etts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

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April 6.--Death, at Brunswick, Me., of Hon. William G. Barrows. He was
born in Bridgton, Me., January, 1821, and was graduated from Bowdoin
College in the class of 1839. He was admitted to the bar in 1842, and
settled for practice in his profession at Brunswick, where ever since he
had resided. From 1853 to 1855 he edited with marked ability the
_Brunswick Telegraph_. In 1856 he was selected judge of Probate Court
for Cumberland County, and reelected in 1860. In 1863 he was appointed
associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court and reappointed in 1870
and 1877, serving three terms of seven years each. At the expiration of
the latter term he declined a reappointment, preferring the retirement
of private life. He was a member of the Maine Historical Society, and
one of its most earnest supporters. He was warmly interested in the
establishment of the Brunswick Public Library, and one of its most
liberal supporters.

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April 7.--Unexpected death of Prof. Thomas Anthony Thatcher, LL.D.,
professor in Yale College of the Latin Language and Literature. He was
born in Hartford, Jan. 11, 1815. He was fitted for Yale at the Hartford
Hopkins Grammar School, and entered the college in 1831, graduating four
years later. Then he taught in the New Canaan, Conn., Seminary for two
years, and then in the Oglethorpe University, Georgia. He became a Latin
tutor in Yale in 1838, and four years later was made a professor. In
1843 he went to Germany and studied two years. While there he was
offered and accepted a position as tutor to the Crown Prince of Prussia
and his royal cousin, Prince Frederick Charles. His "De Officiis" of
Cicero and Madvig's Latin Grammar are widely known.

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April 8.--Dan Stone Smalley died at his residence, on Green street,
Jamaica Plain, at the age of 75 years. He was for many years teacher of
the Eliot Commercial School in Jamaica Plain.

April 9.--Death at Bement, Ill., of Hon. Lewis Bodman, formerly of
Williamsburg, Mass., and senator from Hampshire county.

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April 10.--Sudden death of Hon. Elbridge Gerry of Portland, Me. He was
born in Waterford, Oxford county, Me., Dec. 6, 1815. He received an
academical education. After its completion he studied law, and was
admitted to the bar in his twenty-fourth year. In th