Address to President John Adams from the Citizens of Lancaster Borough and County Supporting the Government in its Attitude Toward France By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN THE proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society of October, 1924, appears an article entitled, "John Marshall in

Lancaster, which at that time was the capital of Pennsylvania. In a letter dated Pittsburg, February 22, 1810, and addressed to his friend and instructor Alexander Lawson, he refers to his sojourn in Lancaster in these words: 'From this first stage of my ornithological pilgrimage, I sit down, with pleasure

perils and hardships, his vessel en- tered the Thames at London and Mittelberger landed safely on the same day on which, four years before, he had trod the soil of North America. An African Lion in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A S early as 1727 a lion was exhibited in Philadelphia. (Scharf and

from his excellency, the Commander-in-chief, a general court-martial was held at Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, when Henry Mansin (who confessed himself an officer in the British army) and Wendal Myer, an inhabitant of the county, were brought before the court and charged with being spies, carrying on a

Lancaster on Monday, May 14th, 1781, accord- ing to the following entry in Christopher Marshall's diary: "May 15th, 1781. Gen. Wayne, with his suite, came to town last evening, on his route to the southward." The General remained here several days. We have no means of knowing where he stayed. In a letter

most obed. Servant, 13. FRANKLIN. Edw. Shippen, Esq. Lancaster. In ending his letter with the tithe-honored phrase "Your most obed. ser- vant," Benjamin Franklin used the term with propriety, since he -was at this time a member of the Assembly 'of the Province; and it is quite probable that his letter

prisoners of war. Capt. Wiederholdt writes, in his diary : "At the request of the officers, prisoners of war, I departed on the 5th of February for Lancaster, Pa., to secure certain papers which were in possession of a Lieutenant Muller. Lancaster is situated in Pennsylvania, about 160 miles from Dumfries

time or other read that interesting story of Charles Kingsley, "The Water Babies." In it is graphically described the life of a chimney-sweeper's apprentice. Charles Lamb, in his delightful "Es- says of Elia," writes of the chimney-sweep as follows: "I reverence those young Africans of our own growth

." Hong Neok Woo, however, did not participate in any fighting. He was enrolled as a private at Lancaster Pa., on June 29, 1863, in Company I, 50th Regiment Infantry, Pennsylvania Volunteer Emergency Militia, commanded by Captain John H. Druckemiller, which was immediately sent to Safe Harbor where it

Collections for the Poor in 1795 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of the "Association for the Relief of the Poor," of the borough of Lancaster, was held at the house of Chris- topher Brenner on Monday, November 2nd, 1795. John Joseph Henry occupied the chair. The committees appointed to collect