Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-20
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CITY NEWS.

The Martinetti-Rave troupe will appear in the
panomimeS ofthe Green Monsterand Pat-aCake,
at Music hall this evening.
T. S. Sloan received another lot of eighteen
fine western horses yesterday. He claims them
10 be the best lot yet.
The superior court adjourned yesterday morn
ing without transacting any business. The cease
of Adelia J. Bond VS. the county Of Worcesterwill
be resumed this morning.
Mr.. H. II. Richs singing school at the Pleas
ant street church yestry will be postponed one
week. on account the public services 10 the
church tomorrow evening.
Forty bran new carriages, CONSIGNED to Geo.
c. Dewhurst, were among the arrivals by one OF
the freight trains over the Boston and Albany
road yesterday.
Rose D'Erina, Ern's prima donna,will give her
opening concert in Mechanics hall this evening.
The programme includes sacred, classic, operate
and ballad music, and promises to be one of the
best entertainments of the season.
A special meeting Of the stockholders of the
Boston, Barre and Gardner railroad corporation
will be held in the hall of the Natural History
association this morning at ten o'clock, to take
Those interested will not forget the annual
supper OF the farmers club at Shrewsbury, this
evening. DR.. Geo B. Loring, Hon. W. w Rice,
and other prominent gentlemen, are announced
TO be present
The series of pleasant parties held under the
management OF Messrs. Towne and Dennis,
which closed last week, is to be supplemented
this evening by a "managers' benefit"
The noon prayer meetings held every day at
the rooms Of the young mems Christian asso-
citation, commencing at twelve and continuing
forty-live minutes, will be led to-day by Rev.
W. f. Maalieu Everybody is welcome to
these meetings
Knight, Goddard & Co. have bought II 900
feet of land on the corner of Madison street and
the Norwich rairoad--the site of their lum-
her yard. The price is understood to be about
$50 900.
At a meeting of the trustees of the Worcester
county agricultural society, yesterday, it was
voted inexpcdicnt 10 take measures to have the
fair of the New England society held in Worces-
ter this year.
The Jubilee singers of Fisk university, Nash
vile, Tenn, will visit this city on Monday and
Tuesday evenings ofneXt week. This will be thier
only visit here and as their entertainments are
highly spoken of wherever they have appeared
they should be greeted with full house. Tickets
are now for sale at Leland Cos.
Owing to an accident which threw four cars
of freight train off the track near ST. Adams,
VT, Monday night, the passenger train which
left Montreal, at half-past three O'Clock Monday
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quencc the passengers for Worcester, of which
there were upwards of fifty on board, did not
reach here till halfpast two p. NJ. yesterday, in
stead of coming by the morning train from
Nashua, as they otherwise would have done.
The figures published yesterday morning in
regard to the coal tariff on the Norwich and
Worcester railroad were incorrect. They were
obtained from a letter introduced as evidence in
the hearing before the legislative committee on
railroads at Boston, Monday. We have since
learned that the letter was written Il year ago,
and the rates are not those now charged. The
company's schedule OF tariff for carrying coal
during the coming season has not yet been made
out.
The Cincinnati Gazette has the following con-
corning a delicate ard difficult operation per-
formed by DR.. A. }. Howe, which will be Of in-
terest TO his many friends in this city and
county:
eight months ago Mr. Josiah Sloat, of Man
chester, Mich, fell from load OF hay, and
struck upon the upturned tines Of ptchlork.
One tine of the implement entered the lower
part of the body and broke into three pieces, Il
fragment three inches long lodging in the cavity
of the bladder. Although the man soon recOv-
cred from the immediate effects of the injury,
the constant irritation caused by the peculiar 10
cation of the foreign substance at length de-
manded relief by surgical interference. Last
Thursday, DR.. A. j. Howe, of this city, cut for
and successfully removed the piece of steel. AT
last accounts the patient was doing well, with a
prospect OF complete recovery"