Short Notes About Town - Boston Daily Globe - 22 November 1876

Short Notes About Town¹

- East Boston wants Nehemiah Gibson for Mayor.

- There were 1920 admissions to the Museum of Fine Arts on Saturday.

- A young lady died in East Boston, last week, three days after her return in an exhausted condition from the Centennial.

- The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association will petition the Legislature for leave to erect an exhibition building within the limits of the city of Boston.

- The Executive Council commenced the official count of the votes cast in the recent election yesterday, and the work will probably occupy the most of the week.

- Professor Cyr will give French readings at Conservatory Hall (Music Hall) today at 12 o'clock, with music on the organ and the piano. All interested parties invited.

- The Young Men's Christian Union, as in former years, will give a Thanksgiving dinner to those members who are unable to be with kindred and friends on that day. The dinner will be given in the Union Hall, Boylston street.

- Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson will give a public reading in Wesleyan Hall this evening, at the request of many of her friends. Her selections will be from living poets; and those who heard her several years ago in Tremont Temple will doubtless wish to hear her again.

- The second of the series of monthly dinners at the Tremont House, inaugurated by the Athenian Club, will take place on Friday evening next 28th inst. An unusually pleasant gathering is promised and it is expected that some very pleasing features will be presented.

- The Executive Committee of the Republican City Committee has appointed Tuesday evening as the time  for holding the caucuses to elect delegates to a convention to nominate Mayor and other city Ward officers will be made at the caucuses. The conventions will be held on Friday evening, December 1.

- The annual meeting of the Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad Company, required by law, was held yesterday morning in the office of the President of the Old Colony Railroad. Directors were re-elected as follows: Onslow Stearns of Concord, N.H., S.N.O Cole of Situate, Royal A. Turner of Randolph, of Somerville, William T. Davis of Plymouth, Oliver Ames of Easton, S.N. Gifford of Duxbury was chosen Clerk.

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