ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE UNVEILING OF A BRONZE TABLET TO JOHN WRIGHT, PIONEER FERRYMAN By PROF. HERBERT H. BECK MADAME PRESIDENT, MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: I consider it a distinct privilege to represent the older of the two coun- ties, Lancaster and York, at this well

officers who unanimously adopted and signed this address to the President. It seems somewhat sin- gular that a meeting held on the 21st of June, 1798, was not re- ported in a local paper_ until November 12th, 1803—five years and a half later ; and long after Adams had been succeeded in the presi- dency by

-attended meeting of inhabitants of Lan- caster county was held in the court house in Lancaster on Wednes- day, August 22nd, 1827. John Lightner was appointed chairman, and Jacob Hibshman and N. W. Sample secretaries) A committee, consisting of G. B. Porter, John R. Montgomery, John Rohrer, John Hoover

number of the rioters were arrested. AID GIVEN TO NORFOLK AND PORTS- MOUTH IN THE YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC OF 1855 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the summer of 1855, the scourge of yellow fever was epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia. Business was paralyzed, much suffering ensued from a lack of

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

assisting struggling humanity rather than wasting their activities by engaging in theological disputations of little consequence. Harmony and brotherly love, however, were not always main- tained among the religious sects in old Lancaster. Less than one hundred years ago a disgraceful disturbance or riot