the General Court, empowering the society to hold real estate to the
amount of $25,000, was accepted, as was the bequest of land and money
from the late Hannah Shuttleworth. A memorial sketch of the late Judge
Colburn was read by Erastus Worthington, Esq. The society chose officers
as follows: President, Henry O. Hildreth; Vice-president, Alfred Hewins;
Recording Secretary, John D. Cobb; Treasurer and Librarian, J. H.
Burdakin; Curators, Erastus Worthington, Henry W. Richards, Don Gleason
Hill, J. H. Burdakin, Elijah Howe, Jr.; Auditors, George F. Fisher, A.
Ward Lamson; Chronicler, Don G. Hill; Historiographer, J. H. Tuttle.
* * * * *
March 9.--Meeting of the Bostonian Society. The essayist was J. M.
Hubbard, whose subject was "Boston, in 1710, Preparing for a Small
War." It appeared during the reading that the military enterprise on
hand was the capture of Port Royal, in Nova Scotia, then in the hands of
the French. The reason why Boston was peculiarly interested in it was
that this Nova Scotia harbor was a resort and head-quarters for a great
number of French privateers, which made short cruises along this coast,
capturing many merchant-vessels and fishing-craft, greatly to the injury
of the commerce of Boston. The English Government accordingly sent
hither a small fleet with a body of marines, expecting that the force
would be augmented by troops raised in the Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
and New Hampshire provinces. The whole expedition was to be commanded by
Colonel Francis Nicholson, who came in the fleet from England. To
provide for the requirements of the local forces the Provincial Council
of Massachusetts ordered that L15,000 in bills of credit of the province
be printed, which was a ready way to raise the money.
* * * * *
March 9.--The _Concord Monitor_, in announcing the result of the vote
on this day on the question of calling a constitutional convention, says
that New Hampshire towns have been directed to vote on the expediency of
calling a constitutional convention by the Legislatures of 1799, 1806,
1813, 1820, 1832, 1833, 1837, 1844, 1846, 1849, 1857, 1860, 1862, 1864,
1868, 1869, 1875, 1883, resulting in the conventions of 1850-1 and
1876-7. The proposition had a sufficient majority this time.
* * * * *
March 10.--An explosion on the tug-boat "John Markee," in Boston Harbor,
instantly killed the entire crew, consisting of five men.
* * * * *
March 12.--At a special meeting of both branches of the Cambridge City
Council, a special committee was appointed on the part of the city
government to confer with the committee on the part of the citizens
relative to a suitable observance of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
departure for the seat of war of Co. C, Third Regiment of Infantry, of
Cambridge. This was the first volunteer company organized for the war of
the rebellion in the city. Ex-Mayors Montague, Saunders, and Harding,
ex-Aldermen Thurston and Chapman, and Mr. J. W. Merrill, made short
addresses, urging the necessity of making the 17th of April a day of
local pride for Cambridge. The following committee on the part of the
citizens was chosen: ex-Mayors Bradford, Harding, Montague, and
Saunders, ex-Alderman F. L. Chapman and D. H. Thurston, and Messrs.
George H. Howard, J. C. Wellington, and L. B. Porter. On the part of
the City Council there were chosen Mayor Russell, Aldermen Hincks and
Lindsay, and Councilmen Kemp, Ivers, Coveney, and President Corcoran.
* * * * *
March 15.--At a meeting of the committee having in charge the
preparations for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the
incorporation of the city of Lowell, the following programme was agreed
on, for April 1: In the morning, singing by public-school children, and
address by C. C. Chase, former principal of the High School. In the
afternoon, prayer by the Rev. Owen Street; address by Mayor Abbott;
oration by the Hon. F. T. Greenhalge; in the evening, addresses by
ex-mayors.
