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��old National, on Pennsylvania avenue, has long been in charge of Mr. Frank- lin Tenney, who has now associated with him Mr. Crosby. With accommo- dations for four hundred, it is elastic enough in exigencies to lodge a thou- sand. Alex. H. Stephens, of Geo made it his home, and there dur- ing his last winter in Washington celebrated his birthday. The Riggs House, new and most sumptuous in its furnishings, is in charge of Mr. Spofford. At the St. James, on the avenue, near the Baltimore and Poto- mac depot, is Mr. Woodbury ; and Mr. Bunker, of Gilmanton, at the Dunbar- ton.

Will you purchase real estate? Mr. John A. Prescott, of Pittsfield birth, and Concord training, recently left a lucrative position in the treasury to en- gage in that business, and Mr. Samuel Wilcox, of Orford, is notary public.

You will take a team from Mr. Keyes. at the Willard Hotel stables, and ride out to the Soldiers' Home, though Gen. Potter, of East Concord, is no longer there ; and near the lower end of the beautiful grounds lives Stuart Gass, where, not long since, Mr. and Mrs. John P. (lass celebrated their golden wedding.

If you want the use of the Congre- gational church — and it is in use near- ly every evening in the year — you must consult Mr. Eben Morrison, of Tilton, of the prosperous paper ware- house on D street, near Lincoln Hall. An uncle of his, the late William M. Morrison, was a man of much promi- nence years ago. The judges of the supreme court occupied a block built by him for a long time. He intro- duced the Irish potato, and proved it could be successfully cultivated by planting with it, across the river, a farm of three hundred acres. His son and nephew still have the oldest established book-store in Washington, making law and political works a spe- cialty.

At the capitol, in the senate, you will see Mr. James I. Christie, of Dover, in the door-keeper's chair on the presi- dent's right hand, and though Mr. John

��R. French is no longer sergeant-at- arms, he. with his son, calls Washington home. Mr. Jones, of Washington, N. H., takes you up and down the elevator, and down among the engines is William H. Prescott.

Mr. F. J. Woodman, of Great Falls, an effective singer and choirdeader among the Methodists, is of late do- ing valuable service in the temperance cause. ,".a

r is New Hampshire lacking in her daughters at Washington. Mrs. Senator Windom is a native of Hop- kinton, nee Hatch. Mrs. Grimes, widow of Senator Grimes, of Iowa, still resides with an adopted daughter, Mrs. Senator Allison. She was a na- tive of Lee, and attended Miss Ela's school, in Concord. Mrs. Ricker, of Alton, passed a far superior examina- tion to that of some dozen young men admitted to the bar at the same time, though she read law only to aid her charity work. Mrs. Samuel Evans, at 82, sister of the late Bishop Chase of the Episcopal church in New Hamp- shire, lives with her niece Mrs. Dr. Hatch, on F street, both ladies natives of Hopkinton. Mrs. Thomas L. Tul- lock, Mrs. Matthew G. Emery, Mrs. Hilton, Miss Moulton, of Keene, in the agricultural museum ; Miss Julia Brown, a successful teacher ; Miss Mary A. Parsons, m. d., is said to be an excellent physician ; and Mrs. Men- denhall, born Kimball, at Hanover, but by marriage now of Pennsylvania.

The boys in blue almost revere an unpretending woman ( the Romish church has but one American saint, Saint Rose of Lima), but her work on the battlefield has canonized the name of Harriet P. Dame.

It has been said that the products of our state are ice, granite and men. It is well. Men are the object of cre- ation. May our men be as pure as the ice, and as cold to suggestions of dishonesty, as unyielding and stead- fast in right principles as her granite ribs : so shall all who go to Washing- ton purify the seething whirlpool of political life, and crown our everlasting hills with brightest honor.

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