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 480 HARRISBURG HARRISON a mayor and a common council of 25 members. The streets are well paved and drained, and lighted with gas. Water is supplied from the river, by works erected at a cost of $2,000,- 000, and having a capacity of 10,000,000 gal- lons a day. The taxable valuation of proper- ty in 1874 was $6,000,000 ; city debt, $600,- 000. The public schools in 1872 numbered 51 (2 high, 15 grammar, and 34 primary), hav- ing 73 teachers and an average attendance of 2,339 pupils. There are also an academy, a female seminary, and an English and German Harrisburg, from the west bank of the Susquehanna. Catholic school. Four daily and eight weekly (two German) newspapers and two monthly periodicals are published. The state library contains 30,000 volumes. There are 32 church- es, viz. : 4 Baptist, 1 Episcopal, 1 Evangelical, 1 Jewish, 6 Lutheran (2 German), 4 Meth- odist (1 Welsh), 4 Presbyterian, 2 Reformed (1 German), 2 Roman Catholic (1 German), 2 United Brethren, and 5 miscellaneous. The first permanent white settlement on the site of Harrisburg was made about 1726, by an Englishman named John Harris, who, in De- cember, 1733, obtained from the proprietaries of Pennsylvania a grant of 300 acres of land near his residence, and purchased of other grantees 500 acres adjoining. He carried on a considerable trade with the Indians of the vi- cinity. In 1753 the Penns granted to his son, John Harris, jr., the right to establish a ferry over the Susquehanna, and the place was long known as Harris's Ferry. In 1785 the town was laid out, and it became the seat of justice of the new county taken from Lancaster and called Dauphin, after the French crown prince ; the town also received, in honor of Louis XVI., the name of Louisbourg, but in 1791 it was incor- porated as a borough under its present name. It became the capital of the state in 1812, and received a city charter in 1860. HARRISON, the name of eight counties in the United States. I. A N. W. county of West Virginia, drained by the W. fork of Mononga- hela river ; area, 440 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 18,- 714, of whom 655 were colored. It has a hil- ly surface and fertile soil, and abounds in tim- ber, coal, and iron. The Parkersburg division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad passes through it. The chief productions in 1870 were 83,473 bushels of wheat, 327,261 of In- dian corn, 56,183 of oats, 26,028 of potatoes, 45,662 of wool, 276,955 of butter, and 16,901 tons of hay. There were 5,040 horses, 4,906 milch cows, 15,855 other cattle, 15,812 sheep, and 8,951 swine; 1 manufactory of boots and shoes, 1 of iron castings, 2 of machinery, 5 tanneries, 5 currying establishments, 3 flour mills, and 5 saw mills. Capital, Clarksburg. II. A S. E. county of Mississippi, bordering on the gulf of Mexico, and drained by Biloxi and Wolf rivers and branches of the Pascagoula; area, 870 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 5,795, of whom 1,427 were colored. The surface is level and mostly covered with pine woods, and the soil is light and sandy. The New Orleans, Mobile, and Texas railroad passes through it. The chief productions in 1870 were 9,345 bushels of Indian corn, 12,625 of sweet potatoes, and 98,750 Ibs. of rice ; value of live stock, $78,135. There were 16 saw mills. Capital, Mississippi City. III. A N. E. county of Texas, bordering on Louisiana, bounded N. by Big Cypress bayou and Caddo lake, and S. by Sabine river ; area, 964 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 13,241, of whom 8,931 were colored. The surface is diversified