* * * * *
March 15.--The regular monthly meeting of the Methodist Historical
Society was one of unusual interest. Rev. Hebron Vincent, of Edgartown,
occupied the chair, and Rev. C. L. Goodell, of Providence, presented and
read an interesting sketch of the rise and progress of Methodism in
Rhode Island, bringing out particularly the history of the Chestnut
Street Church, of which he is the present pastor, and whose
semi-centennial was recently observed. Rev. Dr. Chadbourne, of
Charlestown, found in the files of the _Columbian Sentinel_ for 1806 the
following: "On Thursday morning Mrs. Maria Odiorne, aged 29, wife of Mr.
George Odiorne, eldest daughter of the Rev. Jas. Creighton of London,
Eng. Her funeral will proceed from the dwelling of Mr. O., in May
Street, this afternoon at half-past three o'clock, which the friends and
acquaintances are requested to attend." The interest of the Methodist
fraternity in this lady arises from the fact of her being the daughter
of one of Mr. Wesley's most intimate friends and associates, and whose
home was the scene of this great man's oft-repeated visits when she was
but fourteen years of age. Her husband, Mr. George Odiorne, met her in
London on one of his business trips across the ocean, and they were
married there, she accompanying him to his American home. Her son, James
Creighton Odiorne, born at his grandfather's house in London, graduated
at Yale College in 1826, and was one of the founders of the New England
Anti-Slavery Society, among whose members was the late William Lloyd
Garrison, and of which Oliver Johnson, Esq., is the only living member.
The next meeting of the Society occurs on Monday, April 12. Rev. L. B.
Bates will present a sketch of the late Rev. Lewis Bates.
NECROLOGY.
Feb. 2.--John D. Philbrick, late superintendent of the Boston public
schools, and one of the leading educators of the country, died Feb. 2.
The funeral services, which took place at the home of the deceased in
Danvers, Mass., were attended by a large representative body of
educators from Boston and other cities. Rev. C. B. Rice, a past member
of the State Board of Education, officiating. The train from Boston
which arrived at noon was crowded with masters and other friends of the
deceased, who came to join the bereaved community in the last sad rites.
The committee from the Boston Evening High School consisted of Richard
F. Sullivan, William J. Haines, William D. L. McKissick, John W. Mooney,
William F. Donovan, ex-School Committee, Charles Hutchins, W. H.
Learnard, Jr., Dr. E. T. Eastman, and others.
* * * * *
Feb. 16.--Calvin S. Harrington, Professor of Latin in Wesleyan
University, died at his home in Middletown, Conn. He was born May 17,
1826, in St. Johnsbury, Vt.; was graduated from Wesleyan University in
1852; 1852 to 1855 he was teacher of Latin in New Hampshire Conference
Seminary, Sanbornton Bridge, N.H.; 1855 to 1860, principal of same; 1861
to 1863, Professor of Greek, and 1863 to his death, professor in
Wesleyan University.
* * * * *
Feb. 18.--John B. Gough, the famous temperance orator, died in
Philadelphia. He was attacked by apoplexy Monday, February 15, while
lecturing on "Peculiar People," in Philadelphia. When he arose to
address the crowded gathering he was feeling well, and for forty minutes
he spoke with his usual fire and eloquence. Then suddenly his head
dropped upon his chest, and he fell prostrate to the floor.
* * * * *
Feb. 19.--Edward Learned, one of the most prominent citizens of
Berkshire county, died at his home, in Pittsfield, Mass., of disease of
the heart. He was sixty-six years old, and a native of Watervliet. He
was a Representative to the Legislature in 1857, and a Senator in 1873
and 1874.
* * * * *
Feb. 25.--Death of John Smith, a well-known manufacturer of Andover,
Mass. He was nearly ninety years of age, and for years maintained a
personal interest in the town, in which place he first settled on
arriving in this country from Scotland. His detestation of the
pro-slavery preaching of the day led him, with others, to form the Free
Christian Church in 1846. He was also a generous supporter of
educational interests, and large sums went from his hand to the infant
colleges of the West, as well as to older institutions.
* * * * *
Feb. 28.--Mary Jane Welles, widow of the Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary
of the Navy under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, died at her residence
in Hartford, Conn., aged 69 years. She was a daughter of Elias W. Hale,
who graduated at Yale College in 1795, and subsequently was one of the
original settlers of Lewistown, Penn. She married Mr. Welles in 1835.
