Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-22
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CITY NEWS.


Holland, at post office building, has Harpers
several publications, all fresh.
Rev. R. r. Stratton will lead the noon meeting
at the Y. n c. A. rooms to-day.
The Blake lodge Knights of Pythias will give
their first anniversary ball at Horticultural hall
this friday evening.
Pickerel fishermen report the ice at Lake Quin-
sigamond to be still of thickness of fourteen
inches.
Governor Washburn has appointed Mr..
Charles Sibley of this city as one of the coroners
for Worcester county.
BARLEY McGarty, an insane man who was
brought to the police station Wednesday even
ing, was sent to the state hospital yesterday
John Cummings, a boy who didn't like to go
to school, was brought before Judge Chaplin
yesterday, and sentenced to the truant school
for six months.
Rev. A. b. Earle will preach this afternoon at
half-past two O'Clock, and this evening at half
past seven O'Clock, at the First Baptist church,
Salem square.
CDR Smith, who has been in Jail several
weeks awaiting the action of the grand jury in
the Auburn shooting case, has found bail and is
now at liberty.
Mr.. Calvin Farnsworth one of the most pop
ular conductors on the Boston and Albany rail-
road, has been appointed to take charge of the
I A. NJ train for Boston, formerly run by Con-
ductor Wilder.
The papers, leasing the Nashua and Rochester
railroad to the Worcester and Nashua railroad
company for fifty years, at SIX per cent. interest
on the cost of construction, have been signed by
the directors of each corporation.
Michael Organ, Farwell McCarroll, Andrew
Hearn and Mathew Maloney, were each fined So
and costs in the municipal court to-day for
drunkenness, and James &. Donnolly, for like
ofTense, paid fine of SIS and costs.
Mr.. Edward NJ. Rockwell, of this city, and
Mr.. James Phillips Jr,, of Providence, have
purchased the Beo wooden mill at West Fitch
burg, which has been unoccupied for several
years, and intend to fit ii up for the manufacture
of cassimeres and worsted goods.
Mr.. Lawrence Howarth of this city, employed
as boss fnisher in Peal's satinet mill in Green
Vile, near Rochdae, was caught in the ma
chinery while at work, yesterday afternoon, and
before he could be extricated one OF his arms
was broken and he received other severe in
juries.
A class of little girls in the Sunday school of
DR.. Sweetser's church, having supported for
several years girls school in Ceylon, under the
supervision of DR.. Samuel Green, Of this city
will give an entertainment and sale for the bene-
fit of the mission in the chapel of the Central
church, beginning at halfpast six this evening.
Tickets at Sanlord's and at the door.
While one of Mr.. Charles A. Harrington's
hacks, drawn by pair of valuable horses, was
passing through Arch street, yesterday after
noon, the horses we're frightened into a run by
the breaking OF the pole. They ran frantically
through Laurel and Summer streets to Wash
ington square, where the hack was overturned
and the horses stopped. Fortunately, both
driver and horses escaped injury, though the
hack was damaged to some extent.
Railroad men say that this is the worst time
of year for running trains The ground is
frozen to such depth that it has lost all clastic-
ty and the jar and strain on the heavy wheels
and connections of the locomotives and freight
cars is such that accidents of slight, but an
moving character, are of frequent occurrence
The frost also gets into the rails and renders
them liable to break. So, altogether, it is not a
very favorable season for pleasure travel.