Adams, as Presi- dent, was his execution of a contract with Persico, to execute these two statues for the east front of the Cap- itol, authorized by the appropriation bill of March 3, 1829. Each of them cost $12,000, and the change in their location from the front to the spaces under the cornice must

death, The building was also known as the "Pilger-hause" (Pilgrim house). While engaged in tuning the organ he had built for the Lutheran Church, in York, Pa,, he was stricken with paralysis, and, falling from a bench upon his head, received injuries from which he died a few days later, May 19, 1804, At

. Samuel Evans, of Columbia, Pa. When the Bible-loving Slaymakers came To the sylvan land of Penn, Did they know they had chosen the rarest spot That ever was known to men? Did they know that this shire would be queen of the State, This State the queen of all, On this, the Solar System's best, Our own

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right to cherish their mem- �ories; and the feeling which prompts the higher civilization to mark the birthplaces of eminent men and wo- men ought to be emphasized by this Society. Far down in Drumore (now East Drumore) township, near where it corners "with Little Britain and Ful- ton," just north of

person. So, on August 26, 1778, Thomas Barton, clerk, and Sarah, his wife, sold to Paul Zantzinger, for £1,000, the house and one-half lot on Orange street, 122 1/ 2 . Bounded north by Orange street, east by Lime street, south by lot of Joseph Rose, now of John Musser. (S, p. 727). The same gran- tors to

of chang- ing the present location of said rail- road, that it may pass through the city of Lancaster, so as to cross North Queen street, as far within the busi- ness part of said city as the gradu- ation will admit, and make report there- of to this Legislature, together with an estimate of the cost