Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-21
1Nurtesttr 9atIp SPY.
CITY MEMS.


ing at Grant square during the present week.
A notice of interest to members of company
B, Tanner regiment, is published this morning
The city council win hold a regular meeting
this evening at halEpast seven o'clock.
Hon. Henry L. Dawes is announced to speak
in this city Friday evening, Nov 1st
The first dance of the season by the German
Turner's takes place this evening at their hall Oh
Soutbbridge street.
The Boston and Albany railroad company
has declared a dividend of five per cent, payable
November 9th.
An advertisement in another column gives
some facts which will be interesting to house
keepers.
Rev. Messrs.J. O. Knowles, j. o. Peck, A. W
McKeown and W. f. Mallalieu, well known from
their connections with the Methodist pulpits o
this city, are in the lecture field this season.
The annual reunion of the fifteenth Massa
chusetts regiment association occurs this morn
ing at Horticultural hall Dinner will be served
at the Lincoln house at noon,
The sale Of building lois at GAINESVILLE, post
poned on account of the rain Friday, will taxi
place this afternoon at two o'clock, Stones
omnibus leaving city hall at d, carrying passeu
gers to and from free.
The secretary of the Worcester agriculture
society may be found at the office of the FRS
national fire insurance company for the mex
thirty days. Sundays excepted for the payment
of premiums awarded at the recent exhibition
Messrs. j. L. Baker, C. c. Spring, H. B. Very
and A. d. Warren, who have been among the
Adirondacks for the past three weeks, have re
turned, bringing with them four fine deer, that
were GU exhibition in front of Lilley's Saturday
morning.
Mrs. Harriet Rice Carpenter, missionary to the
karews of Burmah, will address the ladies o
the woman's mission circle of the Main stree
Baptist church, at their chapel corner of Main
and Hermon streets, this, Monday afternoon al
three o'clock. All ladies interested are invited
There will be a meeting of the Choral Union
for practice and consultation on business mat
tiers pertaining to the plans and purposes of the
society, in their hall on Pearl street. this evening
at II O'Clock. A full attendance is earnestly
desired, not only of past and present members,
but also of all others who propose joining the
organization.
~ notified in another column of an important
meeting tonight in Natural History society
hall, Foster street. We understand that the
corps is intending to visit a neighboring town
early in the week.
A man, drunk or crazy, perhaps combining
both infrmities, created quite commotion il
Temple street, last evening, by tumbling into
the canal. He was fished out by means Of q
ladder by phianthropic bys tanders and sent
home to dry.
Three ladies had very narrow escape from a
serious accident at the corner of Main and Me
chanic streets about five O'Clock yesterday after.
noon. They were crossing the latter street
when a carriage drawn by two horses dashed
suddenly around the corner upon them. Two
of the ladies were knocked down by the wheels
but, with the exception of being rather severely
frightened, they were not injured. The careless
driver drove on without stopping.
A meeting of those interested in a CRANE
Grant and Wilson demonstration was held r
Natural History hall Saturday evening, and
committee was appointed to confer with the
committee from the Tanners and cavalry APP
pointed to consider the matter The joint com
mittee will hold a meeting during the presen
week, when definite arrangements will be per
feeted.
Early Saturday morning John d. Warren
carriage was overturned while turning from
Main street into Elm street. The driver wa.
thrown out and dragged under the carriage fol
some distance, losing his coat and one boot il
the passage, but fortunately escaping seriou;
injury. The horse was stopped after clearing
the carriage without being injured, while the
vehicle was badly damaged.
Saturday morning petition was presented t.
the county commissioners for the location anC
construction of a highway from near the house
of Z. II. Pratt, in the southeast part of the city
running southerly across the Boston and AL
bany railroad near the Millbury station to q
point near the house of G. W. Hastings, on the
road from this city to Grafton. Should it bt
found expedient to construct this road il will
prove great benefit to people in the vicinity
A large portion of the ceiling in the library
room at the Antiquarian hall fell Saturday
morning. The primary cause Of the trouble
was several small leaks in the roof, through
which the water had reached and started the
mason work upon the inside. This, with thu
jarrng caused by blasting in the ledge on High
land street for the construction of sewer, re
suited in the accident. The damage will moi
prove of a serious nature.
1t is almost unnecessary to correct an erro
which crept into the notice of the Performance
Of the oratorio of "Elijah," last week. DI
Guimette was credited with singing the teno
air 'If with all your hearts" when the type
should have read at is enough" DR.. G. is az
knowledged to be the best bass sOloist in til
country; he does not aspire to be ranked anon
the tenors Mr.. Simpson claims the honors i
this department.