WEDNESDAY, March 8.  Attend the burial of Brother David Hollar’s wife to-day.  Age, forty-seven years and five months.

FRIDAY, March 10.  Go to Michael Wine’s and attend the burial of his mother.  Age, ninety-three years, three months and fourteen days.

WEDNESDAY, April 12.  Attend the funeral of Mrs. Wells Hevner in the Gap.  Age, thirty-three years.

THURSDAY, April 13.  Council meeting at our meetinghouse.  Samuel Wampler and myself are established in the ministry, and Joseph Miller advanced.

FRIDAY, April 14.  Council meeting at the Flat Rock.  Jacob Wine is advanced to the second grade in the ministry of the Word.

MONDAY, April 17.  Council meeting in the Lost River meetinghouse.  Jacob Pope is chosen speaker.

FRIDAY, April 21.  Council meeting in the Old Garber meetinghouse.  Solomon Garber is advanced to the second degree in the ministry of the Word.  Sarah Norman is reinstated to the fellowship of the church.

WEDNESDAY, April 26.  Attend the funeral of the widow Sister Cherryholms in the Gap.  Age, fifty-nine years.  Sister C. was a woman of real force of character.  Her house was a welcome shelter for the Brethren and others who often visited her.

MONDAY, May 1.  Attend the funeral of old Sister Evers, widow of John Evers.  She died at John Hawse’s.  Age, seventy-two years, three months and three days.

WEDNESDAY, May 3.  Brother Benjamin Bowman, with Sister Catharine his wife, and Brother John Wine, with Anna and myself, start to Ohio.  We go in two carriages.  To such as are not used to traveling in this way a journey to Ohio and back in a two-horse carriage, over all kinds of roads, through all the changes of weather likely to occur at this season, and I may add, among all kinds of people, might look like an undesirable undertaking.  But for myself I can say I do not dread making the start.  I am best satisfied and most delighted when doing something for God and humanity.  But the company I have on this visit makes the anticipation of it especially pleasant.  Brother John Wine is a live man; cheerful, but ever earnest and sincere; lively, but never light or frivolous.  His mind is always inquisitive, seeking for knowledge in every line of truth.  Hence he asks many questions.  If your answers involve any doubt as to their correctness, or fail of the clearness he thinks should appear in the instructions of a teacher to his pupil, he will dispute a whole day with you on a single question, rather than appear to be satisfied with your answer when he is not.  With a mind hard and sharp as flint, he strikes fire out of everything he hits.  But he has sense enough, and goodness enough, never to strike fire where he has reason to fear there may be danger of causing an explosion.  He is the son of Samuel, in the Brush, and brother of Christian Wine.  He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Zigler, in Timberville, Rockingham County, Virginia.  He now resides on his farm about two miles away from where he was born and raised.  He is an eminently good and useful brother.