* * * * *
March 6.--The Rev. Henry Martyn Grout, D.D., pastor of the Trinitarian
Congregational Church in Concord, Mass., died in Boston after a brief
sickness. He was born in Newfane, Vt., May 14, 1831. He entered Williams
College in 1850, and was graduated in 1854. Dr. Grout entered the
ministry in September, 1858, when he was ordained and installed as
pastor of the Orthodox Church in Putney, Vt. After preaching there, at
West Rutland, Vt., and Springfield, Mass., he moved to Boston, and
became a member of the editorial staff of the _Congregationalist_, which
position he filled with great credit to himself and the paper during Dr.
Dexter's absence abroad. He had occupied the pulpit of the church in
Concord since 1872.
* * * * *
March 8.--The Rev. Nicholas Hoppin, D.D., rector of Christ Church,
Cambridge, from 1839 to 1874, died suddenly. He was born in Providence,
R.I., Dec. 3, 1812, and grew up in St. John's Church, of which the
famous Dr. Crocker was rector, and was one of a large number of young
men whom Dr. Crocker induced to enter the Episcopal ministry. He was
graduated from Brown University in 1831. He was a member of the
Massachusetts Historical Society, of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society, and of the American Oriental Society. He was at
his death, with the exception of the Rev. T. R. Lambert, the oldest
Episcopal clergyman in Massachusetts.
* * * * *
March 9.--Colonel William S. Clark, ex-president of Amherst Agricultural
College, long associated with the educational and agricultural interests
of the State, died at his home in Amherst, Mass., of Bright's-disease,
after a painful illness of three years. He was born in Ashfield, July
31, 1826, and was graduated at Amherst College in 1848. He studied
chemistry and mining at the Gottingen University, received the degree of
Ph.D. in 1852, and received the degree of LL.D. from Amherst in 1874. In
1877 Colonel Clark was invited by the Japanese Government to organize
the Imperial Agricultural College, where he passed a year, leaving the
institution in the most flourishing condition.
* * * * *
March 10.--Death at her home in South Boston of Mrs. Julia Romana
Anagnos, wife of Michael Anagnos, and eldest child of the late Dr.
Samuel G. and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. She was a woman of broad,
intellectual mind, and a writer.
* * * * *
March 10.--Sudden death of H. B. Safford, postmaster of White River
Junction, Vt., treasurer of the State Agricultural Society, and a
leading citizen of the State.
* * * * *
March 11.--Death of Charles Powers, a prominent citizen of Somerville,
and the senior member of the grain-elevator firm of Powers, Melvin, &
Co.
* * * * *
March 13.--Hon. Peter Buchanan, of Barnet, Vt., died at his residence in
McIndoe's Falls Village, aged seventy-eight years. He was of Scotch
descent, and inherited many of the sterling qualities of his race. He
was born in Barnet, where he always resided, and held nearly every
office within the gift of his fellow-townsmen. He represented the town
in the Legislature in 1876, and was twice elected Assistant Judge of the
Caledonia County Court.
* * * * *
March 15.--Death of Prof. Edward Tuckerman, LL.D., of Amherst College.
He was born in Boston in 1820, was graduated at Union College in 1837,
at the Law School in 1839, and at Harvard in 1847. In 1854 he came to
Amherst as lecturer on history, and the next year was appointed to the
professorship. Three years later he became Professor of Botany.
INDEX TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE.
[First numeral refers to foot-note and name of periodical. Second
numeral to page. Date of periodical is that of the month preceding this
issue of the New England Magazine, unless otherwise stated.]
ACADEMIC AND EDUCATIONAL. Biological Training in Colleges. _Prof. W. G.
Farlow._ 5, 577.--Health and Sex in Higher Education. _John Dewey,
Ph.D._ 5, 606.--Boston University School of Law. _Benjamin. R. Curtis._
8, 218.--The School-house in American Development. _Rev. A. E. Winship._
10, 387.--Knowledge which Earns Bread. _Sarah K. Bolton._ 10, 394.--The
Philosophical Phase of a System of Education. _Chas. E. Lowrey._ 10,
397.--The Ancient-Modern Language Controversy. _Minna Caroline Smith._
10, 405.--The Problem of Woman's Education. _Nicolo D'Alfonso._ 10,
420.--Relation of the High School to the Community. _David W. Hoyt._ 10,
429.
