, which gave our citizens their first public information of the startling news. On Wednesday, July 1st, a large and respectable body of citi- zens of Lancaster borough and county met at the court house for the purpose of expressing their sentiments on the important meas- ures lately adopted by Congress

. Andrew Jackson Invited to Visit Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of friends of Andrew Jackson in the city and county of Lancaster met in the court house in Lancaster on Wednesday, April 17th, 1833. Hon. John Lightner was ap- pointed president ; James Jackson, of Colerain, Moore Connell, of

same date. Obsequies Held in Lancaster In Honor of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Lancaster Journal of Friday, July 14th, 1826, contained the information that Thomas Jefferson, author of the immor- tal Declaration of Independence, and John Adams, its ablest advocate

Andrew Jackson in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER INVol.1,page742,oftheadmirablehistoryofYorkCounty,Pa., prepared by the late George R. Prowell, and published in 1907, appears the following : "On Saturday morning, February 13th, 1819, General Andrew Jackson, then the head of the American army

addressed the following invitation to Langdon Cheves, Esq., who at that time resided at "Abbeville," a handsome country estate a short distance west of Lancaster city on the Colum- bia turnpike, now the Lincoln highway,—a property at present owned by C. Dudley Armstrong. "Lancaster, Pa., July 3rd, 1827

was cheered down the street to the tavern. In the evening several called to see me and learn who I was. We passed several of these trees on the way, with green boughs on the top." 1 In Reamstown, Lancaster county, Pa., on the day following Christmas, an unusually fine hickory pole was erected. It was