chopped with the tomahawk, his hands cut off, and finally a rifle ball discharged in his mouth so that his head was blown to atoms and the brains were splashed against, and yet hanging to, the wall. In this manner lay the whole of them, women and children spread about the prison yard shot, scalped and

decomposed skeleton of a man evidently long buried, and in the grave was found a steel helmet evidently the property of the man with whom it had been buried, of French make and design of about the period of 1700, also some other trinkets that were still preserved showing that the body there buried had been a

hand of the Quebec garrison, Steele took command of his company of riflemen again, as Capt. Smith for some unaccountable reason was �absent from the battle and final onslaught on the battlements of Quebec. This battle was fought in a blinding snowstorm by an attack which the Americans made before

Pennsylvania in most interesting and enlightening records. Our Society has in its Library a copy of this Diary and there is within its covers a graphic pen picture of the period which in its gripping details and its lifelike portrayal is unsurpassed by any other revolutionary lore. His residence during the

village of that name in Civil War times, but as a village is not now functioning. Near by is a pumping station of the Octoraro Water Company. This bridge was built in 1868, and is sixty feet long and being in poor condition is likely to give place to a concrete bridge before many years. The next bridge in

, methods and machinery used in the actual construction of the won- derful work as well as the whole fin- ished project and product of the op- eration. The solid, immovable parts of the structure with solid walls of reinforced concrete eighty feet in thickness, one and a quarter miles in length, ground- ed

the battle for freedom and liberty of his country, which no doubt his wise vision clearly foresaw would come. Thus we find, while presiding as a Judge he became on July 9, 1774. a member of the committee from this county to protest against treatment of the people of Boston and the closing of that Port

altogether in about 1890, after which the sight of a raft or ark passing below Marietta was a great rarity. The period of its great prosperity was from 1790 to 1870 and it lasted entirely just about 100 years. The story of it is interesting and rather a romantic one. Its pursuit called into action a class of

during this period of enforced residence here that he courted and married Elizabeth Spear Patterson, a daughter of William Patterson of Balto, which interesting event took place just three months after his visit with us. He was a resident of the United States on this occasion of his blockade here two