note on the paper, signed by Roland Diller, August 6th, 1879, is as follows: "Members of Debating School in New Holland, January, 1816, now all dead excepting my brother, Solomon Diller, and myself." Of the twenty-three signers, only two use a middle initial. As two of them were alive at least sixty

- tunate people of their property and left them, for the time, without homes or the means of acquiring sustenance. Immediately after the fire, a committee, consisting of promi- nent citizens of New Castle, was formed for the purpose of obtain- ing assistance from the benevolent in adjoining states. The Com

branch, are in their natural colors, whilst the streamer in the eagle's beak is blue, with dark letters E Pluribus Unum on it. "It was on this rug that the writer, in 1847, first met Miss Catharine Yeates McElwee (sister of Mrs. Whelen) who became his wife in 1832. Meadville, Pa. February 22nd, 1908

side, on the third lot south of Farnum street, numbered 560 on the Hamilton plan. The lot measured 64 feet, 41/2 inches, on South Queen street, and extended 252 feet to an alley 14 feet wide. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, June 9th, 1809, contained the following announcement : NEW CIRCUS In South

difference to be adjusted respecting the conduct of the surveyor employed by the Holland Land company ; who, it appears, in running the line, has taken in land which was not ceded to the company. They left town early yesterday morning." Red Jacket was one of the most notorious Indian chiefs of the country

started in Christ Episcopal church, Lea- �cock, soon after that church was organized. In the Lancaster Journal of Friday, September 29th, 1820, appears a communica- tion addressed to teachers of this school. There was also a school in Churchtown prior to February, 1821; and one in New Holland before

of the Society, Subscribers' Names, &c. John Reynolds, Pr. West King-Street, Lancaster." In the introductory, which is printed on pages 2 to 8 inclusive, Mrs. Dorothy Brien and Mrs. Ann Hopkins, the directresses, state that at that time (1822) the nature and objects of Sunday-school instruction were