April 24.—Arbor Day in Massachusetts.
April 29.—Annual dinner of the Boston Latin School. Judge Devens presided. Addresses were given by President of the Association Dixwell, Head-master Moses Merrill, Dr. Benjamin Apthorp Gould, and others. A poem was read by Rev. James Freeman Clarke.
May 3.—Extensive strike went into effect in Boston, among the carpenters and builders. About five thousand men left work.
May 11.—Monthly meeting of the Bostonian Society. The chief interest centered in a collection of historical curiosities, among them the original subscription list to a new, large map of New England to be published in 1785. Among the subscriber's names were those of General Lafayette, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and James Bowdoin. The address by Daniel Goodwin, Jr., of Chicago, was in relation to this exhibition, and dealt largely with the life of James Pitts.
May 13.—Monthly meeting Massachusetts Historical Society, Dr. Ellis in the chair.