The Portland daily press., 1870-06-11

Probably the most imposing Masonic ce,e-
bration ever held in the country occurred in
New York on Wednesday, the occasion being
IayrnS the corner stJne u TIE masonic
Temple to be erected on the northeas! cor
ner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street.
There were no banners, no gaudy uniforms
in the procession, all the members wearing
the usual black silk hat, black clothes, white
gloves and white aprons. The officers wore
the jewels of their rank. The column was in
ten divisions, composed of nearly $50 lodges,
and numbering about $4,000 men in the
ranks. Over the entire line of march the
sidewalks were crowded by we'll dressed citl-
zens, interested in the grand display. After
all the lodges had arrived near the site of the
Temple, and all were on the platform who
were entitled to that privilege, prayer was
offered by the Grand Chaplain, and after an
anthem the Deputy Grand Master introduced
the Grand Master to the assembled members
of the craft. When all was ready the cere-
monies were commenced by the delivery of
the Invocation by the Grand Chaplain, after
which number of coins and med
ais were deposited in the hollow of
the stone. The cornerstone was then
lowered in its place during the singing of
WY "hChSh3 A1iC tulo FdSI MOTlU WAS
Rev. E. S. Porter delivered the Grafton, when
the whole CT the craft assembled, led by the
united chOirs and accompanied by the bands,
sang the Anthem Of Praise, to the tune of
odd Hundred" At the conclusion, the
Grand Chaplain pronounced the benediction,
after which the several lodges were dismissed
and returned to their various lodge-rooms.
The Temple will be built of light-gray granite,
will front la feet on West Twenty third
CT faat 18th A IN L.
live stories high, the Mansard roof covering
the fronts Of the fifth story. The estimated
cost of the Temple is $1000,OOO. A grand
banquet was given in tie evening at the As
tor House.
The miscellaneous appropriation bill gives
S25O,0O0 for the Boston Post Office, S37 200
for the Portland Custom House, $25, 900 for
the Portland Post Office, 100000 for repairs
at the Boston Navy Yard and $4,000 for re-
pairs at Kittery Navy Yard.
at Macy Bun, Pennsylvania, few days ago,
there burst water spout, by which eighty
houses were destroyed. The corpses of 200
persons were found strewed about the fields,
and fourteen others have been got out of the
river at Schatzburg.
The latest English papers, to the Doth, bring
no new developments respecting the Uxbridge
tragedy, further than the rendering of a YER
dict of "wiliul MURDER against the culprit
Jones by aeoroner's jury. There appears to
be no foundation for the rumor that the pris-
Oner is brother of the murdered man. The
Dails AE.oUo grvcs the particulars or the inter-
ment of the bodies OF the seven murdered
persons in the churchyard of Denham, which
was touching episode in the history of this
most horrible tragedy. No less than 700 per-
sons gathered in the village, many coming
from liver, Slough, Windsor, and other places.
in vehicles of various descriptions, and not a
few arrived by train from London for the pur-
pose of looking at the scene of the tragedy,
and OF being present when the victims were
consigned to their last resting place. The
collins, which were borne by men belonging
to the neighborhOod, were removed in the fol-
lowing order : First, that containing the
body Of MARsHALL'S mother; next, that
containing MAasHALL's body; next, that
containing his wife; and then came the collins
OF MARY ANNE MARSHALL his sister, and
his three children. The procession, headed
by over twenty of the local palice, walking
four abreast, the chief morrners, who walked
behind the collins, being the relatives of the
murdered persons, and numbering about
twenty in number, a large number of the in
habitants of Uxblidge and Denham, joined
In the procession to the churchyard, the road
being kept clear by policemen. At the
churchyard several policemen were stationed
to prevent rush, which was imminent. Here
four graves were dug, three of them side bv
side, and the other, that containing the re-
mains OF old Mrs. Marshall, a few yards re-
moved. MARSHALL and his wife were buried