THE PASSING OF AN OLD LANDMARK It is only fair to the writer, as well as to his audience, to say a consider- able part of the material of this sketch has already been read to and heard by a parlor audience in this city. I should not have had the te- merity to submit it to your indulgent

citizen of these United States, called to make any public utterance, anywhere, suggest- ed by the anniversary, on the eve of which we stand now and here, shall be unmindful of "the day we celebrate," or inconsiderate of the way in which it is observedr Although more than a hundred and ten years have

Sally Hastings : A Literary Grass Widow. It is difficult to define the limits os an Historical Society's proper sunc- tions. Broadly and yet fairly stated, they may be taken to comprehend everything that makes for the genius, the moral, intellectual or material life and experience of the people and

Vice President of the United States, on the ticket with William Wirt. In 1834 he was defeated by James Buchanan in the election for United States Sena- tor. Buchanan and George M. Dallas, in 1810, later President and Vice President of the United States, respec- tively, had been among Ellmaker's