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��—Exeter owes $50,534.34.

— The citizens of Colebrook have voted to build a new town-house.

— The Freewill Baptist church at La- conia, recently burned, is to be rebuilt this season.

— The citizens of Allenstown are to hold their town meetings in Suucook vil- lage, hereafter.

— The next Legislature will contain an ex-United States Senator and an ex-Mein- ber of Congress.

— The Union School District at New- port will expend $2,500 for school pur- poses the coining year.

— Rev. A. S. Nickerson, pastor of the Unitarian church at Charlestown, has tendered his resignation.

— Col. L. W. Cogswell of Hennikeris to deliver the oration at Hillsborough, Memorial Day, May 30.

— Rev. James Marshall, recently of Acworth, has become pastor of the Con- gregational church at Troy.

— Augustus A. Woolson of Lisbon is mentioned as the " Young Men's candi- date" for Speaker of the House.

— An average of one thousand messa- ges a day are now sent at the office of the Direct Cable Co. at Rye Beach.

— Rev. N. C. Lothrop has resigned the pastorate of the Freewill Baptist church at Candia, and will remove to Bristol.

— Three Epping men have been elected Governor — Wm. JPlumer in 1816, D. L. Morrill in 1825, and B. F. Prescott in

1877.

— Geoi-ge F. Putnam has the office and library of the late N. B. Felton of Haver- hill, and has removed to that town from Warren.

— Business at the Nashua manufactories is said to be improving. The Jackson Mills are manufacturing more goods than ever betore.

— The Principal of the Manchester High School has $2,000 per annum. Do- ver pays her principal $1,800, Concord $1,500 and Keene $1,400.

— Edward Spaulding of Ward 4, Nashua, is a member elect of the Council, and Ed- ward Spaulding of Ward 4, Keene, a member elect of the House.

— There will be two editors in the next Legislature — Wm. E. Stevens of the Concord Monitor and George F. Mosher of the Morning Star, Dover.

��— Rev. Abel Manning of Goffstown is the oldest Congregational clergyman in the State, being 89 years of age. He prepared the history of Pembroke after he was 84.

— Hiram Hitchcock of Hanover, re- cently elected to the Legislature from that town, was for several years proprie- tor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. New York.

— John T. Gibbs of Dover, formerly of the Gazette, and Asa McFarland of Con- cord, formerly of the Statesman, are the oldest newspaper men now living in the

State.

— Frank W. Hackett, one of the Repre- sentatives elect from Portsmouth, a son of Hon. W. H. Y. Hackett, was the pri- vate secretary of Caleb Gushing during the Geneva arbitration.

— F. A. Sawyer, formerly a Senator from South Carolina, who once taught school in Nashua, and married a young lady of that city, was one of a number of Washington gamblers recently arrested.

— At the recent town meeting in Little- ton, Harry Bingham, John Farr and James J. Barrett were appointed a com- mittee to consider and report upon the cost and expediency of preparing a his- tory of the town.

— An earnest and apparently success- ful effort has been made of late to revive the Universalist society of Dover. Meet- ings have been holden regularly during the past winter, and a call has been ex- tended to Rev. H. W. Hand of Marl- borough to preach for the society a year, at a salary of $1,000. His acceptance is probable.

— The Congregational church in Green- land is one hundred and seventy years old. In this time it has had but seven pastors, the first serving fifty-three years and the second forty-eight, their united pastorates running through more than a century. Four died in office, and their remains lie in the burying-place, not very far from the house of worship.-

— The people of Dover contemplate with pleasure the proposed erection of a new 40,000 spindle cotton null in that city, by the Cocheco Manufacturing Co., which will add two-fifths to the working capacity of the corporation, and propor- tionately, of course, to the business of the city, which has been nearly at a stand-still for the last dozen years.

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