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becoming brevity, for thereon may be read — for ages it would seem — while the sleeper's posterity may even all have passed from the face of the earth :
"ELIJAH BINGHAM,
BORN IN LEMPSTER, N. H., FEBRUARY 24, iSoO.
DIED JULY 10, 1 88 1.
- I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH.' "
On October 25, 1827, Elijah Bingham married Miss Thankful Cadwell Hutchinson, of Alstead, daughter of Major Samuel Hutchinson, merchant. Their golden wedding was celebrated at Cleveland, the occasion being one of much pleasure to themselves,, their family and a large number of friends.
The following children were born unto Elijah and Thankful C. Bingham :
Ellen Hutchinson, at Alstead. Samuel Hutchinson, at Alstead. Francis Milton, at Alstead. Truman Elijah, at Cleveland. Mary Emily, at Cleveland. James Hervey, at Cleveland. Charles Edward, at Cleveland.
Ellen Hutchinson and Charles Edward married, and the former is now resid- ing at Cleveland.
All the children, except Ellen Hutchinson, have deceased ; and all who have deceased, except Charles Edward, died under fourteen years of age.
��ALONG THE JOHN STARK RIVER, FROM AGIOCO- CHOOK TO THE CONNECTICUT.
��BY L. W. DODGE.
O bright-hearted river.
On-tlowing" for ever, Atween the dark wood on tliy way to the main !
By green velvet edges,
By gray mossy ledges, I, a boj', hasten back to thj' fountains again.
AXONYJIOUS.
AT the head of the " Fifteen Mile Falls " in the Connecticut river, and about fifty miles from its wild lake source, among the ancient metamor- phic formations of upper New Hampshire. John's river adds its measure to that of the many tributaries which unite to form the '* Stream of Many Waters."
It is not a presumptuous stream, scarcely aspiring to the title of river, except in the rainy season, or when the melting snows move southward ; and then its channel broadens and it becomes a boisterous arrogant flood. A score of miles will measure its sinuous course from the rills of Agiocochook through the wilds of Carroll, the glens of Whitefield, and the dales of Dalton, to the " union of the waters." Unassuming though it be, yet like many of the rivers
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