3 ~ 1 Clear & Cloudy – was at our ch. Mg. & Eve with wife & son first & wife in Ev^s – walked on boardway ½ an hour or more after ch. before dinner to bed 10 P.M.

Mch 4 ~2 Clear & Colder – blusterly – Dr. Dietrich of Phil^a Issac Shunks son in law at my office also Thomas Cheyney & Mr Hickman Esqr of Chester Co. also Emanuel [ ]Fry to who I del^d shff’s Deed for Fegley property to their mother – spent day chiefly from 11 A.M. to 11 P.M; when it adj^d, in Dem. State Com. Which is a disgrace to the party rendered so by the fraud and villiany of [Hruklyism?]. To bed at 11 ¼ P.M.

5 ~3 Clear & Cold – Paid for nails, Salt 8 Cts. for ½ Gal. sperm Lamp oil 50. At Buffingtons (v. 4 ult) –was in attendance the greater part of the day as spee. on the Dem. Con. went to Presbyterian Fair in Eve at 8 P.M. with wife where I paid 25 Cts for a "season triket" home at 10 P.M. AMT 83 Cts. to bed 10 ¾ P.M.

6 ~ 4 Clear & Fine – Coolish – was in attendance in D.E.M. Con. nearly all day. walked 2 or 3 miles by [ ]. Paid for 2 lbs Butter 37 ½ cts (Shoops) Paid for oranges 6 ¼ cts and in Eve from 8 to 10 P.M at Pres. Fair with wife for apples 25 cts AMT 68 ¾ cts. home at 10 and to be 10 ½ P.M.

7 ~5 Clear & very Fine ~ mild – rode on horsebacks from 10 to 11 ¼ A.M. 6 miles and same Dist. From 3 ½ to 4 ¾ P.M. - Dem. Con. adj^d [ ] die at 4 ¾ or 5 P.M. – Spent Ev^s at home in house & office except that at 8 P.M. I went to Peacocks with Francis Mary & from there with them and Mrs. Peacock to door of Presb fare then home, son Chas. Being sick – to bed at 9 ½ or 10 P.M.

8 ~6 Cloudy all day & Rain. Paid for sundries yesterday & today 18 ¼ Cts. Wrote to Fr^s R. Shunk Esq Pittsburg about doings of late DEM. Con. & statement of receipts-expenditures for him, Bal. now a head $17.88 ¾ I p^d POS 18 ¾ - Wrote to E. A. Periniman Esq. Present & kept Copy. Spent Ev^s in office & parlour & to bed at 9 ½ P.M.

9 ~ 7 Cloudy all day ~ mild – Paid Shoop in full for 2 lbs Butter 37 ½ cts. Paid Peiffer for 2 Bus Potatoes $1.00 del^d this morning. AMT $1.37 ½. Paid Sarah Johnson (col^d hired woman) on a/c of her wages 50 cts and also gave her an order on Bellman for a pair of shoes which she got at $1.50. AMT $2.00 – was at St. Library in Ev^s about 5 P.M. – spent Evening chiefly in parlour and office and to bed at 9 ½ P.M.