contains an interesting account of a court martial held in Lan- caster borough during the Revolutionary war, at which time two spies were tried, found guilty and executed. From local sources, it is discovered that this trial took place before the middle of March, and yet an account of it did not appear in

recruits arrived here; they also are marching west (on the march in a westerly direction)." This same issue of the paper contains the following: "Pittsburgh. On Thursday, Major General Anthony Wayne, commander- in-chief of the army of the United States, arrived here. On his entry, he was given a salute by

, however, that his name does not appear in a compendious work entitled: "Historical Register of the Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, April, 1775, to December, 1783," compiled by F. B. Heitman and published in 1893 in Washington, D. C. �at the same time, withdrawn from us

Stephen Chambers, three of the six Lancaster delegates to the State Convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States." It will be noted that the name of the apostle in whose honor the church was dedicated, is written James' on the bronze tablet. Inasmuch as there seems to be a difference of

this eloquent and powerful address, his opponents had claimed a majority of six. The appropriation was finally passed, however, in the committee of the whole, by the vote of the chairman. Upon the adjournment of Congress, in the spring of 1796, in Philadelphia, at that time the capital of the United

JOHN MARSHALL IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner John Marshall, one of the greatest among the great Virginians of his day and generation, won fame in a field in which there is but little of dramatic incident to relate,—that of the Supreme Court of the United States, of which, for more than

, terms were agreed upon by both societies in session at the same time. On the evening of the 2nd of January, 1769, the united society, under the title by which it is still known, "The American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge," held its first meeting and its first

prostrated by the Revolutionary war. In August, 1777, John Brown, and his brother, Nicholas, proposed to Mr. Watson to take charge of about fifty thousand dollars, a �

war. In August, 1777, John Brown, and his brother, Nicholas, proposed to Mr. Watson to take charge of about fifty thousand dollars, a �large sum for those days. He was to carry the money concealed on his per- son, travel on horseback, and, when he reached Charleston, deposit it in the hands of agents

, September 27th, in the court house, which stood in the center of Penn square. For this reason Lancaster claims the distinction of having been the capital of the United States, even though it was but for a day. As Howe was in possession of Philadelphia, then the largest city in America, only 62 miles distant