almost as soon as the offer arrived in Harrisburg. According to the New Era (17 January 1878), a bill was put before the legislature for building the prison for the middle district at Harrisburg, and it met with negative reception. On the strength of this feeling, J. Hay Brown, Es- quire, of Lancaster

hostile operations of. the British King and Parliament, the United States of America, at a time when they were totally unprovided with Fleets or Armies . . . " On 24 July 1777 Congress resolved "That it be recommended to the executive authorities of each of the United States, to divide their states into

panic of 1857. Later the Norris brothers operated a locomotive works in the same buildings between Plum and Ann streets, along the railroad tracks. While the mechanics were devising improvements to machinery, a tinkerer of another kind was fiddling around with chemicals in the first block of West King

the affidavit included the son of a prominent innkeeper and the son of a well- known merchant. Armed with the affidavit, Dr. Twombley called upon the district attorney who changed his usual response when Dr. Twombley threatened to go public in the newspapers. The brothel was closed up by the police

used the open-fire method of wort boiling. In early breweries in the United States and Europe it was customary to boil the wort over an open fire in a copper kettle or pan. As times changed and new technology de­ veloped, inventions and improved methods were utilized in the art of brewing, resulting in