confirm army officers. In December, 1777, General Anthony Wayne's troops were in camp at Mount Joy, Lancaster county, Pa., and were suffering severely from want of clothing. Col. James Crawford was designated by Congress as one of a committee to procure blankets and clothing for the perishing patriots

those speaking a familiar language ; and this rule holds good in the main to this day. Early in the spring of the year 1796 Charles Sproul, a native of county Ar- magh, in the north of Ireland, with his wife and family sailed for Philadelphia, his son, James Sproul, the subject of this sketch, being

local historians made. Colonel James Crawford did not re- side in Hanover township at the break- ing out of the Revolutionary war. He owned a farm and resided upon it along the Newport road, near Buyers- town. I believe that the Rev. Thomas Crawford was born there. I knew him when he resided near the

Some of the Lost Industries of the Octorara Valley. From the commencement of the present century, down to fifty years ago, charcoal burning was quite an important industry in the Valley of the Octorara; but since the latter date it has been rapidly on the decline, and for twenty-five years has been