I SHORT WALKS IN AND?; ABOUT HARRISBURG -

An inquiry .whether Verbeke- town was ever formally annexed to the city of Harrisburg which has just come i to hand opens Verbeketown up . interesting and How It thoughts about Was Absorbed a section of the | j north central I ! section only a short walk from | j the State Capitol. What was | ' known as Verbeketown was lard i out by the late William K. Verbeke, mayor and city controller, in two transactions, the first being in j, 1857. Roughly speaking, it _ ex- tended from just above Cumber¬ land street to Reily. The exact lines are to found in the records ot the Daunhin County Courthouse. Ve "troet was the central hign..-. - it is to the projector • of this developmer ■ that the cityy| owes the width of Rat thorough-, fare. When laid out it was given the name of the man who planned it and ■ not a part of Harris¬ burg. It was, however, covered by the act of I860 annexing every¬ thing between Herr and Maclay ■ streets at the time Harrisburg be¬ came a city. There were a num¬ ber of other developments in that section. Bergner & Mumma, a firm coT sed of two of the sub¬ stantial citizens of Harrisburg, laid out some property in the vi¬

‘ijj cinity of Sixth street and the ■ |“Town of Paxton” was in the up¬ per part of the present Fifth ward, as has been told. Another devel¬ opment in that section was by the Barnitz family and etill another, toward the river, by the Berners. The Harrisburg Building Associa¬ tion, composed of prominent men, did much toward developing the section of the Fifth ward imme¬ diately east of Third street. The Fox family also contributed to the making of properties available for building. A. tile^IT?rrli3K7Z> '<4 $10,000, and a year the7ea>?erTne'‘ad"

4°”lln® ,faiim of 132 acres for $16,000. After his death his two sons, Henry H and John E. Wiley, in 1870, purchased the homestead for $20,000 and the farm for $13,860 Subsequently, John E ^ iloy, withdrew from 1 • and his brother, Henry H Wiley, bSe ie sole owner of the property.’ Henry Wiley having died a year ago, these fu2Vf 'QS Were resented at public ie latter part of last month, when the homestead, for which Mr Wiw if i of?bS00°a\?S Purchased for Ihe sum DBid '?i§’«wnd he ftrm’ f0r Tvhich he had ! bought for $7,240 bvl the Hoffman brothers, showing a shi ini-7 thSee n Va?S€ °f, °Ver ?20.000S Many of ' the old mills whose busy wheels over a rsn82^nog° nettnd their wners as much as $-,o00 annually, are now silent or if m use, used as chopping mills or for theJ stora^j>f-tol?acco. tbej

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\ ^\ ndx«,7 the .:rexercisesu>ses of«* a highly enj^ei - NHr- "r~. ’VPTrticsftocises of,^-e a. i.liighfo • i i o*. pointment in not being- paid for the dy. They crossed the river in the vi- service performed was borne by the /nty of Middletown. 5 and men of his brigade. Such pri¬ General John Forster. ms are, unfortunately, but too com- I The commander of the. First brigade to a soldier’s life, and, in the present was born in Paxton township (then ban- they have been borne with a spirit i caster), now- Dauphin county, on the 17th ');ng soldiers. , [ of September, 1777. The house in which - th return of the troops to their heiwas born stood a short, distance north les and accustomed occupations, and of tthe site of the present State Lunatic n mixing with the pursuits and occur- Hospital. He received a fair education, ?s of civil life, to reflect on the events anPennsylvania in 1794. Young mg the gentlemen of all ranks in the Fojrster volunteered, and served as an aid [ado and will draw closer those previ- on the staff of General Murray. Subse- ’ r formed. It will disseminate through j queiitly he read law with General Hanna, 1 on of our State correct notions of j a - distinguished lawyer of the Dauphin ies of an officer and a soldier, and a ] Qchinty Bar, but never applied for admis¬ of information on military subjects sion to the bar. He engaged in mercantile may be highly useful in the crisis of pul-suits, in which he was very successful. e affairs that appears to be approach- Prior to the breaking out of the war in Our country is contending for its ex- lfel2 he was colonel of State militia, his ice. If there be a country worth figlit- •^stes always having a military turn. He ■ for, assuredly it is the one in which was a State Senator from 1814 to ISIS, ’well. The situation of the country and was subsequently/ cashier of the Har- ids many sacrifices from all its eiti- risburb Bank for a period of sixteen years. id it is with pride anticipated by He established the Bank of Lewistown in lev,11 that should an emergency, 1835, and in 1837 was cashier of the Ex¬ - to that which drew the troops now change Bank, of Pittsburg. Subsequently fit from their homes, again occur, it he was chosen president of the Branch met by them with an equal degree Bank at Hollidaysburg, but in a short 4 and patriotism. Should it be the time retired from all business pursuits and :>f the General again to enter the returned to his home in this city. He died ith his present rank, his highest on the 28th of May, 1863. General Forster will be to command a brigade re- was a strikingly picturesque figure until . in col-rectness of conduct the within a short period of his death, xie which he is now about to part, was about 5 feet 8 inches in height, was of feet regularity and good order slender frame, but compactly built, was ’ the march from Baltimore to straight as an arrow, had a piercing eye conducted merits particular and a scholarly, intellectual face. He was he General tenders his thanks the very prince of hosts, and numbered officers of his brigade for their among his friends many of the great men mco during the march, of Pennsylvania and other States during lending the troops, the General his long and useful life. He was a superb, mean .to flatter, unmerited praise graceful horseman, alvyays rode mettled } equally scorn to offer, as they steeds, and this accomplishment he retain¬ disdain to receive. It is not to be ed even in his old age. He was a strict ed that commissions of irregulari- disciplinarian, and during the march of id omissions of duty have occurred his troops to Baltimore from York he per¬ among the officers and privates, but mitted neither foraging nor marauding on it is'-fealieverf, are few in number j the part of his command, but gave his per¬ such as are perhaps inseparable from sonal notes for beef cattle and supplies, ly of troops suddenly transferred and these were subsequently redeemed by eir hornet * encounter the arau- the Government. At the close of the war rigorous duties of a camp, he was tendered the commission of briga¬ In ing leave of the officers and men of dier general in the United States army by /ais land, the General sincerely wishes President Madison, which he declined. n a, safe and happy meeting with their The brigade major, John M. Forster, was lilies and friends, and begs them to ac- his nephew, and the father of the Hon. J. . t I. is warmest wishes for their future wrl fare. Montgomery Forster, ex-Jnsuranee Com¬ missioner of the State of Pennsylvania. By order of the Brigadier General. Subsequently he became a prominent law¬ JOHN M. FORSTER, yer at the Dauphin County Bar, and was Brigadier Major. a highly respected and esteemed citizen. i he returning troops from Dauphin and ^ "f counties west and north were review- Privations of Soldiers. on the evening of the 9th of December, During the war of 1812-14, in the early and middle portion thereof, many troops 4 hy'' General Forster from the steps I ice, the building, No. 5 South j marched from this section, and especially nifd by M^skJoh i j Cumberland Valley, to the northern war in 1812 Governor Snyder had, in re of almost sixty sail, arrived in the bay, I sponse to a call for troops from the Fed ■with 6,0Q0 troops, under General Ross, oral Government, issued his proclama destined for the capture of Washington tlon to the people of Pennsylvania, callin' city. Ross landed on the 19th of August upon them to meet the enemy, and tie at Benedict, on the Patuxent, with 5,000 response was prompt and men from ever; tnen, and marched toward the National condition in life volunteered. Thes Capital. Barney’s flotilla, lying higher troops marched to the northern frontiei up the stream, was abandoned and burn¬ and many of them participated in the bat ed, and his marines joined General Win¬ tie of Lundy’s Lane and other engage der's force. A sharp engagement took ments. place on the 24th of August at Bladens- 4 After the disaster at Bladensburg am burg, a few miles from Washington, when . Washington in August, 1814, the troop the American militia fled, and Barney, from Central Pennsylvania marched t fighting gallantly at the head of his sea¬ York, and on the 16th of September th men and marines, was made prisoner. First Brigade of Pennsylvania, under th Ross’ trhops pushed forward to Washing¬ command of General John Forster, o ton the ss.me day, burned the Capitol, the Harrisburg, struck its tents, and on th President’s house and other public and 27th of September encamped at Cam] private buildings, and next day hastily Springfield, on the eastern boundary o retreated to their shipping. At that time Baltimore. In the “Telegraph” of the 3< Washington contained about 900 bouses, of July, 1897, in an article on Our Nata scattered in groups over a surface of three Day, a pretty full account was given b; miles. The Great Bridge over the Poto-Ij the writer of the operations of the Penn mac was also burned, and the light of the sylvania troops at Baltimore, and it i conflagration was distinctly seen at Balti¬ therefore only necessary here to make thi more, forty miles distant. brief reference to their movements. Tha Flushed with success Ross proceeded 'to j j remained at Baltimore until the month c attack Baltimore, where General Samuel* December following, when they returnc Smith was in command. Ross landed' to York, and were discharged from th with 8,000 troops, at North Point, four- ' service. In the Pennsylvania Republicai teen miles from Baltimore, while a por¬ of Harrisburg,-of December 20th, 18L tion of the fleet went up the Patapsco to the farewell address of General Forster J bombard Fort McHenry! He pressed for- 1 the troops under his command was p i ward, but was met by an advanced corps lished. It was an admirably written <] under General Strieker, and a slight skir¬ patriotic document, and is well wo( mish ensued. Ross was kiled, and the reproducing at this time. It reads i command devolved on Colonel Brooke, | follows: who continued to advance. A severe en¬ gagement, lasting over an hour, now took Brigade Orders. place, when the Americans fell back in York, Pa., Dec. 7, 1814.—In pursuail good order toward the city. In this en¬ of general orders the brigade under tl" gagement the British lost about 300 men / command of Brigadier General John For the Americans 163. Both parties slept ter is now discharged. The commandan on their arms that night, and the follow¬ of companies will march their men ing morning, September 13th, the British such places as they may deem most sir advanced as if to attack the city. The able for their dispersion, and then d: fleet, in the meanwhile, had opened its charge them individually. bombs and cannons upon Fort McHenry, The General cannot take leave of t, whose garrison, under Major Armistead, brigade which he has had the honor made a most gallant defense. The bom¬ commanding without expressing to t bardment continued most of the day and officers and men his gratitude for their • night, and no less than 1,500 bombshells tention to his orders, and his appvobati were thrown. Toward the morning of the of their general conduct during the can 14th the British troops silently embarked j paign. They have not met the enemy o on their ships, and the enemy withdrew, | the field of battle but the patriotic spiri and this ended the bombardment of Fort r with which they entered the service, thei McHenry, the defense of which was hailed strict attention to discipline; their patien as an important victory. endurance of hardships, added to their pr< ficiency in military knowledge, are sur Pennsylvania to tlie Front. pledges that had that been their fortun their conduct would have been lionorab1 I have been thus particular in referring to themselves and their country. to ,tlie burning of the National Capital, the The frequent scarcity of necessary siq be mbardment of Fort McHenry and the plies rendered the duties of quartermastci baitle of North Point, because it is at this particularly arduous, and it is hut justic point where Pennsylvania troops came to to the gentlemen acting in this depav the defense of Baltimore, and, although ment to acknowledge their zeal and e. I ' not engaged at North Point, invalua¬ tions to render satisfaction to their re ble service was rendered by them to our tive regiments. The General has see sister State and Washington city as well. pleasure the cheerfulness with wl Immediately after the breaking out of the ■ ■■ ,V<0. -:

W Pinckney, then Attorney-General in Presi¬ >URNING OF WASHINGTON dent Madison's Cabinet, Avas presented in the House by John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, declaring Avar to exist hetAveen the United States and Great Britain. sardment of Fort McHenry During the proceedings on this subject | Congress, sat Avith closed doors. On the and Battle of North Point. 17th of June the bill Avas finally acted j upon and passed in the Senate, it having previously been Ihgreed to in the House. rewell Address of General On the same day!it received the signature of the President, and two days afterward John Forster. he issued a proclamation Avhich formally declared AA'ar against Great Britain. Fol¬ lowing is the text of the bill as it passed Congress: "j The Avar of 1812-14, or as it has some- “Be it enacted, etc., That war bo and been, and more properly, called the the same is hereby, declared to exist be-! ond War for Independence, is but little iderstood and less appreciated by many tween the United Kingdom of Great Brit¬ ain and Ireland, and the dependencies the present generation. I met a very thereof and the United States of America ligent, well-informed gentleman the other day who confessed that he knew lit¬ and their Territories; and that fhe Presi¬ tle about that great struggle, or the dent of the United States is hereby au¬ causes which led to it, and he Is but one thorized to use the Avhole land and naval of a very numerous class all over the coun¬ force of the United States to carry the try. same into effect, and to issue to private armed A'essels of the United States com¬ Lossing, the historian, says that the missions, or letters of marque, and gen¬ title of the Second War for Independence eral reprisal, in such form as lie shall think an appropriate one, “for, until the term- I proper, vand under the se'al of the United nation of that war the United States States, against the vessels, goods and ef¬ ere only nominally free. Blessed with fects of the Government of the said United peri tv, the people dreaded war, and Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, [ submitted to many acts of tyranny and j and the subjects thereof.” insult from Great Britain and France, rather than become involved in another j A Great, a Momentous Struggle. v [Conflict. Socially and commercially, the | I do not pretend to give a detailed ac¬ \ United States were dependent upon Eu- count of the many battles on sea and jjrope, and especially upon England, and land which took place. I ha\'e neither the |,3jthe latter was rapidly acquiring a dan'ger- time nor would you have the room for Jpous political interest here When the Avar even a mere recapitulation of these events. J| ibroke out. The Avar begun in 1775 was But there Avas deperate fighting, and the tJJ ff,ally only the first step toAvard indepen- battles of Lake Erie, Lundy’s Lane or i\ jdenee: the Avar begun in 1812 first thor- Chippewa, the burning of the National 4 i loughly accomplished it. Franklin once Capitol at Washington, the repulse of heard a person speaking of the Bevolution Commodore Barney at Bladensburg, the as the War of Independence, and reproved | engagements at North Point and New Or¬ , saying: ‘Sir, you mean the Revolu- leans (the last named battle having been the war of independence is yet to fought seA'eral Aveeks after peace Avas pro¬ ."J i!ctome- It was a Avar for independence, but claimed), have long been recognized as Yn: not of independence.’ ” events of great national importance. T he men Avho figured prominently were Henry ' The Causes Which Eed to Che War. Dearbon, Issac Hull, Zebulon Pike, Jacob The chief causes Avhich led to the Sec- BroAvn, William H. Harrison, Andrew >nd War for Independence were the im- Jackson and Winfield Scott, on land, and J pressment of American seamen by the James Lawrence, 'Thomas Macdonough, J British, the blockade of French ports Avith- Oliver Hazard Perry, Char'es Stewart, out an adequate force to sustain the act, David Poiter, William Bainbridge, Ste¬ and the British Orders in Council. On the ! phen Decatur, Joshua Barney and Jesse | 1st of .Tune, 1812, President Madison Duncan Elliott on sea. transmitted a special message to Congress bin which he reviewed the difficulties Avith Two Interesting’ Events. (, Great Britain, strongly portrayed tile ag¬ , In 1814 the principal ports from New gressions inflicted upon us by that na- j York to Maine Avere blockaded by British on, and intimated the necessity of Avar, Avar vessels, and early m the Spring of he message was referred to fhe Commit- that year a depredating warfare again Foreign Relations in the House of commenced on the shores of the Chesa¬ tentative*, a majority of whom peake. My information is obtained from upon, and reported on June 3d, Lossing’s History. A small flotilla, under to as a declaration of Avar. The Commodore Barney defended as best it draAvn by William points our J.l e .Chesapeake. pjt?ut — •w'- >»mer- ••— a like restraint, the Tnalletiable~fights of all brotherly' love. Masons and the constitution of their grand Free Masonry In its very essence Is : lodge, the subordinate or local lodges framed system of light; but if the source of tha their own laws or regulations. light, the Grand Architect of the universe This double representative republic, so should be stricken from Free Masonry tb< like to that of the great nation and great craft would lose its sun, about which al State within whose territory and under of its symbolism clusters, and entbrom whose protection the paternal laws we now darkness in place of light live, Is the oldest representative govern¬ It Is not amiss here to state that George ment in the world; It has always enjoyed the Washington, past master of Alexandria freedom which is still its boast; it has al¬ Lodge, No. 22, while serving a second term ways elected its chiefs and rulers, and It as President of the United States, on Sep¬ has always made its own laws by means of tember 18. 1793, and acting grand master, representatives democratically elected. clothed In the insignia and jewel of that office, performed the ceremony of laying t Solomon’s Temple. corner-stone of the Capitol at Washingto History points to the year A. M. 2992, in the presence of one of the grandest Ma more than ten centuries before the Christian sonic gatherings that had ever, perhaps era, as the period when Solomon began to been assembled in this country up to that build a temple to be dedicated to the God date, thus attesting to the world his appre¬ 1 of Israel. This marvelous work was the ciation of Masonry, hie faith in its'teach- creation of men specially instructed and ings, and the importance of having the cor¬ skilled in wisdom, science and arts which to ner-stone of the Capitol of this nation all others were unknown. Selected from "tested,” “tried” and laid by the proper tribes and nations after they had acquired officers of the Grand Lodge of Ma6ons. in this esoteric knowledge, these men of Tyre, accordance with ancient usages and solemn rites. Sidonia and neighboring nationalities under¬ took the work which Solomon required for the accomplishment of his purpose. THE NEW CAPITOL The site chosen was at Jerusalem and Mount Moriah. The associations,. sacred By the Act of the Legislature the. and profane, which cluster around that hal¬ Building is to be Completed in Time lowed eminence are but the outer covering of facts, mysteries and events which have for the Use of the Next made Impressions on the human mind and Legislature. produced consequences on the soul of man The act authorizing the erection of the lasting through time and outreaching into new Capitol directs that it shall be com-;/l eternity. Nowhere in Christendom can there pleted in time for use by the next Legisla-]l| be found an’educated Intellect which has not ture. The work is well under way and the '' been wrought up to its highest ■’capacities by contractor, Allen B. Rorke, of Philadelphi; the record of the mighty works, stupendous says he wull complete the structure wutbi mysteries and miraculous events which con¬ the specified time. The building will be secrate Jerusalem. The descendants of the plain, ordinary red brick and will be so chosen people who saw Moses and heard the constructed that it may be “faced with mar-| law and the prophets look yet with faith to ble. It will be so built that wings may/ the time when the Holy City shall be the be attached at any time for the use of the|j resting place of the Ark of their Covenant. The Christian bows his head in devout various departments of state. adoration as he contemplates the memories The original appropriation for the build¬ of Olivet. Even the heathen feel an Inex¬ ing is $550,000, but it is estimated that it will cost ten times this amount before It pressible awe at the recital of the histories is completed. The present Department of of the Caesars and centurions who then Internal Affairs building and the old Execu>,^ ruled and reigned over Palestine. Philoso¬ tive building will eventually be removed to phers and scholars have exhausted centuries make room for the departmental wings. in a failure to explain, by human reason, the When completed the building will be one of unfaithfulness of the records and revela¬ the finest; structures of its kind in this tions which give sanction and sacreduess to country. ____J; the scenes of Gethsemane and the Holy Sepulchre.

Stability of Free Masonry.

As we review the past, remote as well ns . From,, recent, we are struck by the stability of Free Masonry. No other human organiza¬ tion has been so permanent. Men die, king¬ doms pass away, even natioqs are lost, but & Free Masonry, like the everlasting hills, re¬ main®. Why is this? It is because the corner-stone of our fraternity is the first great light in Masonry—the Word of God. I Date, J‘/' Without it there would be no Free Masonry, find it Is this which insures its perpetuity. Free Masonry is founded upon a rock. It is a beautiful system of morality, derived from the Holy Bible. We quote its very words, and perform the very deeds enjoined by it. This is why our mystic craft, which traces its origin by history and tradition to the remotest past, promises to continue to the remotest future. Its corner-stone is I God's Word. Its spiritual temple is "a Out Independence of Great house not made 'with hands,” the ashler® of which are the ever-living souls of ever- ablished By It. -»id its cap-stone is charity or x-fiiMsylvanh/^UKl13 Masons or thereunto belongim- Za 0 lc Jurisdiction I JiunfsaSH SI nI1rt’ Adjutant General. Arnos H. My- | sianar ' l b‘,|'t. Insurance Curomls-

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P'SwK'Ks•yjJSo® P"pe,“' Tho Fraternity Itself is the Oldest Republic in the World. Why should Masons lay the corner stnnoo 'uonstitn'tonof the ^7?®“ Penn Of public buildings? Because ou^fraternity is the oldest republic in the world Wh-n :»ited States the dependence of th„ be nations lay bound hand and foot, son" and body, in the universal prison house of AnToTthe iZJ>rn?By,yanla- 1790 self-assumed authority, the Free Mason' ns V which tile S of Pennsylvania bis very name implies, was a member of a ioved from PhfjadePhiiadelnhVa>iptmf\ V/^^pwaser,lIn®pf was re- epresentative and responsible government re’ia?t"rg and buildfagVsta?pnCrSt?r and He aided in electing the chief or master of 10 'after authorized . 8 6 te CaPdol as so t“a?ethete1 1i0dSe; f0r a llmited time so that the delegated authority, restricted Daniel °fPennsJ'1vanla, 1808 in Its exercise by law and usage, returned Lewis F R„-f,St ng‘s' Governor. S topbe hand that gave it, to be convened David Martin Private Secretary. nder like restrictions to another worthy ?allh. tln> ®ecretarr of the 6ommon member of the little community wortlW These tiny republics were further re¬ ftichard E. Cochrane Denntv « strained by a higher power, which they them B Commonwealth.“““.unni neaith. ’ P ly Secretary-of— selves composed by selecting delegates to a genera] assembly,denominated a gilndlod« VnnbTrCF.MReedr^iCDet^0rney Genera'- .1. er’ Deputy Attorney Gen- lhat giaud lodge, composed of the selected wisdom of all the lesser bodies within i [die Instruction?6^61* Superintendent of country or State, made general laws V,. sne^f *1 USr fraiued a constitution with re ! ldp^uctiomePl,ty Superintendent of spectfui reference to the unwritten 1 nnd customs of the fraternity, while unfe'r - --p5— 1ST t-

lean citizenship, and especially PennsyT- is leading the advance in i vania citizenship, should teach In letters of other Pennsylvania regiments j living light that State and country must and impatient to get to the front. „ I ever be paramount to party. The fnitb- in common with their fellow-soldi' I less official, whether Governor. Senator or North and South, working out the n Representative, should be dismissed from destiny that no human agency has allot us. public service to assert the majesty of the people, who with rare exceptions want hou- Behind them they hear the cry of Imperi } est officers and honest laws. ism from the halting conservative as it y We must not distrust free institutions be- heard in every stage of progress In t | cause they are not faultless. The sun with history of the republic. It assailed Jeffers all its beneficent offices is not unspotted. with bitterness when he acquired Loulsiar The rose with its matchless beauty and now the heart, of this great nation with fragrance has its thorns, and there is not family of States. It assailed the purcha in all animate creation and action an ex- of Florida with equal vehemence. It d, ainplar of perfection. I have faith in the puted the acquisition of the Pacific slo) American people. I have faith in the sov¬ from Mexico with confident prediction i ereign citizenship of Pennsylvania, and I national discord and disintegration. It d know that her people, tolerant and forebear¬ nounced the Gadsden treaty in unsparir ing as they may be, will in the fullness of terms, and to-day it takes up the cry t duty correct the errors of rulers and purify Imperialism to halt this nation in its'sul S the leadership of parties. limest duty and clearest destiny. Here in the structure whose corner-stone We did not make war. We pleaded Ion we have laid must be the illustration of with Spain to end her fiendish barbarism i the courage and fidelity of our sovereign Cuba, and we fed her hungry wheu Spai citizenship, or of its forgetfulness of its herself was devastating the homes of highest duties. There cannot be a bad law people; but despotism always defeats itsei enacted in this temple without reflecting its in the end, and when murderous trencher gave us the appalling tragedy of the Maine in which 260 of our brave sailors were mur dered without a note of warning, the cup ol forbearance was filled to overflowing, anc war came because the sovereign cltizenshij of the nation demanded it.

1 Government by the People.” The same supreme power that demandec this war will demand the complete fulfill ment of its purpose. It will demand, in tones which none can misunderstand and which nc power or party can be strong enough to dis¬ regard, that the United States flag shall never be furled in any Spanish province where it has been planted by the heroism of our army and navy. Call it Imperialism if you wili; but it is not the Imperialism that is inspired by the lust of conquest. It is the higher and nobler Impe¬ rialism that voices the sovereign power of this nation, and demands the extension of our flag and authority over the provinces of Spain, solely that “government of the peo¬ ple, by the people, and for the people shall HENRY 1. COBB not perish from the earth.” Architect of the New State Capitol. Such is the Imperialism that has become interwoven with the destiny of our great disgrace back upon every citizen of the free government, and it will be welcomed by State. There cannot be a profligate meas¬ our people regardless of party lines, and wil ure successful here that will not be a re¬ command the commendation of the enlight proach to every voter. There cannot be dis¬ ened powers of the old world, as it rears fo; honor in any department of our State gov¬ the guidance of all, the grandest monument! ernment that does not cast1 its baleful shad¬ of freedom as the proclaimed policy anc ows upon the home of every citizen; and in purpose of the noblest government ,eve erecting this new sanctuary for the duties reared by a man or blessed by Heaven of our legislators it is fitting that we should impress on the sovereign citizenship of this unrivaled Commonwealth the sacred duty THE CONTENTS OF THE BOX of maintaining free government in its purity and legislating wisely in faithful reflex of Hist of Articles and Papers Placed Ii the integrity and patriotism of our people. the Corner-Stone. Our Flag: in Foreign Hands. There was placed in the copper box depos A new epoch has come upon us by our ited in the corner-stone a paper containin; war with Spain, and it brings a new de¬ the following, executed by Deputy Audito parture as inexorable as the law of gravi¬ General Sam Matt Fridy, in artistic chlrog tation. Our Pennsylvania soldiers are with raphy: the army" and navy in every foreign clime where a hostile flag is found. They are in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Hard burg, I’a., August 10, A. D. 1898 he far East under the burning suns of the The corner-stone of the Capitol of th< larchy-ridden Philippines. They were in State of Pennsylvania was this dav laid hi e heroic struggle that won the first vie William J. Kelly, Right Worshipful Gr ‘ -Y'jwai"^i^Cubaand a gallant Pennsylvania Master of thp JRight Worshipful^'" world. Petroleum from the vallevs our mountains now illumes the people of ery tongue. There is not a golden harvest any country where our farm Implements must be conceded that we stand i„ the front employed. The edged tools of our

■verv !nSr In* Common use In the shop of the Un”omr iS“ aUd 6aerifice Preserve intellJsent meehanic abroad. Iu short , And wbo does not turn with pride to the I n„f 5 C°iUTlf,ry of the world Is to-day the I pation of Pennsylvania’s handiwork hlhl r°nf Ben.ns.vlvnnia in illustrating the highest humanities of war and the mast sub- Ihe Cradle of American Liberty. ’ 5Le /e™ti°n.,to our sick and fallen heroes To-day we can look out on our great Com¬ that firetrt ,ren? n was Pennsylvania that first inaugurated the system of i-isitinr monwealth with the most progressive and and ministering to the sick'and wounded of prosperous people of any community in like every battlefield; that made complete provi¬ Proportions either at home or abroad, and sion for bringing the dead soldiers toTheir with traditions and historical records which homes for burial with their kindred and States^ can be claimed by none of our sister that provided a system of orphan schools Here s the cradle of American liberty. Here libfei'a,ly “aintained. ?o ghe homes is Independence Hall, with all the sacred ZTmul f, *,f°.r usefuIness to the sons of those memories which cluster about it. Here the vho gave their lives to maintain free govern- Immortal Declaration of Independence was “e“‘p rher® was not an office of humanity ZnrwD aDr Proclaimed. Here the greatest that Pennsylvania did not perform in the ifices were made in wresting our free- most generous way to give timely aid to the fr°™, the Parent government. The sick and wounded of our soldiers and mark own'nmfTh °f Brandyw*ne and German- their heroism on their tombs among their own and the unspeakable sacrifices of the loved ones, and to make every child of a fallen warrior the ward of the State. fn the hrlTr Va"ey For^ are recorded in the brightest pages of our country’s an- nals Here the Constitution of the great Re¬ Veterans Heroic iu Peace. public of the world was fashioned Tmd our Heroic and grand as Pennsylvania was in people have ever proved their unfaltering de¬ war, her veterans have been heroic in peace votion to the liberty of law. It was the Philadelphia Brigade that stood Nor need we go back to the sanguinary and tne shock of Pickett’s charge in the Bloody long protracted struggle for our independ Angle at Gettysburg, and the survivors of ence to find the grandest records of patriot¬ that brigade were the first to invite and wel- ic/ our Pe°Ple. Every section of the come the survivors of Pickett’s division on | State now points to its own heroes of the their old battlefield to meet in fraternal war of 1812 and of the Mexican wax- and in brotherhood. That was the first demonstra- ) the Sweat hu'UggI(X ior tbe maintenance of tion of the brave men who wore the blue the Republic, when rebellion struggled and the gray to teach the country and the world that not only had the w»ar ended, but overthrow°it1' V™ ?f bloody warfa^'to overthrow it, Pennsylvania stands out sin- that peace had come and given the people of ftefa a^on^ in achievement, alike in field the .North and South a common country, a in forum and in civil authority ’ common brotherhood and a common flag- and the bloody battle of Santiago, in which the Confederate trooper led the front line as major general, with Lee and Butler and I Oates and Rosser ready to offer their lives in defense of the Stars and Stripes, tells lioiv the reiatlons of the States to each'other and completely the bitterness of war has per¬ fi to the Federal Government. Then had to he ished; how- we are again one people from given, on the spur of the moment for defi Eastern to Western sea, from Northern Lake, to Southern Gulf. swoerda' ‘“I *?r flMl arbitrament by the svord, theT solution of an issue that ban There is Pennsylvania, and who is not proud of her citizenship? Here as in a!1 ! vided to ablestit °t the Republic and db other States of the Republic, the citizen'is wintrutoTh °f 8 and Those who the soveleign. Pie makes and unmakes laws. He is the arbiter between candidates and parties for the control of State and na¬ tion. F(fi- all that is beneficent in our free institutions the sovereign citizen is entitled to credit; for all the blemishes which at¬ tach to our authority the sovereign citizen is alone responsible. To-day, in laying the pomattox ended tte'S.^Z “ .j,™ £ conier-stoue of the temple of our laws «• as where the voice of the sovereign citizen is to be echoed in the popular asembly, in the Pennsylvania In the Civil War Senate, iu the Executive Chamber and Cab «V“ ,re> “• «*•« S,“5 s People Want Honest Government. It is a misfortune that many intelligent grandly Pennsylvania^orfheT’parfin \7 decisive battle of tlie war fr P^ta^be citizens, forgetting the sovereign autliS bloody struggles lint inU vere other they yield and forgetting their duties tn tbepcho c^f GetTySbm.g PPfUu was 0Dly themselves, to the commufiUyand to the Commonwealth, bow to the mandates o? Partj, even against their convictions -mil agaiust the welfare of the peonle u! 1 our enl) ,„d ter thus becomes the serv.ant of' ci! should be .th^serraiUs^of jBie master.'Aruer-

, * then, as she has ever been, 'letPr»’i'>aiion that thTbleJs- every attribute of the public an sheltarfng hrnde*noThSban 7 extended as a progress of the age. hors and wholly^ under tho "e,gh- The Growth of Pennsylvania. anl crflddeen8fr7 oL°lrZ Look- at Pennsylvania to-day. A popull the armv and’r D’ a.?d our admiration for, tion of nearly six millions is clustered with!! tne army and navy of the United States and , our confines, and there is no other State <1 country of like population that equals us i| the average intelligence of our people aud I general thrift and content. From the fir.J experimental tramway or railroad construe! eu in our State a few years after Ihe layinl [ of the corner-stone of the old Capitol," wl | have advanced in railways until rhe ru ’’ song of file iron horse is heard in every v, ley and on every hilltop of the Comino wealth and traverses nearly 10,000 miles Among the ahL7 1great Commonwealth. track within our borders. Our free edi: tional system is unapproached by any ot a“Lngyourorafor7fdtrL?Thl0fTthem State_pr country of any clime. We" to-d appropriate annually for uie gfrucatlon"of “fell i?eLnd7rK67eCPluere!ntinS ^ y015' Co1^ youth of the State more than double thc| amount of the gross revenues of four scoi-fl MR, M’CLURE’S SPEECH 7tnS ag°' CoI,eges have been multiplied! dnnH,.eVery ,se<;tl0,‘ of the State is abun-| <1 ntlj supplied. The uormal school pr ^ Review of the Wonderful Growth of ^ides an ample corps of competent teacl the Commonwealth Since the Erec¬ for the pupils of our schools, and the cr tion of the Elrst State Capitol. road from the Delaware to Lake Erie i its free school for every class, condit Mr. McClure spoke as follows- ana race. Citizens of Pennsylvania: I come to speak The rapid development of our boundle ended to' 3n e™Pire hy courtesy lea a State, on this occasion of laying the eaith compelled the construction of i canals, and the completion of a great main: Z7ZTle °f tbOhio second State of the Union in population’ but ' Atlantic, was an achievement to that day grander than any special strhl the contrast of the grand old Commonwealth of progress since recorded in our histori of to-day with the Commonwealth of four Lhe anthracite coal trade that four s score years ago, tells a story of liberal and jears ago was confined to the occnsioi enlightened progress that has no paiXfTn the history of any of her sister States. adventurous shipping of an ark from Schuyl There was then not a single steamship on 45 ono'nnn l a' elpbi“' hils 110w grown to ovoi ±•>,000,000 tons per annum, with a value any of the seas of the world. There was not tne producer of nearly $70,000,000. a train of cars drawn by a locomjfve In any clime. The magnetic telegraph was un¬ Credit Unsurpassed by Any Xation, dreamed of, and even a quarter of a century Conspicuously humane as were our peonn later Professor Morse was shunned as a fret¬ as private citizens, the care of the indigent ting crank by the lawmakers of the nation and insane was not ranked among the du- Th7e ,WaS not a State west of the Father ot Waters, save part of the newly acquired want°b7e ftate’ but tQ-rfay the children of want have homes in every county: the in- Louisiana with a people largely alien to our anguage, our laws and our interests Our Sa“®baV(; a^lums in every section of the present golden Pacific slopes were then fnsm aUd tbe degenerate have reformatory 1 stitmmns, and aii of these are established sparsely settled by the semi-barbarian and ruled by a foreign power. The now fertile lines WifWh 0n tbe most Progressive nes. U ith this generous discharge of duty plains between Missouri and the Rocky to the unfortunate and the most liberal r ' Mountains were marked upon our school icy extended to every munificent featur maps as the Great American Desert. There was uot a railway withiu the limits weMth1l«Ci7iliZati0p' °Ur grand Comi ZZi u of our fetate or in any other State of the to-day practically free from debt and its credit is unsurpassed by any gov¬ Union Water navigation by the construc¬ ernment of the earth. y g ' tion of canals had just been initiated, but Four score years ago we were largely a without any conception of using them as dependent people; our industries had not great arteries of trade. Anthracite coal was 'arled t

