September 15.—­The town of Hingham, Mass., celebrated the quarter millenial of its incorporation as a town.  Business was generally suspended, and all the prominent residences and public buildings were elaborately decorated.  There was a procession at 11 A.M. to the “old meeting house.”  The order of exercises at this place included an oration by Hon. Solomon Lincoln.  A banquet was spread in Agricultural Hail, attended by ex-governor Long and many other notables.  The bells on all the churches were rung at sunset and as darkness settled over the town, bonfires were lighted upon Baker’s, Otis, Planter’s, Turkey, Liberty Pole and Prospect Hills.  The Hingham band gave an open air concert, and in the evening the citizens and invited guests held a social reunion at the hall.

September 16—­The annual Salisbury beach gathering opened and continued through the 17th.  About five thousand persons attended.  The exercises consisted of band concerts, base ball, illuminations, etc.

September 16.—­The great race in New York harbor between the Yankee yacht “Puritan” and the English yacht “Genesta,”—­the second in the contest was won by the former, thus deciding that the America’s cup shall remain in America.  The sailing tune was:  Puritan, 5.03. 14:  Genesta, 5.04. 52.

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OBITUARY.

September 1.—­In Cohasset, Mass., Charles Faulkner of the Boston and New York firm of Faulkner, Page & Co.

September 6.—­In New Bedford, Mass., William A. Wall, a well known artist.

September 8.—­In Hanover, N.H., Edward A. Rollins of Philadelphia, ex-commissioner of internal revenue.

September 8.—­In Haverhill, Mass., Rev. Raymond H. Seeley, D.D. a prominent Congregational clergyman.

September 12.—­Jonathan Cartland of Lee, Mass, died, aged seventy-six.  He was one of the leading old guard of abolitionists, an uncompromising prohibitory advocate, and a bosom friend and co-worker of Wendell Phillips.  He held many important town and county offices.  He was a warm friend of the fleeing negroes from the South to Canada, his home being the refuge for many, and often piloting them from there by night to the Canadian border.

September 14.—­The death of Hon. Oliver Warner occurred at Lynn, Mass.  He was the son of Oliver Warner of Northampton, where he was born on April 17, 1818.  He was graduated at Williams College in 1842, and subsequently at Gilmanton Theological Seminary.  He officiated as a Congregational clergyman at Chesterfield from 1844 to 1846.  In 1552 and 1853 he was a tutor at Williston Seminary, Easthampton.  In 1854 and 1855 he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in 1856 and 1857 in the Senate.  He occupied the position of secretary of state for eighteen years, retiring in 1876.  His majority in 1872 was greater than any other on the Republican ticket.  In 1875 considerable opposition was made to his election, the effect of which was to lose him the Republican nomination and the office.  From 1876 to 1879 he filled the position of librarian of the State Library.  In September, 1882, he married Miss Newhall of Lynn, and departed on a six months’ tour in Europe.