Lightning Strikes Spire of Trinity Lutheran Church By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER 0 N Tuesday, May 13th, 1823, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, the beautiful spire of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, pride of Lancaster, and an ancient land-mark, was struck by lightning

Lancaster, he moved to Philadelphia, where he served as pastor of the Lutheran congregation of Saint Michael's and Zion. Little did Dr. Helmuth dream, when he baptized young Muhlenberg, that the boy was destined to do a great work for the cause of education in Lancaster, the town in which Dr. Helmuth had

children in the congregations at Mill Creek, Pequea, and Beber Creek." This is the first mention of the Strasburg Lutheran Church, for the Beber (Beaver) Creek congregation has always been identified as the one which worshipped, at that time, or sub- sequently, at the " Old Dutch Burying Ground." The Rev

, contains an inter- esting description of this incident. One must, however, overlook certain state- ments in this account, as the Lancaster Journal was politically opposed to Governor Snyder, and would, naturally, hold him up to public ridicule when- ever occasion offered. The article referred to is as

stated that President Buchanan "returned to his home [Wheatland] following his term as President of the United States and prac- tised law at the Lancaster bar." James Buchanan was admitted to the bar, in Lancaster, November 17th, 1812, and practiced law here until he entered upon his political career

"Pepper come rent" originated during the Middle Ages. Webster defines it as follows : "A rent consisting in supplying a certain amount, usually a pound, of black pepper cornes, at stated intervals ;" also "a nominal rent in kind operating to keep alive the paramount or dominant title to a property

subscription for "The relief of the afflicting state of the poor of Philadelphia." Inhabitants of Philadelphia who had fled to and resided in Lancaster during the epidemic, subscribed up- wards of 400 dollars. General Edward Hand, the friend and companion-in-arms of General Washington, and regarded by all as

Pool, used as a Theatre from 1837 to 1847, �We now know, for a certainty, from the advertisements just quoted, tha as early as December, 1791, a professional company of "theatrical barn stormers" had appeared in plays in Lancaster borough, but where these per formances were given we are unable to state

held on April 6, 1784, ten years after the death of Robert McCally, the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Robert Smith and John Whitehill informed the congregation of Pequea that they had received from Jasper Yeates, attor- ney at law in Lancaster, one hundred pounds as a legacy bequeathed to Pequea church by the

, as the purpose of the organiza- tion was a most worthy one. The Lancaster County Society for Promoting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser of Wednesday, March 25th, 1800, states that a large and respectable number of citizens