THE NEW STATE CAPIJOL OF WHICH Tj

rts 1 Tness to car in large mbassador. M’KINLEY ACTS AL< supported by the cir- the early morning, Running the Peace Negotiations as terence between Sec- Ran the "War. Cambon, which re- Special Telegram to The Times. Relim 'agreement, there was a Washington. August 10. The great and grave responsibility of con- iression, based upon the ut- ducting preliminary peace negotiations with r f public men who had talked Spain rests upon the President of rhe United [President, that the Spanish an- Sta.es, and William McKinley has accepted MANILA unsatisfaetory and that the that responsibility. The members of the *Ions looked as if they might ter- Cabinet who called at the White House suddenly. As this situation changed Tuesday night came of their own volition. The $a rddenly after the conference, it may President McKinley did not summon nis Cabinet for advice. Postmaster General fairly assumed that the Ambassador low Charles Emory Smith, Secretary of the In¬ abandoned the conditions which the Pres- terior Bliss, Secretary of War Alger and I ’flent was reputed to hare regarded as un¬ Attorney General Griggs called for news, satisfactory. to ascertain the situation for their own in¬ It is believed that the protocol carries formation. •Special Te within itself provision for the cessation President Mclviniey is conducting the of hostilities. On this point the naval peace negotiations, just as he has conducted Followi the war. He is the head and front of it all. contingent is urgent that our government protocol The informant of the writer says; “Tell Spain mi adept the Napoleonic policy of refusing to the people that McKinley is running this |enter into an armistice without acquiring business himself and they will be satisfied, wants to some substantial pledge to secure the con¬ because the people have confidence In his The ces summation of peace. What they partic¬ judgment, ^as they have confidence in his States, ti ularly desire is that our government shall patriotism and Americanism.” Indian isl The fact of the matter is that Spain has demand as a condition of the cessation of The rel begun quibbling over large and small mat¬ hostilities the surrender to the United ters. The government at Madrid has under¬ Cuba. States military forces of Morro' Castle at taken to accept the terms which have been The ces* the entrance of Havana harbor and some- dictated, with a number of Spanish provisos, Reeogn ;uch points of vantage at the other im not one of which will he allowed. tempora Ambassador Cambon presented the reply portant ports, in the territory soon to fall Manila of Spain, which began with a statement that under our control. disposing the terms proposed are accepted, but Spain Ihe peace negotiations are now believed desires to know what ie to he done with the The a o be advanced to a point where the Presi¬ Cuban bonded indebtedness. Spain also termine dent has felt warranted in turning his at¬ wants to know how long a time will be given pines. tention to the selection of the commis¬ for the evacuation of Cuba and Porto Rico. The co, sioners to be charged by the United States Spain accepts the terms, but wants to to arran with the drafting of a treaty of peace. So know whether the United States expects with the far as can be gathered, but one name has to permanently occupy Manila bay and city. The bepn .positively determined upon, namely, Spain desires the United States to under¬ stand that the cession of territory can only the for that of Secretary Day, who will head the be accomplished by the consent of the Cor¬ The ev commission. Beyond that point there is tes. Spain desires peace, and accepts the by a com, ,o certainty, although some prominent proposed terms, but desires information on The di ,es have been brought forward, these points. That is the gist of the Span¬ now in b| r. Woodford, our last Minister to ish reply. It is an acceptance of the terms, in, has been also mentioned, though with diplomatic provisos for an indefinite by the cf United States Minister after the war matter, and that there must be no quibbling [he twp ambitions might conflict, a peace for the killing of time. On the contrary, the tie and ommissioner not always being welcome government at Madrid must accept the United a Minister resident, particularly where terms dictated, leaving ail other matters to the Pre: [has been party to forcing an obnoxious the proposed peace commissioners. M. Cambon was duly impressed on Tuesday |ce upon the country to which he is to evening with the fact that the terms pre¬ ccredited. sented by the government are not suggest¬ of the names that finds universal ive, but dictatorial. ial among persons versed in diplo¬ In accordance with this declaration by the mat of Mr. Eustis, ex-Ambassa; President, the French Ambassador was to¬ nee, whose staunch American- day engaged at the Department of State in | the preparation of a protocol embodying the j ed with diplomatic knowledge terms dictated, and heAlas cabled is urgecl as fittin 18, 1777, dben “an account bavin jGrand Master Kelly, of the Grand Lodge received th/.t the enemy’s army was of Pennsylvania, by loaning him the fa- march for ibis city, it was agreed tha/ imons badge of authority for use during General Assembly should adjourn to the laying of the corner-stone of Pennsyl- borough of Lancaster, to meet there } ThursdayJthe 25th inst.” |vania?s new Capitol. After prayer by On Monday, September 29. 1777, the Le Rev. Dr. ,T. S. J. McConnell, he delivered lature of/the State met in the Court Ho an interesting address, in which he paid in the borough of Lancaster, and continuer a high tribute to Masonry and illustrated to hold its sessions there until May 25, 1778 its beneficent purposes. This old Court House was a two-story briclj Auditor General McCauley, vice pres¬ building, located in the centre of the square. | and was destroyed by fire on the 9th. of . ident of the commission, then presented June, 1784. Architect Cobb to the Grand Master, who The British having evacuated Philadel- J handed him the tools and plans, and in a phia, the General Assembly resumed its / brief speech entrusted to him the work sessions in the State House there on August of completing the building. The band 4, 1778, and continued in that building until then played “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the 3d of December, 1799. while everybody on the stand and within Shortly after the adoption of the Const! ; tution of 1789-90 the question of the I hearing distance rose and stood with movai of the seat of governA!\nt from Ph heads uncovered. The Tyler then made delphia began to be vigorously5discus* A - formal announcement of the laying of the The location of the capital in the laiv. & stone, after which Grand Master Kelly city of the Commonwealth was consider* introduced Governor Hastings, who made objectionable, from the fear that the Legis an address of twenty minutes’ length. lature might be too much under the con¬ trol of the municipality, and it was thought it would be better for the interests of the Commonwealth if the capital were centrally; iGOVERNOR HASTINGS’ SPEECH located In the State.

An Historical Review of the Common¬ Many Cities Considered. wealth and Also of the Former The question was a vexatious one, owln^ State Houses. to the fact that the majority of the towns in the central portion of the State vigorously ' Governor Hastings spoke as follows: urged their respective claims. In Febru On the 4th of December. 1682, the first ary, 1795, a resolution was passed by the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania I House providing for the removal of the convened at Upland, now the city of Ches¬ place of the permanent residence of Cut ter. in what had been erected as the Legislature to Carlisle, but it failed to pass “House of Defense.” and its sessions con¬ the Senate. tinued but for three days, when it ad¬ At the session in 1796 the House again „ journed to meet in Philadelphia on the 12th took up the matter. Reading, Carlisle and dayof the first month of 1683. Froiji a sum- Sunbury were named, hut their claims wert* 'inary of the acts passed by that first Assem¬ not agreed to. Lancaster was chosen by a bly one would imagine that its members majority of two in the House, but the Senr worked day and night and were of unani¬ ate did not concur, and the measure failed. mous mind in ali their transactions: no rec¬ Two years afterward the contest was again ord, at least, is preserved of any debates. renewed, and Wright's Ferry, on the Sus-/ Philadelphia had been designated as the quehanna, was named. [capital of the Province, which at that time Subsequently a motion was made to strike (contained a population of about 2,000 souls, out Wright’s Ferry and Insert Harrisburg, by the proprietary, William Penn. The ses¬ but it was lost. The bill as passed was sions of the Provincial Assembly were held amended in the Senate by the insertion of at Philadelphia in various meeting houses, Harrisburg as the location of the capital. private dwellings and Friends’ school houses Neither house would recede, and the meas¬ ’until April. 1720, when the citizens of Phil¬ ure again failed. adelphia petitioned the Assembly to erect In 1799 another effort was made, which a State House. A bill was submitted pro¬ proved unsuccessful, and Lancaster was se- viding for the issue of £50,000 to be ex¬ , lected as the temporary seat of government. pended for this purpose, but by the objec¬ The Governor signed the bill April 3, 1799. tion of Governor Gordon the amount.was The time from which Lancaster was to he l reduced to £30,000. considered the capital was after the first I Important preparations were made for the Monday in November. The sum of $3,000 | erection of the State House, uow Independ¬ was appropriated to pay the expenses inci- , ence Hail, but it was not until October, dent to the removal. The act providing for 1736, that the Assembly was therein con¬ the removal recites that “All offices at¬ vened. It continued to occupy this historic tached to the seat of government of fh ' building until May 13, 1775, when its use State of Pennsylvania shall cease to be was transferred to the Continental Con¬ ercised elsewhere, and shall remain at j gress. The Declaration of Independence said borough of Lancaster until the pe# having been promulgated to the world on nent seat of the government shall her July 4, 1776, on the 15th day of that month he established.” the first Constitutional Convention of Penn¬ sylvania met in the State House and con¬ Harrisburg- Finally Ci tinued in session until the 28th of Septem¬ On the 3d of December, 1791 ber following. Assembly met in the Court H tho Lei- 'be act authorlinsr llm V ''*' years. the people of the ComraontfSntirTfesldenfs The act authorizimr th retuoval of the 'cation at Lancastei and Tj,"50731 of the »nt at every session of the r f re*u,t Wils ■y this question was an i,G ral Assem- '■til the matter was nn llportant issue, " iebruary 21, 1810, when a law ®®ided 011 of Wales. accorded the Prince erecting the removal nf tn s passed 1110:111 to Harrisburg anfnt,hGSGat °f *°veru- peuditure of SI 000 for Fi °'ldll|g f0i' an ex- re c-grds and archives ‘Tanefor °p the State House at tt„i. ,‘n the temporary *£• ssasawjss?* <»■ which her citizens Fm contain “uch of Court House and room, a'®1® of the that they mav iFFret w®1'7 Pr0Ud and llttIe the use of the Legislature* Hainsbui'g for Phenomenal growth a^Fle015?18**011’ in its as proper buildings could he UDt‘ SUC,J time been as composite as to nntfr® ?P“entl 1111,3 pation as her "re-if no* natlona^i>ty and occu- ground owned bv the State Th®®^ uP°n the at Harrisburgwu which the G°Urt House varied, and “a both ‘T’ realth has bee“ sseiybly w.;{ held n, Ith tSeSSlous of the proudly Pennsylvanian dlstmctively,

blfiidinf “^s0 an6 • erec«°“ tiona* SSJteS whthl Plan of aa’ erected during c-herished at home and fo*8 to:day 80 much ing respect abroad The FV°red ’"'itb increas- use of the rAs semb ] y° t^SJ(fven ,lp to the character peimeated tfra?rance of penn's «pt apart for the iiseof lL n ' floor being attracted to his nroiuL th*e*!’ colo-hies and sentafives and the various nffi°USe °f ReP''e- proved upon his’de^HratWn tf°Se Who im" independence and who* °f equality and urer and Auditor General- Hm®’ *be Treas' for the Senate, the library’ tb? second floor of government °nto a amPFfieU his rules partment. The fi j1 and tbe ’and de- adapted to the hannine^ '°nslltution better seventy miliions *Ff „» ,and ProsPerity of Harrisburg-, December 3ST8°r> "'** F®'d at casion Governor Snyder mi” Wh,cb oc‘ u»« »■■«» o“ ,ss :S“,T ,te »»• sage, alluded to the declarer- annual mes- Congress in language Whf^ftl0n of wai' by The b^0l!est Sp0t ln A“^ca. priately quoted to-day "The11187 be ai'Pr°- nation,” he an id sword of the House-Xndeemblem of Pnationalendence AHah.biCa~andand 0?hthe ° I(1noblest Stat® } has been rusting’in its'Fsoabb^i-d111^7 years V, drawn to maintain that ; e Jaid. has been apiration of f Pen' 6;T5e“Ce is lbat ln- lit £ had gloriously achieved InPtheenCe Wbieb revolution our father* tbe war of the z: I were, with a sL™ a JeDt forth- as it | enemy, since thft peWod°nf and sulote tbe land, where opportunity „ batlle on sea or 1 bpen abundantly blessed and HC°UUtlT bas f greatly multiplied. Millions?fdJts resources record the heroism of *h ^ glVe“’ fai,s to tier and sailor Pennsylvania soi- ! grown to manhood and h,h„ -ch" 150118 have Pies of their fathers are d!r'tln? tbe Prl*<*- i serve the precious hew* determined to pre- fiit ZiTaX «rofrSy,Van,a Was chased byPtheTr 5,td aagnd"'hiCh Was ^ Place her sons in the fieM rebel!ion- to valor.” 0 d dlld won by their President of the TTnitou F* d say to the sylvania’s soldiers were 8latos that Penn- Hirst Corner-Stone Laid. mands. ere ready for his com-

lainre oVinei*®3 by the c°mmis- to neighbor anrthe charitT?'*'0*,11 °f du^ 31. 1819, the corner i Ckn°0D' Monday. May Apostles. These elements in ti 1 by tbe law by GovernorFin!^. ^ *h® Capito1 our Statehood have madF nf character °f

the arsenal,"the* encWsime bUi!dIng’ inc,lld,ng pwie£% ,iuTo cEr*®?0™poopioPeacefu'' of the public ground 2nd embellishment wealth which has heFF<1 fwise'y utilized the Capitof bniidingUwas Tbo PennsylvanL; we iaeveneswmduin,the iap °* man home we have n F shed tbeAmer- was completed in Decembm iso? buildillS Wednesday, the on 0(01111,el. 1821, and on tbe Amen’c?n SchoolVe'rd aD,d f°Stered dedicated for the Fse i *7’ 1822'. it was church of our individual ch®i “a,ntafn fbe with imposing ceremonie'7T*tbe legislature our wives and dauabteF, h °e- °nd to-dav f which was aodS ’ was this buiid- flngers and anxious ~-rs/r? busy with deft .he 2d of ^CS“;alMe8tWed by fire the comfort of hu<3bandDFSn k providin'g for m our army and navy d brother serving fu ditb SixtFern hrove“' hlteresting his- Thrill of National Pride were inaugurated T ^ °f Penns.vi- «■ C'n-tinr UmPd;i,f,™°ng tbo111 An- |StatesnSfeeiasnthe thrm^f nar'*11 ih®r S,Ster _ --nor; John W Gearv « great wnr dndied by the war nnFi”81,?* Pride en¬ > ^-of battles: H.-u-r,- ^ ’ t,,ilo, bel'0 of a the ideal voiun- close. which has so clnsefPP 7 nenring its tions of our count y ' UnUed 3,1 8°o- i 1-..... ■JL: iiF 11 :Jl ... -f— ulLudl/ufc., though no invitations were out out to Harrisburg, August 10. Senators and Representatives as-members ner-stone of the new State Capi- of the Legislature, a good sprinkling of lac:' the old building destroyed them was noticeable in the throng. Near¬ re in February. 1S97, was laid with ly all the heads of the State departments and many of the subordinates left their p and display at noon to-day in the posts to do honor to the occasion. The ehce of a notable gathering of people. j preliminary arrangements were mainly in Grand Lodge of Masons of Peunsyl- charge of Auditor General McCauley, ia waj in charge of the ceremonies, State Treasurer Beacom and Senator Mc- >ome of the most distinguished men i Carrel], of the Capitol Commission, Gov¬ Lhe State were present to honor the ernor Hastings, the president, confining bis contribution to the day’s events to a jtsion. historical speech covering the early his¬ 'he ceremonies began and closed amid tory of Pennsylvania, and Ex-Speaker rely downpour of rain which perco- Boyer, also, a member of the commission, id through the canvas overhanging the not being able to do more than participate form for the accommodation of the ■ in the exercises on account of his duties litol Commission’s guests and rendered as Superintendent of the United States jessary the general hoisting of um- Mint. Ex-State Treasurer Haywood and Ex-Auditor General Mylin, late members ilas. But notwithstanding the dis- of the commission, occupied positions jeeable weather the event passed off on the 'platform with the present mem¬ the satisfaction of all who were for- bers. ate enough to get within seeing dis- The platform was liberally festooned :e of the ceremonies and hearing dis- with bunting and the corner-stone orna¬ re of the orator of the day and others mented with the national emblem and ■gated to make remarks appropriate Masonic devices before having been lifted into its proper place by one of the huge he occasion. derricks used in handling the ponderous A Notable Success, columns and beams which will make up he large spaces about the proposed the framework of the building. ding would not have been sufficiently The Masonic Ceremonies. ;e to contain the people who would The Grand Lodge of Masons reached e 'turned out had the day been fair, here at 11.30 on private cars from Phila¬ it was, with an incessant rain beating delphia and were met at the railroad sta¬ n on those who had ventured out in tion by a delegation of Masons, the es¬ open to take in the proceedings, the cort of honor being formed of Persever- anc-e Lodge, No. 21. and the Robert Burns at was a numerical success, Lodge, No. 4, of Plarrisburg. The Cap¬ be corner-stone was that used in the itol Building Commission and the Ma¬ Capitol, having been preserved for sonic fraternity marched from the station new building. After the Masonic es¬ |to the site of the new State House. The ses Governor Hastings, the president procession was headed by the Citizens’ he Capitol Commission, made a speech Band, of Steelton. All the Masonic brethren appeared in the dress of the fra¬ "historical nature covering the early ternity, the officers of the Grand Lodge y of the State, and introduced the and the officers of the subordinate lodges r of the day. A. K. McClure. At wearing their appropriate -jewels and close of the ceremonies a collation was aprons, and the other brethren white ed in the Supreme Court chamber. lambskin aprons. McClure was afterwards entertained When the procession reached the west end of the platform it was halted, the nncheoii hy Governor Hastings at the ranks were opened to the right and left, ■< utive Mansion. racing inward, ancTTbe- brethfenTuncov- ered. The Grand Master, preceded by the !E CEREMONIES IN DETAIL Grand Sword Bearer and followed by the other officers of the Grand Lodge, the > Grand Lodge of Masons Laid the proper authorities and the members of tone According to the Customs the Grand Lodge, in reverse order, then of Their Fraternity. advanced through the open ranks to the ial Telegram to The Times. east of the platform. As the procession advanced the band played a march. When Harrisburg. August 10. e ceremonies of laying the -corner- ■the Grand Officers took their stations ' e of the new Capitol were conducted Grand Master Kelly advanced to the cen¬ er the auspices of the Grand Lodge tre of the platform and began the ritual¬ asons of the State and in the pres¬ istic corner-stone ceremony of the fra¬ ternity. et' many distinguished Fennsylva- . The Supreme Court and Superior The Laying of the Stone. Pennsylvania were represented More than an hour was occupied in udience on the platform, and al- Completing the programme of the Masoni/ i.o A. ana' The--.oldest reach, she thought only of the sufferings ceedings of this Congress.” of those who were holding the British nt ed. and for fifteen years was hay, prayerfully believing in the Lord of secretary of that body. He w Hosts, and that the victory of buttle was edlv the soul of that remark'* not always to the strong and mighty. binge, and very frequently nett '* Energetic and none the less brave, slve peacemaker between the hotspurs'!1 was one of the model women of the days from time to time appeared in that bo; of ’70. Every crisis in the affairs of na¬ It may truly bo written of him that tions brings to the front just such noble was “the oiTlightened benefactor of 1 women as Hannah Thomson, but not Country in its day of peril and need.” I since those memorable days has it ever died at Harriton. August lGth, 182 become necessary for them to suffer and full of honors and of years. yet be strong, to be so abjectly self-deny¬ ing and yet brave in suffering, and hope¬ ful in the most trying hours. Our Revo¬ lutionary ancestors, whether on the bat¬ tlefield or amid the despondency of Valley Forge, well knew that beyond were the tender loves, the sympathizing hearts, the self-devoted labors of the mothers, wives and daughters of liberty, and that event¬ ually the sun of independence would dawn upon their long night of struggle. When peace came and the government of the colonies became firmly established under the constitution, the Congress in appre¬ ciation of Mr. Thomson’s labors, compli¬ mented his wife, of whom they had depriv¬ ed so much of his company, and asked her to receive from them a silver vessel of any form she might choose. She ac¬ cepted the gift and chose an urn. Mrs. Thomson died at Harriton, September G. STATE’S NEW 1807. Charles Thomson, son of William j Thomson, was born in Maghern. County | Derry. Ireland. November 29. 1729. He { emigrated with an elder brother and sis- j ters. at the age of eleven years, his wid¬ EAW TEMPI owed father dying within sight of the shores of America. The son was a bright boy, very affectionate in disposition, and became a favorite in the family of a Corner-Stone of the Capitol blacksmith in whose care the captain, of the vessel had placed him. Overhearing a conversation in regard to apprenticing; With Imposing Ceremony. / him to the former, the boy resolved not to be chained to a forge, and left New | Castle in the direction of Philadelphia. The next day upon being accosted by a FREEMASONS OFFICIATI lady proceeding along the same road, and being asked what lie would like to be when he became a man. promptly replied “lo be a scholar;” pleased, the good wo¬ Gavel Used by George Washington Use/- man took him home with her and sent him to school. His elder brother afterwards assisted him to acquire a classical odu- by Grand Master. sation under the celebrated Rev. Francis Alison. He taught some years in the Friends academy at New Castle, and af¬ it terward went to Philadelphia, where he MANY STATE OFFICIALS PRESS1 i became an intimate friend of Dr. Frank¬ lin. Mr. Thomson became a profound Greek scholar, and his subsequent trans¬ - fi lation of the Septuagint is a monument Governor Hastings Delivers$ anl to bis classical learning. On September 1. 1774, he married Hannah Harrison. | two years his senior in age, and John toricai Address. Adams aludes to it in his diary, and calls Mr. Thomson the-Sam Adams of Phila¬ delphia. About this time the first Con¬ tinental Congress was held in Carpen¬ EIGHTY YEARS OF LAWMAKI ter’s Hall, of which Peyton Randolph, of Virginia, was chosen president, and Charles Thomson, on motion of Mr. Mif¬ flin. secretary. The latter was sent for. A. K. McClure, the Orator of the Day. When the messenger arrived he was just alighting from a chaise with his bride, Reviews the Wonderful Growth I whom he had just brought from Harriton. He hastened to five hall, where he found the Congress awaiting him. Mr. “Thom- of the Commonwealth. on.” said Mr. Randolph, “we have sent | .. rou to keep the minutes of the pro member of the order Pennsylvania’s Knights Templar. Benjamin Parke, in whose honor the prede- x cessor of Pilgrim Commandery was named,in his annual address while commander of the Grand Commandery of Pennsylvania, said that “when the history of knighthood in the United States should be written Pennsyl¬ vania knighthood, like Pennsylvania Mason¬ ry, will stand the grandest, the firmest, if not the loftiest, column in the Union.” Alfred Creigli, a prominent Templar, who gave much thought to the origin of the order, said in 1866, that Templars in other States “must not forget to honor the State of Penn¬ sylvania, who, by the organization of the first Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania, breathed into knighthood the breath of life. May 12, 1797—and in the infancy of the United States arose to manhood.” At the same time he uttered this sentiment: “Al- i though she bears upon her brow the man- i hood of seventy years, yet she has not the marks of old age, nor signs of decay, but ail the vigor of youth.” What Mr. Creigh said Sr, 1866 applies to Knight Templarism in Pennsylvania with greater force to-day. mu « « y 9 v v-w •*irV » w-m futiw^iy • v v » ^ HMINENT SIR CLARK E.DI Pilgrim Commandery. i tutPd in Lower Paxtnng township, j county. It was composed principally of who had received their degrees in army lodges which existed during the American revolution. During that time the order was confined to the favored few, principal among whem were the chieftains to whose patri¬ otic courage much is due for the preservation of our liberties. Harrisburg was laid out in 1785. and soon afterward the meeting place of the lodge was changed to the town. In 1808 the name of the lodge was changed to Perseverenee. Harrisburg became an im¬ portant centre of Free Masonry, and many of . the noted men of the State received their de¬ grees in the town. JIATROKS OP TUP REVOWTIOS. Tlie 1797 Convention. Tn 1797 a convention of Knights Templar flftiuiali HurrUon Thom«o». >.s held in Philadelphia, at which were Hannah Harrison, daughter of RicW presented two encampments from that larrison, of Harnton, and his wife, Han oneon from Harrisburg and one from Car- nh Norris, was born December 11 -o, all organized between the years 1798 n the county of Philadelphia. II* pai¬ 1797. The records of the Harrisburg nts were Friends, and the only daught Spt, nnpment, No. 3, were forwarded to the vas educated in the best schools of the Ives of the grand lodge, but by the rles- Walter City. She was quite a leader in tiou of the Masonic Hall at Philadelphia locial circles, and when at the outset of fire they were lost, leaving no record to he Revolution, as mistress of Hamtom w the names of those who were knighted ,t the age of forty-seven, she married •r of Its officers. ’buries Thomson, there was indeed a In 1826 Holy and Undivided Trinity En¬ tmSion .mc.ng W who tad known campment of Harrisburg was organized un¬ ier so many years as a confirmed maiden der a dispensation issued by DeWitt Clinton, ady. Charming m conversation, of ie general grand master of the Grand Encamp¬ nurkable intellectuality, she found in Mi. ment of the United States. Orders of knight¬ Thomson one worthy of the highest appre¬ hood were conferred for several years by ciation Their love for each othei was the encampment, but the anti-Masonic agi¬ he offspring of true friendship, founded tation prevalent at that time caused its mutual respect and esteem inspired early extinction. ,v virtues which both possessed and ad¬ Tn ISoo Parke Commandery. No. 7. of Harrisburg, was organized, and in 1869 the mired: and that love endured as long as name was changed to Pilgrim Commandery, heir lives. During ill/ entire period of he Revolution she os/isted her husbant No. 11, which it has retained, until it num¬ bers on its rolls over 200 members. Among n the philanthropic ( ork he had tiwdei- the members of the Floi.v and Undivided ■aken-that of secretly of the Congress. Trinity Encampment, from which Pilgrim In every way she aided the patriotic wo¬ Commandery sprang, was General Simon men of* the Province in the multifarious Cameron,, father of Ex-Senator R. Donaid labors devolving upon them- Cameron, In the list of members of Pil¬ iccnnancv, when her home neai 1 an Dill, grim Commandery is Dr. William H. Egle, Sreviotislv occupied by them, was burned State Librarian, g'-a.nd comnT?Fll*AM..,o£. th<* by order of General Howe, and the en- ' rand Comma' 'vy of Pennsylvania, emv despoiled whatever «ns m their -Tenynh J. 1877. and dm aides’ ■/7 E. Dlehi. Eminent Commander of Pilgrim Lancaster; [Kedrou, No. 18, Commandej\y, while Christian Nauss is vine Hugh de Payn. No. 19, Easton; Ye. chairmai. There are over one hundred mem¬ York; Baldwin II., No. 22, William _ bers on this committee. Senator McCarrell Second Division—W. I. Fleming, _ is cUairtban of the committee on reception fonte. marshal; aides, Harry K. L. LeecL and entertainment, and William M. Donald¬ A. Felix, B. F. Irving and N. S. Ross; c son viqe chairman, and Robert C. Welsh chairman of the parade committee and Mau¬ rice C, Finney ,vice chairman. One of the interesting events on Monday | afternoon will be the exemplification of the j -Red Cross degree by Tancred Commandery, I of Pittsburg, at Kolker Street Hall, the j largest in Harrisburg. On Monday evening j Harry M. Van Zandt, Grand Commander, j and the Grand Commandery will receive the i| visiting Knights and their ladies at the Com- j

ALEXANDER W. BERGSTRESSER Pilgrim Commandery.

manderies. Packer, No. 23, Mauch Chu Hermit, No. 24, Lebanon; Lewistowu, No. 26, Lewistown; Kadosh, No. 29, Philadelphia; Hutchinson, No. 32, Norristown; Allegheny, No. 35, Allegheny; Mary. No. 36, Philadel¬ phia; Calvary, No. 37, Danville; Readl“~ No. 42,Reading; Dieu le Vent, No.45, Wilk barre; St. Alban, No. 47, Philadelphia. Third Division—F. H. Hemperly, marshal: aides, Jacob Sell. W. K. Lits, W. S. Colville and John C. Bucher; commanderies, Tan¬ cred, No. 48, Pittsburg; Kensiugton, No. 51 G. WILSON HOFFA Philadelphia; Continental. No. 56, ChamberJ Pilgrim Commandery o£ Harrisburg. burg; Ascalon, No. 59, Pittsburg; OrienPf No. 61, Johnstown; Huntingdon. No. monwealth Hotel from 8 to 10. Pilgrim Com¬ Huntingdon; Duquesne, No. 2, Pitts! mandery will receive at the Scottish Rite Gethsemane. No. 75, Y'ork; Shamokiu ,! J Temple' North street near Third, from 8 to 77, Shamokin, and Pilgrim, No. 11, of.'Scl 12. Visiting Knights may attend in fatigue city. dress, wearing jewel. During the evening The Grand Commandery. there will also be other receptions by visit¬ At 3 P. M. there will be a session 61 ing commanderies. Grand Commandery at Chestnut Street V Formation of tlio Parade. At the reception and tournoi at K-] The parade will st/irt at 10.30 and be in Street Hall in the evening sir knights charge of Adam H, Schmehl, grand captain be admitted only in full templar unifor^ without swords. At 8.15 the guests will general, with William M. Donaldson, chief ' entertained by a concert. Later in of staff; officers and Past Grand Command¬ evening there will be an exhibition drill ers of the Grand Commandery; Corinthian the Allegheny Commandery, followed Chasseur Commandery, 53, of Philadelphia, dancing. escort to grand officers. It will form on Front On Wednesday morning the Grand Com! and Second streets, right resting on Mar¬ mandery will elect officers, who will he ket, and pass east on Market, to Fourth, to stalled in the Opera House in the erenii; Walnut, to Third, to North, to Sixth, to which will close the work of the conclave. Reily, to Third, to State, to Front, passing The last time the conclave of the Grand reviewing stand, at the executive mansion, Commandery of Knights Templar of Pe where they will be reviewed by the grand sylvania was held in this city was on eminent commander, officers and past grand 13, 1871, and the only time before in 18 commanders, and Governor Hastings and Pilgrim Commandery, under whose auspie other State officials. The procession will next week's conclave will gather here, hrf move in the following order; an interesting history. November 10, 17 First Division—Herman Junker, Pittsburg, Lodge No. 21, frequently mentioned as tj mashal; aides, Lewis L. Forbes, John G. “Ancient Lodge of Paxtaug’’ was cons Gwinner, Harry S. Beaver and 0. C. White; commanderies, Philadelphia, No. 2, Phila¬ delphia;'St. John’s, No. 4, Philadelphia; St. John’s, No. S, Carlisle; De Molay, No. 9, Reading; Mountain, No. 10, Altoona; Cru :le. No. 12, Bio GORGitflVE Of S. J. M. M'CARRELL Chairman Reception Committee, Knights Templar Conclave. PIGflTS TEjflPMR There are seventy-four active commander¬ ies in Pennsylvania, and of these thirty-eight will be represented in the parade on Tuesday GrarJrand Commandery of Pennsylvania next by organizations ranging between 20 and 150, and all the other commanderies by a to Meet This Week, few members. The total in line will not vary much from 2,500 brilliantly uniformed Knights. While all the commanderies will present an attractive appearance those from HARRISBURG 13 IN GALA ATTIRE Philadelphia and Pittsburg promise to make an exceptionally fine display in the parade. These cities will not only be largely repre¬ The Forty-Fifth Annual Session of sented, but by its best commanderies. Philadelphia to be Represented. the Masonic Order. Mary Commandery, No. 36, of Philadelphia, will be the first to arrive in the city on Mon¬ day,but by night nearly all the others intend¬ ing to take part in the parade are expected to GRAND PARADE ON TUESDAY have made their appearance. The conclave committee consists of William M. Donaldson, chairman; M. W. Jacobs, vice chairman; William H. Smith, secretary; William L. The Philadelphia Commanderies to be Gorgas, treasurer; Owen M. Copelin, Daniel W. Cox, Clark E. Diehl, Daniel H. Heisey, Well Represented—The Pre¬ Edward S. Herman, Samuel J. M. McCarrell, William B. Miller, Peter X. Sprenkel, Robert vious Conclaves. C. Welsh and Richard M. H. Wharton. The committee on escort will be headed by Clark

