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��STATE RECORD.

��STATE BECOBD.

��— The valuation of Dover for 1877 is $7,256,026.80.

— Manchester paid $38,950 last year in salaries to teachers.

— The Coos Mutual Fire lnsurace Co. is about to wind up its affairs.

— Mrs. M. S. Brown has been appointed postmistress at Canterbury.

— A halibut weighing 223 lbs. was re- cently caught off Hampton Beach.

— A new ten thousand dollar school- house is to be built at Ashland.

— A new bank— the "Second National" — has been orgainized at Manchester.

—Judge Spofford, recently elected U. S. Senator from Louisiana, is a Gilman- ton boy.

— A portrait of Gov. Cheney has been added to the collection in the Council Chamber at Concord.

—Rev. Robert Collyer of Chicago, preached in the Unitarian Church at Keene, Sunday, June 3.

— Claremont boasts of an eight-year old boy, named Levi A Judkins, who is a proficient telegraph operator.

— Mrs. Lois Fletcher of Newport, will be 98 years old in August. She retains her faculties in the fullest degree.

—Prof. J. Warren Thyng, the well known artist of Salem, Mass., is erecting a summer residence at Plymouth.

— Secretary Evarts was in Concord to attend the anniversary exercises at St. Paul's School, where he has a son.

— The aggregate circulation of the weekly papers of this State is about 90,- 000, or more than one to each voter.

— C. Coffin Harris, Chief Justice of Hawaii, is a native of Portsmouth, and has recently been visiting in that city.

—The history of Dartmouth College, an octavo volume of about 500 pages, by B. P. Smith, is nearly ready for publica- tion.

— Woodsville is a thriving village. A new brick block. 50x100 feet, is to be erected there this season, besides other buildings.

—The graduating class at Dartmouth College this year, numbers fifty-four members. Their average age is 22.7 years.

��— The 100th anniversary of the adop- tion of the Stars and Stripes as the na- tional ensign, is to be celebrated at Ports- mouth on the 14th inst.

— Prof. Quimby of Dartmouth has been appointed one of the board of visi- tors to attend the annual examination at the Naval Academy.

— The ladies of Claremont are engaged in raising money for the purchase of headstones for the unmarked graves of soldiers in that town.

— In an old building, recently taken down in Tam worth, which was built 70 years ago, the first nails made in New Hampshire were manufactured.

— Woodbury Langdon of New York, a great grandson of Gov. Langdon. has bought the Burroughs estate in Ports- mouth, which he will fit up as a summer residence.

— Col. Nathan Huntoon of Unity is the oldest Free Mason in the country, having been a member of the Fraternity over 74 years. He was 95 years of age last March and is now in good health.

— Alvin H. Johnson, the Bristol wife murderer, is the fifth murderer of his class in the State within six years who has been let off with a State Prison sen- tence, instead of being hung in accord- ance with his deseits.

— TheCochecoMfgCo. at Dover recent- ly fitted up a reading-room for the use of their employees, and now the Great Falls Mfg Co. propose to "go them one better," and fit up two rooms, one for the males and the other for females.

—It is expected that this session of the Legislature will witness a spirited con- test over the question of granting an amendment to the charter of the Port- land and Ogdensburgh Railroad, so as to allow connection with the Vermont Divi- sion at Dalton.

— Amos S. Alexander, Esq., formerly a lawyer of Concord, who will be remem- bered as a vigorous political orator in the campaign of 1856, died in Chicago on the 9th of May. He was a member of the law firm of Merriam & Alexander, and had resided in Chicago for several years. Mr. Alexander was a native of the town of Bow, practiced law at Fish- erville and subsequently edited the Ports- mouth Gazette.

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