Doctor of Laws. For
many years he held most of the justice's courts in Hanover. In 1848 and
'49 he represented the town in the Legislature and was a delegate to the
Constitutional Convention in 1850. In 1869 he was elected to the State
Senate, but declined to serve. The deceased was widely known as an
orator and literateur. In 1875 he published a history of New Hampshire.
The death of Professor Sanborn is not only a great loss to Dartmouth
College, but to the State and country at large.

Jan. 3.--A. S. Roe, author of many popular stories, died in East
Windsor, Conn., aged eighty-seven years.

On the same day Prof. Charles E. Hamlin, of the Harvard Museum of
Natural History, died at Cambridge, Mass., aged sixty years.

Jan. 4.---Zuar Eldridge Jameson, died in Irasburg, Orleans County, Vt.,
aged fifty-one years. He was a well-known writer and lecturer on
agricultural topics, whose initials, with transpositions, as well as
other pseudonyms, are familiar to readers of the agricultural papers,
particularly the New York _Weekly Tribune_, Albany, N. Y., _Country
Gentleman_ and Boston _Cultivator_. He was a member of the lower branch
of the Vermont Legislature in 1878, and of the State Board of
Agriculture in 1870-74, for many years Secretary of the Orleans County
Agricultural Society, and for one or two years lecturer of the Vermont
State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. Aside from the large amount of
purely agricultural matter written he was a frequent producer of short
sketches of fiction, usually treating of rural life. He was associated
with Dr. T. H. Hoskins in the editing of the old Vermont _Farmer_ (not
the present Vermont _Farmer_) at Newport, which was from a literary
standpoint the most successful of Vermont agricultural journals.

Jan. 5.--Death of Noble H. Hill, senior proprietor of the Boston
Theatre. He was born in Shoreham, Vt., in 1821; received a good
education; came to Boston in 1840; was in active trade till 1867, being
at that time a partner in the firm of Hill, Burrage & Co; in 1876 became
a partner with Orlando Tompkins for conducting the Boston Theatre.

On the same day died Dr. James H. Whittemore, Superintendent of the
Massachusetts General Hospital, aged 47 years.

Jan. 8.--Death of the Hon. Nahum Capen, at Dorchester, Mass., aged
eighty-two years. He was born in Canton in 1804. He came to Boston at
the age of twenty-one, embarked in the publishing business in the firm
of Marsh, Capen & Lyon, and