of the negotiations with France, and the determination of the business men of Philadelphia to support the government. Following this, a meeting of the select council was held, "expressing to the President of the United States the highest approbation of his conduct relative to the existing differences

not know that this celebrated naturalist once trod the streets of our own Lancaster. The story of Alexander Wilson's life reads like a romance, and is a fine example of what genius and industry, in the face of obstacles which men of ordinary abilities would consider insurmountable, can accomplish

, adjoining it on the east. At the present time, D. H. Mosemann con- ducts a grocery store on the corner, and the Manhattan hotel is located on the property adjoining it. Stofft, doubtless, kept a tavern at one of these places,— either in the building on the corner or in the one adjoining it, and in one of

AN OLD CONNECTICUT NEWSPAPER. By William Frederic Worner. Mr. Herbert W. Hartman, president of Follmer, Clogg & Company, man- ufacturers of fine umbrellas, has presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society an old newspaper, published in New London, Conn., on Friday, April 10th, 1778. It

-Nachrichten," (New Nonpartisan Lancaster Gazette, and News Advertiser) Wednesday, June 13th. The account is as follows: "Last week His Excellency Major General Anthony Wayne passed through this city to take over the command of the troops which are ordered against the Indians. And on Saturday a company of