Worcester daily spy., 1860-04-27
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Mr.. POl ter state liquor commissioner made
at the April meeting of the State Temperance
Alliance, on the 25th inst, full and satistac-
tory explanation of the rumors relating to his
resignation. The report had been current that
his liquors diminished in quantity i'll their con-
veyance. He intends to seek legal redress.
The estate on State street. Boston, occupied
by the Massachusetts Bank, comprising the
large, granite front building, and 5732 feet of
land, was sold Wednesday, to Moses Williams
for Sl60,000. The price is equivalent to
S279l square foot, which is regarded cheap
The distinguished areonants, James Allen
of Providence, and S. A. King of Philadel-
phia, have received the appointment to make
a balloon ascension from Boston common on
the 4th of July
Several beral subscriptions have been made
in Boston in aid of the Home for Aged Men.
One generous citizen headed the list wi h a
subscription of $1,000, which was followed by
a subscription of $1,000, and other large sums
John c Wyman, Esq, formerly OF the
house of Phillips, Sampson, & Co, has beei.
appointed agent of the Michigan Central kall'
road.
ESSEX COUNTY.
There is little girl in Essex, only IL
years old, the daughter of a MIR. Story, who
plays tunes, with the several parts, on the me-
lodeon and piano forte, in manner that would
be creditable to a professional pianist. No
pains have been taken to teach her, and she
plays any tune after hearing 1t few times,
and will play blindfolded equally as we'll
Mrs. Susannah Ellison an aged lady who
was born in Ipswich in 1776, and was conse-
quentIy 81 years old, was found dead IN bed at
her residence in Salem, early Thursday morn
ing She was in usual health the preceding
day, and is supposed to have died from some
affection of the heart.
The friends of Rev. Brown Emerson, d.
d., of Salem commemorated the flfty-tif an
niversary of his settlement by friendly gath
ering at his residence on Tuesday evening,
His brother, Rev. Reuben Emerson of South
Reading, who died few weeks ago, was pas
tor Of a church upwards Of titty-tive years.
died at the age of SO years.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The house of Obadiah Richardson, situated
in Dracut, on the road to Lawrence, about one
and half miles from Lowell was totally de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday noon. Its sole occu-
pant was Mr. Richardson, who is upwards of
so years of age, and he loses everything but
the clothes he had on.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Orrin Sage, Jr., of Ware, has recently erect,
ed a sarcophagus monument of Quincy gran
lite, on his lot, in Aspen Grove Cemetery,
weighing $4,000 pounds, and enclosed it with
an iron fence at a cost of $1,000. This ceme-
terry was the gift of Mr.. Sage to the town of
Ware in 1852
MAINE.
Two strangers who took lodgings on Satur-
day, Dist inst, at the Tontine Hotel, in Bruins
wick, both disappeared on Sunday night,
taking with them no outside garments, leaving
a light burning in their room, and also leaving
behind them a valuable horse and buggy, to-
gether with wearing apparel and other articles
of value. Nothing has yet been seen or heard
of them. Their appearance and their mysteri-
Gus departure have aroused suspicious of foul
play.
The most destructive fire ever known on
the Kennebec occurred in Gardiner, Wednes-
day night More than thirty buildings were
destroyed including five saw mills, thirteen
dwellings, bridge, planning mills, mechanics
shops, &c. The loss amounts to sos, 900. The
losers are :--Wm. Sargent, Hooker,
Libby & Co., j. & A. Berry, r. II. Gardiner,
N. o. Mitchell, j. L. Mitchell J. Maxey, r.
X. Littlefed, Robinson & Merrill, N B. Nor
ton, b f. johnson, James Nash and the Maine
Rural.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Fayette McMuIlen, exM. G. from Virginia
and ex governor OF Washington territory, was
riding across the railroad track near Lynch
burg, Va, last Friday, wheu a passing train
killed his horse under him and left him sitting
on the font Of the engine. The engineer
pulled him i'll without injury in the slightest
degree.
In the heart of white oak tree, in Green.
bush, New Brunswick, recently, was found an
InCian hatchet, where it had been embedded
two centuries. The hatchet was struck in its
place when the tree had about thirty years
growth, and since then the concentric circles of
two hundred years have bonnd it i'll its place.
Ohm e. Owens, the tavorite comedian now
manager Of theater in New Orleans, recently
received a letter from a black mail correspond
ent, threatening terrible revelations through
the National Police Gazette, unless 5000 were
Immediately paid him. John chad no hesita-
ton in saying, and he said it boldly" that
such conduct was damnable, and placed the
matter in the hands Of the police, by whom the
scOundrel was arrested.
Ezekiel Barnes, Il veteran, who died recent
ly i'll Ohio, voted for sixty-nine years consec
utively, and cherished the wife of his bosom
for sixty nine years, and when he died. at the
age of ninety, his wife survived him. By
reason OF strength, Mr.. Barnes lived not only
to see his great-grandchildren but without
ever knowing a sick day.
Mr.. Golden has accepted f40 900 subscribed
by some Of his Lancashire friends, but on con-
dition Of handing over to them considerable
butat present unproductive, property he holds
in that county. The large amount invested in
Illinois Central Railway shares is expected to
become realizable one day, however distant.
The citizens of Westchester, Pa, are much
excited by the action OF their school commit
tee in refusing to re-appoint Mr.. Sanford Cul-
yer as principal, and appointing in his place
Mr.. Meader Of Woonsocket, r. l. Mr.. Cul-
yer has been principal for so many years that
a large number OF the citizens have been edu-
Gated under his teaching. Indignation meet
ingS have been held and torchlight professions
have paraded the streets, to express the popu-
lar regard for the rejected principal.