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EDUCATIONAL ITEMS, 
PERSONAL ITEMS 
Hon. Ezekiel Bacon, one of the oldest pub¬ 
lic men In the country, has just died in Utica, at 
the great age of Pi. Ho was a member of Con¬ 
gress for Berkshire Co., Mu**., from 1807 to 181:-, 
and was bora in the memorable year of 1776. 
He wu$ Comptroller of United States Treasury 
In the Madison administration. He wan the 
Oldest graduate of Yale. He gave his first vote 
for Mr. Jefferson irt 1800, and his last for Mr. 
Lincoln. Ho was the friend and associate of our 
great men for nearly two generations. With 
Mr. Gallatin, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Monroe, John 
Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, 
IVm. Lonndes, El bridge Gerry, Chancellor Kent, 
Ambrose .Spencer, and De Witt Clinton, be was 
on terms of nearly equal intimacy; and with 
Judge Story bis intercourse was, from an early 
period in his life, one of unbroken friendship 
and warm mutual regard to the day of Judge 
Story’s death. Tho deceased was the father of 
Judge Wra.J. Bacon of the Supreme Court of 
the Filth District. 
Hon. Sir, as E. Borrows, r well-known citi¬ 
zen of Mystic, Conn., died recently. He went 
with tlie first American merebantman-tiis own 
ship—that entered Japan, was one of the pio¬ 
neers in the China trade, and traveled the em¬ 
pire on the back of a mule. He was intimate 
with the Emperor of Russia, having received 
some large presents from him. Ho figured 
thirty-five years ago in New York politics, 
Mas. John H. Ki.vztK, who died the other day 
In Chicago by a druggist's mistake in compound¬ 
ing a proscription, was an authoress of some re¬ 
pute. She wrote " Waubun," and “ Walter Oglo- 
by,” and was engaged at tho t ime of her death 
In correcting the proof of her last novel, “ Murk 
Logan," which the Llppincotts had In press. 
Miss Ann'IE L. Oaky has received two flat¬ 
tering invitations to sing in concerts at Boston 
and Portland in November, independently of 
the Nilsson troupe, which she will accept. She 
was offered four hundred dollars for tho Port¬ 
land concert. 
Hon. corne ups wend Ebb, Congressional 
printer from 1850 to I860, and for a short time 
under Johnson's administration, died at the 
house of Ids brother-in-law at Northampton re¬ 
cently, at the age of 57. His remains were taken 
to Washington, l>. 0., for interment, 
Mrs. A. J. Parker, daughter of Mr. William 
Aldrich of Milford, ha* a very extensive straw 
hut manufactory in Vineland, N. J., manufac¬ 
turing nearlj 100,000 hate during the first six 
mouths of the present year. 
Ex-Gov. MouobCAJ Baiiti.ev died at Mans¬ 
field, Ohio, recently. He was elected Governor 
of Ohio in 1814. Gov. Bartley was in liis oighty- 
fourtli year, having been born In Pennsylvania 
fa 1786. 
M it. Frank Knapp, now a County Court Judge 
in Florida, at a salary of $6,000 per annum, was 
an employe of the Great Western Kuilroad Com¬ 
pany of Canada a few months ago. 
Mas. Gicn. Houston is dead. The surviving 
members of the family of the father of Texas 
reside In Georgetown, in that Stole. 
Dr, J. w. Farmer, well known as an author 
and traveler In India, has become editor of the 
Baltimore Saturday Night. 
Mrss Kate Stanton, a niece of Mrs. E. Cady 
Stanton, is studying law in Providence, R. L 
— Ohio has twenty or thirty colleges. 
— Union College had four presidents during its 
first decade. 
— The University of Jena has 402students, and 
56 instructors. 
— The University of Leipzic had 1,145 students 
before the war. 
— The number of school children in Owaton- 
na, Minn., 1*727. 
— The law school of the University of New 
York is now open. 
— There are 223 students registered at Ripon 
College, Wi*., this term. 
Prussia possesses at t he present time 48 com¬ 
mercial and Industrial schools. 
— Phillips Academy, Andover, has200students, 
the senior class numbering 45. 
- Tho total expense of the public schools in 
Flushing, L. I., for 1870, is $9,840.26. 
— In the various department* of Oberlin Col¬ 
lege. about 890 students are now In attendance. 
— The annual convocation of University Col¬ 
lege, Toronto, Ontario, took place on Lite I4t.ii 
ult. The institution is in a highly prosperous 
condition. 
— Tho school census, just completed, under 
the direction of the Board of PublIc Instruct ion 
of Albany, shows a school population of 28,898 
persons of school age, within the bounds of the 
city. 
— The Committee on School Organization, in 
the Board of Education of Troy, have resolved to 
recommend the Board to call on the Common 
Council for the sum of $125,000 for building 
purposes. 
-The Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby accepts the 
Chancellorship of the New York University, in 
place of Rev. Dr. Ferris, resigned, but will re¬ 
tain the pastorate of Fourth Avenue Presbyteri¬ 
an Church. 
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