The death is announced of Dr. Joseph HOWE, prominent physician of New York and a native of Chatham (North. Co.). Dr. Howe was on his way to Malvern Hills, England and took passage in the steamer "Umbria" and on Sunday June 8th he died after a few hours sickness of an attack of apoplexy. He was accompanied by his only child, Miss Bessie M. HOWE and her travelling companion. His body was landed at Queenstown and his youngest and only surviving brother Dr. John T. HOWE has left for Queenstown to bring the body back to New York. Dr. Howe was a son of D.P. HOWE, Chatham, his wife being a Miss TWEEDIE, Willamstown, the doctor being the eldest son. He was born at Chatham, Sept. 30th, 1843 and attended the grammar school in that town until he was 14 years of age, when he entered the office of his father who at that time had started the 'Colonial Times' and often had to issue that sheet with but little help from his father. After mastering the mechanical part of the business he for one or two sessions reported the proceedings of the N.B. Legislature for his father's journal. About the time of his mother's death he turned his attention to the study of medicine and for several years studied with Dr. LEWIN of Chatham and about 1863 he went to New York and graduated from the medical dept. of the University of New York in 1866. After graduation he entered Bellevue Hospital as junior assistant and afterwards served as house physician to the outdoor dept. of the hospital and the smae year clinical professor of surgery in the medical dept. in the Univeristy of New York. He was also visiting surgeon to St. Francis Hospital and president of the Medical Board. He was member of the New York Medical Society and New York Academy of Medicine and was connected with the 'Medical Journal'. In 1875 he married Miss Lizzie Nicholson SECOR who died three years ago. (see original for publication)