Government. A replica of Mount Vernon was reproduced at an exposition held in France during 1932 and was the United States' contribution celebrating the 200th Anniversary of a man the whole world honors. The two-cent stamp is printed and embossed on the envelope. It was the only denomination available to

British Public Records Office in London brings to light an earlier official visit to Conestoga by Pennsylvania provincial agents in 1696, and touches on the relations of the Indians there with groups farther west. It also under- scores the relative mobility of Indians, singly or in groups, during the

Stevens, who represented Lancaster county in the congress of the United States from 1849 to 1853, and from 1859 to the date of his death in 1868, would in itself be an interesting study; likewise the conference with John W. Forney, born in Lancaster, newspaper editor, leader in Penn- sylvania Democratic

. Incidentally, whenever I come to Columbia I remember much else. I remember Columbia as a center, for a long century, of another picturesque interest,—rafting; I remember the town as the center of a great canal sys- tem; then as an early railroad center; I remember it happily for its past mem- ories of shad

succeeding issue of the Lancaster Journal, dated Friday, March 1st, 1822, contained an announcement that a meeting of the society would be held on Wednesday, March 6th, at the house of Christian Smith. How long the society continued to exist and who were the officers and members of it is not now definitely

, April 19th, 1798. General Edward Hand occupied the chair, and John Hubley, Esq., acted as secretary. An address declaring confidence in the President of the United States, and the determination of the gathering to support the government, was agreed to and submitted to the people for signature. The

. BALTZELL. Again on page twenty-one there is an account of "Abe" Johnson's lar- ceny of wheat from the Gorsuch barn, to which occurrence is ascribed the escape of the four bondsmen whose at- tempted recapture caused the Chris- tiana tragedy. A letter from the slave owner to Philip Francis Thomas, then

further violence. On the two following evenings, no recurrence of a similar disturbance was attempted. "We have heard various pretenses assigned for the commis- sion of this truly disgraceful outrage, an outrage which inflicts discredit on all concerned, but have understood that the principal