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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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March 11.--Death of Charles Powers, a prominent citizen of Somerville,
and the senior member of the grain-elevator firm of Powers, Melvin, &
Co.

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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