grammar, the Greek testament, Xenophon's Cyropædia and Collectanea Græca Minora. ARTICLE XIV. This school for the study of the English language and for geography, writing, and arithmetic, shall be divided into four classes, and the books for each class shall be, viz.: Class 1. Murray's English grammar; Murray's exercises; Murray's English reader; Blair's rhetoric abridged; Walker's dictionary abridged; Morse's geography abridged; Walsh's mercantile arithmetic. Writing, elocution, and composition are to be taught and strict. attention is to be paid to orthography. Class 2. Murray's grammar abridged; Murray's introduction to the English reader; Walker's dictionary abridged; Ticknor's exercises; Merrill's metic. arith Class 3 and 4. Murray's grammar abridged; Walker's dictionary abridged; arts and sciences abridged; Pike's orthographer; Merrill's arithmetic; the Bible is to be read in all the classes, and all the scholars are to be instructed in writing. ARTICLE XV. The number of Latin, Greek, and English scholars admissible at one and the same time shall not exceed seventy; and as in its original establishment this school was intended for classical education, if Latin and English scholars should be offered at one and the same time, and there should not be room for both agreeable to the limitation of seventy, then and in that case the Latin scholars are to have the decided preference of admission. THE ENGLISH GRAMMAR SCHOOLS. ARTICLE XVI. central, and south English schools, and of all other schools which may be established for similar purposes, shall be able to teach reading, orthography, the use of the pauses, writing in its varieties, arithmetic, English grammar, and geography. ARTICLE XVII. No child shall be admitted into these schools unless he have attained the age of six years and be able to read words of two syllables without spelling, and to class in the spelling book. ARTICLE XVIII. The north, central, and south English schools shall be divided into as many classes as may be found convenient for the best instruction of the children. The books for the several classes shall be, viz.: For the first class. Murray's grammar; Murray's exercises; Murray's introduction to the English reader; Walker's dictionary abridged; Dwight's geography; Merrill's arithmetic. Second Class. Murray's grammar abridged; Walker's dictionary do.; arts and sciences do.; Ticknor's exercises; Merrill's arithmetic; the Bible is to be read in both these classes, and writing is to be taught. Third class. American Preceptor; Pike's Orthographer; New Testament. The lower classes. The New Testament; Pike's Orthographer; writing and arithmetic are also to be taught. REWARDS OF MERIT. ARTICLE XIX. The rewards will be adjudged at the discretion of the committee, on the quarterly visitation days, to the scholars of the respective schools, according to the course of studies established by The respective masters of the north, these regulations, viz.: Heman Allen Dearborn, the head of the Latin department in Tufts college, died May 14. He was born in Weare May 18, 1831, and was graduated from Tufts in 1857, the valedictorian of the first class to receive degrees from the institution. After graduation, he was principal of the Clinton Liberal Institute until 1864, when he was tendered the professorship of Latin at Tufts, which he held thereafter until his death. COL. WILLIAM BADGER. Col. William Badger, U. S. A. (retired), who died in Jamaica Plain, Mass., May 12, was born in Gilmanton, August, 1826, and was educated at Gilmanton academy and at Dartmouth college, from which he was graduated in 1848. He engaged in manufacturing as the superintendent of mills at Belmont and Tilton until the war broke out, when he enlisted and served until the close of the struggle, attaining the rank of colonel of the Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers, and being brevetted for gallant and meritorious conduct. He was commissioned lieutenant of the Sixth United States Infantry after the war, and was retired as captain in 1889, having served as governor of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and in other responsible posts. Rev. Otis Wing, who REV. OTIS WING. celebrated his ninety-ninth birthday April 10, died at Newton Junction May 2. He began to preach when he was 20 years old, and had baptized more than one thousand persons. He had preached in Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, and Maine. JOHN C. PAIGE. John C. Paige was born in Hanover in 1839, and died in Boston May 8. early life he was engaged in general trading, but in 1869 he entered the fire insurance business at Providence, R. I. In 1872, he removed to Boston, to adjust losses in connection with the great fire, and he remained there until his death, becoming its most noted insurance manager as well as the conductor of the largest individual insurance establishment in the world. The demands of his business were such that he occupied an entire six-story building and employed 100 clerks. GEN. JOHN J. PERRY. Gen. John J. Perry, the oldest ex-congressman in Maine, died in Portland May 2. He was born in Portsmouth August 11, 1811, and was educated at Kent's Hill seminary. He was admitted to the bar in 1844, served in the state legislature and senate, and in 1855 was elected to congress and served two terms. He was a member of the "Peace Congress" which met in the winter of 1860-'61. At the conclusion of his public career he practised law in Portland. DR. JAMES P. WALKER. Dr. James P. Walker, the oldest physician in Manchester, died May 6. He was born in the same city February 7, 1828, studied medicine with Dr. Josiah Crosby and received a diploma from the Harvard Medical college in 1856. Immediately thereafter, he opened an office in his native city and had since practised there. He had served many years on the board of education, and twice as a member of the legislature. GEORGE SWAINE. Scottish Rite bodies of He was born in BosHe was postmaster of George Swaine, for twenty years grand secretary of the the valley of Nashua, died at his home at Nashua May 3. ton in 1825, and had held many offices, state and local. Nashua under the administrations of Lincoln and Grant. He was a prominent Congregationalist, having been clerk of the county conference for twenty-five years. GEORGE E. DEARBORN. George Elvin Dearborn was born in Kensington April 16, 1825, and died at Philadelphia May 7. In early life he was station agent at East Kingston, and later a general trader. In 1859, he engaged in the varnish business in Boston, and 1864 connected himself with the firm of William Tilden in New York. Becoming the Philadelphia representative of his house in 1867, he had since resided in that city. In 1876, he opened piano warerooms, which he conducted until his death, with great success. |