. Strout.

The Bowdoin Alumni Association of New York also ate their annual dinner,
and elected officers as follows: E. B. Merrill, president; Francis R.
Upton, secretary; D. F. H. Dillingham, treasurer.

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Feb. 10.--About one hundred sons of the Granite State, the majority of
whom belong to the New Hampshire Club, assembled at the Quincy House,
Boston, under the presidency of Hon. J. C. Moore, of Manchester. Among
the company were many distinguished gentlemen, invited because they were
natives of the State, and among these were: Senator J. Gault of Hookset,
Naval Officer A. O. Kent, Gen. J. L. Stevenson, Speaker J. Q. A.
Brackett, Mr. Charles F. Morrill of Manchester, Mr. George B. Clifford
of Grand Forks, Dak., Gen. Charles H. Burns of Wilton, Landlord Crufts
of the Maplewood House, Bethlehem, Mr. A. A. Folsom of the Boston &
Providence Railroad, Mr. A. A. Copp of Nashua, Dr. A. H. Hayes of Alton,
Gen. F. S. Nickerson, and Mr. Charles Pattee of Boston, Mr. Walter C.
Taft, superintendent of the New York & Boston Dispatch Express Company,
and Mr. H. B. Dwight, superintendent of the Adams Express Company.

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Feb. 15.--At an adjourned meeting of the Maiden Historical and
Genealogical Society the following gentlemen were unanimously elected
permanent officers of the society for the ensuing year: President, Hon.
E. S. Converse; Vice-Presidents, Hon. J. K. C. Sleeper, Hon. L. L.
Fuller, Hon. Marcellus Coggan; Corresponding Secretary and Librarian,
George D. B. Blanchard; Recording Secretary, George D. Ayers; Treasurer,
Thomas Lang. These officers are constituted a Board of Directors of the
society.

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Feb. 22.--The annual meeting of the Cape Cod Historical Society convened
in Lyceum Hall, Yarmouthport, Hon. Charles F. Swift in the chair. The
treasurer's report showed the society to be in good financial condition.
Steps were taken to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the
formation of Barnstable County, which occurs some time in June. These
officers were chosen: President, Hon. Charles F. Swift, Yarmouthport;
Vice-Presidents, Thomas P. Howes, Dennis, S. B. Phinney, Barnstable,
Alonzo Tripp, Boston, E. S. Whittemore, Boston, James Gifford,
Provincetown; Treasurer, Samuel Snow, Barnstable; Secretary, Josiah
Paine, Harwich; Executive Committee, J. C. Howes, Dennis, Eben B.
Crocker, Barnstable.