Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

A VALUABLE PREsENT.-rhe UniversaliSt
Sunday school of this city is the recipient of
valuable Temple organ, from A. W. Wilcox, of
New Haven, formerly of this city. 1t is model
instrument of its kind comprising six stops,
and cost 5000. By a remarkable coincidence,
while the worthy superintendent of the Sunday
school was in earnest conversation, a few days
since, with the esteemed pastor of the church,
on the necessity of procuring an instrument Of
this kind for the yestry service, and how they
should do it, the pastor, who had just dropped
in from the post office with letter then I'M
opened, in his hand, proceeded to open it, and
found it to contain note from Mr.. Wilcox
asking his society to accept of this very gif
(since received,) which he stated had just been
shipped from his mandatory in New Haven,
for Worcester.
THE FoURTH.-This city will observe its an
nual absence of special celebration, and many
of the citizens will remain quietly at home-as
quietly as juvenile enthusiasm and torpedoes
will admit. The Worcester brass band will play
at several points in the city, salutes will be fired
and without doubt the conglomeratiOn of other
noises will be of sufficient volume and duration
to tissatsfy the most fastidious. Fire-crackers,
and those outrageous union tOrpedoes are
tabooed by an ordinance of the city-what dii-
ference this fact will make remains to
be seen. Numbers of the citizens will attend
the celebration at Leicester which promises to
be one of unusual interest to the many who look
upon that ancient town as the home of their
childhood-and there are many such among us.
Powerful sedatives, administered on retiring,
are the only hope for nervous people in quest of
sleep on the night of July 8, and those of that
class who neglected the precaution last evening
undoubtedly awoke to sense of their error
at an early hour.
Several organizations in the city will take
short excursions with their families, as adver-
tised.
ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS AND PoEM.-The
graduating class of young ladies from the
Dread Collegiate Institute consists of eleven this
year-the twenty-third with that school. The
anniversary address and poem were delivered in
Union church last evening. The address, very
able one, was delivered by Rev. A. P. Peabody,
D. D., of Harvard College. He urged upon the
young ladies the importance of keeping up
their studies, and not letting their French and
Latin grow rusty, now that their school days
are over, and showed the advantages of
thoroughness in the education of women. The
anniversary poem was by Rev, S. d. Phelps, D.
D., of New Haven, who discOursed to the young
ladies and their friends in particularly happy
vein. In that portion of it relating to the many
callings in which women may succeed in the
world, he said:
" No restrictions should hinder, in culture and
knowledge,
The mind that is honest and true;
All the ranges OF learning in school and In college,
Let her, with her brothers. pursue,
In teaching and authorship, bright consultations
OF feminine n ames shine afar;
Their mental achievements are true cOrrelatiOns
Of the largest and loveliest STAR"
The gradual ing exercises will be held on
Wednesday.
CoNcERT.-Night editors, printers and others
whose business kept them up all night had the
full benefit Of concert this morning, beginning
at midnight, such as ordinary mortas who are
| asleep during the hours of night can have but a
slight conception of. Scarcely had the last
stroke of the hour of twelve sounded, when the
performance began; five hundred and thirty
one big ditto, eighty-seyen small drums thirty
nine large ditto, with innumerable pop-guns
and torpedoes performed the overture,
which was followed by the melody of addition
al tin horns, fire crackers, small arms, cannon,
| enormous torpedoeS, old brass instruments,
hooting boys, yelling men, big drums, CHATTER of
| carts and hacks drawn by frightened horses, and
more tin horns, while the performers whoShad
no other means Of expressing their feelings got
up an accompaniment by causing innumerable
sign boards to creak in most agonizing manner;
while, to cover all, devils fiddle" of enOr-
mus size, evidently manufactured from six
gallon tin can and clothes line, lent its plain
tive notes from neighbOrng roof. And so
the concert goes on as we go to press, with no
pOetical "silence like poultce," to come till the
full programme is carried out.