New England Society
The New England Society of this city held its 17th annual meeting and banquet at the Gregory House ou Tuesday evening, over 100 persons being present and participating. The address was delivered by Rev. S. Haskell. After the address the f ollowing officers for the ensuing year were elected : President- Rev. S. Huskell. Vice-Presidents - J. Austin Scott and John W. Bradford. Secretary - A. W. Hamilton. Treasurer - E. C. Seainan. Corresponding Secretary - P. L. Page. Executive Committee- Prof. EL B. Eiutchins, Theodore Taylor and Martin Clark. Then followed the banquet, after which came the following toasts, Prof. C. K. Adama, President of the society, aoting as toast-master : 1. Maine- The broadest of the New England States - Too modest to arrógate any superiority by reaaon Of her many claims to pre-emineuce, shu only asks a candid recognition oí' her mcrits. Response by John M. Wheeler. 2. New Hampshire - America's Switzerland, the home oí a noble and hardy people. Response by Prof. Hutchins. 3. Vermont - Equally famed for the beauty of her sceuery and virtue of her people ; may her sons and daughterü, wherever they may wander, sustain the honors of her name. Kesponse by W. D. Harriman. 4. Maasachusetts-The birth place of so many of us; may it long be the nursery and the home of the social virtiies- a State which all her nons and daughter, whether present ot absent, may in ycars I to come as in years past, delight to honor and to love. CJod save the Commouwealth of Massachusetts ! Kesponse by üeorge T. Clark. 5. Rhode Island - The first home of complete toleration ; the pi-rpt.'iiuil home of enlightened liberty and broad Christian culture. Response by Presideni James B. Angelí. 6. Connecticut- Th problem still unsolved- The nutmeg State, where shall we tind a gr(e)ater? Response by Prof. Krank öcott. 7. The city in which so many of 'the sons and daughter of New Kngland have found so congenial a home- As it was thoaght in its early hiatory to be so l.cautiful an arbor, so may it in the future be an tnrniiiagement of every goud enterprise, the proteeÜon ol' every virtuf and the abode of every merit. Reijponse by Mayor Beakes. 8. New Englaiid LawMay the example of our Puritan lawgivers ever furnish us with a happy mean between too great license on the one hand and too many COlMÜtutional limitation.s on the other. Judge Cooley, who was to have responded to this sentiment, was unable to be present. 9. Our Puritan Mothers- Their heroicaud blessed memory is a saered legacy to all their sons and daughters. May their descendants give na iu the future, as they have given us in the past, the best educateii girls," ibu truest wivO, the noblest motfaers, anti the most glorloua old maids in the world. Eesponse by Rey. Dr. lïrigham. All who have read the Chicago Times will i uudoubtedly remember the disclosures ! ly made by that joumal concerning one Mike McDonald, who is the proprietor of what ia known as the "storei' on South Clark Street, where many have been robbed of their last cent at the well-kuown game of " Bunkü." Now, we have in this city, on. Main Street, uuder the very eyes of the Pólice, a place that will soon become to our citizensaa notorious aa the "store" is to those who reside in Chicago. Persons have been robbed by frequentere of this house, and the manner in which they " go through " their victima 3hows that they are experts at the business. We might meution the names of a number who have lost their money by having their .pockets picked. Only as late as laat Friday a butcher from the country lost 40, and the f ollowing evening the " old pioneer " was relieved of his wallet con taining $3.75.
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