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CORRESPONDENCE.
Bro. "Byron L. Carr, Chairman Committ.ee on Foreign Correspondence," presented a ninety-paged Review of the Annual Proceedings of the several Grand Lodge>; with which Colorado is in fratBrnal correspondence, so far as the same had been received. Missouri, for Ul80, received fraternal attention in a two-paged notice. The Address of Bro. J. S. Browne was favorably commented on and ext.racts made therefrom, as well as from the Committees on Jurisprudence and Correspondence. Bro. Carr furnishes a very readable Review and intersperses his extracts from others with discreet comments of his own. From the heart comes a sincere "thank you, Bro. Carr, for the sympathy and 'earnest prayer' sent us in our personal' grief." We are happy to assure our Brother, far away, that "the question of conflict of jurisdiction with the Grand Lodge of New Mexico" has been most amicably and honorably adjusted. We admire the Conclusion of Bro. Carr, and feel disappointed thathe is not on the committee for next year. Why not, we know not. lIe says: We do not know that we have expressed such sentiments as will meet the approval of our own Grand Lodge, but they are honestly ours, and we shall stand by them unt.il convinced '\ve are wrong. Should we meet with'eritieh;lll, we have only to say we have met it before and survived the shock. ROHT. A. QUILLlAM, Wals~nburg, G. M. ED. C. PARMELEE, Georgetown, G. Sec. L. N. GREENLEAF, Denver, Chair. Com. on Cor.
CONNECTICUT, 1882. The Ninety-fourth AJlnual Communication was held in Hartford, commencing January 18th, 1882. M. W. Bro..lamcs McCormick, Gra:nd Master, presided; R. W. Bro. J. K. Wheeler was Grand Secretary. One hundred and tell Lodges were represented, out of a total of one hundred and cleven living Lodges. These Lodges embrace a membership of nearly fifteen thousand. The Annual Addrcs~ opens in a very p1cll.sltnt tone and rnns ~moothly on to the end. He recognized the two grcat llnd essential qualities of all moral life-supreme love to God, and affection for eaeh other. In his enumeration of losses sustained by the gencral Fraternity, he recorded, mournfully, the decease of Dr. James M. Austin, Grand Secretary of New York, and Bro. James A. Garfield. Of the latter he said:
On the 2d of July last. Bro. .Tames A. Garfield. President of the United States, was shot by an aS~fiSsin. and after It lingering illness. borne with manly and heroic fortitude. he died from the effects of the wound. on the .19th of September. Our country was plunged into the deepest sorrow, and the good and true men of every nation shared our grief, and_ from overflowillg hearD; poured forth their sympathy. None felt greater horror at the deed. none fclt more profound sorrow at his gad alld untimely death. and nOlle more deeply sympathize with thc bereaved mother, wife and children, than thc members of our Fraternity.