In no year of the recent past have the American people in all States and sections had such substantial cause for genuine thanksgiving as in this year of our Lord 1877. Politicians of all parties may enunciate their grievances, but there are two simple facts standing out in bold relief, which, together, are sufficient to justify the most general and hearty thanksgiving observances. The harvest has been rich and abundant in every part of the land. There is bread enough and to spare, and the overflowing wealth of our granaries, finding a ready market in Europe, is turning the balance of trade, so long against us, in our favor.

Secondly, the country is at peace. Sectional hostility has subsided. Each State is in control of its own domestic affairs, and general business prosperity promises to follow restored local selfgovernment and fraternity between the

sections.

The earnest of better times to come. irrespective of party advantage or disaster, cannot be mistaken.

A correspondent. "F," suggests the inquiry-"What are the advantages of fered at agricultural colleges that farmers do not appreciate?" In connection, "F" makes the following statement of fact or opinion: "When the student of medicine receives his diploma, he is prepared to earn his living by his acquired knowledge. When the practical mechanical student leaves his master, it is with a knowledge of his trade that may be coined into money. The boy who follows his father upon the farm, keeping in the ruts his father made, learning, during his minority, the frugal habits of his ancestors, may live as they have lived, uncultured as he may be. But send the farmer's son to Hanover and keep him there through an agricultural course, and what is he fitted for when he leaves with his diploma? Not for the ruts his father made-not for contentment in the frugal habits of his sire! Nor does he take with him a knowledge of his profession that will enable him to draw from the sterile hills of New Hampshire the means of

living in a style corresponding with the culture he has received in college. The truth is, most New Hampshire farmers must earn their daily bread."

The drift of "F's" argument is apparent. It is against the practical utility of agricultural colleges. If there are those who are prepared to prove his position fallacious, it is proper that they should speak.

A recent article from the pen of E. H. Cheney, formerly editor of the Lebanon Free Press, a brother of ex-Gov. Cheney, who has spent much of his time, for several years past, at the South, upon the relative condition of the cotton manufacturing industry, here and in that section, has attracted much attention, and been the subject of no little comment and criticism. Mr. Cheney maintains, and not without some show of reason, that cotton manufacturing in New England has seen its best days, and that the seat of this great industry will be-is now beingtransferred to the South, where there is unlimited water power in easy access of the cotton producing sections, thus saving largely in transportation of the raw material, and proportionately lessening the cost of production.

It is claimed, on the other hand, that notwithstanding the progress that has been made at the South in this direction, there is a constant and even greater progress here; that even if some minor manufacturing establishments in the smaller towns have suspended operations, the great corporations in the larger towns and cities have been constantly increasing the magnitude of their business, so that on the whole the increase here exceeds what has been accomplished in the South.

New Hampshire is reputed to be "a good State to emigrate from." At all events there are now, and have been for nearly a century past, natives of New Hampshire occupying pre-eminent positions among the distinguished citizens of other States in all sections of the Union, embracing governors, congressmen, senators, judges of the supreme court, cabinet ministers, eminent jurists, divines and journalists, as well as many of the leading minds in the various departments of active business. But while we at home are proud of the names and the achievements of those in other States who have gone out from our midst, as well as those who have won distinction and honor at home, we should not entirely forget the fact that New Hampshire, while contributing so largely to other States, has received something in return-that while numbers of her sons have performed honorable service in various fields of action abroad, not a few from other States have made their home with us, winning honorable position and contributing to the material prosperity and general welfare of the State. Many of the prominent representative men of the State, known to the present generation, in public lifeat the bar and on the bench, including such names as Burke, Bingham, Hibbard, Foster, Benton, Ray, and others, were born in our sister State of Vermont, while many others, not less eminent and

successful, came from Massachusetts and other States.

Among the representative men of the State, in active business life at the present time, not only upon the ground of business success, but from his connection with public and political affairs, ALVAH W. SULLOWAY of Franklin may properly be regarded as worthy of mention.

