Worcester daily spy., 1872-06-12
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CITY NEWS.

gan adjourned meeting of the State Guard will
be held at their armory this evening.
Among the graduates at the Hartford the0-
logical seminary yesterday, were F. P. Make
peace of this city and E. z. Gould of Paxton.
The Highland school cadets start on their an
nual excursion tomorrow morning at halfpast
six. They will go to Keene 10 be absent about
two DAYS.
The democratic convention for the ninth con-
gressional district to choose delegates TO the ma
tional convention at Baltimore, will be held this
morning in Horticultural hall
AT the Grace church strawberry festival last
evening every one had good time, and the ice
cream furnished by Berlin White, with the
Strawberries, found numerous patrons.
Peter Webster, who was sentenced at the May
term of the superior court for an assault upon Il
woman in Brookfield, was taken to the state
prison at Charlestown, on Monday, to serve out
his term of three yeats.
The inimitahIe .Sothern will make second
appearance on the stage at Music hall on Thurs
day evening, a fact that will be hailed with
pleasure by those who were entertained by his
droleries a few evenings ago.
who was so seriously injured in the railroad ac
cident near Granville, Monday morning, died
the same evening at the Massachusetts, genera
hospital in Boston.
The committee in charge of the entertainment
for the benefit Of the Peoples club solicit con
tributiCns of cake and flowers to be left al Brin
ley hall Peoples club rooms) Thursday morn
ing and afternoon.
The theatre was not so denscly packed tha
any one was obliged to stand up at the per
fOrmance of "Jack Cade" last evening; but it il
only justice to the company to say that they
showed TO better advantage than ON the preced
ng evening.
About one hundred members of the Worceste
and Quinsigamond lodges of Odd Fellows vii
go to Fitchburg tomorrow by a special train
at the invitation of the Mt. Roustone lodge
They will leave the Foster street station at eigh
O'Clock. A lodge from Charestown will also b.
present, and preparations are being made il
Flchburg for grand reception.
Persons so unfortunate as to be out on the stree
after the stores closed last night were able tt
form toerably correct idea of the density o
Egyptian darkness, as the moon gracefully re
tired to rest early in the evening, and the pres
ence of the street lamps was only made appa
rent by involuntary contact with the posts.
A man accoSted a member of the police fore
last evening, telling him that if he did not tax
care Of him that he should kill himself within al
hour. He was Immediately locked up, and
after being confined in a cell for some it'll
time, repented of his folly, and was released
after promising that he would not attempt II
put himself out of the way.
The mfrmities of age seem to be gatherin!
thick and fast about the Old South churci
clock. Since it was repaired few days ago
something has gone wrong with the striking ap
paratus, and it now pIoclaims the hour in s.
feeble manner as to awaken feeling of sym
pathy among those who are near enough 4
hear it.
DIR. Paul NJ. Brennan, formerly well but no
favorably known in Worcester is lecturing il
Topeka, Kansas, to "ladies ouly,P and has sue
ceeded in bringing out the following gushing
expression of confidence in local paper: eth
medical profession everywhere has given til
doctor proof of their appreciation of this lecture
and have asserted that he was public benefac
tor in the fullest sense" They have quee
notion of benefactors out there,