darkness of the night to its progress, the sun was still shining brightly over the orange groves of California. It is also an interesting fact that while the death of Henry Mansin (or Marson) who claimed to be a British officer, has left no memory even in Lancaster, where all of its tragic details took

ANTHONY WAYNE IN LANCASTER. By William Frederic Worner. General Anthony Wayne, who had won distinction in several battles of the Revolution and had displayed remarkable skill and courage in the capture of Stony Point on the Hudson, was ordered to command the first detachment of Pennsylvania troops

apprenticeships was seven years, and, in 1749, he was serving his apprenticeship. He, on March 8, 1756, married Ann Wood, and it is improbable that before his marriage he had gone to housekeeping. That year he became a tenant of Leonard Bender, whose house was located on North Queen Street, about where Miller's

184.6, owing to the repeal of the tariff of 1812 by the deciding vote of George M. Dallas which he considered as a violation of party pledges, Myers served his con- nection with the democratic party and re-christened the furnace "Martha" in honor of his wife. The repeal of the protective tariff by

in 1742, began a life course on American soil which eventually won him the honored title of Patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the United States, He was a son of Anna Maria Weiser Muhlen- berg, daughter of Conrad Weiser, and as such he was a grandson of a man who as interpreter and diplomat among