Divine. The guilt is great, the cry is loud, And justice comes when comes a shroud." PETITION OF INHABITANTS OF LANCAS- TER TO HON. JOHN PENN NOT TO GRANT REPEAL OF LAW PROVID- ING FOR A NIGHT WATCH By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the manuscripts department of The Historical Society of Penn- sylvania, 1300

Lancaster Journal of Monday, April 27th, 1818, in com- menting on the tragic affair, said, "The damage is, on the whole, not quite so great as at first expected, for the wounded man is said to be out of danger; but in consequence of his sudden fall, the stock of the poor double barrel gun was broken and

, John Clement, 1876-1940. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 3-5 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 1

house, 1730 was the year in which Lan- caster was officially founded, and the name Lancaster bestowed upon it. If you have records proving that Lancaster was founded in 1721, we shall be very glad, for the sake of historical accuracy, to preserve the information �in our Society; if not, should not the

Mittelberger's Notes on Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., is an old and rare volume published in "Frankfurth und Leipzig," in 1756. It was printed in German, and is entitled, "Gottlieb Mittelberger's Reise nach Pennsylvanien im Jahr 1750; und

induced to take this circuit, which is nearly a hundred and eighty miles, whereas this town, by the direct road, is not more than eighty-eight miles from Philadelphia James Duane wrote a letter from York to George Clinton. In this letter he referred to the crowded condition of Lancaster at the time the

August 18, 1919, and was buried in Westgate .Cemetery, the oldest Christian burying ground in Shanghai. �REFERENCES. 1. "Autobiography of the Rev. H. N. Woo," published in Chinese and transliterated into English, but not published, by the Rev. Andrew Yu Yue Tsu, Ph. D., of St. John's University, Shanghai

, town council and citizens to join in procession on the occasion. "Resolved, That there be martial music in time of marching." 2 The committee adjourned to meet in the town hall on Friday evening, November 23rd, at 7 P. M. Whether the eulogy was pronounced on Sunday, November 25th, or not, we are unable

inauguration of Thomas Jefferson as President of the United States, and the triumph of Republicanism in the late election. At three o'clock in the afternoon the company sat down to a bountiful dinner, after which sixteen toasts were drunk, with "soul-inspiring joy."2 A number of "volunteer" toasts were offered

. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born in the Hyde Park home on January 30th, 1882, was the child of the second marriage, and became the thirty-second President of the United States. �James Buchanan, the fifteenth President of the United States, was born in a small frontier town, at the foot of the eastern ridge