Special Correspondence of The Times. Harrisburg, May 21. The auguries are all favorable to the grand success of the forty-fifth annual conclave of the Grand Commandery of Pennsylvania Knights Templar in this city next week. The local committees of arrangements have made every possible provision for the accommoda¬ tion and entertainment of the thousands'of Knights who have indicated their purpose to ■ visit the State Capital during the conclave exercises, and in their efforts they have re¬ ceived the willing and substantial eo-opera- of business men and others resident e. The parade and other incidents of the prospective conclave have been under the tuspices of Pilgrim Commandery, No. 11, one if the oldest and solidest Templar institu¬ tions of the State, which has thus far per¬ formed its multiform duties with suali rked success that not a doubt is enter- : that until the end of the conclave it be *~~jd wanting in any particular. - WtelMaRBl&ifciH- T never can iorger, as "At 8 o'clock, tlie shelves being token not forget, although he passed by down and pnt away and the ’tables joined few years after his death, the home together, everybody sat down to the tea, coffee, bread, butter, salmon, shad, liver, Loretto, the romantic, and, in some .mens steak, potatoes, pickles, ham, chops, black ure, pathetic career of the man who was puddings and sausages all over again. Some horn to a prince’s title and a king’s wealth were fond of compounding this variety and had he desired to grasp it, who made an having it all on their plates at once. As humble but never-to-be-forgotten career as each gentleman got through his own per¬ a true Christian—the Prince Demitri Galiit- sonal amount of tea, coffee, broad, butter, zin. It was at Loretto that he founded his salmon, shad, liver, steak, potatoes, pickles, colony of Catholics, after having been con¬ ham, chops, black puddings and sausages, verted from the Greek faith, and the little he rose up and walked off. ■ When every¬ mining town of Gallitziu, Cambria county, body had done with everything the frag¬ the end of the great tunnel which Dickens, ments were cleared away, and one of the in 1843, several years after the death of waiters, appearing anew in the character the enthusiast priest, went aside to visit, of a barber, shaved such of the company bears testimony to his extraordinary career. as desired to be shaved, while the remainder Many thoughtless passengers over the looked on or yawned over their newspapers. canal and portage ways passed over the Dinner was breakfast again, without the tea, humble settlement in those years, when and coffee, and supper and breakfast were young Gallitzin was busy with his little i identical.” flock of Christians, without the knowledge | It is also not uninteresting to glance at that in the humble priest, who had taken the portage car itself which one, including the name of Schmidt, there lived in these Mr. Dickens, took upon the end of his canal solitudes of the Alleghenies a Prince of the boat journey, and upon which he was Russian Empire, a son of a field marshal of lifted to the top of the Alleghenies and, so Frederick the Great, and of his wife, the to speak, slided down the western incline celebrated Amelia Gallitzin. ‘ of the Portage road until he reached the The house which he built in the first year water-way which led him to Pittsburg. Jt of the present century and the chapel still may be noted as a matter of some little survive, forming as chapel and parsonage to- detail that the packet canal boats of those day one of the most picturesque and ro¬ days were almost uniformly 72 feet long, mantic relies in Central Pennsylvania. In 11 feet wide and S feet high above low- the days of the old canal packet it was water mark. In those days it required twen¬ one of the few religious chapels to be seen ty-eight hours to transport a passenger and admired when the adventurous tourist vehicle 103 miles. At this date the Penn¬ cared to go beyond the beaten paths of sylvania Eailroad’s limited specials traverse travel. It can to this day, almost, be seen the same distance in much less than two from the Pennsylvania station of Gallitziu hours. on the other side of the great tunnel. It is interesting in connection with the reminiscence provoked by the disappearance of the old packet canal boat of sixty years ago to consider the detail of annihilation

of time and space by'The construction at the Gallitzin Tunnel, one only of the many great iruprovemepts in travel between Phila¬ delphia and the West. As the passenger thunders into that long and gloomy cavern, cut straight through miles of adamant rock, and emerges upon the other side into the little town of Gallitzin, to avoid which straight cut Dickens' “Portage Road Pull- . n” had to climb nearly 1.500, feet, one jiession of . earners,' and lias, for that rea¬ son. become khown as the "camel-back As soon as any gentleman found his lium- >rli go. • of Ills passage Over this bridge | her he took possession of it by liumedi- Dickens says: “It was profoundly dark; i atcly undressing himself and crawling into Perplexed with great beams crossing and bed. The rapidity with which an agitated recrossliig It at every possible angle; and gambler subsided into a snoring slumberer through the broad chinks and crevices in | was one of the most singular effects I • he door the rapid river gleamed far down have ever -witnessed. As to the ladies, below like a legion of eyes. We bad no I they were already abed, behind the red lamps; and as the horses stumbled and curtain, which was carefully drawn and floundered through this place towards the pinned up the centre, though as every ■ distant speck of dying light it seemed in- cough, or sneeze, or whisper behind this i terminable. 1 really could not at first per- curtain was perfectly audible before it, we niade myself as we rumbled heavily on had still a lively consciousness of their so¬ blhng the bridge with hollow noises, ami ciety. I held down my head to save it from the “The politeness of the person in authority rafters above, but that I was in a painful had secured to me a shelf in a nook near I dream; for I have even dreamed of toiling this red curtain, in some degree removed I through such places, and as often argued from the great body of sleepers, to whien even at the time, ‘This cannot be reality ' ” ’ place I retired, with many acknowledg¬ The Legislature happened to be in session ments to him for his attention. I found at this time, and during Dickons’ stay at it, on after-measurement, just the width ; the Boulton Hotel, which was under the of an ordinary sheet of Bath post letter | airect supervision of Mrs, Boulton, a very paper; and I was at first in some uncer¬ tainty as to the best means of getting into ||J.it that hostelry. Apparently in those days It. But the shelf being a bottom one, I t ime TfVT6 Che7lllg of tobacco than finally determined on lying upon the floor, leie is to-uay and less, smoking for rolling gently in, stopping immediately I Madame Boulton was compelled to take up touched the mattress and remaining for covorfno-6vf i!nd put tlowu other floor the night with that side uppermost, what¬ covering because of the expectoration of ever it might be. Luckily, I came upon mahogany oiored saliva by members of my back at exactly the right moment. I the Assembly at least, Dickens says so At : was much alarmed on looking upward to i lraulsJ>iirg; to-da.v they are more particu- see, by the shape of his half yard of sack¬ ai and. have more cuspidors, and they use ing (which his weight had bent into an more cigars than they do fine-cut. ‘ ' exceedingly tight bag) that there was a very heavy gentleman above me, whom the slen¬ But it is the canal boat-the "porta-e nal der cords seemed quite incapable of hold¬ ing, and I could not help reflecting upon ace car" of those days, a sketch of wWcU £ho grief of my wife and family in the I * PfSG“ted connection with a pfctme event of his coming down in the night. 1 , f tbt Pennsylvania Railroad’s latest p ir- But as I could not have got up again without : v tfin e t0'-d?'rtpat wo have most to do a severe bodily straggle, which might have ! 'V, , a reminiscence of the last of the. old inrernal water-way packets th° alarmed , the ladies, and as I had nowhere to go to even if I had, I shut my eyes upon House,house iTitin it, wviewednt efrom a barg0 the outside-with « »ttleand the danger and remained there. / f caravan at a fair, viewed from within "One of two remarkable circumstances is the gentlemen being accommodated as the indisputably a fact, with reference to that spectators usually are in one of thosJ class of society who travel in these boats. Either they carry their restlessness to such the'kull'es “useums of Penny wonders, and the ladies hejug^jiartitioned off bv a red a pitch that they never sleep at all, or curtain, after the manner of the dwarfs they expectorate in their dreams, which and giants in the same establishments, would be a remarkable mingling of the whose private lives are nassed in rather real and ideal. All night long, and every close exclusiveness. night on this canal boat, there was a perfect .Dickens says, in describing this: "I have storm and tempest of spitting, and once my > rationed my having been in some uneer- coat, being in the very centre of a hurri¬ Uuty and doubt at first relative to the cane sustained by five gentlemen (which coifing arrangements on board this boat. , moved vertically, strictly carrying out 1 . remained in the same vague state of L Beid’s.theory. of the law of storms), I was ranrtne next morning to lay it on the deck' mud until 10 o’clock or thereabouts, when, and rub it down with fair water before it going below, I found suspended on either was in a condition to be worn again. side of the cabin three long tiers of hang- “Between 5 and 6 o’clock in the morning ng book-shelves, designed apparently for we got up. and some of us went on deck, volunies of the small octavo size. Looking to give them an opportunity of taking the with greater attention at these contrivances shelves down, while others, the morning (wondering to find such literary m-epara- being very cold, crowded round the rusty tmns m such a place), I descried on each stove, cherishing the newly kindled fl-e r a sort of microscopic sheet and blan- ket; then I began dimly to comprebeml and filling the grate with those voluntary ‘ contributions of which they had been so bat tie passengers were the library and liberal ail night. The washing accommoda¬ enththey, '*',ere t0 be arranged edgewise tions were primitive. There was a tin s^e^'Tes till morning. ladle oiiained to the deck, with which every .“I was assisted to this conclusion by gentleman who thought it necessary to ,ing some of them gathered round the .mister of the boat, at one of the tables, cleanse himself (many were superior to'this ’ weakness) fished the dirty water out of the rawing lots with all the anxieties and canal and poured it into a tin basin, se¬ wssious of gamesters depicted in their ooun- cured in like manner. There was also a ennnees, while others, with small pieces ja^-towel; and, hanging up before a little >f cardboard in their hands, were gropin'* -aoking-glass In the bar, in the immediate mong the (shelves in search of numbers vicinity ol the bread and cheese and bis¬ londiii/r with those they had drawn. wm cuits, were a public comb and hairbrush. 1 those witr Tand the Bortage road, and which is i to be the last of Its kind.

i This trifling bit of local news links than half a century of passenger transporta¬ tion in Pennsylvania to the present day. We glide swiftly nowadays, sometimes at eighty miles an hour, over and sometimes through the mountains from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. This old canal,boat may have been, and possibly was, the same boat upon which Charles Dickens, just fifty-seren years ago yesterday, made his trip so quaintly described by himself from Harrisburg to tb Portage road, thence, 2,500 feet above tid water, over the Portage road to- Pittsburg. When this—the last of the old canal pack¬ ets—was In use between Harrisburg and the end of the old canal at the foot o the Portage road, passengers from Balti THE LAST OF THE more reached York by one of the firs railroads of the century, and thence by coach to Harrisburg. This was Dickens’ CANAL PACKETS route. The travelers in those years left Balti¬ more at about 8 o’clock in the morning CONTRASTS IN TRAVEL RTJRING A HALE and reached York, a distance of sixty i CENTURY. at dinner time, thence the ride to burg. The coaches of those days were t They were like “swings you see at on four wheels and roofed and cov DICKENS ON A CANAL BOAT the sides with painted canvas.” Th twelve inside passengers. The lugg such big things as rocking chairs and di How the Well-Known Author Trav¬ tables were on the roof, and Jntoxic eled Across Pennsylvania Pitty-Seven persons were allowed to have a seat Years Ago - His Observation Car. the driver as outside passengers. They we what Dickens describes as land arks. Dickens’ Description of His Trip-The Changes in Travel Since That Time. When the coach arrived at Harrisb it drew up at the old Boulton House, is still standing, as it was in those old The following news item appeared in an and with very few modern Improve obscure column of a Philadelphia paper a but the rumble of the old York stage - few days ago: through the old camel-back bridge, in 1812, and still grim, old and pictures The Hast of the Canal Packets. spanning the broadest space of the f Harrisburg, Pa., April 12.-In oneof'the quehanna within ten miles either way canal locks near here there was blovn up a Harrisburg, was always one of the few davs ago, as a canal derelict, an old dents of those days. canal boat hull, which almost sixty years This bridge was, and still is, roofe ago- was one of the canal packets vhich covered on all sides, and is nearly conveyed passengers between Harrisburg in length. It has humps in it like a

V/:KENS reached the portage road ^; f"ork campaigntobepresentwithhisold proved. 1 tistics, History andFurnishingBadges were thenreadbythesecretary andap¬ welcome. Tireminutesofthe lastreunion were also madeand approved, after assembled comrade®ina few wordsof pucker, ofHarrisburg; secretary' and lector ofInternalRevenueMichaelKer- as chairmanTheofficersoftheergauiza- this atternon,,Ca.pt.P.J.Bricker,ofthe ’command andotherofficerswereuna¬ by ChairmanBricker,who greetedthe tion are:Coloneloftheregiment,ex-Col¬ Auditor General®Department,presiding A’ork, wastoebusywiththeGreaterNew pS*&£e,“' I-e"“ "***» <* r>1p,of ISeIv’president,Ca.pt.P.D. voidably absent. followed this-eveningbyacamp-fireatthe CAMP FIRETOBEHELDTHISEVENING Supreme CourtroomattireCapitol.The Post 5S,G.A.R.,thisafternoon,willbe day. Abusinesssessionattheroomsof vania cavalryregimentwasheldhereto¬ OLD SOLDIERSMEETAGAIN. rents. GeneralMichaelKerwin,ofNew /M’e. weremanypleasantpersonalinci- The reportsof theCommitteesonSta¬ The meetingwascalledto order at2:15 eterans hadafinetimetogetherand I, KEHWIN'SVETS line regimentmetinreunionat2o’clock Tile reunionoftheThirteenthPennsyl¬ Hate, 0‘*/>’',V7. Frofa^kJ € *c'h .a,S’ er,'era,l social reunion was held. tain BrickerPresidedatthe Meeting ThisAfternoon, . , " noiicatt. iplasrurgnt^ ana aion will gather iTnw- sev^ n,ty-JBy e old veterans Cayalry Association. of theThirteenthPa. IT .of... early 'tij Association are:President, P.D. Bricker; - :ice president, D. A. Gnllabanl; secretary,. 1 forcesparticipated. 1 Va„in.March,1863. | guire;©urgeon,GeorgeB.Loomis. | phaa)joinedtheregimentatWinchester, reached Philadelphia,July27tli,forDual the advanceguardofNinthPennsyl¬ from the.sea,exchangingdispatcheswith Jacob H.Deweeis,MajorsT.A.Byrnes, Johnson toSherman,April26th,1865. Averysboro. BentonvilleandRaleigh,N. cation withGen.Sherman,onhismarch Schofield’s command. Gregg participated,untilFebruary23d, eral ordersitwas,February8th,1864, ditional companiesjoinedtheregiment, from Pennsylvania,according tothestate¬ Michael Kerwin,Lieutenant-Colonel discharge, havingforitsfieldofficersCol. vision, ittoolspartinthebattlesof 1865, whenitwastransferredtoGen. making fifteencompanies,when,bygen¬ Boonesbora, Md.Latein1863,threead¬ and missing.* of 322officersandmen,killed,wounded Winchester toHarper'©Ferry,withaloss June 15th,whenitcoveredretreatfrom" Milroy’s division1,fromFebruary,’1863,t

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T a.«i ; Let -■; - with the balance of the bovn gramme will be observed in tL , 8 Pro' i this morning. They nan none a goou ueai totv beuv vrecteaerected for the orpnai™.ST. of marching around yesterday, and be¬ evening, September 25th-ffiLth—Officer o^th'Erid?r I tween that exercise and their successful banquet, Gapt. Samuel R. Sel “Th!1 raid upon the whole roast ox and bean » Star Spangled Banner The soup at Hoffman’s Woods last evening,,,

' they needed a rest in bed address of welcome hv thL SffTv choirs’' The gathering at Hoffman’s Woods quartette, Messrs ’ Sta^itJ*^ l>u?,g'ess: late yesterday afternoon was a big one Mrs. Harry Snyder aml pLi ®k d Goiea> and the event an enjoyable one. The drew by e^tofCof the 06^ ad' we 1 roasted ox was slashed into pieces Association Col PnJn Re«iment and hundreds of sandwiches were made 1 »=; s-rll#^s. and eaten with the bean soup. Mean¬ time, the veterans listened to speeches x s; its Mayor Patterson welcomed them to the Martha Steckel*; “GuawrtSe Jw’»Mi?8 dty In his address he said:

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Department Commander H^chSlin I'ssT Hoy “Sa S “ ciir' niandor of tho 'cejii, i ’ r'!t'IJII"iUI=''’ com‘ \ sociation, made addressedAs’ another carnafim it, £ n there was iinbl nr8?1 Me One Flower from ooirtntlra!"? wl, 3, pTT,°” r 01 Kep,re- jacteoo ff^SSrJgt gBp* SfSWSiS"- S“OT« »»* sSw-fin SooS Bfnd?raddr«s'tX^nT~pM'iSric’a ^en. “Veteran* Request,” M E Mp,®wen«eI: 2£ s'v" DiJSf o"der' H'I °' Shroeder York- T V n^“a+DAer’ E‘ L- Dis^rctS^T1^ > Smith ' LebatnCt n9^rtermaX, ’ fe. T ciT,m?ba:Von; District Commissary T at Seven' Pines ” Mu.tSSSS; Kear- twas!* *** *s

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SWATS' ASSSr? fflTcS /■ The old soldiers of the Central Penn¬ sylvania district of the G. A. R., who are nothing^“‘mark the tocatibn ofoLu Curtin. Recently steps have been ?fi I having a reunion here, took a good rest to recommend the Lecisl-i- nla'Ke,‘ - jagt night, and were on the streets early aHU^. 4® * elaborate^ndrrp^n^^ g£ "Ssr^.MMana—"- the

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This afternoon one of the most interest¬ # --- ing events of the gathering took place. It was the location and marking of the spot where on the night of July 1st, A Peculiar Bottle Containing a List cf 1863, a rebel spy was captured on the Articles Found in a Section—Dis¬ river just, out from Harrisburg, near the present site of the Cumberland Valley appointment of the Large Railroad Bridge. The veterans marched to the park in a body and decided to erect Crowd at the Time of a tablet at the spot. On the night of July 1st, 1863, the Union soldiers in the the Discovery. rifle pits along the river at Harris Park saw a flat drifting down the river. Col. Harry C. Demining and another soldier rowed out, and found one man in the Special Correspondence of “The Press.” flat. He was at once captured and Harrisburg, July 24.—The finding of the brought to shore. He had floated down corner-stone of the old Capitol on July from several miles up the river, recon- 19 was an event of interest throughout noitering the shore and had maps. A the State. The corner-stone was laid large stone was attached to a rope at the on May 31, 1819, by William Findlay, end of the flat, ancT whenever it struck Governor of Pennsylvania; Stephen the bottom, the spy marked the spot on Hills, architect and contractor for the his map as fordable. He proved to be a execution of the work; William Smith, rebel captain in Stuart’s Black Horse stonecutter, and Valentine Kergan and Cavalry. He had on a Union cavalry Samuel White, masons. jacket, but the rest of his uniform was The search for the corner-stone had i confederate. He was after taken to Port been going on for some time before the Delaware, and what became of him is stone was found, and many had begun : not known. Col. Demming still preserves to fear that it never would be found and this memento of the event: that some careless workman had de¬ “Provost Marshall’s Office, Fourteenth stroyed It during some of the many al¬ Dictrict. terations to which the old Capitol was necessarily subjected. “Harrisburg, July 2, 1863. “Ree’d per hands, of Corporal H. C. The stone was a large dressed brown- stone, 40 by 22 Inches, covered with a Demming a prisoner calling himself a copper plate and securely cemented. It ¥ captain of cavalry on the staff of Major was located on a level with the basement Gen’l D, N. Couch, arrested on the river floor and had not been found heretofore and supposed to be in the service of the because the searchers had been looking enemy. for it higher up. It is very probable i “.Jno. Kay Clement. that the same stone will be used as the j “Capti and Provost Marshall, 14th dis¬ corner-stone for the new Capitol soon to,' trict.”; . be erected. r. At 2 o’clock the veterans went to Oy¬ The corner-stone was chiseled open by 1 ster’s Point in Cumberland copnty,. This Austen Beach Monday afternoon in the i was the nearest the.rebels got to Harris¬ presence of Governor Hastings, Captain ' burg, "and were repulsed at the point by J. C. Delaney, Superintendent of Public Joseph P. Knipe, now of this city. Grounds and Buildings; General Reeder, Secretary of the Commonwealth; Repre- j sentative A. G. Seyfert, of Lancaster;- Attorney General McCormick, State Li- brarian W. H. Egie, Major Levi McCawi,, ey and WiTtiaon Kelker, of the Dauphin Cpunty Historical Society. After fifteen minutes of hard work the stone cover¬ ing yielded and a slab of wood was re¬ vealed. This was welded in and around the sides by lead and cement, making the contents air-proof. Then the wood¬ en cover was removed; in its turn a large dark-colored glass bottle was revealed. That was ail. Date, (ft % The immense crowd gathered on the spot was disappointed, but as Governor Hastings was very busy on Monday, the Secretary . of State took charge of the id it was opened on Tuesdm- r And all your fellow companions in arms welcome you to Harrisburg to-day. of the War. “Yes, comrades, you are welcome, a 'thousand times welcome to our city—as welcome as the sunshine; as welcome as the bright May morning, fragrant with the odors of numberless flowers.” THIS TIME THEY MEET IN PEACE The next reunion will be held in the coming June at Johnstown during the Department Encampment at that place. Annual Reunion of Central Penna. G. A. R, Association.

There are several thousand visiting vet¬ erans of the last war in town. They con¬ stitute a big representation of the Cen¬ tral Pennsylvania District Association of the G. A. R., and are having an annual reunion, comprising a parade, reception and address by Governor Hastings, an ox roast and interesting camp fires. The as¬ sociation includes the counties of York Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Cumberland’ -Lebanon, Berks, (Chester, Schuylkill, Lan- casters Northumberland; Perry, Juniata and Dauphin, and embraces about fifty posts. This convention of veterans, is an Im¬ portant one, not only because of the re¬ 0L0 BOYS union of old comrades of the war, but also because it will take action upon and have weighty influence in securing some legislation next winter. One of the meas- _uies it will urge the Legislature to pass is a bill appropriating money for the erection of monuments to the memory of the soldiers and sailors of the Rebellion especially one grand monument that will epitomize the war, its sufferings and its © ^ or it. s. Several posts arrived in town last night the first to appear being that of Stewarts’- town, York county. In ihonor of the event many houses and all the hotels are tastefully and in some instances very elaborately decorated. Even back in the narrow alleys, where even the sound -•* the parade drums was not heard to-da humbly living veterans stuck little flax out of the windows, and then marche with a braver tread down street Nearly all of the 49 posts in this Cen¬ tral district are represented. They be¬ gan getting into town at an early hour this morning and all forenoon kept Mar¬ ket street lively and the crowds interested with marching men, martial music and big standards. The Committee of Reception, of which E. W. Jackson, of Post 58, is chairman, was kept busy escorting thie visiting Posts to their various headquarters. The escort music was furnished by the Sons of Veterans Drum- Corps. Department Commander Darte, Wilkes-Barre, arrived at noon, and w heartily greeted by many veterans.. One of the Posts to arrive early tL morning was 37, of York. They brought with them a guard of honor and their fa¬ mous and venerable Eighty-seventh Regi¬ On the Streets of This ment Band. This latter organization was > formed five years before the war began, volunteered and went all through the great contest The members of it are still all 87th regiment men and some |But Not as in the Days the original instruments are used. slS}TSh y ”™*~i**-rite-* - ■ k/r5 •acred to be the only wnr-oana tnara« j kept up its organization. Down in York ment Commander George G. Royer whenever this old band appears on the Eighty-seventh Regiment Band. streets, everybody goes to the front door Guard of honor of Post 37, York. Post 3 r, York, Captain Reissinger, to see them. Abram Aldlnger is the pres¬ commander. ent leader of the band. The late Sheriff Samuel F. Keller, of this city, was a Post James J Pickett, No. 57. Dills- burg, Charles Williams, commander popular sergeant in the 87th regiment Commonwealth Band. George H. Thomas Post, No. 84, of Post 58 Guard ofl Honor. Lancaster, brought with them a beauti¬ Post 58, Harrisburg, E. W. Jackson, fully made small brass cannon, mounted commander, with battle flags. on an elegant caisson. The body, limber Governor s Troop Cadet Drum Corps and ammunition box are all of fine work¬ Burger’s Military Band, Lancaster. manship. The gun is of polished brass. H- TM>mas Post, 84, Lancas- A similar field-piece, with a gun made of ter, wnth cannon. nickel, was brought by 226 Post, of D. H. Nissley Post, 487, Mt. Joy, Henry Marietta. These little cannons make a Peffer, commander. J commendable roar, when fired. Harrisburg Band. Reynolds Post, 405, of Lancaster, Guard of Honor to Post 116 named after the noted General, who met Post 116, Harrisburg, John j. Garrett his death at Gettysburg, made a brave commander. ’ showing, with splendid flags and stand¬ ards, and headed by a drum corps wear¬ Second Division. ing red jackets. Newtown Band. William Swe'i'gart Post, Marietta, with During the morning many of the vet¬ cannon. ’ erans visited the site of Gamp Curtin and Steelton Post, 351, John H. gheeslev strolled out to Hoffman’s Woods, where commander. i-ueebiey, all last night and this morning a big ox was roasting and bushels of beans were .f1 * veterans, Lancaster. in soak, preparatory to the indispensible Metropolitan Drum Corps. bean soup and hard-tack. Reynold’s Post, 405, Lancaster, Albert The parade of the veterans started at Leonard, commander. 1:80 this afternooni The line was form¬ Heintzleman Post, 800, Manheim, with ed on Front, Second and Third streets, in commander. three divisions, and marched over the fol¬ Third Divisions lowing route: Market to Fourth, to Sixth, Singer Band, Mechanicsburg. to Reily, out Reily to Third, to State, out hn™LT?H ILZ^n Post’ 415> Mechanics- State to Front, countermarch to Capitol ourg, John C. Reesor, commander. and dismiss. Meyerstown Drum1 Corps. The Boys In Dine. Wilburn Tice Post, Manheim, Capt. W. H. I eifer, commander. Thousands of people lined the route of Goldsboro Baud. parade, and thousands in addition were W. H. Wise Post, 463, Goldsboro, John stationed in the Capitol yard. The pro¬ -ti- h ry, commapder. cession was an attractive one, and the Middletown Band. handsome banners and tattered old bat¬ John W Good Post, 502, Elizabeth- tle flags were especial objects of atten- town, S. R. Nissley, commander. tiom. The small cannon in line were re¬ John Hippie Post, 353, Bainbridge, peatedly fired, to the great delight of the Ephraim Good, commander. people. Sergeant McCann led a detach¬ David R. Steyens Post, 520, Harris¬ ment of police in the lead of the proces¬ burg, EL A. Adiey, commander. sion, and was followed by Chief Marshal i "After the parade was dismissed the vet¬ Major Charles C. Davis. The following eran® gathered in the Capitol yard in the were the aids and commanders of the rear of the Internal building, where Gov¬ | three divisions: ernor Hoistings made an address. Chief marshal, Major Charles C. Davis, At 4 oclock this afternoon there was a Post 116; chief of staff, Capt. E. P. Zion, mass meeting at Hoffman’s Woods, where Post 58; adjutant, J. J'. Reese, Post 116. Mayor Patterson and Department Com¬ Aids—W. H. Turner, West Chester, mander Darte made addresses, after ' Post 31; A. W. Moore, York, Post 37; which the roast ox and bean soup were Sher. Smith, Debanon, Post 42; E. B. disposed of and hugely enjoyed. Dees, A. J. Fager, J. A. Winters, A. N. To-morrow there will be a meeting of Davis and H. C. Demming, Harrisburg, the association in Post 58 room, and later Post 58; J. L. Leonard, J. A. Gardner, J. regimental reunions will be held. There M. Gibbs, J. A. Steager, J. D. Deihl and will also be an excursion to Fort Wash¬ J. D. Saltsman, Harrisburg, Post 116; J. ington and Camp Hill. , P. Rumple, J. B. Nye, D. R. Hoffman, J. There will also be a meeting this even¬ IH, Sheesley, P. E. Dunkle, S. P. Samson ing in the Court House, which has been _J and L. F. Heiker, Steelton. Post 351; J. elaborately decorated. | L. Binkley, Lancaster, Post 405; John Millichsack, Post 471; J. P, Crabbe, Wil- ’iam T. Lee, T. H. Thompson, J. W. ODD mWETY-SIXTH’S fifEsioS. j limpson, David Stevens and Walter Kel- ey, Harrisburg, Post 520; W. F. Raysor, It Will toe Held at Will Jams town Fri¬ , G. R. Scott, W. O. Foster, H. A. Soper, day and Saturday. j P. E. Radle and Chas. T. Charters, Har- Williastowmn, in the upper end of the I risburg,-Camp 15, S. of V. county, proposes to give a hearty recep¬ I Platoon of policemen. tion to the survivors of the gallant old I !Son of Veterans’ Drum Corps. 96th regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers I Guard of honor of S. of V. to Post 58. who will meet in annual reunion in that a it; age., ‘with 'Mayor Patterson, De- town Friday and Saturday. There are a 'T.ander Dexter, ex-Depart¬ number of Harrisburgers who “fit” in this command and they, will be present 5 5 | KTSrS “Sf*’ S' f » Tb..,' IV„,vltrv township i 1722° ,a 172l,an,l tlie aucicut and hiiftXai ?tthe*pIacc of was built in 1730 nm structure that 1883. The Scotch r“\taken do'™ in fondeil across the Ohio a trade that ey- ladies reveledTff"™ Qnd their the past. R(.v DrVi. 6i raemones of his handsome ’ fice ^WberS-Vu ^rt- with field in 178D uo1-[f and the light w™ wed by Whitfield Jong handle, which nt th?tl0D bt>x on a .ears until the pen cl el inn ^or twenty : one of the visitors ’waV“L g?*Stlon of the good old faith ” t swung back to for the sake of th’o?s Passed around” these early settlers ,Vn Patl'iotism of the top with coin of tt!rCh’,aud fi!led to scribed, and the lial.it?. < fi eloqueiitlw d^. nig 825 05. °f the rea,m- aggregat- WhePnath°r8 dchocati d ‘ and ,®«mber. to pSiE Derry and returned ground, with its old Lavaca oId .btuV™g old trees in the grove or thU' V thi€‘ n°b,e was erected in l7io th cbur?b'Whioh EsaassSSKsasa •mlv a_ speaker’s stand "t"' States and

whichsk has becii bea ioinisr interiorlF^ ol as Here. .. ^Dr.r- atcCarrellMcCarrell o qi-reuiodt'led- of the dead” was mr/V >Ybl8 little “city ones; of the - d Mr! uiade; of the beginning of ii?t0o' was and valuable paper on «'ptei:estiu? Hr. Rutherford’s minor°? Paxtang.” Sara|heinPrthe United States! °tch‘ | very begimiiiig of Z TW-ltb the the little log buildingrf018 ftiI! standing tlemehts, describedt fho- tcb-Irish set- big form of Dr. Had’ of 1vter which the I manners of tlie peopleXd rh?°Wtl1’ the compelled to bend and'iW York’ was made at Paxtang TeV N ^ht‘ Progress by the impressive was known 1 D-, also spoke.spoke ' Ap arke, u.D study” and the “sesslon’s^h °D “,?aator’s structure holds a£ «?*! honse- This burg, pleased beyoiicf mMUrUed ta Harris- fortablv. The c?,,! .fifteen people <*om- lightful little journey and tLWJtr a de' were interesting Dr iu” fth? church lion gained by it. y dud the mforma- Chicago Univerlity calW fnt0Sh’ .of fhe to order, and Dr Ham 11 tor the -Peering written ’byby his renerabvenerabll e 0 f ,«ffadd a PP««*“aPer, city.city, A.A Rov,l Ttt„viera •>?° lee father,rather, of this Very interestinglv^AD—bcitrsunaiv nirw TT*’1’ °,9,n “Horry.”“Derry.” pcdd the position amXand'^he^tn fe?1lIto to.,n. ,describ-descrih- euanters in the om w ,?s °* the Coy* sketch of the Pm£3o0r,Id- gave a rapid Ulster on lands granteXTh* r^ents at described the progress nnil • Klng. and Ulster, when non^e*„•a 1 d1,1 Portaneo of ing this time of nJQeigned therp- Du” writer, the SCot kf cf'' continued the his Irish neighbor The mte,r.marry with tion to this country eUm,n iest emigra- to North Carolina' Tim ' d fr°m Maine PAcontinued'1+’”.1 brdesc’ - aribSTnr'A.M&UaadltoG1tYM& Hamilton |. settlements in tho Scotch-Irigh of the SusqVehaSma R !LS ??St and ™«t ?aidsaid the writerwriteip; D[g^H'T^Ucrry1 im ihf^pl?e^ry ground,^'bnnd! it was in reality that frm?Ti ground, for 1 ta?.S and Donegal that ^obere and Pax- I cations of the Scotch t gr‘??t ramifi- the country were made ° nU Parts of

Paper, brought^ th! X 0f tb( visitors tip fact tint n attention of the ad and Dit Church ned* fil t.iat the matter should 1, a^^er a motion salered, suggested fit ?l|SW‘ly Cou‘ ot die ancient church Iw, ,01 Pastors pastorates and death h? d? es, of their Hamilton paper. ' 0e added to the

