-watery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States." The "Daily Evening Express," Lancaster, in an editorial, November 20, 1863, states "that the National Cemetery was dedicated at Gettysburg yester- day, with appropriate ceremonies. 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

conceived and well planned inter-county event. And as the official representative of The Lancaster County Historical Society, I cannot too strongly commend the Lancaster and York County Branches of the Colonial Dames of America for erecting this fine bronze tablet to commemorate the first important ferry

known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and

It was not until 1850 that Millard Fillmore, then President of the United States, had the first bathtub installed in the White House. It was made in Philadelphia, of thin cast iron. It is interesting to note that nine years before Adam Thomp- son introduced the first bathtub into this country

nurses, and many inhab- itants died. Subscriptions for the relief of sufferers were solicited in the principal cities of the country. Lancaster city and county, never behind in deeds of mercy and charity, responded to the call for assistance from the afflicted inhabitants of the two Virginia towns. A

of nearly two months in Havana, Humboldt sailed on April 29th for the United States, accompanied by two friends, — Bonpland and Carlos Montufar. In the Channel of Bahamas they encountered a severe storm, which lasted seven days, but were mercifully pre- served, and finally, after a voyage of twenty

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

AN AMISH WEDDING THREE VIRTUES — FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY — EXEMPLIFIED BY SOLEMN CEREMONY High noon neared and a solemn hush fell upon the two hundred and fifty relatives and guests asembled in the home of Benjamin Esh, at Mascot, Lancaster county, Pa., to witness a solemn wedding ceremony. To

adopted : "In pursuance of the call published in our newspapers by friends of General Jackson, of the city and county of Lancaster, we assemble for the purpose of appointing a committee to be charged with the pleasing duty of inviting the President of the United States to visit us whenever his high duties