Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-23

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A short time ago the name of Mr. C. T.
Adams, without authorization, was attached to
a petition for taking very small portion of the
common to extend street. When his atten-
ton was called to it he published a card desiring
his name to be erased from the petition, with the
explicit and emphatic statement that never
either by word or deed, did he propose to create
any precedent however slight, for mutilating
this enclosure, in sight of which he
had always lived, and which he regard
ed as the dearest heirloom of the past.
Though all alike share its convenences and
delights, the younger portion of the community
especially enjoy its privileges, secured to them
in direct line of succession, undoubtedly by
the bold and resolute defence of their preroga-
tive made by the boys Of rs, their most worthy
ancestors. Perhaps you NAV remember the
story of the snow forts. Ii is handed down TO
fame in the common school readers, and
relates very wildly the trials and trou-
bles the youths OF those DAYS encountered from
the insolent malice of the British soldiers, who
again and again demolished their bastions and
eounterscarps of snow, until forbearance ceased
to be a virtue. Finally a delegation marched to
the headquarters of the commander-inchief,
Gen. Gage, and with glowing face and flashing
eyes-so the account runS-the spokesman told
the story of their grievances, and demanded sat.
slaction, which was given in the assurigee, words
that his soldiers Should trouble them no
Ion Ger, 10 this date certain portion is al
lotted to the use OF their descendants, where
the injunction, "Keep off the grass" has
no terrors, nor does anything else stand in the
way of doing that which is most dear to boys,
"just what they please" Accordingly, the ill.,
variable concOmitant OF pleasant weather, the
sure harbinger of spring near, is the noisy and
confused ntermingling ofyoices that comes from
this cOnsecrated spot. But alas there are 9TH
err signs of returning spring equally certain and
sure; of the truth oflwhich remark am, and in
deed for some little time past, have been very
strongly reminded by the living apparition on
the other side of the street The figure is that
of foreigner, an exile from his native
land, which have no doubt is Italy, and he
wears clothes somewhat fantastic, and little
edy, a gloomy melancholy rests upon his no
BILE face, little swarthy and sinister perhaps,
and he assumes a very pensive attitude, and al
together looks very much like the ghost of Alas
tor, and he turns very slowly, Obi tortured
crank attached TO a moderate sized box, called
hand-Organ, and for the last twenty minutes
lie has been grinding out music fit for banquet
Of the internal gods; a small assortment
Of doeful, dismal, diScoldant strains
that must produce the most disastrous results
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sure, and must harrow dreadfully the hidden
soul of harmony wherever it may be. Charles
Lambs excuse and promise of amendment in
answer TO the eXpostulation of his employer TO
be little more regular in his hours, was, that
che came late, and therefore went away early"
but these pests of even ummelodiOus ears come
early and stay late.
Next came the harpers, and the only strolling
band We have heard, played very Sweetly.
Boston, however, has street music peculiarly
its own. A horned band, or, lest we may be
a band OF seven musicians using
only horns, play very finely indeed through the
lay aud during the evening, in various parts of
the city. 1t is considered quite recherche to
have them in the neighborhOod at the dinner
loHr--it adds so much TO the quality Of the oc
,ason. / have heard them frequently at the
end Of some long street, through which the
melody would come floating most enchantingly
in the solemn, quiet midnight air.
The preparations Tor the jubilee are progress
ing apaee, and it is new said everything will be
in readiness for the great sing" before the 18th
of June. 1t must be regarded, however, as
considerable misfortune that the original de
sign of the coliseum was not carried out, though
it is well that it fell through, if such was to he
its fate, when it did; for little later il
would have been impossible TO under
take the present structure. Some profess to be
that the man-trap," as they
phrase it, came to an untimely end,
for they prophesied it from the begin.
ming in spite Of the testimony of experts, Har-
ward professors, and practical scientists, regard.
ing the strength of the arches and frameworks;
but then, Mr. Genuine Croaker is a constant at
tendant in the conduct of the affairs of men.
The new coliseum is but little more than huge
sized, distinguished only by its mammoth pro-
portions from such buildings The dimensions
the same as those of the building just leveled,
but it somehow seems low and fiat, and appears
in its just proportions only when viewed from
certain standpOints. Ii is sharper in outline and
possesses no architectural beauty whatever. The
other building with its rounded exterior seemed
huge when viewed from every side and suggested
vague idea of still greater proportions than it
in reality possessed. The ornamentation was
designed TO be very elaborate and striking. |
heard Mr. Gilmore remark, only few days be-
fore ii became shattered and broken to mother
earth that the details OF the work upon the outside
were intended to fully match its huge proper.
tions, and expressed no doubt of the completion
OF the work in ample time.
The theatres are Offering greater attractions
jus: now than at any time since the season
opened last fail. Jefferson has been showing us
good-natured, idle, careless, olt-repenting, al
ways yielding Rip Van Wlnkle, with the marvel
lous shading and coloring that make the picture
so liic-kc. He has made very familiar the in
eidens in the life Of this legendary character of
the Caiskills from The time he 6rst appears, car.
ryng beyy Of many children on his back,
under the terfor-inspirng influence of that
dreadful terlnagant, Gretchen. bewiidcred among
the ghost-like mythicals of the mountain, until
Of seventeen years he is sadly pcrplexed and
dismayed at the altered aspect of things IN his
native town, and the unaccountable disappear
auee Of neighbors and friends, and particularly
Schneider"
Saratoga" has been produced at the Globe.
and article AZ" is enjoying an excellent run at
the Museum. The former is n surface comedy,
light and sparkling, the latter somewhat melo
dramatic and sensational. Both plays have had
great runs IN New York. II has been reserved
for the Howard to introduce the disgusting libel
on humanity entitled the "blacE Friday" New
York has quickly sent lis dirty linen to be ex-
posed here together, IL is just to say, with the
seathing censure and universal anatbcma Of the
press as M aniidote.
The question naturally recurs: as Boston
more wicked thsn New York; Is the lull