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he went down on the Jas Niles we had pleasant chat about
Louisville the college there has many students, wrote
on my letter to Bob after returning from auction John bot
some aq. ammonia at Landrum's, whilst I bot of Mr Goforth's, some
butter, crackers & soap; with ammonia we shampooed
our heads gloriously took a general wash to clear off the
coal dust whew its quarter past 12
November 25th
Sunday John's birth day "2 dozen" years old today
as he says the blessed, quiet Sabbath, oh! how much
more real Sabbath it ought to bring to our souls than it does
were it not for this "one day in seven", how wicked & God for
getting we would become The bell of St Philomena not ring
ing so early as usual, we slept till after seven, quite a
luxury we ate breakfast with nuch gusto, & put on clean
clothes I left John writing to Julia & Alice, and
walked up to see Dr Drake, about Byrd's cough was happy
to learn that she felt very well Dr D. talked with me
about the distinction between New & Old School Presbyterianism
in a very edifying manner, also about vaccination
advising me to call on the poor in my neighborhood for the
purpose, & thus make myself acquainted I called in
Mrs Sloo's & saw Byrd she looked very well was in [??]
spirits told me of her visit to the Dr last night; & promised
to accompany me to Pendleton's some time during the week a
fashionable visit I must make, & wd like to be done with
must call on Mrs King & at Longworth's tomorrow I met Smith
on my way back, took him to my office, & we all three,
& John & I went to Christ's Ch, heard an excellent sermon [from]
Bishop McIlvaine, from the text "Come unto me all ye tjhat [labor"]
He portrayed the Divine love of Jesus in beautiful & striking
characters after service, John & I went over into Newport [????]
Mr Page's, where we spent the remainder of the day all
very well & good spirits we dined sat & chatted [???]