Mr. Sulloway is a native of Framingham, Mass., born Dec. 25, 1838. His father, I. W. Sulloway, who is still living, and now resides at Waltham, Mass., was an overseer in the Saxonville Woolen Mills. He had a family of four children, one son and three daughters Alvah W., the son, being the eldest. Of the daughters, two are living, one still unmarried, and the other the wife of Herbert Bailey, a hosiery manufac turer now in business in the town of Claremont. When Alvah was ten years of age his father removed to the town of Enfield in this State, where he engaged in the manufacture of yarn and hosiery, remaining some sixteen years, when he sold out to his son-in-law and retired from business. When not attending school, in his youth Mr. Sulloway was engaged in his father's mill, and thus became thoroughly familiarized with the details and general operation of the manufacturing business in which he has subsequently been so actively and success

ademical education, attending school at Canaan, and at the academies in Barre and Woodstock, Vt. When twenty-one years of age Mr. Sulloway went to Franklin and went into business in the manufacture of hosiery, in partnership with Walter Aiken. He continued in business with Mr. Aiken about four years, when the partnership was dissolved, and, in company with Frank H. Daniell, he put in operation another hosiery mill, running in company with Mr. Daniell until 1869, when he became sole proprietor, and has since carried on the business alone. Possessed of good judgment, business tact and energy, and devoting his personal attention, in a large degree, to the superintendence of the work, with the details of which he is familiar from early experience, he has been highly favored in point of business prosperity, and is apparently well on the way to competence and wealth, while at the same time benifitting the public by furnishing employment to numbers of people.

Mr. Sulloway's mill is situated on the lower power of the Winnipiseogee River, a short distance above its junction with the Pemigewassett, by which it is operated in common with the lower mills of the Winnipiseogee Paper Company, well known as one of the largest paper manufacturing corporations in New England, of which Hon. Warren F. Daniell, a brother-in-law of Mr. Sulloway, is agent and manager. The mill is of brick, three stories and basement, running four sets of woolen machinery and fifty knitting machines, and giving employment to about seventy-five hands, beside the large numbers of women throughout the surrounding country engaged in finishing the work which the machines leave incomplete. The goods manufactured are known as men's Shaker socks, or halfhose, and the amount annually produced averages one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in value, while the monthly payroll at the mill is about two thousand, exclusive of the large amount paid for outside work.

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From his youth Mr. Sulloway has taken much interest in political affairs. Strongly attached to the principles of the Democratic party, ardent, enthusiastic and persistent in his efforts for its success, he has become one of its recognized leaders in his section of the State. was elected a representative from Franklin to the legislature in 1871, although there was at the time a decided party majority against him in the town. He was re-elected the following year and again in 1874 and 1875. In the legislature he was a working rather than a talking member, serving in 1871 upon the committee on elections; in 1872 upon the railroad committee; in 1874 as chairman of the committee on manufactures, for which position he was eminently well qualified,and in 1875 again upon the elections committee. In 1871 Mr. Sulloway was the Democratic candidate for Railroad Commissioner upon the ticket with Gov. Weston, and, there being no choice by the people, was elected to that office by the legislature, and ably discharged his duties for the full term of three years.

Mr. Sulloway was one of the delegates to the National Democratic Convention

at St. Louis, in June, 1876, which nominated Samuel J. Tilden for the Presidency, and was selected by the delegation as the New Hampshire member of the Democratic National Executive Committee, which position he now holds. Last winter he was nominated as the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Second District, against Hon. James F. Briggs of Manchester, the Republican nominee, and, although his party was in a hopeless minority in the District, he made a vigorous canvass and ran several hundred votes ahead of his ticket. He has been for several years an active member of the Democratic State Committee, and for the last two years one of the advisory committe of three

having charge of the active work of the canvass.

Mr. Sulloway married, in 1866, Miss Susan K. Daniell, a daughter of the late J. T. Daniell of the old and well-known paper manufacturing firm of Peabody & Daniell, and sister of Hon. Warren F. Daniell and Frank H. Daniell, his former partner, before mentioned. They have two children, a daughter six, and a son about two years of age. Last season Mr. Sulloway completed an elegant new residence, which is delightfully located in a bend of the Winnipiseogee River, a short distance from his mill. The house is of modern design, convenient in all its appointments, thoroughly finished and richly furnished throughout, and all the surroundings are suggestive of taste and comfort.

Mr. Sulloway is a man of sanguine temperament, of strong physical constitution, vigorous mental powers, and indomitable energy, and labors persistently in any work which he undertakes, whether in business or politics. Ardent in his attachments, social and generous, he has many warm personal friends, which accounts in part, for the large vote he always receives in his town and vicinity when a candidate for office. In his religious sentiments Mr. Sulloway is liberal, having been reared in the Universalist faith, while his wife is a Unitarian. In all matters pertaining to the public welfare he always manifests a strong interest, and is among the foremost in supporting and carrying out all reasonable projects of local improvement. In this respect the town of Franklin is highly favored, numbering among its citizens many public-spirited men, to whose efforts, along with its superior natural advantages, it owes the prominent position it now occupies among the flourishing manufacturing towns of the State.