Show A Joint commission has recently berm appointed by the States of Maryland and Pennsylvania to resurvey and mark again the famous Mason and Dixon Hue the boundary between the two Slates The line was originally run in the yellS between 17CI to 17CS by the English surveyors whose names It I bears Throughout its eastern portion it Is marked by granite nmlced Jlanlte monuments brought from England and sculptured on their northern faces with tho arms of the Pen ns and on the southern I facos with those of Lord Baltimore Many of those monuments have been destroyed de-stroyed and the new survey Is to be l made In the interest of propertyhold ers in the neighborhood who might suffer from 0 neglect of these piceau tlons That line ought to be kept marked for Its historic Interest Forty years ago Mason and Dlxons line was referred to oftcner In speeches and articles than any other name perhaps I was on that line that the Union very nearly was split Across that line more soldiers marched and died in a struggle to ave this Government intact in-tact than have marched and died In apy other cause since Napoleon started for Moscow |