A CURIOSITY.
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Mr. Erastus Chase, ot this town. while cut ting up large pine tree which had blown down. struck his axe upon the blade Of knife imbedded in the tree, and broke i:. On taking it out, it was found 10 bo to appearance, an old Indian scalring knife, which had been stuck horizontally into the tree when a sapling, and the wood had grown entirely over it The blade is about six inches long with back horn handle.

 On the blade and handle are one hundred and forty disiint rings-showing the number of years of the growth, since the knife was left there one hundred and forty years ago, and 27 years before white man settled in this valley. The frst settlement of the town was in l734 {; but the settlers were driven eff and no perma. nent settlement was made until '53. The Ash- ueiot Valley was favorite resort and home of the Indians. and Il was with great difficulty and hard fighting that they were at last driven from it. Many interesting relics of the aborsginss have been turned up from the soil. before this discovery.-[kesns. (N. H Sentinel.