He acknowledges Francis's letter. They are well and the doctors have a poor business this season, with dry weather and hard frosts, fruits are gone and other crops are backward. Internal improvments and war with England are the talk. Josiah has gone to Wapakonetta but has not gone into business, James married Miss walker, a Catholic, on the 16th. J.A. and family are well. They have begun to locate the railroad. It will be under contract in a few weeks and completed in a year. He fancies almost a thousand Irish at work and a priest lecturing the boys every Sunday old style to the astonishment of the natives, all out of doors, the wood hardly holding the throng. :: I-1-a A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.