ARCHITECTURE. Japanese House-building. _Prof. E. S. Morse._ 5,
643.--Recent Architecture in America, City Dwellings. _Mrs. Schuyler van
Rensselaer._ 7, 677.--Some Notable Vanes. 1, 193.--At the White House.
_Hester M. Poole._ 19, 170.--The Old Guard Ball.--How the Metropolitan
House can be made Beautiful. 19, 184.
ART. Decorations of the New York Academy of Music. 19, 172.--Growth in
Art. _Mary Parmele._ 19, 177.--Some Philadelphia Studios. _Anne H.
Wharton._ 19, 178.--Ceramics and Ceramic Painting. 19, 180.
BIOGRAPHY. B. F. Wade, the Politician. _Hon. A. G. Riddle._ 3,
471.--George Washington Tifft. _Francis F. Fargo._ 3, 544.--Two
Interesting Traditions. _Irving Beman._ 3, 484.--Sketch of Sir J.
Bennett Lawes. 5, 694.--Castelar the Orator. _William Jackson Strong._
7, 785.--Thomas Middleton. _Algernon C. Swinburne._ 16, 335.--George
Borrow. _George Saintsbury._ 16, 322.--Edmund Hatch Bennett. 8,
225.--Daniel Webster. _Hon. Edward S. Tobey._ 8, 228.--John Dudley
Philbrick. 10, 442.--Dr. Henry Norman Hudson. 10, 448.
HISTORY. Van Cortlandt Manor-house. _Mrs. Martha J. Lamb._ 2,
217.--Champlain's American Experiences in 1613. _Arthur Harvey._ 2,
246.--Girty, the White Indian. _George W. Ranck._ 2, 256.--The Trent
Affair. _Hon. Horatio King._ 2, 278.--Shiloh. _Gen. William Farrar
Smith._ 2, 292.--One Night's Work, April 20, 1862. _George B. Bacon._ 2,
305.--Chicago. _Consul Willshire Butterfield._ 3, 445.--Michigan's
Boundary Trouble. _Walter Buell._ 3, 457.--History of the Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio. _Prof. W. H. Venable._ 3,
499.--Pittsburgh. _James Henry Seymour._ 3, 506.--The City of the
Straits. _Henry A. Griffin._ 3, 539.--Shiloh Reviewed. _Gen. Don Carlos
Buell._ 7, 749.--Memoranda on the Civil War. 7, 781.--Forty Years of
Frontier Life in the Pocomtuck Valley. _Hon. George Sheldon._ 8,
236.--How we Ran the Blockade. _Captain Roland F. Coffin._ 12, 616.
INDUSTRY. Maple Sugar-making in Vermont. _J. M. French, M.D._ 8, 208.
LITERATURE. The American Play. _Lawrence Halton._ 4, 289.--AEschylus and
Shakespeare, the "Eumenides" and "Hamlet." _Julia Wedgwood._ 16, 395.--A
Novelist's Favorite Theme. 16, 353.--Modern French Fiction. _Henry
Greville._ 13, 309.
RELIGION, THEOLOGY. Proem to Genesis, Reply to Prof. Huxley. _W. E.
Gladstone._ 5, 614.--Proem to Genesis, A Plea for a Fair Trial. _Rt.
Hon. W. E. Gladstone._ 16, 289.--Why am I a Unitarian. _Edward Everett
Hale._ 13, 230.
