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LORD HOWE'S BODY FOUND AT TICONDEROGA.

Troy, N.Y., Oct. 10.--A dispatch from Ticonderoga says: "While laborers were engaged in digging a sewer in one of the principal streets of this village to-day they struck a tombstone. At the botom [[bottom]] of it was found a coffin containing the bones of a human being. The stone was washed off and found to contain the inscription and date of death of Lord Howe, who fell at Fort Ticonderoga on July 8, 1758, while fighting the French forces. The skull was intact, but the rest of the bones were disjointed and considerably decayed. As soon as it had been learned about the village an immense crowd of people assembled, and many made desperate efforts to procure pieces of the bones. The coffin, which was of oak, was in a fairly good state of preservation, and it was with great difficulty that people were prevented from cutting it to pieces for relics. Several years ago the street where the coffin was found was filled in several feet, and this accounts for the depth of the tombstone's location. The body will probably be reinterred at once in the village cemetery.

An interesting incident connected with the departure of the Hon. Frederick Douglass for his official post as Minister to Hayti, from the Navy Yard yesterday, was the courteous visit of Junior Lieutenant Edward Lloyd to Mr. Douglass and his family before the Kearsage sailed. Lieutenant Lloyd is an officer on the new cruiser Boston, and is a great-grandson of that Colonel Edward Lloyd who was the owner of Mr. Douglass and his mother when they were slaves; and is a son of the present owner of the old plantation in Talbot County, Maryland, where Mr. Douglass was born.

VAN VORST--At his late residence, 811 Madison-ave., in the City of New-York, on Saturday, October 26, 1889, Hooper C. Van Vorst, aged 71 years.
Funeral services will be held at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 29.
Interment at Albany, N.Y.
The Holland Society of New-York--Members are requested to attend the funeral of our beloved president, Hooper C. Van Vorst, at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, 55th-st. and 5th-ave., at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 29, 1889.
GEO. W. VAN SICLEN,
Secretary.
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Thursday Oct. 31" 1889. Down town. Received a letter from Eastman enclosing his account and his check in settlement of our trip. I rode up to Kingston to see Lawrence Van Etten about doing some surveying for me. He will come in about a week, when the sewers which he is superintending are laid. Walked home through the still grey air. Have been busy with plans for the alteration of the house if I buy, and saw McCullogh about estimating for moving the wing of this house over on Girard's lot. Wrote to Eastman that all was more than satisfactory. Also sent Eastmans check $126.35 to Bank of the Metropolis to deposit. Sent check for dues to the Players $20. Also to the Century $20. Sent a check for $5 to the Leader to pay up to Mar 1890 and wrote Miss Brownell I would give her copy of Firth she lent me to Cantine.

Friday Nov. 1"
Saw John down town. He had received a letter from Calvert about selling me the place but he had not settled upon any thing. He had written Calvert he was willing to sell me the land at our upset auction price at 5 pr ct. discount and the buildings for what any disinterested person would sell me them at. Thought of going to N.Y. and might see Calvert. Eastman sent me three copies of the Paris Herald in which there were attacks on Rush Hawkins from Whistler and from Lucy Hooper & others with his reply. He seems not to have occupied a bed of roses in his position with his temperament. One of them justly says that he has hated every body these past ten years and now hates himself. - Sara and I attended the meeting of the State Charities Aid at the Supreme Court chambers Kingston but there was no quorum. Mr. Davis came clear from Shokan and Mr. Bevier from Marbletown, Sara and I from Rondout and the only Kingston member there was Gus Reynolds. We saw the president Mr. Lindsley at the court house but he was with Coykendall and Clearwater and I presume too busy with politics to attend. We went up to the session of the teachers gathering in the court room a little while and then came home after visiting the old grave yard in the S.E. front of the town looking for Aunt Radcliffs grave. We concluded however she was buried in the Sharpe burying ground. In the evening we attended the Concert of Levy the Cornet player at the Kingston opera house. It was very enjoyable. Besides the Cornet Mesdames Levy Soprano, Rosalinde Alto and Lavin tenor, sang very nicely. Mr. Shinert played the accompaniments and some solos well. The weather is mild and grey.

Saturday 2" It is thirty five years ago tonight that dear Gertrude and I came to our little house after our wedding in New=York and it is six years ago tonight since our dear mother suddenly closed her eyes upon all her interests in this world and went to her well won rest. This grey and sober day has emphasised in our hearts the remembrance of these striking events in our family history. We have learned to meet these anniversaries without sadness and only to think of those who formed an important part of them with a sweet and tender and time hallowed memory. I have been hoping Sara and I could spend our days in this old house but have feared something would occur to prevent so that we have not allowed ourselves to set our hearts too strongly upon it. Today however John McEntee with whom I have been talking about it drove up and asked me to go for a short ride. We drove up to Burgennes[[?]] and got some beautiful chrysanthemums. It was raining a little, but we went out on Albany Av. as far as the Flat=bush road and home that way. He had talked with Manterstock to get some idea of the value of the buildings and he had come to the conclusion to make this proposition. The three front lots at $2000 each, the lot across Newling Terrace to which I propose to move the wing $800 and to deduct 5 pr. ct from these prices which would make them $6.460 and $2000 for the house - in all $8.460 which I told him was about what I had made up my mind was a fair price. I told him I would take it at this price. He is to communicate with Calvert and if he is satisfied we will close the sale. This is a fitting crown to this eventful day, and it at once gives me a settled feeling which I have not had for several years.

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