Donegal Churek,aread^°nWay’ pastor of gal, written by Air San*156? “Uone- Oolumbia. This wnl' „ aaJuel Evans, 0f adition to the d-it-f^r^notber interesting of the Scotch-Irfsh tJ0 early Mstorf ■scribedscribed howi,o,„ the^earlit sn- . The writwwriter Sde-|B He has made an efficient secretary. Pre dent Leonard handed the gavel over to GALLANT VETERANS. the new presiding officer and the veter-1 ans adjourned. This evening they will take the trolley cars to West End Park where there will be a banquet and camp-’

REUNION OF THE FIFTY-FIFTH uwpensea.dispensed hl

in Harrisburg. man ’ s Sdi vision f

ifty-fifth will leave town.the veteran)B This °after¬f the St?e7’ artiM noon was their formal reunion in the as- m1864 Th-bbird brigade,■ar?ea Third^^ort> Sdivision- 0.. tiUi sernbly rooms of Post 58, on North Third April lSfo S’imTT w the James- till’ street. The Stars and Stripes have been Wniti.nl] ty 18 Engagements, Port Walthall Va., May 6th and 7th- Swift Mondaya t!lird-story window since Monday and underneath it the old sol- Greek May 9th and 10th; Drury’s Bluff iitn 4rub and -iflbhi Proctor’s Creek Mavl dlers with the blue badges bearing tSe 14th; Chester Station, May 18th- Green regimental mark of the Fifty-fifth have Plains, May 20th. First brigade,’Second been gathering. Once this morning the TTV1Sn°n’ Eighteenth Army Corps, Cold flag got tangled in the telegraph wires Harbor. June 1st to 17th: Petersburg Wa* rescued by Comrade Frank July.Tulv 30th30?h (asiPtb support);aad3.h; Chappi^TTluff^ille cfPlosion,’ Hoy, who set it fluttering once more. September 29th and^SOth. Fourth bri- , I S fu are,4,°° surTiyors of the Fifty-fifth. ^ade, First division, Twenty-fourfo Army n Snh hw-e are in towu- Secretary Jo- ,Ari-?y o£ bb.c James; picket duty •I f‘ah Hlss°ng. of Bedford county, said along the James River; Signal Hill Dc this morning, he was going to get the regi¬ and^lst0^?^^8 Run’ March’30th and dl,s|> T865; captures of Fort Gregg mental roll in final shape the coming and Baldwin, April 2d; fa'l of Petersburg l re"eiec'ted secretary this April 2d; Rice’s Station, April 6th; Ap- The veterans are scattered pomatox, C H., April 1st and 9th; sur¬ 3 f11 oye* tho country. Many are too ill to render of Lee; duty in Virginia under ,ji i®ave home, others are broken in Docket Freedman s Bureau fill August 80th, 1865; mustered out August 30;L LS65 ■a foD(S'ecr,n fSn —aJtb V aPd some of thePenve- at Petersburg, Va. rf containing the invitations to the re- , 9®1,-. Dcm™ing’s speech of welcome in a'“Tn^t>e been returned with “dead” or behalf of Mayor Patterson was an elo- ° lope ThTsSmornSUfhe "Civts weM quent effort. He referred to the changes ui the last thirty-five years in Harrisburg 1 i”t»ate C-int WmSir?»'«< e k e 0f the widov.__ a. and viemity, and continuing said: j strLt PTh3eanrbcr4 T North Second ... -rhl.s y°» fipd a busy, hus¬ of the « . B°banan, in behalf tling city of 58,000 inhabitants, miles up¬ burve^hCiati0n’ Pcesented^rs!1 Water- on miles of streets almost as smooth as a noor, electric cars running in every direc¬ ■ true MS'w.teJta” tion, mammoth shops and factories, stores of metropolitan size with every facility The line ct, flead husband feelingly for business and trade, and homes bv the ! of CW & Praceeded to the residence hundred of palatial appearance and ‘com¬ atwwi,L V1 lVeaver. who is too ill to fort. And the chief officer over all this ^chang5d. -eUmC>n’ Wh°re greetings were is an ex-soldier, who welcomes you. through me. to every comfort, to every ! Dahl °,£ % Grand Army men enjoyment, to every luxury, to every ■ Gen Tlsit> last evening, to home within our borders. yen- John F. Hartranft Camn 6 a a “A few years ago a train dashing along I WdT IwdeQby J- M- Gibbs, J D at express speed at night was thrown I from the track just as it reached a very 1 &ing,JM. T&n w°t \°- high arched bridge. Instantly there was: M this city, and L. F.'’HCker‘ Sfoehon a crash in the gorge many feet below, and i all was still, save the purling ripple of to townmatnoondto-dayaI g0t iu' I the stream and the light moan of the midnight wind. Two men crawled out w^SeT^of fcrt Pr°Per I of the crushed mass. They stood side by ielivered the address of welemfSr side on the roc-ky bank almost destitute VL NeDadWthdoelSfded by BenfaS of clothing. Apparently every other human being in the wreck had been kill- f1d-, Taose two men, though strangers to and the nnnual /ou each other then, are now as dear friends of the regiment was gotten I as brothers; yea, more, if possible—be-1 ' M- George, of Lilly,was;' cause they went down into the Valley of: the commg year to Death together. That is what draws this city and! j comrades together In that indescribable i tio._the,yj,ave bw ■ oampfluiogc jn arm® sxrU'tf ic same Scotch-Irish family oi I ed of, 1; and that in Gen. Lee’s veins 'd'd the blood of Bruce. We quote gramme h^dfi^no^JemUt'Tt wiM' r from Mr- Hunter: “The first news- GenreralPSociety. th° "eXt anuunl <’»f the •r, that is to say the first publication oted to the dissemination of events "inspiring in the world rather than to litorial expression,was started by James „ordon Bennett, who never in all news- paperdom found his match in newsgather- iuk. James Gordon Bennett was a Scotch- i SS*.ea7 “ tory of York county TT» S 0"ary his’ man but I refer to him here because I fob ! the spread of the t > thm* Portrayed knv the precedent of those who place Pat- rick llenry Thomas Jefferson, Hamilton, York county, and c.siiecia Vy'th ,t Madison, Monroe, Witherspoon, Knox, known as the “Barrens « Hero+i. portl011 Stark and Grant, in our ranks. When 1 Lthus throw down the bars—-and it was l pt a difficult process—I admit one of the S’MfegS IrSfTT " heyctuS | lo t notable men in Scotch-Irish history t, le Scotch-Irish fold. Simon Cameron. ffiCitheti0niiU the RevoIuti?o2aS War and ! J ■ most illustrious native of this great mathe subsequent events of'the Unfted 'j , lmonwealth, was a newspaper man L list nnu-hr Tin 4- i,„ ~_5 . ffi^Po^’BnVhewasT^an who Mr?Johi^F^Meghinesg » papor, \ to’!/ lda'c been prominent in any career, I Ion ln nuy branch of human en- told about the Scotch -Irish 1 thd™*- He was one of the few editors Susquehanna Valiev. One writer tefiw Frl“;' race honored by a recognition of the opening of the land offictMn 1769 and 1 hiffrue„ "’orth by an appointment to high P/cB011?, n . 11 this northwestern corner of the Province of Pennsylvania was an ini the aatown6 of native ability1 audstn meiise territory, covered at this da v fv bility his was a most active life for he ^cc omit es of Bradford, Tioga Potter amlhlfsu6 cloud-burst of political strife pair of Clinton, Cameron, Elk McKean the *scape t.he stinging lash of and part of Warren, belonging to the Li _ ,if, aaderer s tongue. He was a leader dians. The seat of the powerful tribe with followers who admired him for the known as the Senecas was -just north of prowess that comes of safe judgment and generally. He was a"leader Svoritolaioiitt &-huntingWhich grounds. -they cl aimedTheU a°swriter the* j °L^en; ^e,ca^?e. kis acute discernment of tfH(iL'']Wlti 011 t° describe the character ■ mt6ir led 111131 to know men and sel- Ble h*nd and the personnel of some of lieutenanffi"U ei'r°r ta his judgmeBt «s to Vallev' yTle0nefc-illt0, th,e Susquehanna y‘ - , mentioned the Dunns, the “Jackson appreciated the influence of Vn±°rTCks’ the Flemings, the Craw- ^hntPnnm 3S “°VIdil^ Public opinion, and | foros, Greens and many others. Mr ta£ Bhrtr* Francis Pres thnfnlmesithei1 rfcounted the struggles of °? „‘.air. bad the distinguished honor of of f formy rttlers: their establishment! Ling invited by him to edit his organ at “tc • 1 oiU °b govermneiit known as the ashington, which position he filled for ,F?:r, pl«y System,” in order to retain teen years with an ability never since their lands and repel the Indians. With ~ M Washington journalism..” trath t0 d+etai!s Qnd historical truth, Mr. Megnmes traces the experience xjenron,BentonH ChflCharleseriih wHammond, referr®d theto Thomaspioneer of the Scotch-Irish in the upper Susque- con ° 0h1io= t0. Wash McClean Da- “TheaSc^tefr Ta?1aper on ‘‘Scotch-Irish Bibliography I Rottf imd Pouegaj their ancestors first \ Pennsylvania” was to be rfadby I settled when religious intolerance drove • Aouor,_o f_ this city, but be- JJhom to the New World. The weather- lumbia, established m 1730 tjy ' John Ay right, and Anderson’s Ferry, opposite lished thfe first American i> to the present town of Marietta,establish¬ Philadelphia in 1796, and ed about 1725. As to this ferry, it is writ¬ worthy of note in this com ten by Richard Peters, Secretary of the one of the faces cut bv Ron: most popular employed in tw» Province of Pennsylvania: “James An¬ to-day.” „ derson’s petition for a ferry charter was presented to Thomas Penn, and lie gave Here Mr. Hunter referred to orders to have it made out.” Then there in making type that the MncKelu was Fishing Ferry, at Goldsboro, started the Smiths and the Johnsons and tl in 1738; Skeer’s Ferry, on the east bank sons took in perfecting the facilith of the river near the present White placed printing among the fine ai House Hotel, established in 1790; Harris then says that without the W( Ferry, at Harrisburg, and the old stone printing presses of Scott, of Gai ferry house still standing south of the Bullock, of Gordon, printing 50,( Cumberland Valley Railroad Bridge, the papers ppr hour, the great newo eldest building in the Cumberland Valley, to-day would be an expensive 1uaU and erected by Joseph Kelso, a Scotch- it were at all possible to produce man. Continuing, Mr. Parthemore says: stead of the cheapest thing one ca: AVhere the water pumping station is "lo¬ And when we know what our rnc cated was established Maclay’s Ferry at done we look forward with the Deli a very early day, by AVilliam Maclay. On the active brain, the deft fingers the opposite side of the river it was nam¬ Scotch-Irish, will surpass eve ed Montgomery Ferry, after a Scotch- achievement of the marvelous pei Irishman by that name, and afterward press. The student of our race long known as AA^ormley’s. At Coxes- teristics is not surprised at all town formerly Estherton, Dr. John Cox, looks further and sees that I* of 1 hiladelphia, an Englishman, was the ventor of the electric telegra, founder. On the west bank of the river, liaui Thompson, who made th< near the foot of the first ridge or moun¬ cablegram possible, were also tain* was a ferry established long ago bv Irishmen. a German by the name of AVolf.” Other As Erskine, whose conspicuous st old time ferries along the river were also mansliip placed him among the i- described by Mr. Parthemore. was a Scotch-Irishman in every most eloquent of British juries, this Amasoos. courageous defender of constitution) erty, the ablest lawyer born on Col. W. II. Hunter’* Address ou Scoteli- soil, gave England her free press, D Irifili Newspaper People. Jefferson, who gave America a free Rev. Dr. Macloslrie opened the after¬ a Scotchman. The first English noon s proceedings with prayer. New printed in Roman characters was members were elected as follows: Little Edinburg by Bassenpyne. T) Miss Marguerite McKinna Prince, American newspaper was the Nt.», Northampton, aged 6 years; Edward W ter, published as early as 1704 by Jackson Harrisburg; James F. McGin- Campbell. The first American nes, AVdliamsport; Edgar L. King. Har¬ paper advocating republican prh risburg; AAblliam H. Middleton, Harris¬ urging the colonists to take up arm burg: Spencer F. Barber, Harrisburg; W. a republic might follow, was ed‘ite< G harr, Scranton; John P. Elkin, Dep- Scotch-Irishman named Andersoi General of Pennsylvania. gentleman was the father of An I lie first paper read at this gesion was the first American engraver, and !-yy Gol- W. II. Hunter, of the Steu¬ ventor of the tools used to-day ‘ benville (O ) Gazette, on “Scotch-Irish lowers of this fascinating art. Newspaper People.” After a brief refer¬ Hamilton was a voluminous <_ ence to the position which the Scotch- to the press. The first newspaper Irish had attained in the field of letters consequence to advocate the p he said: ’ evolved by Jefferson was the Auro “The discovery of the use of mov¬ lished in Philadelphia by William able types to express thought really had a Scotch-Irishman. James Wilson no more relation to the printing of to-dav the AVostern Herald and Steubenville than had the primitive sickle relation to zette in 1806, which paper, it is the noted Scotch-Irish son was the second in Ohio. Of all tL». .. ^ ^rkmia. The types of Guttenberg of prominent men of our race who have . themselves did very little towards multi¬ the throttle of the great moral ei plying books, for the making was yet so Horace Greeley stands alone. His slow and the product consequently so cost¬ had a wMer circulation among the ly that for years after his discovery litera¬ eats of his party than that of anj , ture was as a closed book to the masses. paper. He had the confidence of I he progress of printing was not rapid i readers. They believed implicitly in as we understand the term until after 1 sincerity and he never betrayed ‘ Ged, the Scotchman, invented a process Mhnt Horace Greeley said was ■ of stereotyping which revolutionized the Ihe Tribune was the one paper pei art to the degree that rapid duplication of to be read on the Sabbath in Scot< the printed page was made possible. Be- homes after the catechism had b* fore that noble man of Scotch blood, mitted and the Psalm repeated.” David Bruce, invented the type-casting Mr. blunter here paid a high tribi machine, type-making was as primitive the moral courage of Greelv, saying m its process as mowing with a scythe, it was was worthy of a AVallaee. In and all accounts of the history of print- eloquent discussion of Grcelev’s posil nig give Bruce the credit next to Ged of at the time of the bailing of Jeff cheapening the printed page in the hands Mr. Hunter calls attention to that , the Printer. James Ronaldson and I Irishman, Stonewall Jackson, and 2™ Binny, both_ Scotchmen, estab-1 fact that Gen. Grant and Jeffersc of this city and1 » Tie,v ..nermtrre-t^N- ~ - - • ‘ ^ regular 1busin06s was dispos- . , a Public meeting was held a cond the Reading Railroad station ■ to-morrow morning Tim T.d at 8 ° ('l(K,k ThedfoMow{nCC be!ng iu the Opera House. ed further that „n „/iVsju9*-'e anuounc- I he following new members weretelected • bers of the society vit??'’-8?1?- mpm' Hajor .Tames Barnett, Deputy Secretary to go as the guests of the h& of the Cpmomnwealth; John C, Harvey Harrisburg; Major Joseph A. Moore JamJatn Valley Scotch Irish. Harrisburg; Robert Snodgrass Bso ’ ! H,mhSbTTr8: -hA- Boyd Hamilton ami mS, Hq ofCSMifflintby R°bePt Mc- Hugh Hamilton, M. D„ Harrisbnro-- ‘‘Scoteh-Irish in the JuMata Valley11” He eftmMcMC' RaIs,tT0.^ Mechaniosburg; R0b- ert McMeen, Mifflmtown; Dr. James scrip?io,rS the 'vtiLyTT^r1 de- M. Brown, Harrisburg; James Cochran Columbus, O.; Charles Clay Gettis Wii' liamsport; Hon. Louis W. Hall Harris i burg.' J' Edmund Rutherford’ Harris- 1 Pror. Maclosltle on “IJlster „ «5«a* m ««-

Rave an account of aiK? & ;ss, aen-cteri5,:

bimSri8 m.a.uuscnpt book, which he ex- f'“* ScotcL-IrSh race in SSy one'rt

Sfw&g-te «■«« l-5of *^^»^^S,the old times, and with the xShelnl8 KSnf a 'ondne'nt P^pared for Jimby ‘‘TlmTK ° "a*;rl3burS Speakers. eminent Irish gentleman, he presented -the Scotch-Irish Movement in m Cumberland Valiev nf r>™ent , m th ST P,reee,nt condition of the provhW was the subject of’ ? -P,-UUaylvania, ke showed that there has been very gloat improvement all along the line in farming, manufactures, trade education iU?d P°liticaI equality. °ClU< atlon- of his paper, he said; “The Scotch Irisi • i IS now, commercially speakimr

S^X%Ttfomn °tLrtaCs“ngth5eS W «f occupier of the soil,amiuow ■ SfS'r—HsSI operation! torTe Scofch frfsf “ “*1“ ■1 s or nait a_ century to be rent free -in,: ,,,, . as immediately to lower rentR Cf*fi .- ^ | independence has E lt . ; P1ollt*eaI !*“•*'» "“<• 1 then contrasted t -^cad i complete secresy. A century nan TTlc-,.,1 was oppressed and dissatisfied and i t hi KKTf1,?f 17fxVod the re-

tensely loyal, determined to resist any S'afi w?thenR ^ tbat W0’lId sever its connection * th Britain, and especially jealous of | Sir, '588^3^ of aenvekinPdrtrd,i-1^ the re‘esta bfishment itiS f d °.f ™R*iou8 tyranny. The ag- j fi 'i‘S ,t«'t-“«tUwSet£-r„NSi! Ration for home rule was particularly distant (rSm SKenfg'S'”' hateful to people of Ulster,“aud this is now regarded in England as a dead issue especially since the Irish home rule party l ave deserted their English supporter on ¥ conclusion, Mr. Nead said; ‘Tt has be?" 1 the education question, and are helping to JOUrney from the Elm Tree tore© sectarian schools on the Engfish Shackamaxon to the national mouume people. As a whole, the Professor’s -.pinion is that the American and fritTsh V,iw 3fi,rg’ but the old Cumberlan ' tori? ’ °v Peuusylvania, has nevVr ?? nations are natural allies in the great tered or lmgered by the wav w.vi • vork of advancing civil and religious lib- and religious liberty, with patriotism Th jty, and on the advent of an interna- lias been Amencus usque ad aras ” “ lonal treaty of arbitration they wdl come In a well-written paper E. W S Pt,- them ore, of this r*itxr i • i. ai Sn frS." '* ,h« “Early Ferries of t? ? al>ou,t th, ^t th’a point J udge Simonton announc- t there would be an excursion to •jrg to-morrow, the train 1 eaving ^ £«a| fery-sort were wanting; “TTivIgundnv the habit of humility. 1 dress differed little from their work day went on to say that thT „ uniforms, with somewhat more carefui- Scotch-Irish were to make the ness, of course, to be trim and trig, and quainted with the history of that they were. A sweet and wholesome to do all that can lie done to company, honest and true to the core of their kindly hearts, lusty and supple, and create a public sentiment in its ready to go merrily to work, and devoutly to still more arouse and strengthen t to worship. Then in glowing words the moral, intellectual and religious conv speaker pointed out the trials, dangers tions of its members; and in conclusion and mental and physical torment under¬ advised his fellow Scotch-Irishmen gone by these pioneer women from the carry into their convictions of politics ai time they began their sea voyage in public life the highest and liest princi wretched little ships until they found After more music by the Steelton “ themselves installed in log cabins far in the congress adjourned. tae forests of the new world. Quoting from an account of this forest life, in TO-DAY’S PROCEIS which it was stated that the pioneers en¬ joyed the “luxuries of pumpkins and po¬ Hohert Bonner Re-Elected tatoes,. the speaker said: “The original Tills Morning’s Session. settlers, of course, did not even have the The greater portion of to-day’s s luxuries of pumpkins und potatoes to be¬ of the Scotch-Irish Congress was d< gin their culinary duties therewith. They to business. Robert Bonnex-, of had, in sooth, to invent a cuisine. Every¬ York, notwithstanding his letter of i thing must be begun anew. The wild nation, was re-elected for the < fruits, wild berries and wild game, and time. All the other old ollicers wor the iish of the new world were utilized elected, the only addition being tlie Indian corn was a new cereal to these tion of M. Wilson McAlarney, of Ha Ulster housewives, but it had to be burg, as secretary of the Pemisylvi wrought into a primitive menu: Mush and society. In connection with Presiu milk! It was a novel sort of porridge for Bonner’s re-election, Dr. McCloslcie our grandams, but they learned to make fered the following resolution, wl' ' it. In conclusion the Doctor eloquently unanimously adopted: said: “In the temples which we rear to “Resolved, That we request Jehovah, the adornments of the carver Intosh to carry our respects to are placed only upon those stones that ner, stating how deeply we have form the outer courses, and these alone his absence and our earnest e, are open to the eye and win the admira¬ and prayer that he may be soon’ tion of the observer. But behind these, to Ins wonted health and streng hidden from sight, are the inner courses would take this occasion of assuinJt of rock, and beneath these the foundation of our appreciation of the valuable stones of all, buried within the ground, vices rendered by him to the Scotch- let they serve no less useful purpose and Society and through it to our ra< form no less important part in making our hope and urgent request that aud maintaining the sanctuary of the consent to continue in the office Most High. It is even thus with the we have unanimously re-elected i pioneer woman’s work in upbuilding the we pledge ourselves to take all v home, the school and the church in the measures to relieve him of umiec wilderness. Her service has rarely been pressure whilst he is pleased to cc thought of. No doubt these women had in the position of our chief.” their faults and failings. Yet, in sincere There was a good deal of piety, genuine kindliness, cordial hospi¬ over the offers from Princeton tality. cheerful submission to hardships; and Judge McLaughlin, of ucii m fidelity to home, to children and to Va., to give the society rooms in husbands; in energy of character, patient to meet and preserve their records, endurance, unswerving faith in God, lov¬ matter was finally referred to the I ing attachment to their church, earnest ; Committee, which is to dete support of God’s ministers in courage, which offer to- accept. presence of mind and even prowess in’ Dr. McCook, of Philadelphia. 1 times of imminent peril, the world has up the question of preserving the liuu produced few women who have excelled Lancaster county in which Robert these Scotch-Irish handmaids of the ton was bom. The building is abi Lord, who helped their husbands, fathers, mg torn down, and Dr. McCook brothers and sons to redeem the wilder¬ that the Scotch-Irish Society respc ness to civilization.” represents that the destruction Prolonged applause greeted Dr. Mc¬ house would be a historical saerile Cook s eloquent and interesting address, that the matter be brought to tin which was delivered in a most effective tion of Governor Hastings. The _ manner. was seconded by M. W. McAlarney,’ I>r. HalFs Anclrcsts. this city, and nnnnimously carr' ’ The last speaker of the evening was Chairman Macintosh hr Dr. Hall who talked in a practical nian- question of increasing the ner about “The Duties of Scotch-Irish- a thousand active contribv I and that an investment | men. He said it perhaps is rightly con¬ would bring $500 at Ioa» this coun- piitizeus who have been elected to I try, the Doctor gave a most interesting State heSt °ffiC0 within tlle Sift of the description of various early settlements and the struggles and triumphs of the nJwlf'Vr ^?cKean> a Scotch-Irishman, pioneer men And women. It was a miner T 'VH' H1h’nei-8 ot the Declaration of of great historical value. P 1 frw*liyo'to’ISOS.01110" °f FouU8yh’aDia A delightful and charming feature of AYilliam Findlay, the fourth Governor the evening programme was the rendi¬ tion of solos by Miss Espy and Miss WYr)a8nn7iaJiia UUiler t,K’ Constitution and descendant of those who in Hench, of this city. The first-named lady sang with much sweetness and effect the Derry*00' 1>Srt 111 the famous siege of song “My Hame is Where the Heather David Porter, another Governor of this Grows and the tender pathos of the song I m Wearing Awa’ to the Land o’ Cirsfr 'v:r the grandson of that sturdy Scotch-Irishman. Robert Porter tne -Leal, was charmingly expressed by “1SB.. Hench. The audience loudly ap¬ hi 'l7G0tIe

James Pollock,-Governor from 1855 to “Scotcli-Irlsli Pioneer Women.” I mTi +Ta! ,l'roud of the Scotch-Irish The popular address of the evening was | blood that flowed m his veins. His pa- that delivered by Rev Ilenrv r i\tV ternal and maternal ancestors emigrated D„ of Philadelphia, on “Scotch- early a^lTOO*1 °f Ire)aud to America as Iris b Pioneer Women.” There is a uood Scotch-Irish in this genial and I , ', le next Scotch-Irish Governor we able divine, and the sparkling wit and Gregg cfurtin. TVar Goveruor’ Andrew the affecting pathos of his words had John W. Geary, the illustrious soldier, 5 ir f’di effect upon the pleased audi¬ and afterwards Governor, was also ence. The address was exceedingly in¬ teresting all through. In part Dr. Mc¬ [,r°n<‘ °f Ins Scotch-Irish descent. Cook said: Rut the most significant fact is, that vitn the coming and commingling of the tI‘,Te®= ff eaid truly that ‘the hand that locks the cradle rules the world ’ lardy Scotch-Irish, the intrepid, fearless LTul genial Irish, the phlegmatic, stolid Lut it would seem a just and pleasant thing if that hand could sometimes feel patriotic German, the honest and the grip of the scepter and the touch of servative sons of the land of •urns, the God-fearing and mnn- the laurel crown upon the fair brow of her womanhood. Let those who dis¬ v.v '' Quaker, and the loyal types of all other nationalities pense the world’s coronation favors bear that nave arrayed themselves under the this in mmd. Let your imaginations take emblem of liberty, they have bv perse¬ n century flight into the past and look in verance, courage and industry eon- upon a group of pioneer women Thev tributed to the creation and construction are fine specimens of womanhood, above of this the greatest, grandest and best of tlie medium height for the most part- all Commonwealths in the galaxv of strongly, and some of them stout!v, built’ American States. \Mth fair complexions, eyes of Various shades of gray and blue, round heads The Governor’s address delighted the well shaped, full faces, with generous audience, and its mingled pathos and wit bps, cheeks ruddy and with high Sk were keenly appreciated. In an eloquent manner Chairman Macintosh responded, bones, broad and high foreheads, with paying many high tributes to the State of brows well overhung, and wide between the eyes. 1 aces are these which indicate Pennsylvania and to the Governor him¬ self. a thoroughly warm heart, an intelligent and courageous stock, a race worthy to Dr.William H.Egle,State Librarian, fol- be and likely to be the mothers of a noble 1 ed with a paper on “Landmarks of progeny. Stalwart of frame no doubt —"ly Scotch-Irish Settlements in Penn- they were, with muscles hardened under /lvania.” Starting out with the declara- the strain of toil; hale and hearty vitror- ion that he, believed Divine Providence ous_ and strong able to wield the axe had directed the Scotch-Irish to perform against the trunk of a forest monarch or against the head of an obtruding savage They could work the treadle of a little spinning wheel, or swing the huge cir¬ cumference of the great one. They could brew and bake, make and mend! sween and. scrub, rock ihe_. cradle and rule the household, including often the sovereign lord thereof himself. Every one of them could do with her one pair of hands what a half score of women teUhese day« would think themselves overtasked to attempt. Surely, we will not think the swart and size gained by these women founders of the nation less worthy than if gotten in the sports of summer holiday. Rather we will count their ruggeder muscles and sturdier limbs and browner skin the hon¬ orable trophies of a service which even the kingliest sou should delight, to honor.” After describing the plain costume worn, the Doctor said: “Here and there a relic of the old land and life, a trinket, ring, pin or brooch, garnished the homely ^toilets; but for the most part fallals of j unto the pres"?

GOVERNOR HASTINGS’ WELCOME

( Distinguished Speakers Discuss Interest¬ «* &«?'».S*e SffESi «j ing Subjects Fine Music.

| ^ magnificent audience assembled at: the Opera House last evening. It was Bfavafs£ V*” ass the second session of the Seotch-Irish ('ongross, and the hundreds of ladies and /ineS a u,7, Scot«l*njnn. «ilc<] full of gentlemen who gathered to hear the pa¬ pers read, the songs of Scotland and the eloquent addresses made, was a signal and gariifying evidence of the success of the congress and the appreciation of the event by the best people of Har¬ risburg. The lower portion of the 'pern, House was thronged and ninny [ people were seated in the galleries. those grave Peripatetic philosophers who The audience was very appreciative and demonstrative, too, notwithsanding many 'who were present did not claim Scotch- Irisli descent. The stage setting, with its Jig,fckgraund of forests, the big growing plants on the stage and the masses of bunting in the foreground presented an attractive scene, that was especially beautiful in the glare of the lights. I Rev. Dr. John S. Macintosh, vice pres- ' ideut general, who presides at the ses¬ sions because of the enforced absence of President Robert Bonner, of New York, had a goodly company of notable men j with him on the stage, among whom was (Governor Hastings, stalwart of frame | ail(l bluff of voice, n Scotch-Irishman [ himself, and the deliverer of one of the best speeches of the evening. The vis¬ itors seemed to consider the Governor one of them from the start, and Dr. Hall in-

REV. GEORGE MACLOSKIE, D. D. Stalked and talked solemnlv in ti,, t fev o/l Athe”8' WiiHhis7goodly co^ fekilTrofd SSaSr «corp

