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tue Noftn ana SOuN AeSocattORs oI lIlchned COOnly recommending the formation of County Tract and Home Missionary Society, in order to the celebration of their respective anniversaries in connection with those of the Education and Foreign Mission Societies were presented to this body-therefore, Voted, ap- point committee of two to unite with committee of the North Association carry into effect the above specified objects"

 A similar vote appointing N. n.eommiee was passesl by the North Association, and the 9th Oct 1884, this joint committee .me and effected the following arrangements:

 The constitution of County Tract Society, auxil- iary to the American Tract Society, was drawn up, and the following officers appointed: Dr. William Buel, President.

 ksian;s EsI; D:i'9 sn;,h. a; hsfEy; E.a ncse'a<"t

 Rev. Hiram P. Arms, Secretary. Doct. Abel Ca,n, Treasurer.

 Ahel Beach, Esq, Auditor.

 Wan RfI h'f% Dsnna, r A'Es E:a Tn; L. ship%ao Rev. FOsdic Harrison, } 6 0""'"e' AS"'""' Hs4'

 Also the constitution of County Home Missionary Society, auxiliary to the Missionary Society of Con- "ec,ic"t, and the following officers appointed:

 Rev. William Andrews, President.

 js.ssh n..'sl B B.si' Bs"'E.5'' E:% Esq Presidents.

 Rev. Gordon Hayes, Secretary.

 Dea. Andrew Benedict. 7'reGsurer. Frederick Demi"g, EeQ., Auditor.

 S:: S:: ss Ss:sjs $:,:: Ri: ns Hs::y E. R: The arrangement for the anniversaries s as follows At the Meeting House in Litchfeld, on TMesday, Eco 10, lsS5-Prayer Meeting a. 10 o'clock A. M. Trac, Society o'clock F. Al. sEdnea,ion Sociesy l-s o'clock P. N. Home Mission socie,y Wednesday, Ftb. II, 10 o'clock A. M. Foreign Mission Society 1 o'clock P. M. e

 1t s expected that ,he Secretaries oG,he diferen, Societies will make arrangements for speakers Gos their respective auniversaries.-Comm

 ObIw0rys-A correspondent, in communicating the death of Judge JoHE STRONG, J.. OfWoodbury, raye: The loss of this gentleman s rreparabIe to his iaIDi. y and friens to the society which he belonged to the profession of which he was an ornament, and iO iHe public as large. Few men have occupied @ high place in the confidence and affections of the com. m"ni's He was man of strict integrity and unsulli- ed rury u"d discharged all of the duties of lie with scrupuIous fidelity. He possessed mind clear acute, and thoroughly mbued with legal science, 60 that he was competent grapple with any suhjec, to which

 

 profession. His arguments were in many instances yer" successful, and received commena,ious from the bench of which any man might he justly proud. But in consequence of an innate modesy of dspos,ion. a"d unob'rusvesess of manners, Mir. Strong was one of those men who did not do entire justice imsef he did no, fix upon himself the eyes oi the world by sezing. with species of violence, upon that emi- hence which more daring but less able men of.en oc. cupy. Nevertheless it impossible that merit like his should remain in obscuriiy;-hs fellow citizens soon learned iO appreciate his virtues and con6ded to him their interests memher of the General As semby; Judge Of the Probate District in which he resided, and in various other places of public trust No man ever gave more disnserested advice 10 a eli. e"t. Tke confidence that reposed in him, in this respect, was Unboended. His head was cool his heart pore, his ha"ds clean and his whole life regua. ted ups" the principle of doing good Bat he s gone The ancient town of Woodbury has been shorn of i,s honos. Saith, Benedict, and Strong, all of them na- tives of the towD have descended successivey to the grave m the full possession of all their faculties and { universally lamen,ed. Nothing remains to the living but the memory of their example. which we should cherish and initiate, that may close well. spen, fife with the hopes induged by ,hem of happy immortality"

 l GtUrgiG-CaRgressioRG Ressvns.-We give below the aggregate VOaes of all the counties n this siae 90 ia number. The aggregate is official, though there may he ~a immaserial difference between ii and Iha which will have beeu made the Executive Depart