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

Lancaster." In that paper is described the unsuccessful attempt of the three American envoys, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall, to establish diplomatic relations with the French Republic. The first dispatches of the envoys, sent from Paris October 22nd, 1797, reached

Governor's Direction I issued the inclos'd Advertise- ment. The Bearers, John Laverty, and Charles Coleman, have agreed to go and work on the Road accordingly. You will be pleased to give them Directions how they are to proceed. My Compliments to your Good Lady and Family. I am, very respect- fully Sir, Your

citizens, and were interred with the highest military honors." A committee, consisting of John Longenecker, William Downey and Philip Wager Reigart, from the City Battalion of Volunteers, sent a letter of condolence to Mrs. Susan Mosher, widow of the late General Mosher, which was as follows: "Mrs. Susan

BRONZE TABLET TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN WRIGHT, PIONEER FERRYMAN* By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The fine service rendered by John Wright, pioneer ferryman, and one of the foremost builders of a transportation link that opened the great West to early settlers, was fittingly recognized on Tuesday morning

21st, 1841. The house was crowded. The play selected was a popular one,—Kotzebue's celebrated tragedy, "The Stranger." It was admirably acted. An appropriate address, from the ver- satile pen of John W. Forney, the brilliant editor and publisher of the Lancaster Intelligencer and Journal, was

time or other read that interesting story of Charles Kingsley, "The Water Babies." In it is graphically described the life of a chimney-sweeper's apprentice. Charles Lamb, in his delightful "Es- says of Elia," writes of the chimney-sweep as follows: "I reverence those young Africans of our own growth

was confirmed by the same prelate. When Commodore Perry made his expedition to Japan in 1852-1854, for the purpose of concluding a treaty of commerce with that country, several of his ships came in 1854 to Shanghai. One of the ships in the expedition was the frigate "Susquehanna", another was the

good gov- ernment thereof. "And your petitioners, as in duty beyond, will ever pray." The petition was signed by John Hubley, Jacob Slough, An- drew Graff, Jacob Graeff, John W. Kittera, Abraham Witmer, Paul Zantzinger, Daniel Witmer, John Joseph Henry, Jeremiah Mosher, Charles Smith, George Musser

CONTINENTAL STABLES MARKED BY A BRONZE TABLET By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Saturday, June 4th, 1932, the building used during the Revolutionary War as a military stable, 305-313 North Duke street, Lancaster, was marked by a handsome bronze tablet, 12 by 18 inches in size. The tablet, designed by