Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-09
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CITY NEWS.

Inc city council Will hold regular meeting
this evening at I! O'Clock.
Guilford Underhill has sold his estate on Cut
Ter street to Martin Bacon for "a 900.
Alderman Horace Wyman and family have
arrived home from their trip to Europe
An advertisement of interest TO thes "Snow-
flakes" appears inside.
Thomas Gleason and Thomas Lombard, u-
mates of the truant school at the city farm, ran
away Saturday afternoon.
number of the Worcester county command
cry OF Knights Templar are to 90 to Montreal
next week upon pleasure excursion.
J.. F. Manning, Esq, left town on Saturday
last to meet a series Of engagements in the
Grant and Wilson campaign in New York for
few days.
An advertisement of interest to those who
propose to attend the great political gathering
at Lake Pleasant on Wednesday appears in an
other column.
The Turner'S will picnic at Davis Cottage to-
day. An extra train for their, accommodation
will leave the Foster street depot at ten o'clock
this morning.
The Boston and Albany railroad company has
recently purchased of Mr.. Walter Henry large
4Ol VI ltehuI OdSI vi NOul bulidi ouiluJ
for railroad purposes The price paid is stated
at forty cents per foot
In the central district court, Saturday, Chas.
Holmes was committed to the house of correc-
ton for the non-payment of a fine of SIS and
costs for drunkenness
Mr.. Paul Bauer, having for the second time
declined an appointment as truant officer, officer
II. L. Fayerweather, one of the most reliable
men on the force, has been detailed TO fill the
position.
An adjourned meeting Of the Choral Union
will be held this evening, at their hall on Pearl
street, at halfpast seven O'Clock, for the election
Of officers. AS this will complete the oTgan-
cation under the charter it is important that
there should be full attendance.
White & Conant have just placed upon their
block weather vane, which has been connected
with wind dial upon the front of the building.
The variations of the wind are shown by an
arrow, that is turned with every change of the
wind by its action upon the vane above, which
consists of carpenters saw, bearing the appro
pirate word, Hardware"
Edward Sanders of Springfield, brakeman
on the Boston and Albany railroad, fell from a
freight train near Charlton on Saturday night.
He was taken up and brought to this city on
the owl train yesterday morning and taken to
the city hospital where it was found that his
right leg had been iuiuredtby being run over so
as to require amputation.
The tenth regiment, NJ. V. NJ, and the fifth
light battery, which organizations include the
militia of this city, will so into camp next Tues
day, at the ground near Sterling junction, which
was occupied by the brigade last year. The
regiment will remain in camp five days. and an
extra train, leaving here at P. NJ, and return
ing at 6:15 P. M, will be run ON Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, to accommodate those
wishing to visit the encampment
Saturday evening, Mr.. Frederick W. Town
send, who has for the past twenty-eight years
been connected with the business now carried on
by the Rice, Barton & Fales machine and iron
company was presented with Il Howard watch,
valued at $3.50, by his fellow workmen, and
: check for 800 by the firm. Mr.. Townsend
goes TO Southbrdge, to assume the position of
superintendent of the mechanical department o f
the Hamilton printing company's work.
A man from Buffalo, N. Y, was at the Bay
State house Friday evening, and offered to bet
$1,000 against 5000 that Grant would be elected
president His proposition was accepted, and
check for $500 deposited in the hands of the
clerk. The stranger, not being able to draw a
check for $1,000 at the time, placed $50 in charge
of the clerk as a forfeit. The next morning he
appeared at the clerks desk, but instead of max
ing the necessary draft, withdrew his forfeit
money and left the city.
The fair in aid of ST. Johns Convent of Notre
Dame will open at Mechanics hall on Monday
evening, Odd inst. Great preparations have been
made for it, Each of the Catholic societies is
to have a table at the fair. An honorable emu
latOn is excited amongst them, each having the
laudable ambition to come out No. and TO
carry off the palm, The amusements for the
fair will be quite attractive. 1t is proposed to
decorate the hall in the most artistic manner,
and for this purpose Messrs. Patterson & Co.,
under whose direction Mechanics hall was SO
magniicently decorated last winter, have been
engaged. The management Of the fair is placed
in the hands of an efficient executive committee
consisting of Messrs. j. L. Murphy, j. Doom,
j. j. O'Gorman, J. Melanefy, p H. Carroll, NJ.
OMeara, P. Power, Jere Murphy j. 7. Murray,
NJ Foley, A. Sinnot, ]. McDermot, R. O'Flynn.
They will make it a success