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enly about nine hundred inhabitants. Manning's Mills on 

 Ipswich River, is its only manufacturing concern, and that 

 is not a large one. The town was set off from Ipswich in. 

 1793, and named in honor of the celebrated Alexander Ham- 

 ilton. Some twenty years ago, a proposition was made that 

 this name should be surrendered and a new one taken, so 

 that a manufacturing village in the west of the state might 

 be called after the great American Statesman, but the idea 

 met with no favor whatever. 



This place has the honor of being the home of the Rev. 

 Manasseh Cutler, a man of lovely character and brilliant 

 talent, and of whom very much has been written already. 

 He represented this district in Congress from 1800 to 1804. 

 But he was better known as a naturalist especially in the 

 department of Botany ; and at his house, yet standing, he 

 was often visited by men of science from abroad. 



Felt, in his History of-Ipswich, has noted the fact, probably 

 unparalleled, that in certain families of the name of Appleton, 

 residing here, there inheres a strange tendency to bleed pro- 

 fusely from the slightest wound. These " bleeders" as they 

 are called, are all the sons of daughters in the direct line of 

 descent ; and no female or sons of males in the line are 

 ever known to exhibit this peculiar condition. The hemorr- 

 hage begins in eight or nine days after the injury, and con- 

 tinues in spite of all efforts to the contrary, till extreme 

 prostration and sometimes death ensues. This wonderful 

 phenomenon has never found any explanation. 



The Chair also spoke of the potato rot, a malady which we 

 know next to nothing about, save its disastrous effects. Ap- 

 pearances favor the opinion that it has an atmospherical 

 caiise, and is not due to insects, as some maintain ; but 

 whatever it be, it seems declining, and we hope it may soon 

 disappear. 



