the pro-
gramme, that it has "never been excelled in
scholarship" by any class instructed by the
present principal. There was an address to the
graduates by Rev. Dr. Cutler, and music and
songs were mingled with the exercises The
graduates were as follows: Misses Abbie Leach
and Anna Leach, of North Bridgewater Laura
Merriam, of Leominster; Anna M. Bancroft of
Milford; Martha Elizabeth Burt, of 0akham
Juliet Myra Allen, Nellie Louisa Gilbert, Ida
Elizabeth Clark, Ida Eliza Stratton, and
Blanche Alfarata Perkins, of Worcester; and
Alice Hannah Starr, OF Jacksonville, Vt.
OF Banum's great show, which is coming
on Saturday, an exchange says: "The first i'm
preston that one receives on entering is that of
bewilderment, such is the magnitude, extent,
variety and uniqueness of the combination
Here in almost endless variety we see gathered
representation of the wonder world, that nobody
but Barnum would ever thought of or secured
for travelling exhibition. In the museum we
behold living human phenomena, strange
freaks of nature, curious arts and
manufactures of all nations, interesting relics
of antiquity, Egyptian mummies 5000
years old, implements of warfare, ancient
arms, relics of the recent Franco-Prussan war,
gathered from the battle fields of Grayelotte,
Metz, Sedan and Paris, such as swords, shields,
helmets, needle guns, chassepots, cuirasses and
mitraieuses, fac SMILES of Powers Greek
slave, Siamese twins, Cardiff giant, japanese
priests and Chinese gods, life size wax figures of
Emperor William, Prince Bismarck, Won
Moltke, Charles Dickens and Napoleon ILL.,,
wonderful moving mechanical and automatOn
figures of the Dying Zouave, Sleeping Beauty"
1t also praises in high terms the rare and exten-
sive collection of animals for which the show is
remarkable above all others