In 1863 Mr. John Hewlett was elected.  He resides in that part of the town called North Saugus, and was for a long series of years a manufacturer of snuff and cigars.

In 1864 Mr. Charles W. Newhall was the Representative.

In 1867 Mr. Sebastian S. Dunn represented the District.  Mr. Dunn was a dealer in snuff, cigars and spices, and is now engaged in farming in Dakota.

In 1870 Mr. John Armitage represented the District—­the twentieth Essex—­comprising the towns of Saugus, Lynnfield, Middleton and Topsfield.  He has been engaged in the woollen business most of his life; formerly a partner with Pranker & Co.  He has also held other town offices with great acceptance.

J.B.  Calley succeeded Mr. Armitage, it being the second time he had been elected.  Otis M. Hitchings was the next Representative, a shoe manufacturer, being elected over A.A.  Scott, Esq., the republican candidate.

Joseph Whitehead was the next Representative from Saugus, a grocer in business.  He was then and still is Town Treasurer, repeatedly having received every vote cast.  J. Allston Newhall was elected in 1878 and for several years was selectman.

Albert H. Sweetser was our last Representative, elected in 1882-3, by one of the largest majorities ever given in the District.  He is a snuff manufacturer, doing business at Cliftondale, under the firm of Sweetser Bros., whom he succeeds in business.  Saugus is entitled to the next Representative in 1885-6.  The womb of the future will alone reveal his name.

The future of Saugus would seem to be well assured, having frequent trains to and from Boston and Lynn, with enlarged facilities for building purposes, especially at Cliftondale, where a syndicate has recently been formed, composed of Charles H. Bond, Edward S. Kent, and Henry Waite, who have purchased thirty-four acres of land, formerly belonging to the Anthony Hatch estate, which, with other adjoining lands are to be laid out into streets and lots presenting such opportunities and facilities for building as cannot fail to attract all who are desirious of obtaining suburban residences, and thus largely add to the taxable property of Saugus and to the prosperity of this interesting locality.

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The Bartholdi colossus.

By William Howe Downes.

The project of erecting a colossal statue of Liberty, which shall at once serve as a lighthouse and as a symbolic work of art, may be discussed from several different points of view.  The abstract idea, as it occurred to the sculptor, Mr. Bartholdi, was noble.  The colossus was to symbolize the historic friendship of the two great republics, the United States and France; it was to further symbolize the idea of freedom and fraternity which underlies the republican form of government.  Lafayette and Jefferson would have been touched by the project.  If we are not