rks. This town was set
off from Milford after a hard struggle in the Legislature.

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April 13.--Dedicatory exercises of the new county building in Ellsworth,
Me. The Rev. Dr. Tenney opened the exercises by prayer, and Hon. John B.
Redman introduced Hon. N. B. Coolidge, chairman of the county
commissioners, who presented the buildings to the court and county in
appropriate remarks. Mr. Coolidge was followed by C. A. Spofford,
president of the Hancock county bar; Chief-Justice Peters, who reviewed
the history of the county in an interesting speech; Judge Haskell, of
Portland, and Hon. Eugene Hale.

NECROLOGY.

March 21.--Death from apoplexy of Col. B. W. Hoyt, secretary and
treasurer of the New Hampshire Club, treasurer of the B. W. Hoyt Shoe
Company of Epping, and special commissioner of the Boston & Maine
Railroad.

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March 23.--Judge Joseph McKean Churchill, of the Central Municipal Court
of Boston, died at his home in Milton, aged 64 years. He was graduated
from Harvard in 1840, and from the Law School in 1845. He served as
captain in the Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment during the war. He was
appointed to the bench in December, 1870.

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April 3.--Death at Philadelphia of Theodore C. Hersey of Portland, Me.
He was born in Gorham, Me., in 1812. He early went to Portland, where he
formed a partnership with St. John Smith in the West India trade. Mr.
Hersey was one of the proprietors of the International line of steamers,
and for many years was its president, resigning, on account of ill
health, about a year ago. He was one of the founders of the Board of
Trade, and its president in 1863-68 and 1873-74, and a charter member of
the Merchant's Exchange.

April 4.--Death of George L. Claflin, a prominent wholesale druggist, of
Providence, R.I., aged 63 years. He had been a member of the Common
Council and the General Assembly, and took an active part in banking and
insurance corporations.

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April 5.--Death of Dr. George A. Bethune, of Boston. He was born there,
in 1812, and was graduated at Harvard College in 1831. He studied
medicine in the Harvard Medical School, and also abroad, and having made
eye and ear diseases a specialty, practised until about ten or fifteen
years ago, when he retired. He was at one time connected with the
Massachus