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;also stated that he had during thi ^ jSSfofSs ssrsVmS isr«siiSF'r REV. DR, JOHN HALL, New York. ooursed stirring music from the galley m|d then Judge Simonton introduced I*'cted him seriously for some moments fernor: Hustings, who _ was^ receiv.^: one item of local news. Congressman courteous greeting find revi and legislative proceeding's are given' unions of the past. Then the fair Itreiaitmenlf but.focal happenings are the association was transi nolt ebronfoled. That, however, was not president. John T. Ensminger, unusual in small towns where every¬ chair. Charles H. Small, of Ha: body knew local events and where who is the secretary, made note everybody’ was in need of outside newos. j deaths of several comrades who hav been mustered out during the year. I was decided to meet next year at L •non, ex-Senator Lantz extending an in vitation on behalf of that city. Among the prominent, members of 1 | From,.... . regiment present to-day were Lieut. Alleman, A. L. Chayne, of this city, was adjutant; Major J. F. Ro! Lancaster; Dr. Vastine, of Cata’ sistant surgeon; Thomas J. Si Pittsburg, ex-department comm the G. A. It. of Pennsylvania; Aldi Date Pager, of this city, chairman of caption committee and others. The 127th regiment distinguished itsel at the Battle of Fredericksburg, wher eAJLAAAMJ>Jl.l> AAA A. several officers were killed and a nu wounded. Among the latter was Jennings and Adjutant Chayne. REUNION OF VETERANS. reunion is being largely attend Post room being crowded tills afte: At 5 o’clock the veterans have i SURVIVORS OF THE 12?TH REGT, P. V. quet at Wise’s in Market Square, evening they will have a camp-fire a court house, where there will be inus the Stcelton Band and speeches by Mayor Patterson Welcomes the Old jutnnt General Stewart, Rev. F. Soldiers This Afternoon. Staley, of Middletown; Senator Me roll, Major I.. B. Brown. District A ney Detweiler, Frank Wiclcersbam, J Wilson Norris, ex-Senator Lantz Thirty-four years ago the One Hundred others. The veterans are having a and Twenty-seventh regiment of Penn¬ ant time together. sylvania volunteers, which was largely re¬ These officers were elected this noon: President, C. R. Lantz, Le cruited in Dauphin county, and whose first vice president, Jerc Rohrcr, Lanca commander was the lamented Col. W. W. ter; second vice president, A. J. Page Jennings, marched away from Harris¬ Harrisburg; third vice president; Robe Hicknell. Middletown; secretary, Chu burg and won for itself glory and renown H. Small, Harrisburg; treasurer, Benj on the bloody field of battle. Seven of the min F. Brandt, Middletown. ten companies were recruited in Dauphin county and the other three in Lebanon, Adams and Schuylkill counties. A re¬ union of the survivors of the regiment was held at the headquarters of Post 58, y / G. A. R., this afternoon. There were ; From, . many pleasant greetings by the comrades, but none more pleasant than the address of welcome by Mayor John D. Patterson, j He said it was an honor to have with us the survivors of a military organization that had achieved fame on the bloody Date, ' S fields of the great war for the suppres¬ sion of the most gigantic rebellion against free government. He referred to the fact i that the reunion had its sad features in j the absence of familiar faces of beloved comrades who were accustomed to gather in the annual reunions. No men were ever so cordial in their friendships ns those who stood shoulder to shoulder amid the perils of battle and who ministered to the wounded and cared for the dying. These friendships are cemented by the passing THEIR HOME, years. Mayor Patterson extended to the veterans the freedom of the City and a cordial and sincere welcome to the hos¬ pitality of our citizens. ^ Lieutenant Colonel Alleman responded, aiok'1 behalf of the Regimental Association.' SCOTCH - IRISH COHERE V . thanked, the Mayor for his kind and —— s. \ N i ■ \W Civil War anabu!mmbft part in tu> keeping willow mL5™'? ■? oue corner a only Of -towns Where tne paper naa rest - the gravelnf * dl0@TsT lt* branches over j Sa?/ffiefi Ii4l XP^ so^fs fe&pzztS SSiSf - «*- abolished and the T wight be the opposite corner two L a?reserved’ copying their na^otv bedf S'(W £re oc‘ tioealble to the ordinary reader is the oh Catholic also rests there «‘ejf Roman :Bence of display type. One wondml hon- stranger and thev tnnt t • ,phe "'as a ;R wa®. possible for the people sfxtv Sabbath school pin^^h1'/?' f yearly ldtalig^°n£0faSS'JmiIate a column of or- and the childmS nhiv H,1 ln tbe *«>ve uinary 'type for a few lines of commor close by the graves o/tw w#l'Fy. fames . fa nutriment. For instance, ?”d' Many changes have }dlei1 forefathers, J“Key^ohe oontaihiS1 a column ad of valley since the stoL ^6?, pla/e in the Dr. Wm. Evans’ celebrated Camomile church yyere built The rill of that old on the banks of the Susmmffi. settiemellt jwggetf£rinmggest line inA it-7“ isb iK<3ordinaryS1B PiI1S type" and cans ,the miles distant has 1 ?e£anna a few A. Evans was the Harrisburg agent for « Ions city Of Harrisburgn IU,t0. £be Popu- . to'is multi-syllabic remedy while £ terian churches wit) S.nd 81* ^resby. ■ Gross and J. Wyeth, Jr., were agents for ojd Paxton ns ntw.U fs limits claim I Hay s Lmament” and “Oldridre’sKpim Good"roads* have taken ft?*1?1' chu'r^' ’ban trails, steam S t *}lac? °f In- laL?nrll,Ma”Htl0geftei' another column ! Jobnrw3hn • Amons IocaI Advertisers stage coaches- electrinltl 1e misPiaeod I John Wyeth, jr., corner of Second and steam. Handsome h«Clty las followed I Market streets, and Andrew Keefer, .eSi'S?.?L,S» W ' s.‘Iuare’ we:re the only* ones who j thought it necessary to affix their busi- hi I dwellers to holdhr.i,i * - l?bie th® oufit. address t0 their adverti'semenlts, quite a common omission in those days *»have■ '-**«“«...rpassed away “S v„ss"'Ms0M when everybody knew everybody else gone, old homes chnn^i °ne? come and wharf6 wW' • Payn§:’ Chestnut street the church home S °/ br?keW but wharf. Harrisburg, notifies the public "rant she rnav W> remain God that as a line of cars has been r>laced | upon the Harrisburg, Lancaster and Pennsylvania railways, “goods and pro- j ciu'ce leaving: either extremity of the SSSS^St b“ Z° £& ; noads will fbe delivered at the other end JIARGARET g. RUTHKRErmn | the next day,’’ nclfc a bad showing even Th.ere is also an advertisemient of I t“e Reliance Transportation Co.’s East I r.'rie to and from Pittsburg via Col urn- i fia ir^iway—^me 7 days.” This was from Philadelphia, and in those days- the ^ntT w'as west of Harrisburg The moislt intersting and valuable mat- e paper’ Pne !that ntak'es it well ta'e‘9erving, iB the publication of proposed amendments to the constitu¬ tion of 1790. In the style of the parallel column the constitution of ,1790 is print- Partsi.stricken out in italics, and the oonstutution of 1838 with amend- ! “en,tt ^ rialics. These amendments i ^ere ^ Ae voted upon at an election on the second Tuesday of Odfcober, 1838. AN OLD NEWSPAPER, This takes up the better pant of two page® of) the issue. In (the regular news ‘The Good Old JDays”—vvi, * ... [ department the GravesrCilley duel is of

a L_ T'jr,:e Ye^rs iffoVaS D°lu« the most historic interest. Indeed the Af < ITr ” public has not yet ceased deprecate this dated I ^C0J^hter< aTWi t;hie Sncidellits leading to triot by S. M. C«t of The Pa' i t Tpp CraWf?,rd c*011111^ convention of j sid©ring- ft® agie ithp. rJ?*3 Clty- Oon- ; t-ffi loth is well reported. The resolu¬ | number 38 of Which is tions denounced Governor Ritner’s fail- ,pretty fair stat S*®d volume, is in a ure to help the Erie canal eSston- Paper was) printed tw^ f,rVatiPn- The condemns the exercise of authority by a the sessions of the lestaLq?,WOek during j mlmonlty party; evidence confidence in a week the rest of thf U u^e and once I Martin, Van Buren and declare that “w £■ Packer, O ?r,bf,WiU«m will oordiiany sustain him in carrying Parke, in am “office ? Benjamin out Ithe -policy of the patriot and states? street, between TWd"tb®ld® of Market man Andrew Jackson, in separating the neighborhood O£nd^ou'«h-’’ or the dangerous union of the banks with ^hich is a iinoal Patriot, the; government.” and -regret the issue ,,‘Keystone.- That th^dant of th® old I of shin plasters.” To the approaching lutt'le mom ithan the u.lutl ^er made a ] ®ltafte convention a list of delegates frwf interior Pennsylvania tens'lons of forty-nine counties—we had fewer then der.eed in the list ^~ ®papera is ®vl- than now te printed, Philadelphia city -ludes Phitadeghfe pttTfh8’ which in~ and Philadelphia County havirm ville. North S \Rlttsibur^ Mead- arate delegations. The' delegates from wry. Black N^STj1R‘ Wo°d- V’larrlor s Mark. Thi^fet n?faStl6 and ttSftlKnepley and Dr- , list, of course, is ^Araothei- feature of this issue of the \ ^JKeystone is that it does not contain i „i„,« i.jdof ilewas succeeded sn_ I « “ s t Statoit’ot S »ehool by U>» choosing that particular time to - carpet, as its loss occasioned en marks and kept the bride and gro< *»« r o? left October 6th, 1847. The church,■ or ! being uncomfortably prominent, useless to get a new carpet, so a . cocoa matring was put down, and ! 4Ie tSfJS rSMSSK? left undisturbed. In lo<4 *ve . Downey was called and was instit April 29th, 1875. He resigned m The mllpit “TlS'S^eMOTded from and for several years Rev._Wm.A*P then of Westminster Church,Harris supplied the pulpit, and by bis « sympathetic manner ende^ed^m the people. June 16th. 1»»<. »ev. Williamson was ordained and m. amd continued the pastorate unti A,,. i Qo.i jn 1887 and 18»o the l“;»7iin remodeled. .The im, meets w«e Srst ttlted <,t to Shelf if Md was destroyed by fire, but was paired. Since Mr. M i11 al?*°£ tion the congregation has been of Jaines Sharon was n that sunnlies. During the past su time, and demit which nulpit was very acceptably fill we received the ngvs^ f ^riz March, ^Esler, a native of Ireland, and of Princeton Theological ffi^His pastorate ’closed February Deaths and removals have m: stant drain on the once flouri ^NehK Sr, "SSS^teJ!^ eregation, but the love of the , Se old church is unchanged, a. !S#^/|"rSe£r,&e,iis « their numbers, they still. —- 1 xs&'s&jsrpx 'Uh&,ra prosperous times. The burying to®- pany attending in a , T’, services in obeli freq^ntly ™^eA0ne Sabbath had been so filled that it was morning Se ^of £e to dig without disturbing the some unmarked grave. So m ^°SerPhabdUfalleTfrom the ceiling, mak- plaster had tanen i Benches were the south wall was ranged ing the house ^^"^ces held under o rounds extended nmety ieet i I oarried outside ana seryn.es * ^lirPh rection, and the new part aid +hi ^rpat old oak south of the cuuren. regular lots. After years of

i Sf4'K«S rss one pilgrimage to the sieemnp their fathers and many othei life’s work in some distant fie! “hfS-'SVh£a to h»a £ 3**-- aisles minus carpet, tae imu w p rell to™ rfsT’f.Sel? E5l «e .tab y '“a >to “»e of an

BSSOf Harrisburg,!»g.SfMrt tbe sMfiierl.V**ga o£ t tion, of the M ai of 1812, or sar.&’S?'! rsw-i's who helped to quell the. | ““hSfoTHe nf eS«’fo« f» > ' «“*Xd ssssts SJwMr V1 county of York: "1 "Whereas, Mr. Snowden has signified nvjng wftoae parents >vt»ro united in mar- to his congregation in Derry township i iage by I\ov, Janies Sharon. lie ad- : that he is no longer able to officiate in ministered baptism to her, officiated at his ministerial capacity to them on acct. m r marriage and baptized her first son. of inability of body, and that he pur¬ ..-orae of us who have entered life's pop poses to apply to Presbytery for r dis- tnl long after it had closed on this ser •barge from said congregation, which, rant of God, felt as though he had bee conceive, if he be indulged in his re- a known friend. His name was a house -St, wou’d leave the congregation of hold word and was always mentioned ixton in a very distressing and peri- with kindness. His pastorate closed ms situation; that the two c-ongrega- April 18th, 1813. A small log house .ion.' have lived for many years past in called in early days the “retiring house” perfect peace, friendship and unanimity, and later on the “study house” stood mnd that we do not wish for a schism be near the church. Through the week ’tween us now; that if the union is once this building was used at- p. school house broken there will be no probability of us and on the Sabbath the pastor used it being united again: that if Mr. Snowden as a place of retirement between ser¬ is rendered incapable of undergoing the vices; for in the olden time the custom fatigue of the three congregations in less was to have two services diu-ing the day than three years in the prime of life, by and as many of the people came quite a ■'I probability he will not be able in a distance, they brought their lunch with _iort time to attend to two congrega¬ them, and the short intermission between tions. and of a consequence we shall be services was occupied in taking lunch left without a pastor and the means of and holding friendly conversation with giving a call to another. We, therefore, each other. We must remember, Ico,- quay to bo united with Derry, and that if that the sermon of the early preacher Mr. Snowden should insist on being dis¬ was by no means a short one and the united from them, that Presbytery will second or "long prayer” well deserved its /appoint ft committee of their body to in¬ name. Weekly prayer meetings, Sab¬ quire into the matter before anything de- bath schools and the different church as¬ si ve may take place; and that the ma- sociations were unknown, but personal n-ity of tills congregation, how much visits were marie by the pastor and it -ever they may be attached to Mr. was his duty to sec- flint the children lowden, would rather be should leave were well versed in the catechism. So | as ho found us, than submit to a dia- after the two long sermons of the day. ition of the union subsisting between the’ evenings were often spent in study¬ ing and reciting the cbafechism.the father ‘By order of d meeting of Paxton con¬ taking the part of teacher and the gregation, mother reciting with the children. Sa¬ “JOHN RUTHERFORD, tan did not have much chance on idle “JOSHUA ELDER.” time in those days, neither did the old Scotch foresight of the people lathers have the Sunday papers to be¬ ’cd them that when the growing guile them from their duties. The Sab¬ of Harrisburg would need more bath was strictly observed by the people Snowden’s time, Paxton would be of Paxton. All possible preparations for and thought it best to stand by the day were made on Saturday. The Derry. Paxton and Derry then present¬ sound of the coffee mill or the beef steak ed a call to Rev. Joshua Williams, which hammer were pot permitted to break the was accepted, and he was ordained and Sabbath stillness, and woe to the luck¬ installed October 2d, 1799. Derry was less youngster who had the daring to D’ baye two-thirds of his time and pay crack walnuts on that day. The first j_0 pounds, Paxton to have one-third of Sabbath school at Paxton was organized his tune and pay sixty pounds, ’this during Mr. Sharon’s pastorate about the seems hke a nice little sum for those year 1820 and held its sessions at the days, but it is sad to relate that Mr. Wil¬ Dauphin County Almshouse as the pur¬ liams had trouble in collecting his .sal¬ pose of the school was mainly for religi¬ ary. He resigned Ju;v °9th. 1801, and ons work among the children of that in¬ we find him complaining to Prcsbvterv stitution. After meeting there for sev- I 'L jand I resbyiery reprimanding the delin¬ era! years the school was removed to the quent churches, but even the threaten- church and the children of the almshouse mgs of 1 resbytery could not bring money invited to attend, The superintendent 1 out ot empty treasur es, and in 1805 we of'tins school was Miss Margaret Gray. bud Mr. Williams still unpaid. The re- Paxton at this time had but one-third of \i 80 many of the members of Mr. Simon’s time, consequently lie and i axteni Church to the Harrisburg church his elders were only present at the school ■ accounts for her weakened condition. every third Sabbath. A weekly prayer ‘ Bev. James R. Sharon was installed pas- meeting was also organized about this tor of Paxton and Derry May 29th, 1807, tune by Miss Margaret Gray, Mrs. Eliz¬ j both congregations making the same abeth Elder and Mr. Joseph Campbell agreement in regard to salary that they After some years both Sabbath school had made with Mr. Williams. No com¬ and prayer meeting were discontinued plaints of arrears of salary in his case and not revived again until 18-15 At a have been found and it is natural to sup¬ meeting of Carlisle Presbytery Rev.John pose that the congregations lived up to M. Boggs received and accepted a call their agreements, as Mr. Sharon’s pas- an'1 was ordained and installed April . torate continued almost thirty-six years 9th, 1815 Paxton was to have two- i| He was greatly beloved by liis people and thirds and Derry one-third of his time • ms death was lamented. Mr. Sharon A Sabbath school and prayer meeting ha hept. a record of baptisms, deaths, mar- were again organized under the leaded jiages, Ac., and quite a number to whom ! ship of Mr. Robert Elder and both closed administered baptism .are still living With the departure of Mr. Boggs and Mr v ember of Paxton Church is nminow Elder for Other fields of labor. Both were no again revived during A. A). Mitchell’s Jctsp. - if Derry and Hanover c to the fields to protect sudden attacks, and on the fabf *iS '&£&b&r o« % the various churches they wors watched with rifles at hand. 1- SSBS EKS of’K f K of the Paxton Rangers in eytermma jisi'cl There' fire numbers ot quail les the Indians at Conestoga and tenca made a stir and they were great y m the olU^ irit of the rented in any church couit. strong man the Rev. John^ Lid timesocl the invadedNewSff the ohurch.esehurenes of Paxtonfod have been to h.ave led his people these troublous times! IrouW1 and wUJ 1754 that] siastical matters, trouble jvil jowers, but a°Teec\ to separate. A dlnns. and now comes tlie ifcW? congregc xtoii with their pas- and Paxton and their pastor Sarg? W0rlge°® Side? while a ma- front. Within two days alter t tor held to tilt . their pastor, Rev. of the battle of Lexington had . iority Of perry &r. Bertram, (•lived, all the able bodied men Roan, tyho had 0u , gide;. Septem-1 neighborhood were organized loi feat ovei to the lgg communing I, S One of the hrst «unpanms her 2oth, 1 ' ';*• ” » r)c-rrv ot then members ot Pr,xt‘)n (.aq\ t0Rev., in the colonies Tliis com ‘Old Side” fmth if esetvtm. The thew Smith, ot Paxton. was armed ami equipped ieady .fo dote Elder to take chaise o ted a Vice ten days after the receipt ot ‘•New Side” part of Paxton] news of the battle of Lexington, church about tw , perry the Rev. Church, and there and at .q 1775 e over the old records we hnd so ^„.'s from Paxton that we won Roan officiated until tiie erection I •there were any able bodied men . For ten or fifteen >’ huildim' was filled : the neighborhood; and as "e of Paxton Church the South .r, through the old burying ground at i vyhhId Wcvst.thinnedwors !j.” ’d tnetdie numbers.nurnu, ^ During a try. present time we find on these old W. and Within 1 . wars was a try- 1 1 ,,-s the names of many who otte m French and lndiau ujm n; They j, theTr lives to secure the hberty jtnd ^ 1R time to the peop . • work and WependetfCrW now enjoy. Paxton w. arried their rjfU* +te Rev John Elder. joined to Carlisle _ Presbytery in la 3 worship u . d jlilB expounded to and has remained in R ever smee. ■T.'th his ^^f^tvord ol' God. Once m Roan, pastor of Derry, died w f <5, ds hearers the f f . hing, the church October 2d of that yeai 1^t, yrllJle he w< ■ 1 rudjanS) hut they Derry were again united. APr“ va.s surromided f y lnd by the number 1787, a petition was presented to La vero evidently making an at- lisle Presbytery, statmg the desire ote >f rifles and 1('^'ffpcrhPted an attack, number of persons of Hainsburg and :ack. Agiun thcy UTPGaa on the vicinity to be considered a Piesbyte out arrived on fronuaj ’ discovered Sabbath, finding they vm^ murder ■ congregation. The request.was gr andi the congregation a and thatt*- of„ H^mve^^TTi.iiovGri and then d latogt to convene at Marsh Creek, m luty was to guard t‘mi harvests sasLsi-Es^. -ment. The members of the firm „‘r,iIinen 2fv.h??h stant5'n& in the com¬ tion and the ancestors of some of our / munity and hold a strong position among ^ 'Siness men. Mr. Miller is an ex-mem* members. In this old church, during ber ot the Legislature, is prominent in perilous times, they gathered, often at the local Republican party, and has been a member of Select and Common the risk of their lives, to worship God, Councils, having been the presiding of¬ and it is fitting that their last earthly ficer of the latter branch. Mr. Herle- helgh, who is from Herkimer County (resting places should he in this hallowed N Y., is a prominent Democratic poli¬ (spot. Owing to tlie loss of the minutes tician and an intimate acquaintance of President Cleveland. The firm is an of the Presbyteries of Philadelphia and energetic and pushing one, and is hav¬ New Castle, previous to the constituting ing great success. Among the business interests of Harris¬ of the Presbytery of Donegal, the exact burg that of beer brewing holds a con¬ date of the organization of Paxton spicuous place, not less than three Church is unknown. In 1724 a small log breweries being located here. The larg- house of worship stood near the spot ^t4StnbllS!lmic of the heroes of the Revolu-. ——-t-•- —r —— \ ' V — A j sucn as clgarmUkeTs, shoemakers -SferT • b’lt the establishments that manufacture employed! Within the next few 1 !li e„Saj and Whose goods go into every a splendid six-story building nook and cranny of the United States. erected for factory purposes. T t..wou - be a very easy matter to acity of the establishment will credit, and truthfully, too, t.o Harrisburg doubled, ana 1000 Instead of 500 per a much larger number of manufactur- will be employed ing concerns. The above estimate leaves And It Is a complete factory, ine; out of account all the minor places. It is are fire escapes, automatic sprinklers a record to be proud of. In this ac¬ every room; there is light and vent" count brief facts must suffice concem!n'rl 1 tion and heat for all purposes In abi some of Harrisburg’s vast industries 'The! I dance. This is only a brief and Inco Pennsylvania Iron & Steel Company ' plete description of one of the .reads the list with its thousands of em¬ of Harrisburg’s Industries. ployees, and Its product valued, on an One of the most progressive mi average, at $10,000,000 annually The Har facturlng firms In Harrisburg Is the n risburg Nail Works, with its 600 or 700 Brothers Manufacturing Company employees; the Paxton Furnaces the ■ which Charles S. Ball is president. T Central Iron Works and the Chesapeake firm, which is a distinctive featur NailN3.1l Works '* ^’•V the city’s industries, manufacture 1 1 One of the greatest Industrial con and Iron bedsteads, mattresses cerns in the central part of the State 1' spring beds, and the equipment of large establishment is most comp ihedWefS5n\1?arWorks- ft car Heston ■ The members of the firm are youi 000 annuallv rt exceedl»g $1,000,- energetic, and from a small beg... nearfv loon glVfs . employment to ha.ve built up a most extensive tr« J ivTo men> and its pay roll ex- selling large quantities of their goods thl Hfr.1’-?E?vP w-m-OIlth’ Then there are New England and throughout the We ern States. They began business in 1885, and 1830 their establishment was entir consumed by fire; but with characte pluck and energy they at once ere< much larger and better equipped ISSF tea a Ilshment, and they have been r< S » L=Its, specialties are boiler ably successful. Mr. Ball, the president of the company, Is recoe iron and steel and°univeS M-uf61, as one of Harrisburg’s leading bus men, is a member of the Board of T.ai being one of its most enthusiastic wor is one of the largest in the United States ers. and very ardent in his efforts twenty SHOES A MINUtI 1 promote the lutere/ts of the Capital Cl An establishment that turns out mm The company manufactures only Plete and perfect ten pairs ? the wholesale trade, and salesmen every minute of the L L MS constantly on the road, making sa such number that allow of no B sunrise and sunset of evwy dav in downs in the home manufactory. I your makes, packs and ships enough In fact, an establishment reflecting greatest credit upon the city. a’city of eooTpeople13 Tha^iJ’wh ?qUhP A PROGRESSIVE CONCERN. In the extensive works of the Ja 1 son Manufacturing Company, at For and Boyd Streets, they are turning steel wheelbarrows, mining cars e outni2Mhpamsniofe shoe? a* day^now"?"4' wire rope thimbles with a speed that dicates the great popularity of thi ’ portant establishment. Major Lane the president of the Harrisburg r°S& $$££ Company, is also president of th ‘ poration; James I Chamberla' ce^. one-fifth of that sum 38 t0 ex_ ment attorney, is vice-preSid. Jennings Is treasurer and establishmen’f6 Uie^ th! and A. G. Miles superintend fh\°ei“|estfaconce/n w?1> hav! local organizations have more known men behind them. The 1 outside one bigger e^tablis^mo °?tinent' of the firm are high in buslr New England.0Agenciesfo??h™P iTl cial and political circles, and ( also known as solid men from a cial standpoint. The present was organized in 1881, but the has been practically carried 18(7. The company’s trade is tensive and the works are ke pHHg^feSI right along. Their trade, in fact, S'RSiSC,Th?SfS.i wide. They sell In every Stat< Union and ship large eonsignr £bf IiaF" «,& t various countries in South \m weH as to Europe. Their trade w mJJl- JS^S cBorSC„al £”c* America is rapidly increasing, . goods being much sought after ■, In connection with the regular d« ments they hav an extensive A AfP?cnk experienced shoe man Mr 'j"! establishment, wuere all sorts ecx Is the machinery exbert TTn * and steel work is carried on An establishment that has a patronage is the Star Carpet Cl ldeamofh?he^x^en^a^'t”S anj Company, of 2S-34 North Cameron Harrisburg. The business was F-^w dsn tfSFg? m a modest sort of way in me turning out 4000 papeV boxes a dav Charles A. Miller, and grew Into ,?n ^nuan 15 emPloyed solely for pillni large proportions that the mach boxes!*3 ai'ranSin- the wooden shipplnf had to be increased three-fold T1 or cleaning carpets took at once, the company whs organized, and comprises Mr. Miller, H. A Fez p. F. Herleheigh. Every reqi Ovc. ;.(!0 pernors, half oXthem girls ^ for the thorough carrying o work1 is. to be found in their m man. , ao oie eternal credit of the Chrictiov, women of Harrisburg be It notedllJl _a home atmosphere to a hotel. Then ! tbe9<; p°wlrs f°r good are officer^ is a menu to talk about, and one of th, ancI controlled solely bv them coziest dining rooms imaginable. The | Children's Industrial Home at N?ne Lochiel steaks are noted everywhere. teenth and Swatara Streets ’has fm- ifj But better still there always awaits the officers Mrs. Edward Boyfr president weaiy traveler a welcome that does his Emma Ah Bross, recording’ secretary•’ heart good. Up at the Commonwealth, with its im¬ rotMx^aSd6 e's'5 F’^llx°It rea s u rer' posing architecture, there is perhaps the best known hotel manager in the Stati of Pennsylvania. Every visitor, from thf humble and retiring member of the Leg¬ islature to the high officers of the Com¬ H°mo Is located at Fifth and Tench ® monwealth, know him as “Wllse ” It 1< In this connection It would be a mis Ike not to refer tn n,„ xt„a .Tnl»- a?„^ffectio,nate way of recognizing the ability and affableness of Mr. Wilson S. Cornman, the manager of the Com¬ monwealth. The proprietor of the hote) is Mr. James Russ, who has been own- 1 change of views on naTural science—n mg hotels for half his lifetime. Between a month' and Mr. B. W i mlng is the secretary. eln these two experts it is no wonder that the Commonwealth bears the name ll ln<3icati°ns of prosperity on does for good living. ° a any community is the num- .,As, f°r the hotel Itself the fact that ber of its financial and savings institn its 150 rooms are found necessary to tions. One of the causes for the ranid accommodate Its patrons frequently out¬ increase in the number of houses in the side the Legislative session bears testi¬ mony to its popularity. There is one I buildingDividing ?andnSr loan,iSbUr& associations. can be traced to its I ng TP015 whlch Proprietor Russ prides j1*? are to-day in active onpratirm ir> himself and that is his cuisine It i= ' | Harrisburg twenty-nine building unsurpassed by any of the big hotels 1 r7?rs°cif,t'ons- Men In every walk in life1 of the xRies. He sets a table that in | point of variety and excellency of ser- | vice is of the best. The Commonwealth I is one of the oldest hotels In Harrisburg ! a3SoclaflonstheThere more’raultil'0]^ Charles Dickens sang the praises of thf I Bolton House In his “American Notes ” ! than‘in To-day it is as popular as it was in other years. Its proprietor is T. H a^Iel Harrisburg i^prltfyVelfoff'’Tt Heist, a gentleman of exceptional ap¬ rlaait"ine of them, with7 a combined titude for conducting a large and popu¬ capital and surplus exceeding $2,500,000. lar hotel. Mr. Heist has so renovated and refitted the building, that it now possesses every modern convenience HARRISBURG’S HOTELS. The office and lobby have been refitted and refurnished in an elegant manner Hostelries That Are Famous All Over the and guests are never permitted to want for attention from the proprietor down State for Their Comforts and Onex- to the humblest of the many employees. oelled Cuisine. There are large and convenient sample- rooms, with passenger and baggage ele¬ . Iffrrisbur^> as becomes a capital citv. vator, and the house is lighted with is blessed with several hotels that would electricity and warmed with steam heat. do honor in the excellency of their Electric cars pass the door and special cuisine and service, to any city in the rates and comfortable rooms are given v °ncl Tt is not owing solely to the fact to commercial men. Mr. Heist, the pro¬ that Harrisburg is a railroad center that prietor, is an "old hand” at the business. the traveling men, or, as Dickens calls He has had long experience In his line them, the bagmen,” find it convenient and is untiring in his efforts to give to hurry down from the interior, or “d satisfaction to his guests. M. S. Butter- j\ the South to pass Sunday tn Ha.r- worth is the efficient and popular man¬ risburg when business prevents them ager. I from getting home. The fact that tiieS There are other hotels and cafes In 1 WOrthy of the nameatishteh| Harrisburg of more than ordinary repu- %Lnnmeh T\inducementa for them to stop over | tation—the Grand Hotel and the Russ ■ere on their rest day. 1 ver Hotel, to say nothing of the excellent Taking them in point of age the I r> restaurant in the Pennsylvania Railroad >heeLCr°TS first-„Thls old hostelry, which the late George W. Hunter made famous station, where service and food is of i ’n his day, has occupied its present site the very best. for so many years that the oldest in¬ habitant feels a sort of veneration for t- Beneath Its roof the most famous latesmen of two generations have rest- ITS GREAT MANUFACTORIES. o by night, while they set up schemes , gainst the other fellow by day. In the Iron and Steal, B oots and Shoes, and All ?*o'days, when “Bob” Mackey was alive and the capital was the hotbed of some the Varied lines of Keoessitiek Are Pf the most famous political manlpula- Represented in the Splendid Roster. ftions that half a century has seen, the 'Cochiel was the rallying point for every From its very beginning Harrisburg has ■action; and even in late years the house maintained its supremacy in Central - tas seen all the whirl of modern poli¬ Pennsylvania as a manufacturing cen¬ shes. ■ ter. Away back in the last decade of 1 The son of George W. Hunter Is the the last century a flourishing nailery j controlling force at the Lochiel these was conducted in Harrisburg. To-day 'lays- It isn’t the old Lochiel either, in the iron and steel product of Harris¬ s (he matter of brick and mortar or in¬ burg mills. Including the manufacture ferior arrangement and furnishment. of articles from this material, figures These sons of their father do not take up into the millions of dollars. tindly to the old regime, and so when Do Harrisburg people fully appreciate Mr. Forrest Hunter succeeded to thc- the importance of their city as a manu¬ proprietorship he did away with the facturing point? There are In operation I > 1 order of things. There are new and to-day Tn Harrisburg propef just 117 1 [ \ant upbolsterings, and all the de- ■establishments employing thousands of j | Cul— and .luxurious things that adc! ” -f women. This does not include ! Mufacturing establishments. . ^ X 1/ —.a’4 ' ifi the . ot AtnrClay and Cameron S located at Jiac > ^ since tn

purpose for wfeicti j* school bulUl- zsrt the main-fthe ,?vp character. The bvtlld- « °effi?ienfatS|erintendent

furnishes somethh\gschools In | th^Grea^er Harrisbur^ are like. [ ‘•si '■2S5&I&IMS Aa'ste¥te® s and Sunday schools of tnts cu-y «■ .s- higher "ha! me tendency r™p^a^fehi?’lVltl2ens is God- , S°b™tot' S«KS£ «« Gorgas,Another.hospital, treasurer. modestydest i nMrg its clal'A_ W^de"fodnp^p!ehofWHarrisburg support, 1 and work, is that ot E H Hell di told fifty-two churches, one syna- | Black is as 'the Matern. gogue, °^e^.jySl°"every “"denomination class. .Neal?i£inn isrecognized. Some ss»;*a>>-sgn*&pjn o?°!he church0 edifices arf remarkable gsr'aoinsa?™*? ~*l meritorious wo ?or their architectural beauty, and all. with but few exceptions, are well sup

Harrisburg rp McGovern, one11 of

States The r om ola-fashioned, but on State Street . t lg thronged stately, brl* 'W n|mong the other SHE®®* ularlv with Rev. S. C. Swallow as pi & HSlSern^^M^ ident. The Dauphin County Historica nhunaPt1hn^a“ presbyterlan. and ciety, which is supported, on itsmen St. Stephen’s Episcopal. i ship dues, is a chartered organic SOME WONDERFUL BIBDES. i with an office and library at the ~ 1 House. A. Boyd Hamilton is preside „f the men whose career has W A Kellter, librarian, and W. C. - % the snwmal life of Harrisburg mTh.S Harrisburg Minister^ Associate

ttrtt cfty.1 advanced«* in tnetn&^sr pi B deeds xx and other. Monday toQtto P*£%*°ia secr, ed with the record mg mgn In. hls helpfulness to' h_ feu Mr^ Ke,ker has tann'e of the efforts put forth by dev hOTO of°the most remarkable collections Christians to help their followers, « one °f wfbie in this country. The which is meeting with su,ccKristian of the Holy . d in one modest book sprved is the Young Men s Christian collection co°\a tv ou "and 3 of dollars in sociation. Indeed,under th^ same h« case, represents thousands copies are should properly come the otnei intrinsic value. Sh°™English andP Ameri- branches of the organization, the regularly quoted by thousands road Toung Men’s Chri^tfan Assoc, can dealers at .hnmh-eas ana bound ln and the Young Vv oman s Christia, of dollars. One c°r^vyal°tome. printed bnar,?Sthe was yet In its Infancy, is CiThe°Young Men’s Christian Assoc aft mahitalns l free reading room building at Second and Locust. I assists young men to secure su¬ borned. and ln that ^^^tJoks attc „ nart of its superb work Iooks axct generally the welfare of youns m who seek Its assistance. Its onicera * Dr. David F. Funk, president; Home Black, general secretary .G M Mc Cauley, treasurer and George W Keuy not Include “teelton. } yet Tv librarian. The Young vvu,1‘a“. rightfully a Part of Harrisburg^ V separate,. There nas to Steelton beyond^that J£«dS ^industries, which ar^fai^n°"|ret to receive extended Frank H Gregory Is secretary. ■

rangeldolMitS’^t^ctlwheM i tB£ ?oeod there ^ar^°the

of the great steel works. Harrisburg In the matter of hospitals,a«there ad_ takes no second place, f n“e of them, mirably equipped hospital^ under and the largest, being a natic Hospi- stretch out the hand of sympathy a State control. The Stabe b, Statens love to the orphan, the outc^st or tal, one of the largest in . ^ destitute. Every such Institution, those named above, ts a mile post maren oFjmmanltyjo the grand; Harrisburs’s future by the Sf. ln the ^cent I able rVefef d^rl/“e™ *? an «ono,- ke3 in the way of JrLrhlCth -she I it which b4n Sk cenlury behind re years of her existennSP°7ation •^the stage coach ®*lstence she has -and the canal boat van^h0grbfWa' fast freight and fJw.vanl, before ith railroad lines radian™ pa’ace cap /"S a center to all nnint atJn& from her and embracing in their sw°f thb comPass city and grow”- tow" P &reat Harrisburg’s future cInno*t £roPbecy of r, mistic. The Harrisburg £f to h t0° opti- ing and radiant with Ju, to'day- grow- Plying industries thpMterSeilI,d multi- tho legislative city of Th "ai,roa^ wealth, peopled by menL^ Common- are the descendants of th„W°men wh° fought for freedom in * the men Who brains and women ofW°h Wars’ men Mayor.—Maurice C. Ebv city to sing of and ™ f b,eauty. is a Treasurer.—Abner C. McKee a ’ and Poor, indeed, and Controiler.-William K. Verbeke.

