belonging to a Fuller, by "WILLIAM CHAMBERS. "Lancaster Township, "9th Day of 10 Month. 1789." It was on the south bank of the Conestoga, between Reigart's and Graesf's landings. Slavery, Jewelry and Storms. On December 9th, 1789, I find a long address to the public by the Pennsylvania Society for the Aboli

that proper persons may be appointed to view and lay out a road for public service, from the town of Lancaster, till it falls in with the high road in the county of Cnester, leading to the ferry of schuylkill, at High street, and that a review may be had of the said public road in the county of Chester

city is left to conjecture. How long he remained in the river town and when he came to Lancaster is unknown. The first contemporary notice we have of Mr. Armstrong dates back to December, 1849, which reads as fol- lows: "We were very much gratified with a recent visit we paid to the gal- lery of Mr

eye or satis- fied the vanity, without carrying with them any positive benefit. There was, however, one particular in which they seem to have departed from this common rule of their every- day life. When they first came into the country the conditions of exist- ence were hard. All they could do was to

the Revolution may �serve as an introduction to some re- flections on the character of the race from which these patriotic Donegalians came and which accounts for the record they made in the annals of their coun- try for patriotism and piety. It has been said: "Every man at his birth is an epitome of

two lan- guages alternated through the four small pages of the paper. The first eleven numbers were printed some- where on King street. From the twelfth to the thirty-first and last number the paper was issued "at the postoffice, in King street," by S. Hol- land alone. Miller withdrew after eleven

to frugality and industry." In accordance with this recommendation, the King dis- approved of the proposed law, and theatrical representations have pre- vailed in Pennsylvania ever since. When theatrical performances, or what purported to be such,were first �given in Lancaster I have not been able to

occurrence is laid in Lan- caster nearly three-quarters of a cen- tury ago, it is presented here as a proper supplement to the articles on "Early Lancaster Playbills and Play- houses," published in our proceedings for November, 1902. When I first read the story as told by Mr. Murdoch, I confess I was

early times may be inferred from the fact that a stone bridge was thrown across it on West King street by Councils in 1771, which was the first bridge built within the borough limits. Even as late as 1825 it must have been a brook of some importance, for in that year City Councils granted to Samuel Fah

given for Vice President, to be, by me, delivered to the President of the Sen- ate of the United States, at the seat of Government, before the first Wednes- day in January next. Witness my hand, at Lancaster, the day and year first above written. "ROBERT McMULLIN. "Received this fifth day of December