to 40 feet in diameter, suffi- cient of the surface earth being retain- ed around the border to cover the pit and smoulder the burning pile. As soon as the pit site was prepared the wood haulers, with their horses and sleds, commenced operations by haul- ing thirty to forty cords of wood, which was

muscle, and possessed of resolution, courage and action. The neighborhood was rife with stories of his physical feats. He could walk leisurely up to an ordinary post fence, leap over it without touching it with his hands, work hard all day, and travel from ten to fif- teen miles during the night to

during the war with Mexico. Eleven officers out of thirteen were killed in that charge' two only surviving the successful and terrible onslaught. Mr. James H. Ferry has in his possession a l e t t e r f r o m G e n e r a l W o r t h , c o m - mending the bravery of Major Ferry. Two sons were born to Dr

history, her present standing in all that tends to make her grand and great, her unrivaled soil, her climate arid general environments, together with the achieve- ments of her sons and daughters, yet we must acknowledge and greet our mother �county as a worthy rival in everything pertaining to education

inquisition indented taken at Sadsbury township, in the county of Lancaster, the 11th day of Septem- ber, A. D. 1851, before me, Joseph D. Pownall, Esq., for the county of Lan- caster, upon the view of the body of a man then and there lying dead, sup- posed to be Edward Gorsuch, of Balti- more county