was contributing to the comfort of those who came to do honor to her native city through the Lancaster Fencibles. She would always revert to that occasion with feelings of gratification and joy; and whenever she recalled this mark of esteem from her visitors, it would be to remember with gratitude

. Jacob Slough's tavern on Fri- day evening, February 28th, 1817. Robert Coleman was appointed chairman, and Samuel Carpenter, Esq., secretary. A society was organized ; and a committee, consisting of Samuel White, Joseph Ogilby and James Humes, was appointed to prepare a constitution1. The Lancaster

assembly prohibited from 1700 on, "stage plays and other rude sports." All these laws were vetoed in England and .. . the people went to the theatre in Philadelphia and probably in Lancaster, too. James Logan mentioned a play in Philadelphia in 1723, and from the next year we have the first newspaper

AN AMISH WEDDING THREE VIRTUES — FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY — EXEMPLIFIED BY SOLEMN CEREMONY High noon neared and a solemn hush fell upon the two hundred and fifty relatives and guests asembled in the home of Benjamin Esh, at Mascot, Lancaster county, Pa., to witness a solemn wedding ceremony. To

evidence; it would be worth more than all the rest thrown together. It is because, as I conceive, signal in- justice has been done to an American engineer of high standing and wide fame in the article that the present statement is made. There was an American engineer, a resident of this city for a time

demanded $95,500. The claim was finally settled in 1810 by the payment of $1,314.20. See ibid, vol. 2, pp. 113, 114. 4 This and following quotations were taken from the work of Catharine Van Cortlandt Mathews, "Andrew Ellicott: His Life and Letters," New York, 1908. Copy in Fackenthal Library. �exertions

and Mr. Blanch- ard." Some accounts of Stevens' en- try into Pennsylvania narrate that he came here with James Merrill and John Blanchard. This letter proves that they preceded him; they were un- doubtedly his forerunners. Both these Vermonters achieved local fame. John Blanchard became �a noted

Lancaster borough in 1778-79, 1780-81- 82 and 1783. When Baron Heinrich Wilhelm Stiegel feli into financial diffi- culties and his estate of 729 acres os ground in and around Manheim was sold by the Sherisf, on March 30, 1779, Dissenderffer bought the property, which he later sold to William Haus- man. In

toward the magnificent Congressional Library building. James Buchanan, then a United States Sena- tor from Pennsylvania, and who for a long time had been a citizen of Lan- caster, moved in the Senate to take up the resolution directing the Com- mittee on Finance to inquire into the expediency of

Nauman and Arthur Armstrong lived was destroyed also. The property belonged to Mr. Arm- strong. This was the third fire with- in three weeks—none accidental. January 23-6:30 a. m.—The citi- zens were again called to action by the cry of fire. The stable of Mrs. Hall, property of James Evans, was set on