Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-26
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CITY NEWS,

The hearing before the Union depot commits
sioners was adjourned till Thursday morning
not Wednesday.
Lamson, Glazier & Co., sold two building lots
on Dix street, at auction, yesterday, to Geo.
Burbank, Tor thirty-three and one half cents
per foot.
Geo, Dolby, of Dickens fame, will bring an
English ballad troupe to Worcester in few
weeks. Marshall P Wild is his advance agent
and treasurer.
The fall meeting at Narragansett park, Proyi-
dence, Il. L., will begin to-day and continue four
days. Friday night there will be an extra train
run to accommodate those who wish to witness
the fast race.
The work on the reservoir dam at Leicester,
upon which some sixty or seventy men have
been busy during the season, is completed into
about two feet. The rOllway is done, and an
other month or six weeks will complete the job.
Keey's laundry, on Washington street, took
fire last night at about ten O'clock, and the fire
department was brought out by an alarm from
box "a; but police officer had opened Il Win
dow and eXtinguished the fire before the arrival
of iremen. lncendiary.
cal convention have made arrangements with
Mr.. Carl Zerrahn TO conduct three grand re-
hearSals of all the singers in Worcester and Vi
cinty intending to take part in the coming fes-
tival, to be held Friday evenings, Oct 9th, 18Th
and Goth, at the young mems Christian associa-
ton rooms, on Pearl street
Charles H. Pero, James Belden, Jr., and Pat
rick Leary, Jr., were before Judge Chaplin, yes
terday, charged with stealing pears from VIM.
T, Mortified, fined 81 and costs each. John
Hagan, for stealing nuts, was let off on pay
ment of $685. James Murphy, for stealing So
from the pocket book of Hollis W. Cobb, was
sentenced to nautical school, this being his
second otfense.
The number of deaths in this city last week
was twenty; ten males and ten females. Six
died Of consumption, two each Of lung fever,
cholera intantum and Group, and one each of
scarlet fever, dysentery, whOoping cough, mani
acal exhaustion, fever and ague aud decline.
The two oldest were seventy-seven aud sixty
one, twelve were under five years, and six under
one year. Nine were Of foreign parentage.
Abbott sold II. T. Stcnrns's cottage house on
Downing street, yesterday, to 5. NJ. Richardson
for $500, also 91G5 feet Of land on same street,
to the same person, for twenty -four cents per
foot, and 6O15 feet of land on Woodland street,
to H. c Wheaton for nineteen cents per foot.
Mrs. Benz. BARRIERS house on Silver street was
sold to w. B. Taber for S6625.
Some of the friends of Mr.. Frank w. Cher
rington called at his residence, SO Piedmont
street, last evening, to pay their respects and
tender their congratulations to himself and
wife, and completely surrounded the happy
couple and gave them a greeting. The Ameri-
can brass band, G. II. Southland leader, tender
ed their services to gladden. the occasion with
their music. The party was marShaled by NJ.
W. Louis. Abundant refreshments were pro
vided.
The Horticultural sOciety's banquet which is
appointed for next Friday evening, and adver-
tised in another column, must not be overlooked
in the excitement of politics. 1t is intended
merely as a social reunion of the friends OF the
society, especially the lady Friends to mark the
new departure Of the society, which is now free
from debt. The tickets are strictly limited in
number, and viii probably be taken up before
Friday. Contributions of fruit and flowers for
the adornment of the tables will be thankfully
received at Horticultural hall during the after
noon Of Friday.
corporations paying taxes of $50 and upwards
on bank stock, which tax was not included in
the at published yesterday