not pay the bond he had given sor the purchase money, and Franklin in 1754 put one William Dunlap in charge. He rented the establishment to the latter from February, 1754, to April, 1757, at the rate of £20 per annum, then ceased. Those were the days os small things in the newspaper world, as well as

- tenant Colonel in the service of the United States , now a prisoner with the enemy. By order of Congress. "CHARLES THOMPSON, "Secretary." He is Finally Exchanged. He was given permission to go to New York on parole, first giving this pledge: "His Excellency, General Washington, having granted me per

, in fact, that offered suitable accommodations for performers and spectators. While, therefore, the first regular theatre in the United States was built at Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1752. that date must not be taken to mark the appearance of theatrical represen- tations in this country. No doubt

, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, and has thereby become valid as part of the Constitution of the United States. "Given under my hand, at the city �of Washington, this twenty-fifth day of September, 1804. "JAMES MADISON. "The Secretary of the Commonwealth

country, and related the story of what he had seen of distant regions and of what he had suffered in his journey- ings." 15 "Faust's German Element in the United States, Vol. 1, p. 310. 15Butterfield, p. 98. �Champlain also informed Brulé that he was about to sail for France, and assured him that he would

arrive—We shall not long retain this Ground." On March 4 he writes to General Washington from Haddonfield, N. J., that hearing that the enemy, in small parties, were collecting cattle and forage in that vicinity, he made a forced march to cut some of them off. He describes at great length how, with

HISTORICAL MEMORANDA, An Act of Vandalism. The following is an excerpt read by S. M. Sener, Esq., from "The Oracle of Dauphin," Harrisburg, Pa., under date of 6th of January, 1820: "The Lancaster Free Press contains an advertisement of the Trustees and Elders of the German Reformed Church in the

, William, 1715-1774. Indians of North America. Fur trade--United States. United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1904/1905 Description: [305]-326 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9