I weakly endowed, would be poet, proph- | gif E^gineer.-M. \ Bowden”’ et or preacher who could not see and i sing of the Harrisburg-that-is-to-be. | S.^st^oSh°nrSA:A^?,aBndTaCk; Samuel >

HARRISBURG OF TO-DAY. Sanitary Department.—Oliver B s?i£T' > mary;C^S: ghagf0sckA’ Miller, H&T Its Corporate Life, Its Institutions, Its WCit^k’ fnf£ryDoffi?‘?sCk “d Ge°^e I Churches and the Other Elements That Stake a City Great. R BPez‘e4eierent P°liCe and Fir® Alarm.- 1 In one respect Harrisburg is the I DistHc?,°Alfred'TFBfackDIStr,Ct’ Second alcne 61tC hyi i°f -Pennsylvania. In this bolds the pre-eminence above !comfeyWay Commissioner. John Mc- ail other cities. It Is in the matter of 3 5»»Melp3* bai , ^Building Inspector-Henry Schuddem- Superylsor.-pfrst District, T I ?tUti=Cla^SeLit? blg slster in every way8 | hS CrookS°r‘~SeC011d Distrlct. .William* It is doubtful if the people of Harris-! LUJ'g ever looked carefully into the mat- Chief of Police—Samuel J. Anderson fbeir street names, else they Lieutenant of Police.—Claries Sergeants of Police—Lewil H ”d' ti+ioid ti!lave cbosen more euphonious idles ttan some which they have in- man J. Charles Yingst. 3 H’ Bow- fl Fr^L°K the!.r thoroughfares, Wa1kmeyCe°rUnCil-F1rst Ward- Henry A. hoo VTlsbmrSa,13 an inland town, but it Svc05

l¥£UtS'1?ra°‘e a"dlCpooaked Avenues’ Currant Avenue shares distinction with Crape and Gooseberry. There* is m! Avenue and Hop Avenue ami p>,LH ! and Pigeon and Prune nnri <1 Pheasant jdN.„th Ward-ChristiaTr^udy, pres-

Kinsely °f Select Gouncil. j. Herman Ch^^eCo0r^C^rKe7yard’ Rlchard ESe&wM.^hfr&,r. WUUam

FmnkdM^same7Charle3 F’ Delk«% B Milno^'presWenT1' K‘ R°ya1, Qeorge W. AFHohopTsard’~Ci,arIes C’ Soriver, Harry ter than a circus in those old days ten t.he horses had to be brought in M!iXkthMyTrasrd-W1Uiam M’ Blent* S.’ om pasture, and all the bells rang, and L.SHess‘h Ward-Samuel Eberly, David togs barked and children cheered. But co-day Harrisburg possesses one of the best-equipped fire departments in the WBi|raiSf"IYISby C- Battl9’ George blate. It had a good department in the past, but it was the way it was Simmtons.Ward'~C’ A’ Garverlch, O. B. operated. Now there are five hose com¬ ^Cierk of Common Council.-C. A. Mil- panies and six steam fire engines, with one hook and ladder company. There f1,.Tb® educational, features of -Harrls- .is no more of the ridiculous in the re- sponse of the department to an alarm school, thirty-seven gramma?dld ?ig,h .cere is all the precision and haste of and ninety-five schools, - v- hilaclelphia department, and the dis- pupils of these pifh 1 ic 7cdioru« S‘v, Tte A ■:*' is superb .under the direction of in twenty-two schcni h,,nS- s are boused "'.gineer Howard O. Holstein. The tion to Se ad&hfc nl3;, In a«l- system there are six priva‘« enn ?choo! Causes of Harrisburg rank academies. Private schools and " *he country. The house a model. \9 not an organiza- l^r^Wt in It %-most admirably, adapted W h°t?k - - ,

/.«.i of doubtful wmstty, some gai- . of Medford ruiri and unknown capital city of the State. jantlties of gunpowder and sheet lead. No city in the North has played a more j /He flourished like a green bay tree. important part in the political history I ! John Harris was a man out of the of this country than Harrisburg. It ordinary. We talk about the “canny” Scotch and the rugged Scotch-Irish of | was the center of excitement in the 1 Central Pennsylvania, who built Buckshot War. It was here that Wash- I ington halted in his march to suppress churches and made long prayers and ! drank whisky and killed Indians, but 1 the Whisky Insurrection, and the stone step on which he stood while he ad¬ this long-headed Yorkshire man got into dressed the citizens of the town is still this land of promise before the Gal- preserved as a memorial by one of Har¬ ’branhs, and Camerons and McLeods risburg’s leading citizens, Mr. Kelker and Donaldsons had left their Trossach It was here that Daniel Webster ad¬ hills or the green slopes of Armagh. dressed the Legislature In the early Harris was a trader. He followed close forties. A committee of the House and ion the heels of the French fur traders Senate Vitas sent to the railroad depot 'who got as far as Chicago before the to meet him. The great American ora¬ (English had reached the Kanawha. tor ^paralyzed the committee by drinking JOHN HARRIS, FOUNDER, half a bottle of brandy neat before he John Harris knew a good thing when started -to the hill. It was with great he saw it, and the ford of Susquehanna reluctance that several of the commit¬ with its diverging Indian trails, the tee saw him, after this potation, start primitive highway between the growing for the legislative halls. He was radi¬ East and the unexplored West took ant in yellow waistcoat and blue coat. his keen English eye. William Penn But the brandy only seemed to have didn t know of the natural advantages warmed his brain and loosened his of the spot selected by John Harris tongue, for it is said that Daniel Web There is no doubt whatever about his j ster never made such a speech as he ignorance on this point, for if he had did that day, outside the halls of Cnn had the slightest inkling he would have | gress. sent a surveyor and divided the whole And in later years, when the Rebellion country up into building lots, and then | came, Camp Curtin at Harrisburg was I on a certain day he would have had a one of the greatest camps in all the ' I big auction sale of town lots. That is iMorth. Thousands of Pennsylvania I what he did in Reading. Of course there troops left Harrisburg and Camp Cur- is a widely diffused impression that tin for the front. It was the mobiliz¬ William Penn was a godly man, whose ing point. It was here, too, in Harris principal business consisted in holding- burg when Lincoln was on his way to treaties under elm trees, where in knee Washington, that the wires were cut breeches and sombrero he always as and the Immortal President was hur¬ Burned a statuesque pose with a roll of ried on to Washington with secrecy and red flannel under one arm and a parch¬ in disguise, while assassins lurked in ment scroll half unrolled and extended hope of ending his career, just begun. in the other hand. And William Penn i All of this, and more, too, is part of was a godly man; true, and honest and ! | the vivid past in Harrisburg's annals. conscientious. But he was shrewd and ! I Just a few cold facts about Harris¬ far-seeing and not averse to rakin°- in burg before a definite statement, and in an odd shilling on a real estate deal detail, is made. Harrisburg is 313 feet History proves that he was the first above the level of the sea. Its average man in Pennsylvania to introduce the temperature is in the neighborhood of popular custom of auction sales of lots 48 degrees. It is 105 miles from Philadel¬ x o be sure, the free excursion train, the phia, 82 miles from Baltimore, and 246 free lunch and the brass band were miles from Pittsburg. It was incorpor¬ later inventions. ated as a city in 1860, and to-day has William Penn lost one of the oppor¬ on a close estimate a population of tunities of his life when he gave Har- 50,000 souls, living in 11,500 buildings. jjaburg the marble heart, while rugged The site of Harrisburg is an ideal one John Harris embalmed his name m for a great city. There is ample room I and left the impress of his individuality here for expansion. Up and dow-n the upon the whole surrounding section. banks of the wide river, and running During the nine and twenty years that backward from its tideless waters to followed, up to his death, in 1748, John the foot hills of the great Central Penn- Harris saw the country grow populous, sylvania valley there are miles and miles and so, when his son took his father’s up and down of choicest land for city ! place, the idea of a town at the ford j purposes. There are hills for the homes took definite shape. of those who like elevation, and there It was in 1784 that John Karris, Jr., are plains, level and wide, for the tolling discussed the scheme of a town, and masses and those who like to live in one year later William MacClay sur¬ the midst of the hurry and whirl and veyed the land, and the city of Harris¬ hum of urban life. And some day. burg had its first tangible beginning. some time in the coming century, the It was four years before this, however, beautiful homes that are now suburban that the idea was coined in the brain will be relegated to the rear. They will of the younger Harris that some day, be the landmarks, beautiful though perhaps, the town narked for his father they be now, of a past era. Crowded might become the seat of government streets will encroach on their privacy of the new State of Pennsylvania. It the freedom of light and air will be was thirtv years after this and .nine¬ taken away by the tall buildings of the teen after the death of the son of the twentieth-century architects, and in the march of time and progress they will original settler that it was formally de¬ sh to give place to other generations creed tha.t Harrisburg shouldjbecome tb - "d factory builders. \ -K_— "house i never has been and never will be classed among the municipal sepulchres of Cen¬ tral Pennsylvania. From. ' i i In the matter of progress in the past two decades, Harrisburg, were the exact figures to be given and ratios com¬ A puted, has outstripped every city in the State, with perhaps the exception oi - 'hi*- Pittsburg. The evidence of this is found S'^9 /^S ■ in her miles of new streets, where only a few years ago ‘‘the grass grew ■ , • ; . green, the harvest bright.” The archi¬ - p tectural revival which finds its highest 1 he City of Yesterday and Story of Its Beginning.

WHY IT IS A LEADING CITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

A Pen Picture of Its Homes, Churches and Its Noted Men, With Some Facts Concerning Its Position as a Great Manufacturing Centre.

V? Harrisburg is the Capital city of the types in the greater cities has invaded State because it is the legislative center Harrisburg and lined her avenues with of the Commonwealth. From it, for homes that are the equal of any to be more : than three generations of men, found elsewhere in all the land. have radiated all the laws that have IT IS A UNIQUE CITY. blessed or cursed the people of Penn¬ This inland city, with Its population sylvania. But it Is a leading city for of 50,000 souls, is, in a measure, unique other reasons. Decades before Fort .i among the municipalities of the State. Pitt lifted its rude stockade in front It is a city of homes, and yet It Is a hive of industry. The occasional smoke of the silvery Allegheny, or Celeron,: wreaths that curl black against the ; the messenger of the King, had claimed sky and float caressingly around the the gateway of the West for la France, flag that sways and flaps from the ; while Philadelphia was yet a struggling capitol dome is nature’s black flag of ' village, Harrisburg was a trading sta¬ industry; and the Harrisburg people are tion where whisky, gunpowder, red flan¬ not unlike the Pittsburg folk who love i nel and butcher knives were swapped the smoke of their city, and they have; for pelts and furs and the products of a saying that embodies all of their rea¬ sons for this strange admiration, and it the forest. Is, ‘‘Black smoke means bright dollars.” It was from the environments of Har¬ There is not a great deal to talk about risburg that the first company of col¬ in Harrisburg’s past. Its people, for; onists marched eastward when the news nearly two centuries, have lived and), of Lexington came on the wings of the loved, and bullded and died the same as wind in Revolutionary days; and, fore¬ others of the race In every land. Bu most in the arts of peace 100 years later, there are landmarks that dot its progress and tell the story of its corporate life. it was here that the first steel rails ever First of all there Is the coming of produced in this country on an order John Harris, of Yorkshire, England. in the regular course of business were He is at once the founder and titular rolled. And yet. in the face of these saint of the old town. When he came here, In 1719, the future capital city con¬ incontrovertible facts, which illuminate sisted Of the best ford on the Susque¬ the history of the capital city, it re¬ hanna, a mass of forest, an Indian mains to be said that the glory is of and several roving bands of unwasl redskins. John Harris began business t the future and not of the past. The a log cabin. History Is mute on the Harrisburg of to-day-vls but the indi¬ > ject, but there Is a lingering cation of what she will be In the years •ion, derived from the scant record i come. There are dead towns along; -at early day, that the late Mr. vs.n /business—that of a trade- but Harris’- ;■ * —-- A .-3d 1789. •* -List. r. for Warrants. 1789 the Rankins had difficulty in getting from the government what they considered fiWorpay «nd0mH?^ble ,Na^aniel Den- their just dues. There are several entries frorn home from 21 March ?„ a,nd coming of this sort: sive. £31 5s. March to 23 April inclu- Captain.iipiuiu rvaniunRankin nashas presented an Acct for April 26 1789. services?rvices and provisions supplied to the Mil- in vn t- +!>/> A /-./it- U r. ^ __i __ Militia Fines, itia 1but the Acct has been rejected Firstly r i.i t0 Jeremiah Talbot he did not produce a proper list and sec¬ ondly he did not show vouchers to prove ■»-»i.r that provisions were issued. The amount of his account was £19 19s 3d of this only ««"!*. S"'SfS; 10s for one Blanket was allowed. Philadelnhio a—,, __ One entry refers to "amounts‘amounts paid for April 27 1789- wages and mileage of the members of this - ■Dr-,to David Reddle session of Assembly.” The members in jo? MayaMe5cntdaI“cfS„1J? Co«ncil until the 1st Washington County dafed^is™ ayg£e5fi from

foa/guaSrdringa?henent from tteXeakeTof the House^ ^ SigDGd by ^Following are a few extracts from this Ing the prisoners that attemnfirtV aSd £Tlar(1- of gaol, and to pay fo nT^ break out men who Assiston0T -a. detachment of in Refer ^mi 44 ,day0s and mileage... £47 Obadiah Gowd 433|af syanaind ■IiaileaSe 28 10s use of theAmy'in sf Ca-t«e *°? the 15s ! J ’*»? Co^glf ^ J- -ae: 42 ; ioCOr>Jin^eilt esPenses Dr. ’

medicinesamlminlterednbvI1himrt a7cmnt of I "as 'papi ws I,d Corps, to guards andto the Inva- pers—Settled May 26 1789 p^lic Pa' Mav 07 Ivon A ■‘■•oj.— £1,_4S 6d I thfniimb **?*** °U the 1>ist ^56 while 44 vlfil!1' ? days at that session was just Dr.' fot- waSrran?1nC?peck Road- ^JAeUrTS changed, and 'the for compietlng the Roa°d Owen, load lying between tiff 0calIed Nescopeck Falls of Nescoplck and ^aSqrUe?f‘mja and 1 near the Dnio/Saw MH he^eh gh at or 1 this day—£ioo. Mills< Hl® Acct paid PUndae7?r hU,rinS ^ sesseion?1£16eit4sSUm find; ® 6ad 0f “Sundry Accounts” we

'' -hSrtn^afgi.V^ iDter6StiDS aa j Passed the “Assembly?.7pnatIous *>r- '"»»To Efho T>:tiC?untles—£25 6s 3d7 «-™“ advertisement cofchS^Donation".^ \ afaHment oT two hundredriound^® first In”

1 Murctlof% sisjenfe and Hoiisl r«7t7£45°6s7dtheU' Sub' I t0 enlarge and carry o7thf

foa La!d Servicefle0! InStrUmente 10 0 . 2 5 0 h%%%7^r^W-2tance<1 by Occasionally now the tpr-ms 8 15 0 50 stand‘'of eArnm0fromaLan°r theI?inS carry dollars ap- ing—£4 17s 2d Lancaster to Wyom- « i-thS old volume. A7°esSofU£anddmfo?St?rnn-0r su7eying 10,000 £75. a for Episcopal Academy- fion«HfCoiatlLBpUurchafs°er of^dT 38 Commis- I Bands for the state n Indian claims to nth Oct 88 toe21 M^Vh 1789 abSy-Ivania from was^given "fmn f fSSembIy” Jo^a Heyer ■ut 9 Dollars a day 1'89‘ be,ng 161 davs Expenses for himself,’ servant’ "Vi ?096 p” ohorses for said time alTdolfafs j interest .re the . 322 VCentral Acct. Dr. $1,288

for ser\dcesCandEevnp°r a ?aIIance due 1 Ei f'° Islands in the Rivers Srfv.-n surveying a?SS ?i«We{o?S*l!.'® <*j fneny and for surveyingthe°e10 and Alle- /PPOsite Pittsburg inti? tnLreser,’ ecl Tract igreeable to an o?der of & ?,nd cnt lots fedXe^. °f A«yntep°tf ^

dm! 1789 to the 30th June itoq™ h(? !6th Particulars entered J in e w89 inclusive. .596 20. merea in Warrant Book) I pendent; “The Medical Man and the I recently brought to light is a “day book” of Public Schools,” Paul A. Hartman, M. 1789, belonging to the “Comptroller Gener¬ D., president of the board of control; al’s Office, Philadelphia.” “The Public’s Estimate of the Physi¬ The records contain the accounts sent in from the various counties of “licenses grant¬ cian,” D. A. Orr, esq., editor of The . ed,” of “monies paid in by retailers of small Patriot; “The Medical Man as a Sanitar¬ measures,” of "fines collected,” and so ian,” Hugh Hamilton, M. IX; “Medico- forth. For It must be borne in mind that at Legal Jurisprudence,” Hon. John B. that date the capital was still Philadelphia, McPherson, additional law judge; “The and all Prothonotaries sent In their returns1; Medical Man and the Local Hospital,-” to this place. F. W. Ooover, M. D.; “A Patient’s The accounts were kept In pounds, shill¬ Recollections of Some Deceased Har- | ings and pence, and It Is hardly probable that the style of book keeping would find risburg Physicians,” H. M. Graydon, favor with officials of to-day. Perhaps a esq.; “The Trained Nurse,” Hiram hundred years ago probity and integrity McGowan, M. D.; “A Com¬ were less uncommon than now among of¬ parison Between the American and fice-holders, and hence there may have been German Physicians in War and Peace,” less necessity for intricate methods of book¬ C. A. Rahter, M. D.; “Specialism in keeping and the mysteries of double entry. Medicine,” E. H. James, M. D.; “A Certainly this old volume is kept In the most simple manner. The first account is Layman’s View of the Sphere of a dated April 3, 1789, and very probably refers Lo«>l Hospital,” Colonel Henry McCor¬ to certain exigencies brought about by the mick.” “Some of the Marvels of Mod¬ war for independence. It reads as follows: ern Surgery,” J. F. Culp, M. D.; “Elec¬ General account. Dr. to Stephen Collins. tricity, Its Legitimate Use in Medicine,” For amount of His account for leaden Spouts taken from His Houses In 1777 for the use George E. Bill, M. D.; closing re¬ of the Public.—His account payed this day— marks, J. Walter Park, M. D., presi¬ £18 16s. 3d. dent of the Dauphin county medical A few other accounts selected at random, society, and Eli H. Coover, M. D., pres- may be of Interest at this remote date. fdent of the Harrisburg academy of Here are several: -_._I David Rittenhouse, his account of Mar¬ riage and Tavern Licenses. To marriage and Tavern Licenses:—for this sum paid him the 7th inst. by Edward Crawford Prothonotary of Franklin C~” the balance of monies received by Him licences and retailers of small measure said County from 2d April 1788 to the 1; day of April 1789. His Account settled day by the payment of £84 16s. Id. Philadelphia, April 16, 1789. Caleb Davis, Prothonotary of Chester Co. Dr. for Taxes and Writs, pleasurable Car¬ riages and Auctioneers Duties £62. The "pleasurable carriages” strikes us day as a quaint expression, but evldentl; the good people of former days who indul; themselves in such wild extravagance we: obliged to pay roundly for so doing, great majority of the returns filed In volume are for “marriage and tavern licen¬ STATE AGCOUflTS j ses.” The following is a little different: For contingent expenses Dr. to Matthew Irwin Recorder of Deeds for the amount If! EARLIER DAYS his acct for Inrolling sundry Acts of . sembly from 22d February to 2d April 1‘ and for sundry researches. His acct sett! AN OLD DAY-BOOK OF 1789 UNEARTHED this day, April 17, 1789, £28 16s. Id. 7 And here, too, is an echo of Indian days AT THE STATE CAPITAL. General acct, April 22, 1789. Dr. to Samuel Moore for a Rifle G ■with himself when captured by th at Franks Town in Bedford Cou. BOOK-KEEPER WAS PRIMITIVE 1801, appraised by Wm. M. Comb - Mlers on oath before J. Marshall 1786, at £5 5s. Items of Historical Interest That Come Up The following entry gives some , in Turning Over the Leaves of a Yellow price paid labor: Old Ledger—The Hays When Pounds and April 22d 1789. Hollars Were Both Current in Pennsyl¬ Frankstown and Connemaugh Road Dr. to James Crawford for 20 days Labour as vania—The Original Rankin. Blazer on said Road as certified by J. Harris 25th September 1787 at 3s. per day. His| acct settled this day—£3. From a Correspondent of The Times. Jacob Auld Collector of Excise in J Harrisburg, October 31. gomery County Dr. for this sum due Each department at the State capital has State the 20th March last, settled th'q ) day April 1789, £176 14s. Od. in its possession numerous books and records of great historic value. Unfortunately these Evidently public officials wer-' volumes are, in many cases, so securely taken care of a century since stored away that their very existence, al- find the following: ' is forgotten. Among the books quite ACADEMY OF MEDICIBE. 'Pro*f?,rp1nle of the Opening of the cine,” E. EL James Tn ^ ,la Medi~ n** ?econd Street Bulfdlng.1 I Academy of Medicine with ferL? °£nd-a|reet wil1 be opened I Thnrioi LeXerCuSes acd a banquet on Anursday, November 7th. The onsninw £ STSZ lako P^ce on the after? Closing Remarks,” J. Walter Park M i Willbewin h« fhthe h programme: day at 2 °’Remarksclock aod bv thisthe president of the Academy, Eli H. Coover M. D,; prayer. Rev. D. >A. Gilbert, D. D SciM. Harmtarg Academy of !v°^LC°5gr?tU remarks by the senior vf'?[®8}dfIlt. xof the Dauphin County TO BE OPENED NOVEMBER 7. I Medical Society, John Carwen, A. M, M

he Pr°fC^ ‘"I °*e House Warming of Warmnwarren,en Pa,,plCad briefKei?tf 0remarksf ths 8tate on the rela- the Academy of Medicine. S ion of the Medical Profession to the 'on\hoerSarbUi;ga0ademy of medicine Commonwealth. Daniel H. HasLgs -ion ^orth Second street will be opened ?rils fe£E8*lvani8: medical id’ I Th wil«maxreXerCiueS and a banquet on onn a M Hhy I T Community Should Sup- j Thursday, November 7. The opening port a Medical Library,” H. C. Wood, M. trnZTiT:flUlkeplace on the*aftei? mp’n» TT pr?fessor m Medical Depart¬ w?n h1 tf\iat day at two °’clock and this ment, University of Pennsylvania- his- will be the program: Remarks bv the I Past fIVnddree8%“S)me Physicians in the president of the academy, Eli H I.. 8t Cfmury of D -uphin County ’ ’ Wil fcveT)\D’; f)ra-ver> Rev. D. M. Gill liam H. E/le A. M , M. D.; benediction neit, D. D.; short congratnlatorv re- TV‘ 900i’ge Stewart, D. D. & -b,y ,?e r.senior wprel at 8 ovinJwf® Chestnafj Stmet Hall, |dent of the Dauphin county .medical society, John Curwen, A. M. M andthera iili if nbaEq“et wili b0 8pread r““®re wdl b0 five-mmuta responses to superintendent of the state hospital! D"S R bRSwTb6r°* Well.known ciiizens. Warren; brief remarks on the relation H’ B' Wabtr will bo toss'.master and of the medical profession to the com¬ after prayer by Riv. Dr. Kremer the fol- monwealth, Daniel H. Hastings, gov- °um,g ba the programme: 3vJ Vft.nin • rnnr1i^.»l /I A_ The Sphere of the Medical Man ” Rav Med^lSpGiamber8' D’ D ; "How the ProfeBSion can assist the State in .%V .p*■ tu medical departl LegMaiion, Hon. George Kunkei • “Th^ ment, Lmversity of Pennsylvania: his- I ?£“£”8 <“«■." S,ic8 O Pa”t Co1SeSS’/DSomf-Physicians in the ?f the R?CChecityV “A Oom!>aiisoa . a.,t Century of Dauphiri County ” Will- L.2> ‘he Requirements for the Degree of lam H. Egle, A. M., M. D. • benediction K3.CMM°!.M®dl0iDe*” David S. Pack, M. I Rev. George B. Stewart, D. D. ’ Tihn ^wdlCfl- Expsrt testimony,” Hon. nt e;!u ev,eVlnf at Chestnut street hall, viV‘>Tbhi 8imonton, President Judge: at eight o clock, the banquet will be i \hntFfei^au{ihe Modica! Man on the ■ pead and there will be five-minute 1 Ed A he Medical Profession and the Newapaoer,” M. W, McAlare^Vn known citizens. Dr. H. B. Walter w 1 | be toast master, and after prayer by Ass°r-0f-'EVElil:Na Teleghaph; '‘Medical Rev. Dr. Bremer the following will be the program: 8 i ftbPj snr? ”wW. 8. Forster,d 2rM. itieyD, Pitfsbun?Aecomi I ‘The Sphere of the Medical Man,” deiV^Tho11 T°f the ?tata Medical S(f- l.VWG^0rge '• Chambers, D. D ■ -‘How S afe’<= ihs Wards of the the Medial Profession Can Assist the nirh' !^°TTa Medical Standpoint,” J, z I< ‘TU6 {;eg!'s atl°n> ’ Hon. George Kunkel • Ho2 BSft?5 “Th° Polil^ Doctor.”' lriTpkD°Ctor as a Citizen,” Hon. Maurice vmdeni-F^7^%ed}t01 of Starlnde of they’TAfy0r °f the city;“A Comparison M‘^ of the Requirements for the Decree of r&s*r Doctor of Medicine,” David S. Funk M Pnw'S'fVf *11’8’8"1 of Control; '“The “ ' D. r j M?dlcal Expert Testimony,” Hon 'The “fc W-. >monton, president judge'- The Position of the Medical Man on the D “t£‘ AkCr°^'-VJ- W' •, The Medical Profession and the (Newspaper,” M. W. McAlarney esa ■ editor Evening Telegraph; “Medical Mdi L.?lalj?08pitaJ*" E- W. Coover, ^ 8 Recollections of tS” w”V?ha,* dS/‘he!' S Some Deceased Harrisburg Physicians,” pnsn, w. S. horster, M. D., Pittshuro- fev “Th„°fT “,e Sta.te Medical £ Nursese, ‘” BfSBiramD ’McGowan,ME^q'; “ TkM « DT «ined• “A ciety, fhe Insane, the Wards of the ^^.tate, from a Medical Standpoint ”17 '^man Phv?S-Weea ^ American and .ram Physician m War and .Peace.” C. IK-SVm?Hon. L. F,Jfey!OT “Th, ed,' tor ~,7T Stevett'■Wilier." former Governor Corl, John T. Wilson, Charles F. Minnesota, and a native ot Dauphin Muench, Edward P. Lescure, Edward countv • also an old bill of lading of Tunis, George Earnest, Bernhard Camp¬ Weaver & Miller, an old firm of forward- commission merchants doing business bell and others, many of whom have in this eitv, for rifles, animation, etc. g long since passed over the silent river. ‘ Dr. H. G. Buehler gave the cane Wrapped in leather' is the following esed by the reverend Dr. W . R. DeW itt. note under date of Harrisburg, August formerly a postor at the Market Square 5, 1859; “To Posterity—These papers Presbyterian church, and Mayor of the were wrapped up on this day by W. E. city. A. G. Grey, a Harpers l'cii> Sees in the presence of Albert bientz, musket, made in 1885. , , yi yp. McAlarney. a lot of old books. who takes with me this way of handing ' V- our names down to you, knowing that J. Goldsmith, a curious tin ballot box mind in one of the departments at the it is the only possible chance of getting 'apitol, whilst repairs were being made. before you, as History takes no notice E. M. Haldeman. a copy ot the constit¬ of honest men, and beside that the rule ution, by-laws and minutes ot the Got-- in our day is for every man to blow Ins ‘imor’s Guards, of this city, adopted m own trumpet.” . „ Then there are the printed copies oi Mr. Stanford, of the Lalauce-Grosjean the constitution and by-laws of looo manufacturing company, a piece of the and 1859, with a list of the active and first tin-plate made in the county. honorary members. Both were printed Fred. H. Cowden was elected to mem¬ by the late Theodore F. Scheffer. On bership. n , ,.rpV,„ B. M. Nead esq., read a paper on ihe the fly leaf of the year 1859 are written: Birthplace of Mormonism in I rank.1 in Sullivan 3. Child, August 5, 18o9 County,” which proved very interesting Union House Restaurant, Harrisburg, and contained facts which were hereto Pa., and W. E. Sees, chief engineer fore unknown to several ot the mem-, There are also three copies of the * PennsyUauui Daily Telegraph, August 1, 2 btA veiw Interesting paper also, was that of Dr.‘Egle, cm “Canal Literature m and 8,1859, published by George Bergner, I iMi." Well as that by Mr. Parthe- &fic vjo.Co. anuand a copy of the Patriot and Union, | S', ^'H.makerS Mill, .t FM^S. of August 5,1859, published by O. Barrett Elbow, on the Swatara. built m Ity). & Co., with R. J. Haldeman as editor. Mr Egle made a statement about La- These are in an excellent state of pres¬ favette’s visit to this city in 182o. and asked for photographs of certain persons ervation and contain many items of in¬ to illustrate a book, connected with such terest of the stirring events preceding visit Dr T. H. Robinson, ot Allegheny the inauguration of the civil war. seminary, one of founders as well These relics will be presented by Mr, as an honorary member of the society, Denehey to the Friendship fire company was present and made remarks, wh t this evening, and ( will doubtless be Mr Parthemore stated that a ladj by the treasured by that organization as pre¬ name of Peggy Castle, who was born m vious souvenirs of the past. ^ |v"v_ pp( this city, and now lives one nnle > cut- of Paxtang, will, if she llves t‘11 month, be one hundred years old, bei born in October, 1795. Mr YV \ Kelker deserves much creel ^ for the neat and attractive appearance From, of the room and the general arrangement of the curiosities and relics alreacij m the hands of the society. The room is; open to the general public- and persons wlm like to look at ancient curiosities will he amply repaid for the tinae theA spend in the room. It is one of HaPMjjg Date burg's places of interest.

“HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Meets Last Evening for the First Time From, Since Mar. The Dauphin County Historical society held their first meeting since last May m their new room, in the court house annex, last evening, and a very interesting meet¬ ing it proved to be, a larger number being present than at any previous meet- Date, df.

