Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-06-03

oI the occasion was very great, and press
ed SO closely as to occasion great inconye.
nlence to the firemen and those who were
engaged IN removing furniture. Some
disposition to plumber was also manifest
ed. The police officers we learn were
very active on the occasion and great cred
1t Is due to their exertions. 1t is certain
~ and improper indulgence of an idle Gu
rioslty, which leads people who neither
expect nor are able to be of service on
these occasions, to huddle about fires in
such manner as to embarrass the fremen
and the police, and give rogues that OBJ
portunlty for depreciation which they desire.
Not only would strong measures to repress
this disposition be justifable, but we deem
them highly expedient,
About the same time with the fire in
charlton street, two attempts were made
to lire new brick house in Carmine ST,
near varick, the only remaining building
OF block burnt down two or three months
since by an incendiary. A young man
who was up in the house of the Rev. Mr..
Demarest, observed fellow with match
attempting to set fire to pile of shavings
against the wooden fence of the back
yard, and instantly gave the alarm. The
VILLAIN ran, and was pursued by the watch
tor more than mile, when he made his
escape. This was the third alarm of fire
given last night. Another pile of COM
bustibles was found on fire by watchman,
and extinguished by him.
". Y. Eve. Post Of Wednesday.
FIREs-AGAiN Yesterday afternoon.
about A o'clock, the brick stable of Mr..
Kip, IN the rear Of his lot corner of Fulton
and Church-streets, was discovered to be
on fire, but the flames were extinguished
before much damage was done.-At the
same time smoke was seen to issue from
the vestry room of st. Paul's Church, on
the opposite corner Of Church and Fulton
streets, and ON examination it was found
that bundle of papers in the middle of
the floor was on fire, and had burnt through
the carpet.
About nine o'clock in the evening, the
flremen were again summoned by the
alarm of bells to extinguish another fire,
which had broken out in small building
in the rear Of Mr.. Hopport's grocery and
dwelling house, in Fulton-street, between
Greenwich and Washington-streets, and
communicated to and seriously injured the
house and goods. Had this last fire hap
pened at late hour of the night, it is
probable that an extensive confagration
would have been produced, as it was ad-
jacent to great quantity of combustible
materials.
The peculiar circumstances of these
fires leave but little doubt that they must
have been caused by incendiary.
NJ Y. Mer. AdU. of Thursday
The CONVENTION OF CoNGREGATIoN-
AL MINISTER'S in Massachusetts held its
anniversary meeting on Wednesday, Rev.
DR.. Griffin presiding. Rev. John Goldman
was reelected scribe, and Rev. N. L.
the convention is limited almost entirely
to the appropriations of aid to the widows
and orphans of deceased clergyman. On
Thursday the Rev. DIR. Griffin preached
before the convention at the church in
Brattle-street.-BoSt. Courier.
SpoTs ON THE Sun. The disk Of the
Sun exhibits to the telescope, at present,
an unusual number of spots. On We'd
nesday last, we were able to enumerate
eleven, one of which, little north of the
centre, was very large, and surrounded
by an extensive penumbra. The solar
spots are not often more than thirty degrees
distant from the suns equator but one
of those visible ON "Wednesday, was near
the southern limb. Since that time, this
spot has disappeared and several of the
others have separated into clusters of small
spots. Many of our readers will recollect
the similar appearances that were exhib-
tied on the solar disk, in 1916. They are
sometimes of enormous size, occupying a
space of $4,000 miles in diameter and
are occasionally so mutable as to exhibit
to the eye of the astronomer, the appear
ance of exploding into fragments while he
is gazing at them.-N. Hacen Journal.
The Annapolis republican of the Goth
May, says-About six o'clock last even
ing, a powerful looking cloud approached
from the north, and brought shower of
hail more tremendous than we recollect
ever to have Witnessed All the glass in
the windows facing N. or N. E. in this
city, is broken. One hundred and six
lights suffered in the building opposite our
stand, and so in proportion in other houses,
according to the direction Of the exposure.
The State House has about 557 lights
! hxol,oo M W;llianaSon;c Hotel bptwaen