Frank lt;j. Bartholomew, iecrelary of Anthony Lodge No. 455, F. and A. M.. was one of a claae of nine receiving the Scottilh Rite degree* up to fourteenth grade, at a special convocation of that branch of Masonry, in Dayton, last e\euing. Among those in attendance from this city were Samuel Harford. C. C. Tajloi and Virgil Coblent s.