1764.--Jan. 8, David Bigelow and Mary Brainerd; Benjamin Morgan and Elizabeth Isham. * * * * * AN EARLY BELL IN SALISBURY.--The town records of Salisbury, Mass., under date of 3, 1st mo. 1647: "it was ordered yt Richard North shall have fivetie shillings for ringing the bell tow yeares & a half past & twenty shillings to ring it one yeare more, beginning att Aprill next ensueing." A year previous it was "voated to daube the meeting house." A. T. * * * * * THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW HAMPSHIRE.--A committee appointed by the freemen of Salisbury, Mass., in 1658, to determine the boundary between Salisbury and Hampton (between Massachusetts and New Hampshire), reported, "the sayed line is very darke & doubtful to us." The same can be said in 1886, two hundred and thirty-three years later. A. T. * * * * * The occasional revival of an old Indian name for an hotel, club, or street should interest every American. Indeed, such names should be more frequently revived than they are, to connect us in our history with the Indian who preceded us. They also have an educational value. For it is a fact that many, upon hearing, for the first time, of the _Mas'cono'mo_ and _Nan'nepash'emet_ hotels at Manchester-by-the-Sea and Marblehead respectively, have been led to seek for the origin of the names, and in this way have made their first acquaintance with the old Indian chiefs who held full sway where the hotels now stand. It is possible that many have been led to look up Indian history still farther since the new _Algonquin_ Club was formed in Boston. It is to be regretted that so many of the full-of-meaning, musical Indian names ever should have been replaced by such commonplace English ones as are now frequently met with. Who can say that _Chelsea_ is an improvement on sweet _Win'nisim'met_? Or that the slight elevation which joins that city to Everett, called _Mount Washington_ (how ludicrous that must strike strangers who are familiar with _the_ Mount Washington!), was not better as _Sagamore Hill_, the Indian name for it? Some of its public-spirited inhabitants are going back to that; and they dare to prophesy that, by the time Chelsea is a part of Boston as the _Winnisimmet District_, it will have no other name. LITERATURE AND ART.