Acting on secret orders from the senate, Paullus in one day gave up seventy townships in Epirus to plunder, and sold the inhabitants, 150,000 in number, into slavery.

I proposed to retain them in naming the townships, the possession of the territorial area of which we owe to their bravery and gallantry.

I was a mere boy then, and was in company with my father and three other gentlemen, who owned a township of land not far from Cincinnati; that is not far now, considering the difference in the mode of travelling between then and now, and we were on our way to explore that township.

THE CROWS THE EARTHEN CROCK In the southwest corner of Småland lies a township called Sonnerbo.

The county board is composed of the supervisors of the several townships, and thus represents the townships.

Here, just above a dazzling white sandy beach, a straggling village points out the township of Albany.

* * * * Humboldt has written an interesting chapter on the primitive forest, but no one has yet described for me the difference between that wild forest which once occupied our oldest townships, and the tame one which I find there to-day.

The first is the act of March 3, 1819, granting a township of land to the Connecticut asylum for the education of the deaf and dumb; the second, that of April 5, 1826, making a similar grant of land to the Kentucky asylum for teaching the deaf and dumbthe first more than thirty years after the adoption of the Constitution and the second more than a quarter of a century ago.

Nobles might fight for fame, vassals might follow, burghers might guard their townships, but to a battle the Borderer joyfully took his way as to a game, scarce caring who might win the day.

When they got there, it looked like as happy a township as any other in the Marvelous Land of Oz.

The Puritans who settled in New England had grown up under such parish government as is here described, and they were used to hearing the parish called, on some occasions and for some purposes, a township.

So it came about that we hunted the township for a handmaiden; and it also came about that our inquiring steps led us to the poor-house.

Here I met Mr. C.J. Tyers, government surveyor, who had laid out the township of Portland.

To mark out a township on the map may mean very little, but when once you create in that township some institution that needs to be cared for, you have made a long stride toward inaugurating township government.

With ever-increasing hardihood Nabis leaned on the support of vagabonds and itinerant mercenaries, to whom he assigned not only the houses and lands, but also the wives and children, of the citizens; and he assiduously maintained connections, and even entered into an association for the joint prosecution of piracy, with the great refuge of mercenaries and pirates, the island of Crete, where he possessed some townships.

Another thing: when I went to Wilberforce, I supposed that the colonists would purchase the whole township of Bidulph, and pay for it, which might have been done, had they been fortunate enough to put forward better men.

He did very well however, and satisfied the entire township, so that, had he been content with that that very honorable, but somewhat inconspicuous life, he might doubtless have remained there until this day.

Our hope of settling a township, to be represented in Parliament by one of our own people, was now forever blasted.

[He and his gang stuck up the township of Canowindra for two days in 1859.

The next spring his men returned, and surveyed eight townships along the north bank of the St Lawrence, between the Bay of Quinte and the provincial boundary.

"Whether I can tell you the exact township and section is one thing; but I can say that they went to Southport on the same boat with me, and at last accounts were there or thereaboutsthere or thereabouts.

Several hundreds of these fanatical desperadoes made the forest their home, and laid waste the surrounding townships by their sudden raids.

But now as certain boroughs grew larger and annexed outlying townships, or acquired adjacent territory which presently became covered with streets and houses, their constitution became still more complex.

He was always getting up shindys without the slightest provocation, and was evidently possessed of the unpleasant ambition, as well as ability, to whale the entire township in detachments of one.

They were bound for Indiana to buy a township, and were accompanied by their minister.