Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-19
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CITY NEWS.

A Grant and Wilson glce club is being organ
lied in this city.
Hon. F. W Bird will address the Greeley and
Brown club in this city next week.
Yesterday afternoon, three young men were
arrested ON charges of fruit stealing.
Two more stores near Harrington corner were
found open Saturday night by the police
The announcement of the Worcester brass
band excursion to Block island appears in this
mornings paper.
The Grant and Wilson club will have a flag
raising, probably on Wednesday evening, with
speeches and music
A Greeley and Brown flag is soon TO be hung
out at the democratic headquarters and another
at Washington square.
A business meeting of the yonng mems Sc
lect club will be held at the Bay State house on
Wednesday evening. See advertisement
The second floor on the west side of the en-.
CINE house in BigelOw court gave way Saturday
but fortunately no serious damage was DONE
Mr.. Henry Glazer of this city was wounded in
the baud by HE accidental disc barge of pistol
while shooting at fish in Gardiner, Me-, on
Thursday.
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Saturday evening, G. f. Lothrop WIS elected
president, Henry Holden vice president, and Ed
gar Danbury treasurer.
In future the 10 A. NJ. and 5:15 P. NJ trains
from this city over the Norwich and Worcester
ailrOad will connect at Putnam, CT, with trains
for Wllimantic and way stations.
Ten thousand copies of the address delivered
by Hon. George F. Hoar in Mechanics hall, at
the organization of the Grant and Wilson club,
are to be circulated as campaign documents.
The Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg railroad
company have just added to their rolling stock
an elegant new passenger car, which is being
run on the Fitchburg and Worcester division of
their road
The liberal republican state central commit
tee, which met in Boston ON Saturday, voted to
hold their state convention in this city Wednes-
day, September 11th, the same day the demo-
cratic convention is to he held.
Officer Ratican extinguishcd fire in a barn
on Barclay street, owned by Tully McKenna,
about halipast eleven Saturday night. In
passing he noticed a light in the barn, and i'm
mediately burst the door open, and smothered
the fire without giving any alarm
A proposition has been made to organize
Grant and Wilson battalion in this city. One
gentleman took paper on Friday, and before
night one hundred and twenty five men were
enrolled. The organization is to be similar TO
the old "Wide Awakes" in the Lincoln and
Hamlin campaign.
Wednesday afternoon the waters of Lake
Qunsigamond are again to be disturbed by the
blades of rival oarsmen, a match for 500 a side
having been made between Geo. Brown,
hackman, and John O'Brien, a moulder, both
of this city. The race is to be two miles, and
will be pulled at four O'Clock in the afternoon.
The republicans of this city will meet in eau
Gus tomorrow evening, to elect delegates to the
republican state convention and to choose the
usual ward committees. Wards 1 and will
meet at their ward rooms, at Grant and Will
son club room in Spy building, in the south
west and in the southeast ante-room of Horti-
cultural hall, in upper Horticultural hall,
and in Horticultural hall.
Horace Greeley passed through this city, on
his way to New York, on the boat train, Sat
urday evening. At the depot crowd of three
or four hundred who had gathered gave three
cheers and then INDUCED in general hand
shaking. Mr.. Greeley did not follow his prac-
tice in Maine and his native state by making
speech, but merely said: 81 hope you will be as
Jealous and as numerous at the polls in Novem-
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