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Shearer Company, (Messrs. Earl, Blunt Priest and Smith, proprietors,); Nashua Bed and Batting Company, (Towne & Cross, proprietors,); Nashua Cement Drain Pipe Works, S. D. Chandler, agent. The schools and schoolhouses of Nashua are justly its honor and pride. The high school building is the finest edifice of the kind in the State. In it are located the high school, with a corps of four teachers, and one of the grammar schools, also with four teachers. This edifice was completed in 1874, and cost $100,000. In the solidity of its construction, beauty of architecture and completeness of appointments it is all that could be desired. There are three courses of instruction afforded by the high school, namely: busi

ness, English and classical. The "Mount Pleasant" grammar school is a noble building on the finest location in the city. It was erected in 1870, and cost $50,000. It has a fine hall in the third story; grammar school in the second, and middle and primary schools in the first. The Main street school house is a substantial brick edifice, and in all respects one of the most valuable structures in the city. It is used for primary and middle grades. Altogether the city has 17 school houses, 47 teachers, and 1600 pupils. These schools are graded, and furnish 39 weeks of schooling throughout the year. Vocal music and drawing are among the branches taught in all the schools.

Nashua has one of the best public li

braries in the State. It was established in 1868, and now embraces 6,000 volumes. It is located in the County Records building, and Miss Maria Laton is Librarian. The library is open to the free use of every citizen of the city.

The supply of gas for the city is furnished by the Nashua Gas Light Company, which has a capital of $90,000. The works are located near the Concord station, and at the present time have four miles of main pipe laid in the city. The quality of gas is excellent and the rates low. The works were established in 1853. The Pennichuck water works, by which the city is copiously supplied with soft pure water. were incorporated in 1853, and have since been in successful operation. The supply is derived from Pennichuck Brook, two miles distant from the city, whence the water is forced up by pumps into a large reservoir on the hill in the north part of the city. The rates are moderate. The capital stock of the company is $135,000.

The admirable railroad map,given elsewhere, shows at a glance that Nashua is the centre of an extensive system of railroads. In fact its railroad facilities are unsurpassed by any inland city in New England. Six lines radiate from Nashua, and five of them are entitled to be called trunk lines. Their connections are direct with Worcester, New York and the West, on one side; with Rochester, Portland, Bangor and the East, on the other side; with Manchester, Concord, the White Mountains, Vermont and Canada, on the North; with Lowell, Boston, and Providence, on the South. The respective lines are the Nashua, Lowell & Boston, 40 miles; the Nashua, Wilton & Greenfield, 26 miles; (to be extended to Keene,) the Nashua and Worcester, 46 miles; the Nashua & Rochester, 48 miles; the Nashua & Concord, 36 miles; the Nashua, Acton & Boston, 41 miles. Forty-eight passenger and freight trains enter and depart from Nashua daily.

He always wins who sides with God,
To him no chance is lost;

God's will is sweetest to him when

It triumphs at his cost.

Ill that He blesses is our good,

And unblest good is ill,

And all is right that seems most wrong,

If it be His sweet will.

Like as a plank of driftwood
Tossed on the watery main,
Another plank encounters,
Meets, touches, parts again-
So, tossed and drifting ever,
On life's unresting sea,
Men meet, and greet, and sever,
Parting eternally.

STATE RECORD.

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

-The 100th anniversary of the adop tion of the Stars and Stripes as the na-Manchester paid $38,950 last year in tional ensign, is to be celebrated at Ports

salaries to teachers.

-The Coos Mutual Fire Insurace Co. is about to wind up its affairs. -Mrs. M. S. Brown has been appointed postmistress at Canterbury.

-A halibut weighing 223 lbs. was recently caught off Hampton Beach.

-A new ten thousand dollar schoolhouse 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 Gilmanton 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.

mouth on the 14th inst.

-Prof. Quimby of Dartmouth has been appointed one of the board of visitors 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 Tamworth, 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 Portsmouth, 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 March and is now in good health. He was 95 years of age last years.

-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 sentence, instead of being hung in accordance with his deserts.

-The Cocheco Mfg Co. at Dover recently 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 contest over the question of granting an amendment to the charter of the Portland and Ogdensburgh Railroad, so as to allow connection with the Vermont Division at Dalton.

-Amos S. Alexander, Esq., formerly a lawyer of Concord, who will be remembered as a vigorous political or ator 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 Fisherville and subsequently edited the Ports

mouth Gazette.

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