people and the honor and dignity of their government. "We pray the Almighty Disposer of all Events to aid your councils and preserve your health." It is to be regretted that The Lancaster Journal of Saturday, November 12th, 1803, from which this information was obtained does not contain the names of the

INSCRIPTION ON STEPHEN CHAMBERS'S TOMESTONE IN ST. JAMES'S CHURCHYARD By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In Vol. 34, p. 104, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, is a biographical sketch of Stephen Chambers, who in his day was a leading member of the Lancaster bar and an

WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Lancaster Journal of Friday, July 14th, 1826, contained the information that Thomas Jefferson, author of the immor- tal Declaration of Independence, and John Adams, its ablest advocate, had died on Tuesday, July 4th,—the fiftieth anniver- sary of what is erroneously called our

Revolu- tion" who saluted the General from a platform in front of the Farmers' Bank. On February 10, of the year 1826, the Lancaster Journal carried the fol- lowing obituary, which is as fitting a summary of this paper, as any we could write: "On Wed. morning, last, Caspar Schaffner, Esq., in the 89th