Donations were received by the society as follows: From Mr. A. Boyd Hamil- ton. the records of the Hamilton, Hayes and Wallace families, also a copy of the Searight memorial. From Gebhart Lati- fle. copv of the Dauphin county war map of 1862. Df. Egle presented ogfayhs I ,lhat time that Rankin, along with other Tories, came to be very much .» HEIRS TO hated. Suspicion began to grow, and the J keDi „r^,nS thhat a carefu! watch was , Kept upon the movements of both Ran- g-rOSB THEIR CLAIM. kin and all of his associates. Among the latter were two men, Daniel Shelley of I w,? 1Sy 3 and Rev- Danief Bat- well, a Baptist minister. Rankin and Property of Their Ancestors j these two men were reported as frequent- I with a11™ beev Se'6n ln secret conference Was Confiscated During 1 Wlt\Ta ^ew York visitor, whose name I was Rorrip and who was afterward found the Revolution. 1 be an agent of the British Govern- I ™ent> sent into the Colonies on the very hazardous duty of raising and equipping allies from among the Tories or sympa th.zers with the mother country! BECAUSE THEY WERE TORIES Some tune in the Pall of 1777, the nro- vincia1 officers found evidence to confirm their suspicions of Rankin and his ass^ mates and proceeded to make arrests. Tliej Were Convicted of Treason for Shelley and Rev. Batwell were arrested and hr0^ i to Lancagter p6ris™a7 Furnishing Information to the Rankin is said to have evaded arrest and escaped to Philadelphia, then occu¬ British Authorities — His¬ pied by General Howe and his British tory of the Case. ;ir«. ^ere he found aT asylum ^ * the, ,tlme of the evacuation of that 1 at ^RankhV BXitlsh' He left his family i at Rankin s Perry, and, as far as is Special Despatch to “The Press.” neyer saw them again. Prom ithat date to the time of his death in Harrisburg-, May 26.—The House of England in 1802, little is known of 'he Representatives during last week de¬ subsequent history of this man, other feated and then allowed reconsideration than that he is said to have first fled to of a bill, which, if it finally passes, will s ,^°dVaa?tC°tla’ ftter leavin& Philadelphia, .open the way for a veritable flood of liti¬ Yld afterward to have sailed to Eng¬ gation. Connected with the bill in ques¬ land where he lived CTi an annuitv tion is a story of Revolutionary times, Murn for7h the British Government in that reads like a romance. The title of pet urn for his services in betraying the A onial secrets, and the movements of the measure is: "An act reversing the j-eneral Washington’s Army. . attainder of James Rankin and authoriz¬ ing suits to be brought in the Court of THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM. Common Pleas, of Dauphin County, I Tbis Is the nature of the charges made igainst Rankin and his fellow conspira- against the Commonwealth to deter¬ •ors, most of which is learned from the mine who are his heirs and the amount d°^yt tola ,by Shelley, who after his iof proceeds of the sale of his property, irrest and incarceration, turned State’s iPaid into the treasury, if any, and for iber+y06 The ^ later secured his the recovery thereof by said heirs.” . Yhe charges, particularized, For years diligent efforts have been mi tv tt0 Rankm belnS accounted as made by the heirs of James Rankin to = uilty of treason were that he had en- (Secure this legislation, and as far back ,aged with Shelley and Batwell in a plot to blow up the magazines and mili- | as the session of 1851. a bill to the same ! purpose as the one above mentioned was Genyerel°rA IT °f the Pennsylvania anrcnrlit336^17 at Y°rk’ Lancaster I introduced and fought for, yet did not and Carlisle. It was also charged that , ; succeed Since that time, at several he was of service to the British, during f‘ferfnt sessions, similar bills have been the campaign in and about the city of introduced, seeking to open the way for Philadelphia, previous to the memorable prosecutions of the State, to secure the Vy inter camp at Valley Forge in fur- lushing valuable information of the man- re urn of moneys and properties seized, euvers of General Washington’s com¬ neorfle I’nfU!t °f th® conviction of certain mand and the detachments sent out on I Independence^3011' the war of flank movements. Later the charge was that Rankin, as well as Shelley HATED BY THE PATRIOTS and Batwell had been offered a colonel’s commission and fifty acres of land if mfntto?Ctav.Uy lhe date °f the commence- beldns L y> surrounSusquehanna River accused and convicted of treason Bat¬ Mas a large property holder and account- well went to prison and died in the hv ™aaRhy. by his neighbors. A surveyor county jail at Carlisle, pa„ several i by P1?ief‘°n’ a Quaker in religion and yeais later. Shelley, because of his ser- I a decided Tory in political opinions he theeSCo?nnfe,a^hlnS the pl0t to overthrow f | 5 °PP0sed to the war inaugurated' bV the Colonial forces, was pardoned out of ' he Colonies in 1776 and was not afraid prison and restored to his family. But ' Say ?-?■ to kls, neighbors, .Peeling ran ■Jtankm had escaped the vengeance of hating settlers and was by 177S far in England, living in peace on the ^ high treason, to aJl intents ami pur¬ It is claimed that Willi poses, anci shall suffer and forfeit as a was a patriot for the c person attaint of high treason bv that he performed brave la>y ought to suffer and forfeit.” It is the field. He became indigna. father declared and enacted that af- his brother was forced to le; ter the date of this act all persons country, but his chroniclers sa subjects ot the State who “shall vill- he never relaxed in the cause tJi A lngly and voluntarily serve the King future States. When two years ia: of Great Britain, either by land or the bill attainting James was pas sea, as a civil or military officer, sol- by the Assembly. William became iu- diei or seaman.” shall be attainted. riously angry and swore he would give I he remaining sections of the act *%! p?. . further assistance to the cause. relate to the mode of taking the prop¬ Inis unwise outburst of temper erty. * brought the authorities after him and RANKIN’S FERRY INVOLVED. he was forced to leave the country. Data obtained from other sources By the use of considerable strategy give ground for the belief that John he was enabled to make his escape, Rankin the brother of James, was an going to Canada, where he,became in active Tory. The claim is made that some way connected with the Novia Scotia government. James suffered for the sins of John. James was married in 1750 to Re¬ _PATRIOT OR TRAITOR. becca Bennett, daughter of Joseph The question of whether James Ran- Bennett and great-granddaughter of j kin was a patriot or a traitor was agi- Francis Fisher, the first Speaker of ! tated before the Genera] Assembly tne Provincial Assembly. James Ran- ; about fifty years ago, bu: it did not l *ln resided, at York, where he was i resuit in freeing him from tim stain known as a man of property. He of¬ of disloyalty. In ISIS Eva Stroman ten visited Philadelphia, which in it- an aged woman of York, who had been seit was considered a distinction. He a servant in the Rankin household, owned large tracts of land in York a made an affidavit in which she said fine flour mill and a . ferry over the that Rankin was in the habit of fur¬ ® e,^a-nnTa', at wkat is now known nishing supplies from his mill for the ai Sheilas Island. It was then called American army. Whether this was a Rankin’s Ferry.” business arrangement or an act of Supporters of the present bill claim patriotism, is not stated. Two years that when the Revolutionary War later Charles B. Penrose, who was oroke out James Rankin took no part afterwards president of the State Sen¬ whatever. He belonged to the “peace ate, made an elaborate argument in f.atgy ’ took no Part whatever in hos¬ favor of the restitution of the confis¬ tilities and so expressed himself. He cated property of James Rankin. was sent to the General Assembly in Dr. W. H. Egle, the State Librarian, li lb and.his friends claim that this! says that his researches show that in itself is proof that his neighbors I only part of the Rankin property was considered him a patriotic man. It is i confiscated by the State, and that the fuither alleged that about this time : remainder was given over to his wife and children. The claim is made that sRG?sa?nSli-S?eIIy bes:a!1 t0 articulate stories that James Rankin was plot¬ treasonable correspondence was con¬ ting with the British Army. The feel- tinually going on between Ranki tw°VTlr st0l:ies became so strong Shelly and Lord Howe. When Ra nat Rankin s friends urged him to kin was forced to leave the couni he first went to Philadelphia,-and afic tha £TTVaf i°o a time' He finally left in thinften sailing for England the evacuation went to England wit fal °f- 1 ‘ 1 x It: is claimed that Howe. Rankin and others were afte Dpritv’ Jealous of Rankin’s pros- wards given pensions by the Britis peilty, that he wanter the Ferry prop¬ Government. It is only justice to sa- erty, and, failing to get it, resolved that in later years many of Rankin’s m°b^e,.reVe?SecI on his successful rival. descendants were numbered among the Qu‘e,ilecoids sb°w that soon after this best citizens of the State; some She iy was charged with complicity them doing honorable service on m a Tory conspiracy. He pleader) Union side in the late civil war. W UsietyTand ™aS imprisoned in the Car- ever their views may be concernin, to ' tThlts Jeads many persons financial aspect of the presents lation, they are extremely anxio- Tories 4hail tnere was a nest of ;®le® ni York county at that time have the stain of treason rerm and that Shelly and Rankin were both from the family escutcheon. The involved. The_ descendants of Ran¬ tion of the Senate next week will kin do not claim that he was a pa¬ watched with great interest. triot but they assert that there Is ^ - - —' - GEORGE BARTON. nothing n the family papers or tra- traitor. hldieate that be was a

AN ESCAPE TO CANADA. srm'1 a farniiy’ w'th the exception of his £I From,..(? fo orrriaMm and his daughter Ann, tollowed him to England, where he 1804nU|t A0 h,Ve until his death- in jrv W-'V close of the Revolution- \p£, ^ retn™ t nAe aPPi’ed for permission to estabHshJnt-n^arlf K8te~- able t0,accomplish his desire. Ti 13 / m the process of ^"^vfnmntT of , formation ab°ut t0 the British. Tins own body of tr_ P r 1-g0i when the *ar* Paia W-SftotettrS'1 was during th ondpnce was at its 'he'decree^was that his & e confiscated "old ^ and the sse* £ >» "fer ^rss ,f the State. ThisJe turned into an ?„'aTr »*U ti>. «“*»' wealthy holdings « continental script. >normous amount or c. t otxe-seven- BT,mtm Rankin was -“5.“ which was then ^ h ^ a later period, command of the Ydk County ^ tieth of its face - the Rankin property , of Associators, andbad^ong the P*ts certain portion his wife and daughtei sitions of grea had been a mem were restored to ^;ned in Lancaster of the colonies. H n Conference of and son who re^on that lt was ber of the Provincial gyivania, I County, f°r H1® v-1rl’s title to these por- June 18, H76, repressingPen ^ I claimed that a g capacity as a hus- | and was one of tne st Constltu- lions was only ying purchased the lan band, his wife ha vino P S„° Sptet Sa«.e tkW“f “ifS I with her own mon V- movEMeNT. i OBJECT OH by the supreme J“'y ‘ It is this action, ta-t then young 1776. 17Sjn hp was detected 1 Executive Counci o ich the heirs During the year 17^rii=nondence with State of Pennsylvania, reversed, holding a trai^orM^rch, 1781, he wf3 the enemy. ^ Jdarc^ thg y ^ County■ I of James Rankin wis wish the for the dual reasonSesthatcthJed of the S“ Thmc. » eecapel and «.« “ * I name of then also to re Sni.wkere he and W»eM», „„ tor taint of treason and money it re I cover from the State «nfiBcatedi with 3&S

( many claim that toy 1 ®e British SestPto enoughyto ^ 1 nuity granted to h convicted himself The House is .not hKe^eing up once Government by failing to return billh hut the fact °fn as proof positive of treason, and tha of the attainder »•" ,?mi°Sw.rM g'f, % h&Sdth? 1 to seek the Teve^?”een the signing of , during the yearsd his death, 1 Se’fui ifn“»»m;£Mf»«*'t; the Treaty of Parlf . t the considera kin forfeited theji|im.larly attainted. tion granted ottl „„„ hLED. i HIS BROTHER above story 1 But there is behind R ^ add in the most remarkable Jbihebstite1 bad taken another that ad^s’century, conviction to patriotic orders, rf t» to early years of tni.ror ^.fte name of ( the hatred enterfa Atlantic seaboard I hnT’At7 st’fto it. Ptogre,,. j'u

■Rankin all along th Not only was S w —. 5

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it appears that the1-Comoanotijler paPer engine and hose car!^P ^ kept their two-story frame house sftn!ft 1? a scnaI] street, close to Marker 6

the year 1809, in wlBch* *?!»,mi2,ute8 ofl Christian Stahl r> • Forster 1 Thomas Bennet, lZT^JIcC^4 dames Carnes were ffne/cGuire and I years ago Mr. Willem P n Tple °f each for non-attendance ” °“e Shillin* well-known Market “Jet ^ f7’ th9 ex-president of common Jeweler and baueh,\TeLSurerTn° a°cc'Abraham B°m-1 chased the property unon .°ucc11- pur- company, of April 4, i sTs^! tbaf ^>.29 is records « a ^ebit of' of the company to It P tne rem°val fSIS, a credit to Mr Bolb»n °°tGber 3- cent quarters afsouth 1???“6 magaia' amount and $1.50 for fi“baV"h f°r this, «"»«■ Eecen.,; Mr1 "£ •n'i 0‘*"7 I Obed Fahnestock, KsZcJj™11 ^ mined upon the -Deneney deter-, A copy of thfl I- ’ successor. handsome modern res/d Q °f a ”ew and 1 J«iy 21 1824 St members on those who p’artirmafS°i given ofl Wb”0the proce^r :znir:theB!t0-| “ % V °n a box containing Z,ag was going July ‘he neck broke, off ‘“J* b°ttle’ I Eld Harrisburg namesT^"^0 names.( aer of papers in o and a num-i Ayers, Adams mi cb as Ramsey,' Friendship coml "’“h lh« Raider, ColSck fe’ ^rylJ’J These „Pa o-er. ,OM / Cowden, Faa-er n U®ckner, Coates I Hummel, Jeffries. Rl^’n HamiIt°n, stone of the buidinn- ths Cornerj Epayd, Schaeffer and Het^f^’ Swartz, Interest, Jr^', *™ »' -cl.| this'|1IS paperP*P® is appended.Jeflftteloppeor. l^^ar. To- hers of the present ofi7-* the “ernT he who finds thhJk-, tius note: ‘‘Mav .tion- which is the oldest^ h the side Of this box^th^i 1 dep°3itj in the city. est fire companj P'hose ashes are in thn" n- blnic °f him py the time it is foundg”aVm!n° doubt I was deposited by Mr- FT 10 bottie -tSr^the0/?8”'-* paper states that ‘‘/t Au?nst, 1859. *nd his initials Leafife0’ Schaffer!;1 fn making repairs tn n u ^he note. ’’resent town conno ihe names of yr-s aSo”,„^™rS„d tiLta'M,W «o».e tt’e wall, the bottle was brni tarou^h j whiskey found broken, and no j hin Boyd, John 7oiV- ^ ac^> John egrove, John FT ,?0 Iin,ger’ Richard A^„°tha Bs7a7hlll Mdjohn ^ers were : pfesldPnf Pw lt& Tho of¬ • d,n& committee On th! tha^ ‘‘the fer; vice president Z’ ¥arry c- Schaf- house from the th new Friend- ytory, AlSS‘'rCbi"»oMu,lejise“ es F. Muermh oh C?,uncil were1 treasurer, Andrew 8chliv»rg?tresser hilip Linn and " Briabin Boyd! gmeer, William E Steels °hief en' ", :/ere Harry ^ the c°m- plneer, John A. Newman assJstant en- & WllIlam E- Sees, membership 0f ninety m an! an actiye corded, among wh ®h -r?!® K®rs is re' «ames as Sullivan S 6hfldCh/^miiiar S’ Hiehael DumajrsL^_J“ha® L/ / S' as,;nto?dKby s»«» i March "] nf ^!laware county, on I ^Ported favorably ^y^the !’hrt! anci ■n which H hhaTbe out regard to the form nf W,Uh' Special Committee on March L71Cqai'y whether the plaintiffs l“8a?df ^ ; ‘ta JSETorrhe-ss?4 "-»'»• °« are tn fact such heirs and the am mm? i ) }&,'£'¥> the OTestiJf'b/TiyK’g ! tuat he knew nothing- of u-,, lng Srvm°onfeythaiCstU^y Pakl int0 the Ti-eas- ! had introduced it af he bl!1 and trim VV7W „r?”S and in the absence nf qthe_ re9uest of fcrssa aa^ssr Era I .a»nch vl*v< i have ‘S >° i ♦rL *v,argument made use 0f is 1 I *baIi.tbei_act does not give the monev to the heirs, but simply legate”a I contest in the court. The opponent! ‘ of the measure say that the proposed man jn tlle Senate J ere ls one action by the Legislature will be all sider it a good hm , ?°es not con- but mandatory on the courts that ' tor J v § ?c ub i ' and that is Sena- the mere removal of the attainder ' ty. He has ° ^n.pf Lebanon coun-I Willt ” be usedws?cu as an argument that veins and does nn T -r blood in his ' 1CJames ' Rankin was not a traitor and a bad bill. When thl m3-*6 £° caI1 U ! therefore unjustlyuninstiv used. u PP for final considmatim, c!SUre comes The act of attainder passed by the bin will sav some 'hi Senator Go¬ P® ^cna,1 Assembly- of 1778 is interest- of the Senate !hah/ngS on the fioor "Y The present bill dates the act Messrs. Bake/un^Osbounf aSt°nish In l(8i, but that is probably an er¬ ror. In Smith’s Laws of Pennsylva¬ SOME HISTORtpatHISTORICAL A,-A^_xSPFf'T^ i!: nia 3 TC°uPy of which now in the •-tate Library, the act is given In theh^nrsS«jfeV£f Tse vol. i, page 449, as follows It de? serves to be printed in full: THE ACT OP ATTAINDER. romance of history dr-*fred 1until this stiii possessing thL7fl y perhaPs. but An act for the attainder of divers are^complete The a «°vel traitors, if they render not themselves ! of the law passed bv thJtSflf' a copy ' by a certain day, and for vesting! of a hundred ylrs L iJeS'lslators their estates in this Commonwealth of the State T in??8 ag0’ the archives i and for more effectually discovering' of .the PenhlyKintrw?ntd the she!v« ! iiie- : “-—-----same, and for ascertaining- . and0.1LU furnish the story i?.I®toP,lcal Society j satisfying the lawful debts arid "claims of the case is -ni'ii Tbe •Rankin side j thereupon. preamble to the act J?u?s?nted. in the j Whereas, Joseph Galloway and An- ! James Rankin late nf1??1 r?Cites that! drew Allen, Esquires, late members of : York, yeoman ’ °{ the County of tne Congress of the Thirteen United Colonies, now States of America, for i Acf'msbird'" “'I Pennsylvania; John Allen, Esquire-) late member of the Committee of In-i and 16 thraSpTO?eeclsa 1 ^ so^ j spection and Observation for the city : a^L BiSS °f Pbi! idelphia;’ William j SST4."ILf“Vi;*»! Allen, the younger, Esquire, some¬ Baris concluded het?J the treaty of time a captain and afterwards a lieu- ! States and Great «r.Vfea tne ^nit-i ! £y-aritof a regiment or battalion of 3, 1783, it was °n Member j; toot,in the service of the United Colo-i should earnestly §re™ L!la" Con§ress kinS'i??W ®tates of America; James Ran- ! Legislatures of (hi ° mend t0 the kin, late of the County of York.veoman- to provide for the restfP^S States ^7,°? Luche- the younger, late chap-ij estates,rights anri n-Iestitution of all Mm to Congress; Gilbert Hicks, Samu- j to real British subjects^ and 1 el Shoemaker, John Potts, Nathaniel proposed legislation tu' a d that this Vernon, Christian Pouts, Reynold I iorder to carrv • necessary in Keen and John Biddle, being all sub- ; \ provisions &l tnaty°°rhiatth the jects and inhabitants of the State ofJ smintylVian11,a' have most traitorously f 1 and wickedly, and contrary to the!! ? w?sanofinthVaH a reaI British sub allegiance they owe to said State n?i‘?ed ?nd adhere| to, and still do! acihere to and knowingly and willing- i of r d a?dTJa?,slst’ the armV of the King! ot Cieat Britain, now enemies, and at •MtgSaSl'ZSaS open war against the United States of America, and yet remain with the i Phib?"??)63 !n the city and county of!! ss s&srsSr* i STS SUrU"' «■' »d«>- .clause says: p ots’ rhe enacting I It is then enacted that if the per- Tntioned d<’ not surrender ' ri‘^h^TI^CATION OF property the“wh'e?ft0A th? Pr0P':‘r C0Urt before 1 , ankin °f Said James tne _(»th of April ensuing that every ! [one ot them "shall stand and be ad- I 1 h$Memiirhs*%hL!z 'ddgeJ and fonvict.iti. and attainted of i t . —mission • —-i’m" ' ' county; Sheldon Eeynoiai7'6f WHEcsbarre; H. M. M.. Richards, of Beading; Jay G Weiser, Middleburg, and Dallas Albert, of Latrobe. The commission divided its labor, each member taking a certain locality, and in this way accomplished its work with From, / C.L 1.4:3^.. great speed and accuracy. Mr. Richards’ territory embraced all of that section of the state south of the Blue cMil range, between the Delaware and Susque¬ hanna rivers, in which there were located about thirty of these forts, principally along the Blue range in Dauphin, Lebanon, Date, Berks, Schuylkill, Lehigh, Carbon and other counties contiguous to this range of moun¬ tains. Mr. Reynolds’ work was confined to

that section of the state north of the Blue III* - » - - • - range, between the Delaware river and the From a Stiff Correspondent. North branch of the Susquehanna, better HARR SBURG, May 11.—When the known as the Wyoming district. In this territory he ascertained the definite location Senate (f Pennsylvania meets on of about twenty-five of these defenses. Tuesday, It will be called upon to They include the famous Forty-Fort, near vote on one of the most remarkable Wilkesbarre, and others in the historical bills that has been offered in many Wyoming valley, years. If the measure is successful Mr. Buckalew located fifteen forts in the It may involve $10,000 or it may in¬ territory north of the Blue range between volve $o00,000, but in any event con¬ the West branch of the Susquehanna and the northern boundary of the state. In this - servative men do not hesitate to say territory were located forts Jenkins, Rice that it is the opening wedge for a and Antes, which served as valuable de¬ raid upon the Treasury that may re¬ fenses for the settlers during the Indian sult in placing the Commonwealth in warfare of the Revolutionary period. Mr.; the position of a bankrupt. Besides / Buckalew also succeeded in ascertaining the financial features of the bill it the definite location of Fort Augusta at ( Sunbury, one of the most important of the contemplates making “patriots” by defeases of the French and Indian war legislation of men who were dubbed period. “traitors” by our forefathers The fourteen counties extending from the Senate bill 479, as it is called, is west line of the Susquehanna river south to one of the most unique bills on the the Maryland line and west as far as the Al- ! calendar and possesses unusual in¬ legheny mountains was the. scene of Mr. terest outside of the merits of the Weiser’s operations. This territory em-1 proposed legislation. It savors of Rev¬ braced all the forts which were located in ! the Cumberland valley and extending as far olutionary times and a reading of the west as Bedford and the Juniata valley. section brings up visions of Lord There were forty-eight of these defenses in Howe and his orgies during the Brit- j this territory. Those best known are forts ish occupation of Philadelphia. The | Lowther, at Carlisle; Franklin and Morris, act is for the purpose of reversing the , at Shippensburg; Chambers, at Chambere- attainder of treason of James Rank- I burg;*Loudoun, at Loudon; Littleton, in Ful- . in and authorizing such to be brought ! ton county, and Bedford, at Bedford. The in the courts of Dauphin county j defenses in the Juniata valley located by Mr.. against the Commonwealth to deter- j Weiser were forts Patterson, at Mexico; j mine who are his heirs and the | Granville, at LewistowD; Standing Stone, - amount of proceeds of the sale of his > at Huntingdon,' and Shirley, at Shirleys- i property paid into the treasury. burg. He also ascertained the location of a f ITS SNAKISH FEATURE. number of smaller forts known a3 block The snakish feature of this bill houses. Most of the defenses in the Juniata grows out of the fact that nowhere j valley were erected in 1754 and 1755, during in the bill is any. mention made of the j the French and Indian war and prior to the amount of money involved. It does defeat of General Braddock. say very distinctly, though, that the Mr. Albert’s district embraced all that sec¬ money “shall be repaid with interest tion of Pennsylvania west of the Allegheny As the confiscation of the proper! mountains in which ho located eighty dif¬ took place in 1787 the heirs of Ja ferent forts, many of great historical value Rankin, by this bill, would be as Fort Macintosh, on land near Beaver tied to the legal interest of 0 per c owned by Senator Quay, Fort Pitt and forts! for the period of 108 years. O Duquesne and Necessity, near Pittsburg. port says that the State only obta The commission received no compensation $2000 from the sale of Rankin’s pre for its services and has been highly compli¬ erty. Another is. that $200,000 mented by the governor for Its efficiency and paid into the State Treasury, the ar.cnTar.g nf iig wort A n ™sn U. pert arithmeticians can take thei This Is an interesting entry as showingS pencils and figure out just how cost; what the State gained from the estates for¬ this legislation will be in either ca feited for disloyalty. One of the notable scholars in Pen Occasionally we find entries like the fol¬ sylvania, who has gone deeply into lowing: the subject, says there are at lea two hundred cases similar to that To error in making settlement on Sept. 30th, 178S—£243 6s. lOd. Rankin, and that if “justice” is r to him the remaining one hundred And these “errors” are serenely entered ninety-nine patriots cannot be over¬ to either the debit or credit account, ac¬ looked. cording to their nature. Another peculiar feature of the The book closes with Sept. 30, 1789, and posed legislation is the disr scroll inr'i-'-'the name of ^ Avne* n iv*i—rrt-n’Ponmnric;h ... 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: whieh was known as the oldDerrvChurch Operations for the erection of this buiid- (state that Messrs A l-C at jing were begun in 1719, and it was dedicat¬ conduct a noodle factors ‘ Moyer & Bro., ed to the service of God in 17?n if „ '& R. depot It beinfr tnnPr°31te the P- .constructed of white-oak lolf'and was its kind in this section of the comitr-f^ °J first roofed by the shingles from a single the only one in this villa-e a ^w K^- and hfhisrl !88ai

LOCATION of the forts built bt lEEffisasr u“ the earlier settlers. a Report of Great Historical Value-A obnreb, from 1745 to 1776. Lr'nVj; dM Commission Which Worked Faith- fully Without Compensation— The Result of Its Labor Submitted to the Governor.

A report of great historical value was filed yesterday with Governor Pattison by the

by ih° ,-t >■««■«!» * pas^irom 1798ftoJl°loLa Williams- fiftd the forts f d 7 8nd mark the locatioi» of th« f°r dc6fen8e 8gain3t tha Indians by from 1802 to'yi803JameS Adair> sixth Pastor, he settlers of Peansylvania prior to 1783 The commission has located all of these do’ fenses, of which there were upward of 20o 1is a scattered oyer the state, and embodies in its o lT r*8 Mat0Ty and description f each, together with maps and sketches toSftfSSSK.'sft- showing their location. C“S' alS^ contaia5 graphic narrations oi tho bat Jes and massacres which took place sleeping tifrlong sleeo T^ pe°ple -are on the marble stnLVtVk' Fhe lnsc«Ptions writf a the8° £arIy f°rta and mncb nn- and as spacewill So? V^y “tereatin*, consortot David Ste^who^ SteeI’ l;,ie many arft pnfivAiwv i ^ Js,ory, of which er\tlroly ^norant or which nr a life, February 20 1803 a^ed Q,,eParted this known only by tradition. The rZif “ h“.,ifeu»« radS? BS^?“^red me'

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VIEW IN THE STATE LIBRARY BUILDING. mention. The old-time Christmas i there, and all the decorations and * which deiight the young as well as old were in abundance. Mr. Zimmer is a thorough business man and believ “making hay when the sun shir met a great many of this thrift a people, and after finishing our through the kindness ot Mr. Ha his father, were shown through ti Derry Church. This handsome edifac Date. antique design, occupies a promineni tion in the central portion ot wl t - - known as Derry proper. Itis sur™ Humeblstown, Dec. 19. L bv a handsome grove, a veritable AT OLD DERRY CHURCH. in Summer time. The following Mr. nisbed us by Mr. J. W. Hatton, wb Derry Church was our next stop. be of some interest to your readers: . Hatton,lo.t.t.nn tlithe q ReportR rpoAUTi ronrPQPnf.fll.ixrepresentative at In 1717 a sect known as the Scotch . this place,;c, waswin, pleaseduictmcu to1.0 isee us. Here, Presbyterians settled in this part of too.>. some enterprising capitalist could find country, having fled to America to i excellent location for large works of religious freedom. A track of land any description. The Spring Creek would granted by Wm. Penn to these kin furnish an abundance of water for manu- ed people, and after selling a” * -facturing purposes. As we entered H. M. acres, they resolved to build B^tnmerman’s general store our eyes worship, which was accordin . o moment, om sights worthy of hall op thh house of representatives.

FRONT CP THE EXECUTIVE EUJLDING AT HARRIS bttrc„ j&jU.__ feet hy the removal of the . of inclined driveways, through which ; -rurViinVi formerly occupied, tlie s~~~~ — wagons may be driven directly into • story*1 STther words, there is no sec¬ the building. Public lavatories an.d.i? ond story, and the difference front th« toilet rooms, and a filter for all watery floor to Hie ceiling is sufficient to in used, are also provided. The build- sure excellent light and ventilation. ing is strictly fire-proof throughout A‘handsome self-supporting gallery iron, terra cotta, stone, brick ana is entered from the mam c°rr,ldPr,1°1n concrete being the materials used in > the second floor of thq central build- its construction, the only wood being^ ing and hereafter spectators of legis¬ the doors, window-trims, sash, etc. , lative oroceedings in the House will not be ?n a level with the law-makers, • The passenger elevator in the Ex-P but they will look down upon them. ecutive Building is an elaborate affair The wafis are richly decorated and of mahogany aiid bronze, the car are wainscoted to a height o ^ alone costing $600. The light m the feet with Myceman marble. ine main hallway is diffused through nanels between the windows are deco¬ j-rs ■ leaded glass, ■, the upper skylight being] rated with enlarged reproductions of constructed of American _ wire glass j the Provincial and State seals and cn iron trusses, with white walls ol| those of the original counties of the brick. The details of the building Commonwealth. The Speakers . throughout would be interesting-as, fs of marble and the handsome arch showing the superb quality of the I overhead is supported by marble p b work and the elegance of all the lars. On each side of the Speaker s appointments, but enough can be, throne is a monogram of the Housel 4 gleaned from the foregoing general', of Representatives. description to give an idea of the whole. At least one-third floor g|| :; - trained by the remodeling of the Hous In view of the fact that the excava Ind the members will sit at new desks! tirns for the foundations of the new next winter. In the haserne w building were started on the 17th of be found Italian marble bath-tubs and October, 1893, and it was turned overs the finest lavatories m the country.^ to the State authorities a few days1, There is also considerable room m the over a year later, complete and ready rear of the Speaker’s throne for the, for occupancy, there is good reason postoffice, the Speaker’s room and, for the architect’s praise of the hust-j rooms for clerks. The annex to the ling abilities of the contractors. Senate also provides adfdltt'°^albrra°nCh Messrs. Doyle & Doak also had the for the clerical force of that brancn contract for the remodeling of the of the Legislature, there being rooms old building, and this work was also for the chief clerk, transcribing clerk, finished within the time prescribed postoffice, barber shop and the oenr in the specifications. The House is ate librarian. Where the barber shop practically a new wing of the Capitol, was formerly located is now a- coat built upon the old design. It is new room, wherein are handsome from the foundations, but there will * for each Senator. The changes m the be many who will doubt this state- j Senate wing will permit of the ment, so near like the original have work being done more expeditiously the contractors succeeded in making and satisfactorily than und®r_t?bePof^ the new wing. This, of course, is true only of the exterior. The Interior is ifwiTbe remodeled} as different from the old House as a and& converted Intocommit ee rooms l^tbTuIe of the Legislature, which has heretofore been greatly inconven¬ ienced on account of lack of room.

The total cost to the State of all the changes and 9 exceed have been enumerated will not exceea WOO 000 and to the architect, the, .. contractors and the Commissioners of L Buildings and Grounds great credit is V fue! Night and day the work has gone! ^ oni andr it xseems1?, rxr almost incredible t srafiss th o departments are now engaged in Pi;ep artions for removal to^^hat® mosf1 of

i “wch “Hi occupy the new -molding Will be taken by those offi¬ cials who have been doing business [n rented offices down town,among oth¬ ers the Chief Factory Inspector, State Superintendent of Banking and others.

