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��Tilto7i, Neiv Hampshire.

��])letes it to enter any New-Kngland college or university. The Latin scien- tific omits the Greek from the college ])reparatory course, and substitutes other studies. The professional school pre- paratory course is designed to prepare students to enter medical, legal, or theo- logical schools. The English scientific course is to prepare persons for gene- ral business vocations. The industrial scientific course is designed for a thor- ough cultivation of the eye and the hand, and to supply the demand of the times for trained workingmen. The commer- cial, musical, and art courses are care- fully arranged. Penmanship, theology, French, elocution, and the natural sciences are also taught ; and brief lec- tures are given each term, by the pres- ident, on manners, business habits, current events, the formation of char- acter, etc. It is a model institution, and has an able and painstaking faculty, and constantly maintains over one hun- dred pupils. Its expenses are very moderate. Additional buildings are shortly to be erected for the accommo- dation of the institution, — a generous sum of money having already been raised for this purpose, — and the different buildings are to be so arranged as all to be in one. The president of the col- lege is Rev. D. C. Knowles, A.M. ; and he and his able corps of assistants in the faculty of this honored institution are doing a most noble work for the youth of the State, and others who avail themselves of the advantages offered by the Conference Seminary.

Would the reader like to glance at the manfacturing and business interests of the village, and the people who are the life of such enterprises ?

The Granite Mills Company ' manu- facture tricos, plaids, and ladies' dress goods, using the best of wool ; employ

��from sixty to seventy-five hands. The goods are sold principally in New York. S. P. Dexter & Co. are the agents.

The Tilton Mills are an outgrowth of the old Holmes Mills, built about 1825. The north addition was built in 1867 by Col. A. H. Tilton. It has four sets of cards, and produces woollen goods, tweeds, meltons, and fancy cassimeres. He was the inventor of the celebrated " Tilton tweeds." Employ §eventy-two to seventy-five hands ; production, thir- teen hundred to fourteen hundred yards a day. Mrs. Tilton and S. B. Peabody,- partners, succeeded to the business in September, 1878. The gross product is about $375,000 per year.

The Lord Brothers ^ are. the largest manufacturers of eye-glasses in the United States.

Hason Copp,-* the miller, is a native of the village, and has been engaged in the manufacturing business since he was sixteen years of age.

George E. Buell 5 & Co. are one of the live manufacturing concerns of the village. They manufacture stockings, and have a mill equipped with the latest and most improved machinery. Em- ploy eighty-five hands at the factory, and hundreds outside. S. P. Dexter & Co. are the agents. The manufactures amount to $150,000 per year. The mill was built in 1880.

Arthur M. Dodge ^ started the manu- facture of hosiery in Tilton, in January, 1885. Runs one set of cards, and manu- factures a coarse grade of Shaker stock- ing ; employing thirty hands, making seventy dozen daily.

Richard Firth manufactures ladies' cloths. Employs forty hands. Mr. Firth has been established in business in the village twenty-three years.

The Citizens' Bank was organized in 1853, with Hon. Asa P. Cate of North-

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