7 ~ 1 Clear – very warm – warmest day for a month or so. Wife and children at Church in Morning – Spent day at home - Ev [Evening] also. Wife Ch.[children] in Ev.[Evening] To bed 9 1/2 .

8 ~ 2 Cloudy some little Rain in morning before 9 AM. Then Clear and very warm – very [?] [?] – Po.[paid] 1 lb hard soap 6. Baking soda 6 3 yds Muslin 37 ½ for Juliana to make mends for Jno [John] Calvin, Paid McGuffey Spelling Book 12 ½ for Fanny. Amt. 62 ½ [?] .. of Mrs. Mitchell [?] of Ressin, witness Feir of my clients – Dau. A Council this wife Cathe [Catherine].. in Comth [Commonwealth] is Quinn as [?] of them for Balof my Fees $3.00 [(?)] [?] of James Miley (new client) Fee $3.00 [?] $2 ½ in cash the rest in [?] good in relation to pros. [prosecution] by him [?] that before Egr Rich against Edw. Shill et al. about hearing in which [?] to see the Quinn at 4 ½ or 5 AM. so far being [?] service & [?] this day. Po[paid] lil – from Silas M. Holmes Eye [?] - [?] Sept 4 in [?] to mine of V3 ult. ([?] said correspondence published this week hereafter in [?] [?] AM. [morning] [?] after [?] bet. 6 ½ and 7 ½ PM to bed 9.

9 ~ 3 Clear – Fine – very warm, [?] [?] of J. Royal on [?] Northern Mtn. Co.[?] further sum $20.00 ([?] [?] walking after tea by 7 ½ PM. 2 ½ AM [?] [?] son Jno. [John] Calvin along. [?] ? letter from Ian Hatfield [?] – 8 ([?]. Ev.[Evening] after walk home & to bed 8 ¾

Sept 10 ~ 4 Cloudy till 9 or 10 AM. Then Clear & very warm. Paid [?] butter 37 ½ - 7 lbs Beef 56 ¼ 1 ½ beef 12 ½ of Jno [John] Curey (Credit) Sack Fine [?] – 18 ¾, 25 lbs Wheat – [?] $1.12 ½ of my client – Ian Miley ([?]) amt[amount] - $2.37 ½ - Paid Jno [John]lt. Brant for 1 son of fine [?] Valley Coal $2.25 delivered this day. He [?] 10 for there Sundays Amt [amount] $2.47 ½ [?] chiefly at home talk on Politics at McCormicks Office with him & Hogelaw walked after [?] 3 PM cir. by 7 ½ PM. [?] of Fee $1.00 on offer & Expenses to get his Dec. of Jn. to become citizen from Nyork [?] – to bed 9 PM.

11 ~ 5 Clear & very warm – small shower of Rain about Noon few minutes – Po.[paid] Harrisburg Telegraph Office to Geo. Bergner Rev. in full for 50 copies of their said Newspaper of this Rate Containing letters from me to Silas M. Holmes St. L. of Michigan this reply [?] of unit – ( [?] V3 ult & 5 unit) – Marked copies of Po. [paid] paper to the following named persons [?] [?]

[?] 26 unsaid Papers walked through day hot [?] in Ev.[evening] after tea [?] 3 AM… Attended Tremont Meetings in Court House from 7 ½ to [?] 10 P.M. Ex – Gen – Ford [?] this addressed the Meeting for 2 hours – I addressed so. Meeting tell he came some 10 minutes. To bed at 10 PM.

12 ~ 6 Clear in forenoon hot Sun – Cloudy after Noon – Paid my Gas Bill $1.40 for 3 mos to 1 inst.[?] chiefly at home. [?] through day chiefly about town on [?] [?] [?]. As [?] at sem. Meet.[meeting] in Court house a half house [?] about 8 [?]. Mrs [?] – Mr [?] 7. Laundry [?] J.W.V. Boer there – I took Papers to his [?] with my notice of grammar [?] – viz in Harrisburg [?] of July 31 – I left soon on [?] [?]. Mrs. [?] came home with Mr. Rawn at about 10 PM. [?] Children 9 PM.

13 ~ 7 Clear – Fine – hot Sun – Mrs. [?] all night with us and till after dinner and then left for home ([?]) Paid 2 lbs butter – 40 – Cantalopes (7) 44 [?]. Ev.[evening] rolls & [?] – 18 – Beef and liver 20 – 1 qt Molasses 18 ¾ got yesterday [?] [?] 6 – Amt. $1.40 ¾ - sent in his [?] with old Rick Hagan at 12 ½ PM. [?] River [?] Point – 3 PM to [?] G.W. [?] as [?] – sel for Wm [William] Moore (Irishman) to attend for him in [?] – [?] Jos. [Joseph] Erlinger against him for her pass. [?]? Po.[paid] Wm[William] Moore for so Tesoice and previous Counsel in relation there to Fee $6.00. Met Eyes [?] Humer [?] [?] – Hogan & [?] to town about 4 PM. [?] V.J.M. VanJiver Rent $20.00 being 2 mos. from [?] ([?])

Sept 13 ~ 7 Cont’d… [?] letter from Shff Wm [William] Watz of Schuylkill County, directed to Hamilton [?] Self embasing 7 at. [?] [?] 40 [?] 7. 1856 this CR on Miners Bank of Pottsville for $16.08 cash to said case. Walked around by Capitol [?] after late Meal – Even[evening] chiefly at home and to bed 9 ½ PM.