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schoolhouse is the first or one of the first good houses built in the district. The schools are free. There can not be any rate bill unless a tax of one per cent on all the property in the district has first been levied, and that proves insufficient. I made last year for sale 1625 lbs of butter. It brought me on an average about 14 cents a pound. In the summer for about two months I only got 8 cts. Last week I sold 50 lbs for 20 cts that was the highest price. My potatoes are beginning to peek through the ground. My pie plant will be ready to use in a week. My health is tolerably good. But I find myself losing strength to work. I have been reading lately (besides the Bible, mostly the Psalms,) the N.Y. Semi.Weekly Tribune, the Kansas City ? Weekly Journal, Lockyer's Astronomy and Burritt's Geography of the Heavens.