tue of Commodore Perry will be unveiled at Newport, R.I., on
September 10th. Colonel John H. Powell will be chief marshal, and Bishop
Clark will officiate. All the local societies and military companies, as
well as the military at Fort Adams, have been invited to be present. The
Secretary of the Navy writes that all the vessels of the training
squadron will be here before that time, and that their officers and
crews will be in line upon that occasion. The monument will be presented
on behalf of the State and city by ex-United States Senator Sheffield,
who will make an elaborate address. Governor Wetmore, on behalf of the
State, and Mayor Franklin, on behalf of the city, will accept the gift.

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HISTORICAL RECORD.

August 3.--Pemberton Square was chosen as the site for the new Suffolk
County Court House.

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On August 3 was celebrated at Middletown, Conn., the centenary of the
first Episcopal ordination held in this country. "The clergy met their
Bishop at Middletown on Aug. 2, 1785, and after a formal acknowledgment
of their Bishop on the part of the clergy, he held an ordination of
three candidates from Connecticut--Philo Shelton, Ashbel Baldwin and
Henry Vandyck--and one from Maryland, Colin Fergusun." There was a large
attendance of clergymen from various parts of New England.

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August 5.--The Washburn Library, erected by the surviving members of the
Washburn family, was dedicated at Livermore, Maine. Among the guests
present were ex-vice President Hannibal Hamlin, Senator Frye, Mr. E.B.
Haskell of the Boston _Herald_, and Hon. E.B. Washburn, of Illinois
who delivered the address. Over a thousand people attended the services.

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August 6.--Death of the Hon. John Batchelder, a well known citizen of
Lynn, Mass, at the age of eighty. He was a native of Topsfield, Mass.,
but went to Lynn when a young man. He taught school in Ward 5 for thirty
years previous to 1855, and was elected to the Massachusetts senate that
year. He was also in the same year elected city clerk and collector of
taxes. He was re-elected to the senate in 1856 and 1857. He was the
first treasurer of the Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank. He afterward taught
the Ward 6 Grammar School, and held that position ten years, and then
became a member of the school board. The last office held