of the negotiations with France, and the determination of the business men of Philadelphia to support the government. Following this, a meeting of the select council was held, "expressing to the President of the United States the highest approbation of his conduct relative to the existing differences

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

interested in the drawing of birds, and conceived a plan to illustrate the ornithology of the United States. In 1804, largely for the purpose of collecting material, he, with two friends, walked to Niagara Falls, an inter- esting account of which outing he gave in a poem called "The Foresters." Two years

progress of the fire was arrested. The loss was estimated at about $250,000. More than forty families were rendered homeless. Pursuant to public notice, a meeting of citizens of Lancaster was held in the court house on Tuesday evening, June 13th. Hon. Ellis Lewis was called to the chair. Mayor Michael

Lancaster, where so many useful manufacturing establishments are in opera- tion, the citizens will not be backward in giving countenance to the exertions of their brethren in other sections of the United States." In response to this appeal, a number of persons friendly to domestic manufactures, met at Col

the habits of business, without relin- quishing those gentle virtues peculiar to her sex." Mrs. Moore held office under six successive Presidents of the United States : John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Meeting of Distillers By WILLIAM

is, in reality, a small atlas. lts title is altogether misleading, as one would naturally suppose it to be a biography of George Washington. It was published in con- nection with Chief Justice John Marshall's admirable life of the first President of the United States. Vols. 1, 2 and 3 of this great

," the fifteenth President of the United States. The work was edited by John Bassett Moore, counsel of the Spanish American Peace Commission in 1898; and comprises Mr. Bu- chanan's speeches, state papers, private correspondence and a biography. Since this excellent publication was issued, I have

applied to the Lan- caster county court in August, 1772, for licenses to conduct public houses. 1 One hundred and thirty-nine applied ; thirty-two were for taverns in Lancaster borough, and the remaining one hundred and seven were scattered throughout the county. Lancaster county in 1772 embraced all the