Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE Bay State Monthly _A Massachusetts Magazine_ OF LITERATURE, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, AND STATE PROGRESS * * * * * VOLUME II * * * * * BOSTON JOHN N. McCLINTOCK AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS No. 31 MILK STREET 1885 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by John N. McClintock and Company, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. All rights reserved. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. * * * * * Ames, Lieutenant Governor Oliver James W. Clarke, A.M. 185 Bartholdi Colossus William Howe Downes 153 Battle of Shiloh General Henry B. Carrington 330, 367 Bermuda Islands, Early History of James H. Stark 277 Blaine, James Gillespie 1 Boston, Taverns of in Ye Olden Time David M. Balfour 106 Boston Herald 22 Our National Cemeteries Charles Cowley. LL.D. 58 Cleveland, Grover Henry H. Metcalf 61 Cleveland, Grover, and The Roman Catholic Protectory Charles Cowley, LL.D. 243 Dark Day Elbridge H. Goss 254 Easy Chair Elbridge H. Goss 306 Editor's Table 120 Elizabeth: A Romance of Francis C. Sparhawk Colonial Days 82, 159, 236, 296, 375 Fitchburg, Historical Sketch of Ebenezer Bailey 226 Fitchburg in 1885 Atherton P. Mason, M.D. 341 Gaston William Arthur P. Dodge 245 Gems from the Easy Chair 372 Glorifying Trial by Jury Charles Cowley, LL.D. 82 Gold, Past and Future of David M. Balfour 359 Groton, Boundary Lines of Old--III IV Hon. Samuel Abbott Green, M.D. 12, 69 Lancaster, Historical Sketch of Hon. Henry S. Nourse 261 Lee, William George L. Austin, M.D. 309 Lothrop, Daniel John N. McClintock, A.M. (Illustrated) 121 Middlesex Canal Lorin L. Dame, A.M. 96 Names and Nicknames Gilbert Nash 255 National Bank Failures George H. Wood 373