Elizabeth went to Pittsburg to school, and I to Butler, where my success was complete and I very happy.

Among my pupils were two daughters of my old patron, Judge Braden.

One of these, little Nannie, was full of pleasant surprises, and "brought down the house" during examination, by reciting a country girl's account of her presentation at court, in which occurs this stanza: "And there the King and I were standing Face and face together; I said, 'How is your Majesty?
It's mighty pleasant weather!'" By Nannie's way of giving the lines, they were so fixed on my memory as to be often mingled with solemn reveries in after years.
Petitions were presented in the Pennsylvania Legislature for the abolition of capital punishment.

Senator Sullivan, chairman of the committee to which they were referred, wrote to Mr.Niblock for the scripture view.

He was ill and requested me to answer, which I did, and Mr.Sullivan drew liberally from my arguments in his report against granting the petitions.