Gibbons. Their daughter was the wife of Dr. Thomas H. Burrows, who figured prominently in the history of our county as the " Father of our Pennsylvania Free School System," also as the original editor of that well-known publication, " The Pennsylvania School Journal" and the author of numerous other

by two antagonistic principles contending for mastery— Slavery and Freedom. There never was a clearer case of right and wrong than in the conflict which resulted in this warfare. History is crowded with scenes terrific in this irrepressible conflict and many authors have recorded the details very

father's home at Lampeter Square, received his education in the Bishop Bowman School and at Beck's Academy. He enlisted in the 79th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, mustered with Company B, September 5, 1861, which was assigned to the 7th Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Ohio, afterward the Army of the

here to Philadelphia and Baltimore on a superior line of freight boats, via Tide- water canal at the following reduced rates of freight to wit: Flour 22c per barrel, Grain 7/2 c per bushel, Groceries, drygoods, etc., 18c per 100 pounds. G. Clarkson cashier of the Farmers Bank announces the resignation