time of the 75th anniversary were: George Supplee, 414 South West End Avenue, Lancaster. J. C. Troup, 20 Green Street, Lancaster. Isaac Groff, Mennonite Home, R. D. 1, Lancaster. (Died since the 75th �Christian H. Brackbill, Mennonite Home, R. D. 1, Lancaster. George Watson, Wrightsville. George Paules

. Lincoln's nomination and election. Lancaster's first citizen, James Buchanan, occupied the White House from 1857 to 1861. In writing from Washington, Septem- ber 13, 1860, to William Carpenter, Esq., of Lancaster, relative to business matters, Mr. Buchanan addressed him privately as follows : "Some knave or

until the society con- sisted of thirty-five members, a meeting was to be held each Wednesday evening at the house of Christian Smith. The book of the organization was to be kept open for subscriptions at the store of Messrs. J. and P. Long, North Queen street. Joseph Ehrenfried was the secretary. The

with the French Republic." Similar meetings were held elsewhere and popular indignation at the conduct of France was rapidly in- tensifying. Following the example of Philadelphia, "a large number of respectable inhabitants of the borough and county of Lancaster" met in the court house on Thursday