MEDICINE, HYGIENE, PHYSIOLOGY. A Thinking-Machine. _Grant Allen._ 5,
596.--Health and Sex in Higher Education. _John Dewey, Ph.D._ 5,
606.--Colorado as a Winter Sanatarium. _Fish._ 5, 668. Climatic
Treatment of Disease. _H. O. Marcy, A.M., M.D._ 15, 193.--Water Supply:
Southern River Water. _Thomas F. Wood, M.D._ 15, 212.--An Epidemic of
Typhoid Fever. _C. A. Lindsay, M.D._ 15, 223.--Health of the United
States Army. _Benjamin F. Pope._ 15, 227.--Bureau of Public
Health--Bills before Congress. 15, 245.--Maritime Sanitation. _S. T.
Armstrong, M.D., Ph.D._ 15, 234.
MISCELLANEOUS. My First Imprisonment. _William T. Stead._ 16, 404.--On
the Verge of a Tragedy. _George Austin._ 16, 414.--Impressions of a
Modern Arcadian. _Mrs. E. M. Nicholl._ 16, 361.
MILITARY. Unpublished War Letters. _Gen. U. S. Grant_ and _Gen. H. W.
Halleck._ 13, 270.--An Open Letter. _Gen. J. B. Fry._ 13, 290.
NATURAL HISTORY. Animal Weather Lore. _Charles C. Abbott, M.D._ 5,
635.--Durability of Resinous Trees. _Heinrich Mayr, Ph.D._ 5, 679.
POLITICS, ECONOMICS. Shall we have Colonies and a Navy? _Hon. John W.
Johnston._ 2, 238.--Discrimination in Railway Rates. _Gerrit L.
Lansing._ 5, 586.--Strength and Weakness of Socialism. _Washington
Gladden._ 7, 737.--Darwinism and Democracy. _W. S. Lilly._ 16,
310.--Government in the United States. _Gamaliel Bradford._ 16,
346.--Fishery Question. _Theodore S. Woolsey._ 13, 219.--Government
Telegraphy. _Cyrus W. Field._ 13, 227.--A Confederate Veto. _Jefferson
Davis._ 13, 244.--American Landlordism. _Henry Strong_ and _David B.
King._ 13, 246.
RECREATION AND AMUSEMENT. Song-games and Myth-dramas at Washington. _W.
H. Babcock._ 4, 239.--A Trip Around Cape Ann. _Elizabeth Porter Gould._
8, 268.--Moose-Hunting. _Frederick Schwatka_ and _T. E. Lambert._ 12,
621.--Salmon-Fishing in Canada. _W. J. Bruce._ 12, 640.--Around the
World on a Bicycle. _Thomas Stevens._ 12, 655.--Lacrosse in the United
States. _J. A. Hodge._ 12, 665.
SCIENCE, DISCOVERY, INVENTIONS. Influence of Inventions on Civilization.
_C. Smith._ 5, 658.--The Air Telegraph. _Thomas A. Edison._ 13,
283.--Dr. Pavy and the Polar Expedition. _Mrs. Lilly Pavy._ 13, 280.
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION. The One Pioneer of Terra Del Fuego. _Randle
Holme._ 4, 319.--Italy from a Tricycle. _Elizabeth Robbins Pennell._ 7,
643.--Mountaineering in Persia. _S. G. W. Benjamin._ 7, 703.--Along the
Kennebec. _Henry S. Bicknell._ 8, 197.--Ranch Life and Game-Shooting in
the West. _Theodore Roosevelt._ 12, 611.--Bermuda Yachts and Dinghies.
_Charles E. Clay._ 12, 642.
1 _The Quiver._
2 _Magazine of Am. History._
3 _Magazine of Western History_ (Cleveland, O.)
4 _Lippincott's Magazine._
5 _Popular Science Monthly._
6 _Queries_ (Buffalo, N.Y.).
7 _The Century._
8 _New England Magazine._
9 _St. Nicholas._
10 _Education._
11 _Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science._
12 _Outing._
13 _North American Review._
14 _Overland Monthly._
15 _The Samaritan._
16 _The Eclectic._
17 _The Ohio Educational Monthly._
18 _The Brooklyn Magazine._
19 _The Decorator and Furnisher._
20 _The Musical Herald._
[Illustration: HON. HENRY BARNARD, LL.D.,
The first United States Commissioner of Education.
[From a portrait made in 1858.]]