V View of the Library End of the State Build-

hovel is different from a palace. The! SI to: to® sTi'flK “iT!1 v To the right on the first floor a- vm .enler the hall are the offices o? the Au

iSl "oW’ v? in number- consist- Jno.no place tnto store thembut, e ?^here*f?here wasaS roSmroom fandanfi titthe Generaln r Generai Office’s PrivateThe *|Vrejected? ^ SUCh teilde™ will not themreraene,finiShe<1 in Quartered 'oak£n Place Ce^°hn,r°0m,1S a beautiful fire- the left o thh» hViid Gak manteI- To ■V 147 ftS* OWMta* Offices also flwa ar®the Measurer’s ; height t* . > and ls thirty feet in i-£e|1n »£ ' IflSht of steps8 rising6^ by a broad street, and Dr F»le Rourth • tions have been 'lamelv hf0S.? SU8'ges-

fepTac«^ wii? number, are back of the Treasurer-, JSnl8^9^ h^0a^antfr°S groom on the same side of the hau and

lifhe0 i" j>ed in Quartered oak ’oVer 3around th^fou?walll"ofThe and is reached ly broad fl ^din&’ I sswvs K»s on' »f I privatf asecre?ary^sr0office^ricierk0fand sss^?.s=, ran-ed tn r 1 11 c, VTbook cas es are ar-» ■ ‘r Jbooks will fbemarrany|d ^ Whj?h the| their different Objects Ea^T t0 ' m jSSpSASSUS? bVo7tK‘&«‘"*<’’2rd

carved the head® o7 wJliam S,‘S | 2,?d tbe coat of arms of the State’

rare books which n consult the from all parts of t5eVeearthen §atheredl iiiage The ceiling is handsomely nan library -nset^ionNOofW??d eled m stucco with cornice and frieze of the same material all elah e^erYenc^t j| orately modeled in relief. eIab~

j Kny '0partMfloCfiatheSbtSbfF,S'tl"ieeed®d 1 ] three6 tTS„ %e~ talSl (kept by the Stalest i°f newspapers ■. tarybof dthf’ £nd th°Se °f the Secr?- s |Storage of State aiso for the for State nation documents intended aru #° finished m quartered oak ^ jexchange’ and fm- and international iwith. handsome fire-places and oak (There are also in^ th?U,bIlC libl'aries. j mantels. All the offices are fitted jtories and wash Lomf6'Dr^P^'I i,°ut wtfh every convenience. The ■mlcling is heated throughout with tffiTbu3; the..S^itb3onian •lnPm8:-- Koeutm and llghted by electricity. Call j Geological Survey,5^was her^the3^88 Dells connect the different depait- P?,11*;3 an

' niuseum and flag room is fiftv I eft square with a twenty-six foot 'SK «“^«g£ IfSS I j eeiflng and will be one of the most 1 ^Canftni1VeT Pl^tS of interest at the ,sr\h“« s““;f X:h?”® !ermel?s f3^,«1S TUi- be placed Rotb- jof Gettvtm^ paintm& of the Battle Egle^has ^nsSe^fro^thl^f^ c Gettysburg, the portraits of the |tinctnfrome rflher'poSffis'of fh'1 building, and in thk hal f the new ed. The transfer of the ^ sPcc'eed- ; begin in a few^^ days, and the sw" Librarian expects tn pJ na tbe State State arsenal, and the interesting col8 I- fp. »°JLfssr ^4 rl PldSFtfr andsylir^ anima/s whicha" tain geological and mineralo^ai If - £?/ S* specinmns and other objects of inter¬ est. . The State has frequently had annual reports and other boSk*Qf Ihe «■ ig. tod ,o the -* VE BUILDING, landing-;' from wniciTTffl^m being through a private door, entered. signed solely for the use of the r. ■ The wadis of the hall are lined wl of the different departments. light Numidian marble set on a ba In the Executive Building are of pink Georgia marble, and offices of the Governor, Lieutenant- broken into panels by pilasters Governor, Secretary of the Common¬ bands of richly carved Caen si wealth, Attorney-General, Auditoi- The doorways are all arched General and State Treasurer. The Ex¬ trimmed with Caen stone, the w ecutive Building has a frontage of I-U hall being a triumph of the car feet and a depth of 105 feet. It is en¬ art. Grotesque masks of Faun anc tered from a semi-circle portico, sup¬ Satyr peer out from among the ty¬ ported hy Ionic columns, passing ing foliage of the carved colur through the massive mahogany doors Here the calm, stern face of an into a vestibule, 18x20 feet square, the dian chief stands out in bold reli walls of which are lined with polished there the almond-eyed Oriental Sienna marble contrasting with the grinning negro attracts the eye. Tli rich cream of the elaborately carvec. carved doorway to the museum Caen stone pilasters and cornice which worthy of an article in itself, s support a half-groined ceiling beauti¬ ported as it is by two richly car fully modeled and paneled in stucco. pilasters. The archatrave ar (This vestibule, opens through.' an, frieze are elaborately carved, arched doorway into the main hall, 50 the frieze are the heads xGO feet, with a clear height of 40 'Meade, Franklin, Mifflin and Wayne, feet. This hall is lighted by a beauti- and te the right and left of the fully designed skylight of leaded, glass. arched doorway are figures of far Around the hall at a height of twenty holding trumpets to their moutl: feet runs a wide gallery from, which At the foot of the stairway, sur¬ access is had to the offices on the sec¬ mounting the newal posts, are two! ond floor. The gallery is supported by magnificent life-sized eagles with V carved columns of Caen stone with tended wings. Up the stairs : arches of the same material, forming around the gallery runs a richl an arcade around the three sides ot carved and paneled^_ stone bal the hall. Opposite the entrance m trader The cornice and frieze of the vestibule, a wide flight of stone arcade are also richly carved, .steps leads up to the gallery, dividing eagle, the crest of the State, to the right and left, about two-thirds everywhere introduced upon the U of the way up, and forming a oroaci | of column and pilaster. iovel is 3 fJ I doorway into1XNXO TrJthe KuSE *S TEETSinsiMlHj- museum from main hall. . '?»i3L££ b”??" aS I i t^was™compfiu^ ^Waffors before *%. =““c,,2 Mr. Doak and his n?l hoped that monstrate that jt n r. Would de-,!-i 'next SSPi* "jgfiwg tt»t «.e ™ the contract wTth0^0 albfie,t0 fuI' ?mnPriati°n sufflcient to complete the iany kind. Under th» „• failure of: improvement of the nark S . e John Lockhart Vhk P k: and Major the contractors are to hICUmStances lated, for they did not fat, COngrrata- g-le particular. fai1 m a sin-

! brary BuHding^bufit aindfiftate Li' Renaissance style and nerfheMItaIian po t,oned in every detail n Pro' bodies in lasting- stone thi' m ,5m~ [Utie money! acc°mplilh?d ''for so forms of creative art and 11? .hlghest skill, combining the beTnt-^n^lneering ' architecture with all f}ty of classic", needs and conveniences of th tllitarian office building. wnfle il? modern one edifice it practiea ?v apparently * r-sr. ss-sk two separate and distSfet of -rected within the^ building to be, TV},s |the new State Library wUhb dJngs> he contract and within in Jty for 500,000 volumes h*ll a capac- rr;afe,aAd which dw not cauTan |ly separate from the?• ei)tlre' apartment, the only -f^uti-ve De- I > J-l'I -u ^ ne only ^ communyation suildwg

Mr Windrim, whose -----fut istration and library building an architect is assured by the $125,000 for the remodeling of the ■works on these buildings, if ■ old buildings, and provided that the necessary, has closely wa work should be under the supervi¬ progress of the work and s • sion of the Board of Public Grounds Inquirer correspondent to-day tl. and Buildings, consisting of the Gov¬ was surprised at the way. m - ernor, Auditor-General and State ^Messrs. Doyle and Doak had Treasurer. As soon as possible after the work. He spoke of the y---- the approval of the act these com¬ tors in the most complimentary te missioners adopted plans and invited and pointed out the features o proposals for the remodeling of the work which were the leading tes old and the erection of the new jits high character. The archil building. Messrs. Doyle & Doak, of the contractors agree that Philadelphia, secured the contract, could not under the present cor and to-day turned oyer the new build¬ erect a similar building for le— ing to the commissioners. It can be ! §600 000, so that the tax payer, said of this work what can be said ot I be congratulated upon securing few contracts on public buildings, class bargain in real estate. that the buildings were erected with¬ in the time limit of the contract, with two months to spare, and not a cent The new building occupies - over the appropriation was ex¬ of the Mexican monument and pended. Another thing also worthy rustic fountain southeast of tl of note is the fact that the archi¬ partment of Internal Affai , tect, contractors, superintendent and1 the first building at the head foreman were all young men under main walk from Third and thirty-five years of age. John I. streets. The monument wa .Windrim, of Philadelphia, whose de-M down and after having been sub sign for the * new building was se- to a thorough cleaning was re- lected and whose splendid ability has at a point near the green house been complimented frequently since the walk from Fourth strei the work has neared completion, is course, the rustic fountain is --- but twenty-eight; James G. Doak, It served its day and generatio who has been in Harrisburg almost! in its place two geyser fountain daily since the work was started,C in another part of the park. T keeping a firm grip on the situation provement of the grounds w and personally commanding his' the visitor quite as foreiWi < army of employes, opened his eyes on 1 changes in the buddings. Ins things earthly about the same time the mass of stunted shrubber that Mr. Windrim was making his, back-breaking steps at the M es debut, and his partner, William J. street entrance to the park, there Doyle, is but thirty; William J. Gray,] 5 now beautiful flower heds tvide g of Philadelphia, who furnished the; | olithic walks, vitrified brick dn and brown stone steps m oman flights, which cost alone nearl> 000 There are also brown ■ S’?or VoyffTvolt IThe'jaU at other entrances to the pa age These young men have shown] I granolithic walks nave su that it is no longer necessary to be most of the brick pavements Whitened by the snows °f nia J I j landscape gardener has not onl Waters before undertaking such im proved the older portions of pcritant enterprises^ - ,t he has4 also removed all .. An interesting programme has I served from i860 uui.il 1871, having re j0en prepared and the congregations or mained in the pastorate a longer time lh in the German Lutheran denomination have any of his predecessors.. The tux! paster been invited to participate. was Rev. A. Bchwankooski who remained The principal service will be held to¬ j from 1871 until 1875. In 1877 Rev. Dr. 1 morrow morning at 10:30 o’clock, at ! Pfuhl, the preseut popular pastor, suc- which Rev. J. J. Kuendig, of Reading, ! eeeded to the pulpit. During the eighteen will preach the sermon. The special years pastorate of Dr. Pfuhl he has 'oap music by the choir at this service will be tized 739 persons, confirmed 358 appli¬ in charge of the wife of the pastor, Mrs. cants, married 242 couples and officiated J. G. Pfuhl. After the sermon the con¬ at 439 funerals. . _ gregation will sing the 103d Psalm. In the evening the Sunday school wih take its part in the celebration. At this ser¬ vice Rev. Dr. F. J. F. Schantz, of My ers - town, and Rev. O. Zfitfuss will deliver addresses. A special feature of this ser¬ vice will be the processional to be sung by , the children, during which the church L bell will be rung. . . On Monday evening, beginning at 7:30 | o’clock, there will be a reunion of all those who have been confirmed by Rev. J. G. Pfuhl during his pastorate. The en¬ Harrisburg-, Pa., Nov. 2.—When the tire congregation will participate in this Itip Van Winkle Legislator returns service. There will be addresses by Rev. to Harrisburg next winter and me- F. P. Mayser, of Lancaster, and Rev. J. anders over the scene of his former A. Darmstaetter, of Columbia. At this greatness he will doubtless be as¬ I service there will also be special music by tounded by the wonderful changes in the choir. 1 the buildings and grounds which have On Tuesday evening there will be held ! taken place during his absence. For the first English service ever heard in the years the subject of a new Capitol has church. At this service Rev. Theodore been discussed at every session of E. Schmauk, of Lebanon, will preach the the Legislature, and on several oc¬ casions the sentiment, favorable to sewnon. Rev. Dr. D. M. Gilbert, pastor the erection of buildings that would of the Zion Lutheran church, will conduct commensurate with the dignity and the liturgical part of the service. The I Importance of this great Common¬ music on this evening will be iu charge of wealth, almost forced the law makers ithe choir of the Zion Lutheran churcb. to adopt a suitable measure. But every Olin W. Miller will direct the choir and time the matter - was broached the Professor William Kuoche will preside at watch dogs of the Treasury howled down the proposition and declared; the organ. jthat the revenues of the State would! At the dedication of the church on Sep¬ [not justify such an expenditure as tember 15th, 1844, Rev. Dr. Demme, of I would be necessary to build a Cap- Philadelphia, in his day a successful and lltol. Ex-Speaker Henry K. Boyer, of i prominent minister, delivered the princi¬ Philadelphia, finally succeeded in hav¬ pal sermon. There were also addresses by ing a bill passed that meant the erec¬ | Rev. Dr. 0. W. Scheffer, who is still tion of a group of buildings that I diving at Philadelphia, and Revs. Loch- would have been a credit to the Com- ,monwealth, but when it reached Gov¬ man and L. Gerhard. In the course of ernor Beaver the old cry of insuffi¬ years repairs were made to the church, the cient revenue was raised and the veto principal improvement being made in ax cut down the measure. Nothing 1887, when it was enlarged at a cost of daunted, however, Boyer returned to $7,000. In 1865 a steeple was built, the charge at the next session of the while in 1866 galleries were erected. In Legislature, and, largely through his PPAy*rt r 1863 the parsonage, now occupied by Rev. efforts, the appropriation for the erec¬ tion of a State Library and execu¬ J. G. Pfuhl and family, was built, and tive blinding and a remodeling of the three years later a house for the sexton old Senate and House was passed. was erected. An encouraging fact con¬ This was not what the friends of a cerning the church is that it is without new Capitol desired, but under the debt. circumstances it seemed to be the The first pastor was Rev. J. Yogelbach best they could get. Since the com¬ who served from 1844 until 1847. He was pletion of the new buildings and the i succeeded by Rev. L. Gerhard, who remodeling of the old the comment has frequently been heard,- “What a served from 1847 to 1850, On the retire- pity to have spent so much money ment of Rev. Gerhard, the first pastor,Rev. remodeling an old building that should Vogelbach,returned and served until 1852. have given place to a new Capitol.” ! He was succeeded in that year by Rev. D Many prominent men who have seen Maier, who served until 1855. During the new building have expressed the ! the year 1855 Rev. H. Vosseler served the opinion that it is but the beginning congregation. He was succeeded by Rev. of a group of buildings which will gradually supplant the present an¬ C. M. Jaeger, who retired in 1857. Rev. cient structures. W. S. Porr served during 1858 and was followed by Rev. J. Kucher who min¬ The Act of 1893 carried an appro¬ istered to the wants of the congregation priation of $500,000 for the erection 'irom 1858 to I860." Rev. H. Liesman, and furnishing of the State admin- : __ —« \ in 1787, and which passed through nearly son plural ” had better look out for his hide!] twenty editions. The object of the book, he This survival of the Lindley Murray regime'Kitno,1 I said, was “to excite serious reflections on the is no more amusing than the grave way in unsatisfying and transitory natuveof temporal which I heard a little girl discourse a la Mur¬ enjoyments, and to promote a lively concern ray oil the difference between syntactical and for the attainment of that felicity which will etymological parsing and then take up “ Who be complete and permanent.” He then wrote preserves us.” and, chattering as fast as her a series of sketches of one hundred men and tongue could go, proceed to tell “ Old Poly¬ women of all sorts and conditions, from Job phemus,” who hung over her with a rule in one hand and the other deep in the pocket of to C»sar Borgia, and Baron Holler to Sir his antiquated trousers, that “ Who is a rela¬ William Jones, whose lives, by inspiring in tive pronoun of the interrogative kind, there¬ the reader either admiration or pity, were to fore without any antecedent, and in the nom¬ he “ of singular efficacy to excite a love of inative case singular; nominative, who; pos¬ God and goodness.” He dwells specially on sessive, whose; objective, whom; the word their conduct at the approach of death, and to which it relates is called its subsequent uses it for a stirring argument against infi¬ and is the noun or pronoun containing the delity. “What an evidence on behalf of answer to the question ; according to a note piety and virtue ! What a dissuasive from under rule six, which says, etc.” vice and folly !” is the fact, he says, that all The boys were not quite as ready in their should be so dpeply impressed with the need parsing, but perhaps they had no key to the of religion when they reach the termination exercises or did not stand in such awe of their of their days. And he quotes Young as the: teacher. Whatever may be said of Murray’s inspiration of his life : grammar, it must be confessed that under ’Tis immortality—’tls that alone, one name or another it is still taught for good Amidst Life's pains, abasements, emptiness,; or for bad in nearly all of tho rural schools The soul can comfort, elevate aDd fill. of the State. In his school life Murray had made many friends with whom he kept up a lifelong correspondence; prominent among these was Chief Justice Jay. Murray also wrote many religious and controversial pamphlets and several books in French.

But there is only one book that has kept Lindley Murray’s fame alive in all these years, and that is his grammar. It alone is sufficient to make the valley of the Swatara forever famous. And yet how few people remember or know that the county of Dau¬ An Historic Parsonage Destroys phin can claim the birthplace of tho noted The entire inteilor of the historic grammarian. parsonage connected with Paxtang Pres¬ Lindley Murray’s Grammar! What mem¬ byterian church over 150 years old, was ories it inspires in all of the older genera¬ burned out on Friday. The alarm was tion, all of whom, in the satirical lines of sent to Harrisburg from Paxtang, four Dryden miles east of the city, but when the fire¬ Climbed the grammar tree to know, Where noun and verb and participle grow. men arrived they had great difficulty in getting water, and then could not reach All the old schoolmasters swore by Murray and his rules and examples of orthography, the smouldering old logs that were en¬ etymology, syntax and prosody, his four cased in the stonework. The loss is about constituent parts of English grammar. $2,000, the minister Rev. Mr. William¬ In the rural districts near the grammarian’s son, saving his furniture and valuable birthplace Murray, under a different name, library, and the insurance covers the loss is still taught in all his glory; and there is a The origin of the fire is attributed to somewhat pretentious academy, now happily on a decline, only a few miles from the Mur¬ squirrels gnawing matches which they ray place, in which a decrepit old gram¬ had taken to their nests in the eaves of the marian, "dressed in gown, bands and wig.” oof. still holds his old-time sway. Grammar, in his_ opiiiion, constitutes^ the sum-total of a liberal education. He considers it bis spe¬ cialty, and still uses Lindley Murray as the first and last authority; aDd a verbatim knowledge of bis twenty-two rules of syntax is his first requirement from a beginner, and woe betide the poor wretch who recites rule 19 or rule 20 when a rule of a different num¬ ber is called for!

Little fellows, who had better be drawing pictures on their slates, stand up and gravely talk about syntax and prosody, "and the A HALF CENTURY. whole class are drilled vigorously on " First Interesting Anniversary to be Cele-i person, I might, could, would or should be brated by St. Michael's Church. loved; second person, thou or you mightst, For the next few days the good people couldst, wouldst or shouldst be loved ; third of St. Michael’s German Lutheran church person, he might, could, would or should be! will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of \ loved.” the erection of their present house of worV And the youngster who cannot instantly: ship on South Second street. It was give the “second future indicative, third per-1 built in 1844 and in honor of the anniver- j I that it jT r. t^e snuwf „ -.{cn im-r sary the church has been elaborately decc £ 5 before undertaking . enterprises. trrty. iO SAY, OUR OWN ENGLISH I though the Murray homestead is still occu¬ GRAMMAR. pied as a dwelling house. and the prim Ger Zne daft ifWif6 thiak you ’'^eertafnly gone daft if you go staring abou t her house or HOME OF LINDLEY MtJKEAY ask her what she knows about Lindley Mur¬ ray, of whom she has never even hoard A ;region richer in folk-lore or historical iact Early Days anil Association of the Man lhabitantsn°tthbe r°,Und’ tt0Uyh tho P™«cnt in- Who Did What He Could to Spoil Native habitants thereabout can give you little as¬ sistance or inspiration. Material prosperity English and Substitute a Machine-Made has smiled upon the hills of Mauada and the Language. IbarrCDS of Derry, but there is none of the old intellectual life which in one tJle °ld from a Correspondent of The Times. (gave to " glory and to feme ” Z ° ' (and daughters than have ten ° ,?ons Harrisburg, A dot st 17 Z Twelve miles south of this city still stands since. The most promfnent of ?^:rat,onsi Dixon and Murray5 Robert Dixon If n weV* the house in which Lindley Murray, the so- ■ Ford, near the Murray place wAn°ff?ISOn s called father of English grammar, was horn the same fields that brought’glory to’wniT At is a somewhat pretentious log house with and Montfforaerv Sam Atuinc- Y to Wolfe ;three rooms and a sleeping loft, built on the |in his ”Calket lnd Ev“n1ng Post soutnern slope of a hill and facing the siow- was one of those spirits which rise inflZ Z illume all around him • gentle oTt , f to ,fltW1,n£JWatera.-that bistovic stream of breeze in private life/b,TtZ ZITTe .which Whittier sings, and up which, on their Whirlwind m the day of danger ” the way to the fertile plains of Tulpehocken, the was a being of a different ordei ' Tim first Pennsylvania Dutch pushed their rude was his battle-field, though he nevlr turned latts, over two centuries ago. wt-?eD^n faVOr of the country of his bfr?b Murray’s father was a Scotchman who set-! While the companions of his imvtnn.i rtb' .fighting the American Revolution h* W61’e tied here about mo, and soon after married, living the peaceful life of a Quaker * mZZ a Miss Henry, daughter of one of the Penn- while, however like ®r1 -Mean- syivama German families in the neighbor- Quaker, he was takins *°tter pio,ls hood. Murray, in his autobiography, says: times and lining his Dori-llnt?Ae of the nrTy P®^ents were of respectable character and in the middle station of life. My father , possessed a good flour mill on the Swatara k/ theWSSJ& S vvata ra’.thespi ’SPJSr** ri t ^ f>ni t a ‘«-• Iv fesrsT ' i but being an enterprising spirit and anxious !fields; a beautiful soul whose s Jv . ' and to provide handsomely for his family be -to be written. 6 stoir remains x made, several voyages to the West Indies in .the way °f trade, by which he very consider- ! LindJey Murray’s early boyhood was spent ably augmented his property. Piirtuing ],is at the home' on the Swatara. his fetheris inclinations, he in time acquired large pos¬ sessions and became one of the most respecta- able merchants in America. My mother was a woman of an amiable disposition and re¬ to quit the Swatara and try his fortunes in • markable for mildness, humanity and liberal¬ the Carolmas. The family SOon returned ity of sentiment.” Mew vagtm Yd a f6W years later settled in h,3wMUYay horaestead- with its old oaken New York where they acquired considerable bucket and ivy covered porch, lies within a s? szstszj-” *the f mhe ‘'0id Dsrry Church,” one Philadelphia and put into the care of aTuto^ Iwbich V0.17.0ld®st churches in tho State and Professor Ebenezer Kinnersley, who after’ nlacedT h'n th° laSt years has been re- abeaUtl,ul stned as early | Murray was an apt nupil and as 1720, and tradition still points out the very evidences of the ability he ’wasto chZuZ-7! tree at whlch William Penn tied his horse on [afeer years. He took a vS! r yin his first and last visit to the parish. Dis¬ (first to a mercantile life, and forwwtV* tance does not seem to have deterred the pious old worthies who had charge of the i few affidrS- °f th0 Mnrrays ™d tbefe \t5L'IZZ% ist Presbyterian neighbors, for in the life of the Ition broke out. He then took a turn r?V° U‘ j?ey- Adam Boyd, who ministered to jcantile life, made a fortune and went to >nd, where he lived ever to.Ell«- J (Englishman rather than an Ameri^nw* J says: ‘‘In particular I had strong Ho sions in favor of a residence in EngfenTh'" (cause I was ever partial to its rmiu.v i ' e‘ Itution and the mildness ln/ U*cal consti- Igeneral !aws. Onleavint myZZZ™ °f its It is rather curious to see the changes that there was not, therefore anvtfefe UuI'T have come over the neighborhood in wld could afford me so much real s nrifec?; Ucb i the peat grammarian was born and raised have found in Great Britafn ” He D.irek aS i 1 a small estate at Hold "ate wWPircba?ed l i The log houses m which lived the old Scotch’ quiet, peaceful literary life ’ he led a Mrish and English families are still standing f H1 “Se folI farra implements and stables Murray’s chief n ter ary work was ”Tbe Power of Religion on the Mind,” published

i.iirw Krtoon* are some interesting figures. Pollock'--■ ‘ ANOTHER OLD NEWSPAPER ried the borough for Governor by 730 ma , jority over Bigler; Mott for Canal Com¬ missioner by 1,189; the late John C. Kun- Reviewed Alter Almost Halt a kel for Congress by 349; David Taggart for Senator by 573, and the vote for pro¬ . Century Has Passed. hibition was: For, 1,141; against, 712. The Harrisburg district included the The clerks in the Internal Affairs De¬ North, South, East and West wards ;i partment, while searching for data con¬ Susquehahna and Swatara township. cerning who was the first engineer to run Whether the town was “dry” the Demo¬ a locomotive in this State, found in one cratic Union does not say. It certainly of the old packages of documents a copy voted dry by a decisive majority. of the Harrisburg Democratic Union of There is no local news of any account. Wednesday, October 11th, 1854, published Indeed there is not a distinctly local per¬ by George M. Lauman & Co., the Demo¬ sonal item in the entire twenty-eight col¬ cratic Union being, as stated at the head umns. In the advertising columns are the of the paper, “a consolidation of the Re¬ following advertisements, among many porter, Keystone and Gazette.” This paper others, for it appears to have been a well was published semi-weekly during the ses-j patronized sheet: E. F. Jennings, jew¬ sion of the Legislature and weekly the elry; Hess & Brother, clothing; George balance of the year at $3 per annum—a Bergner, books and stationery; J. W. pretty stiff price for a paper in those days. Glover, merchant tailor at 38i Market It is a rather handsome four-page, seven- street; James Fleming, O. H. Behne, T. column sheet, and there seems to have D. Simonton, J. A. Carman, dentists; been an effort made by its editors to secure John W. Brown, attorney at law; John some news, a creditable act forty years Wallower & Son, forwarding and com¬ ago when the greater part of a paper was mission merchants; D. Denlinger, White taken up with long-winded political es¬ Hall Academy, three miles west of Har¬ says, attacks on political opponents,abuse risburg; Kelker & Brothers, hardware; of candidates, love stories and the poetry Boas & Newhard, jewelers; John H. column. It announces the election of1 Brant, coal, iron and lumber; George W. Governor Pollock with a very wry face McCalla, clocks and watches;-Charles C. and concludes that “James Pollock and Shannon, jeweler; S. S. Barrett, book; his know-nothings have captured Greece, ’ ’ ■ bindery; Jones & Bucher, iron founders; Greece, of course, meaning Pennsylvania. Gillard Dock, Keystone foundry; J. H. Then the editor says, “We warned the Wilson, stoneware factory; M. H. Steev- President of the United States more than er, agricultural implements; Mechanics’ , once, that unless he yielded something to Bank, Jacob C. Bomberger; Mrs. ; M. to the feelings of the Democracy of this Adams, shoes; M. S. Swiler, tinsmith; State, we should be defeated.” Dear, Jones’ dry goods house, etc. There are dear, how like that sounds to the modern also thirty-one notices of the incorpora¬ Pennsylvania Democratic editorial. Fol¬ tion of private banks in all parts of the lowing this comes the majorities for Big- State. ' ler and Pollock in the counties, and it looks as if the Democratic editor had real Altogether there is much that is in¬ cause for grief, for even Dauphin went teresting to be gotten out of an old paper over into the Pollock ranks. forty years of age. The one referred to was sent to John Irvin, a clerk in the In a short news item it is announced land office in 1854, and Mr. Irvin may that crops in New England were good, yet have filed it away for future reference. in Boston flour was $11 per barrel, pota¬ Perhaps he foresaw that in the hereafter toes $2 50 and $3 50 per barrel, butter 28 some mousing newspaper man would get to 32 cents a pound and cheese 14 cents a bold of it and review the news of former pound. “ The prices, we think,” says the years, and bring up recollections of pre¬ editor, “muBt soon let down.” vious days to some of our citizens who are still living and whose names are men¬ Half a column is given to a description of the opening of the Catawissa railroad tioned in this article. from Tamaqua to Milton, and there is an interesting account of the arrest of a negro on the cars from Washington to Baltimore on suspicion of decoying slaves from their masters. Of course the colored man fought for his rights, and he ■ badly punched the officer who tried to make the arrest, but the crowd was too much for him and he was overpowered and placed Date, in the Baltimore jail, but not before he r r was shamefully abused, several of the fire- eaters wanting to shoot him on the spot. In these days an attempt to arrest anybody Father" of on suspicion, without warrant, would lead1 to a decidedly interesting ending. Graiunjar In the vote cast in the Hr Sirg dis- i v at the Oet.oL"- -dectm Si4 there J3mlsiftr?vaf ffone- This year r„ • j^oel Bo?Xr)Co';?hter' of /Jacob Sbe]lenber?Pr\n,Verge Fo^,(?. ( thethis towncity ?Qtake 1885? a JwJshould3uld nniaIe*pect did to seefor ard, determined that f hi! Ja?3?s Sheck- only in copulation bX?n and iocJease aoi i £n/h0l,]d not die out f^fHr,0tic eus* ance. It ;s an ° ?ut 10 size and import- bandsome large fW dnd seeured a be morning of S’^,d v,eiT early on Jbe 1885 centenn?a°lW 6d?GK fact that JoDS pole which they4 t!i’uP.aSed if; on a this City did more to ®?ieI?ration in spot on which the' pl,dated Qear the (any event in its history P ^frn,4burg than from which tho e-c.edai‘ tree stnn,i city what it could if IC- showed the over thirty years agog,nai fla° floated they were capable of in ii!8i|C!}1Zen8 what « ^ ° OftU, instituted a soffit of U ,l^d action. It —n» a the tfrstnthfnfen frotn Marietta Harrisburg that was to1anv'ff1C^ship in |2» Wedn&?Sfr3Sy Persop,?d& it led to the STJackmg P'e- sive ideas out of whi?htatl°a of Progre3- —r the flag on “Uouad fopV»5 to Jook practicalpracticai valueva!ue that hho’ h SJhmgss-rew *—a- of Harrisburg and made her Slmpiy boomed Ipushing. nro°,l“tdei8r one of the most Poshing, progressiveciUes0? n°t h"ftm°3t From, States, Best of all the®-,. ^United jsfe (relegated the clam to f1 nDIal of 1885 out altogether? so a ?6?1'8111'1 him I v.oice heard in the bur?of h ger is bis .Qk, j side of ten years ?n A f Ha.rr,s- Au in- Let a«Iif,fa£,an .he hSd “ "«*>t. Iteepitup. She has th? ? m. aow< and (people. 1 e has the location and the

i here are aboutiP; i ^ v-_ county that wiffb^caUed??*11 • DanPhin I W”*V at Harrisburg ^ I years—not so far off to f Pi?n ln coming j moved into the new* bund? W,J1 be re' tennial anuivem?™/•ebrate tne cen- ln November. Dr p“, g S°me time 1W MlllerStog17£ r» jsaj's it will require the librarian, Jnly, 1807 will ™ ,?1CT Was iaid out in melstown 'plssed h^ (lelabrat(1- Hum? l^skLisjmovethen/ meD at Ieast three (could have celebrated itoMlddiet0wn seventy-five years a4 as the™ ®enteaQiaI From, Q% (and a church therein 172n t™*8, a t0WQ was laid out in i vcr Hmglestown ‘ 1834. ShellsviHe-was ’S R?ckvdle in ;Jacksonville in i«5K n d ?-Ut ln 1821. Grata in 1805 BerSh„ aU-phin in 1826 bethville iu l8l7 J bUr? In I819- Eliza! Date,

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l,1TI'K OF HALIFAX

It is Small bat Old aad Has Push. jnmsTm, * great deal 3 SdJ J*-. deserves flO - eeremonioua—-vaxAumuiia a wavwaV thofL Unf J CENTENNIAL op HALIFAX miss to carry to a mn.f People had the nerve UnterestiDg and Creditable Cele. this important celebrati?eSSfUl comPletion Oration of the Anoiversa.^ great deal of SS?tl0,JP and deserve a thoroughness of purDose^L^ s.howed a commendable, and E *?? 18 hiShly be talked of foryears^s th lebraJioa will r" Civic pjjube. enterprise of the neoni„th result of tbc lalifax’s centennfaiPla ,ata whole. If fork as much good forlh^K011 sha11 (Governor Fattisoji and Ollier Bisti,. 8 a tor ^at borough as L.gmsbed Visitors Present. U" needle-operation' was performed, and vision Judge Biddle said": “T do not see tfif| restored. In 1888 a cataract was removed slightest evidence in this case of any malprac¬ from the right eye successfully ; two years later tice whatever. This man was attended for this was followed by a needle-operation on the eight years, and a most serious operation per-1 capsule, which obscured the vision in this formed upon him (and he paid the doctor ten! eye ; ten days after the operation inflammation dollars, which was paid the optician fori' developed, and the eye was lost. glasses), in addition to attending his wife and! There were several important points brought giving him prescriptions for other matters. I| out in the trial which are well worth preserv¬ think it is a case of base ingratitude for thej. ing in the minds of all surgeons :— services that were rendered. I grant a non-j First. It remains with the plaintiff to prove 'suit.” that carelessness and want of skill and due dili¬ Philadelphia is justly proud of her judiciary,, gence were manifested on the part of the attend and the medical fraternity throughout this, ing physician. broad land should thank Judge Biddle for so j Second. It is not absolutely necessary for thoroughly scoring such an ingrate. Dr. Foxl the physician to inform or explain to the has done the profession a good turn by his j patient the character of the operation to be determination in fighting this suit to its end. performed. Third. That the physician is not responsi¬ ble for the results of an operation, so long as he uses a reasonable amount of skill and care. The medical profession requires the highest skill, constant study, and unselfish devotion to the interests of mankind, and the medical man should be above the sordid acquisition of wealth 7: /r?'/. vast His motive for the pursuit of his chosen pro The OM Historic *’lag. fession must come from his heart; but when r rAt the outbreak $M,he late reb^Tronj • one meets with such “base ingratitude” as in 1861, Absalom Emswiller. who lntd these nine physicians are receiving at the hands efficiently served as High Constable in Marietta for many years, James Boss » of unmitigated scoundrels or blackmailers, it iuncle of the lost Charlie Ross), Dr.fff is enough to chill the softer feelings within Franklin Hinkle, Dr. T. Sorbv, Rev.; John M. Wheeler and I. S. Heist con¬ themselves and make Shylocks of them all. ceived the idea of placing an Ameri¬ With all due respect to those Nestors in the can Hag on “Round Top,” the highest peak of the York county hills, oppo¬ profession who constantly preach that the prac¬ site Marietta, that it might inspire l__l „ tw,i,nM it- with nntri- tice of medicine must be conducted on humane tbose who would behold it with patri¬ otic emotions on the 4th of July. -They, ' lines, and not by business methods, we say, accordingly secured «i handsoine that the students of medicine and the younger and on the evening of July 3d, r'S^airedj 1 to “Round Top,” and just as the sun * : practitioners must realize and accept the fact was sinking beneath the western ho¬ ■ that that day is passing away. When business rizon, the emblem of liberty was nailed to a cedar tree, after which Rev. J. K. methods prevail, then we shall not have suits of malpractice hanging over us to annoy, con-

sume ourfime, and abstract tribute for defense; passed from the south towards the for such suits only come from those for whom north over the flag. Some one of the party remarked that “a superstitious we have given time, mental anxiety, even person might believe that this is an money out of pocket; our compensation—-noth¬ omen of peace.” ~— ..The custom of placing a flag there in ing. The unprecedented remarks made by one eac'-j year on the 4th of July was strict¬ of our most honored judges, in granting a non¬ ly observed for several years by the same parties; afterwards. Mr. Em- suit in Dr. Fox’s ca*e, are well worthy of being Filler continued the practice as long repeated, and we are sure that they will have a asVhe lived. His sons, S. Lee Em- wholesome effect upon a class of people who sdriller and William Emswiller, as¬ sisted by Jos. and Sami. Boughter unfortunately, will a1 ways be amongst us, placed the flag there after Mr. Em r\V ' prates. I fill "tr IfniHio01 °Dly the con8iderable number of soldiers composing the garrison but as 'well many actual settlers, who were at -p,°™f.on by Mr- Farnsworth. , traded to this neighborhood by the close oJ™Platf0rm at the corner of Market and Main streets was occuniert h„ 77araet jiner:Mr attacks of their aii8ofenemies. It is im nor Pattison, W. CFarnflwnrthA >G°Ver' I possible for us, after the lapse of one hun’ gr of tke day, JudgeTcpSo^S; 'dred years, to accurately estimate the moShcfuseshfr0f these in.d"cments as | ,en.cde- But be thatras°itrm““Halifax was

I on the 18th dayol^ui? iW"** event*vv hundredth anniversary ol Vi* eerc?sLToadaeyTOmmem0rating by address of Mr. Farnsworth w^G ^lstoncal J!“s charming littie town, nestling af- the chief feature He srSkP «a fCnUrse’ l, ^uately upon the eastern shore of the Ibr°fd aQd Picturesque Susquehanna has midsummer® daj°hf8ht °r,,hi * *>“Si made no marvellous advance in industrial MabST'celettL ? a i „T b“ “• | development. It is notthe center if tern- fear.sas®^ j thfthe sscenesCc°e“eT^ ofa IbusyaCtlVlty manufacturing- nor are its 8treenter-ets Perhaps at thii verv hm? ?itc*ra “?"■ j prise. Its growth has ever been slow as i people have always been conservative ;lts most valuable product has been the men of brain and brawn, whom it has sent into the world to make their impress udoh the history of other and moreTrog3ve J communities. And, after all, myg fellow 3 ragr»“ “^«“ a raceVf mte°Wn °r -City which Produces arnhmnnL^r 8uperi?r in intellect and ambition to the general average does more SaSA“hf,ng “p,our i nets, were compelledLthi /lrgin wilder- laSihL ^tl ?'- »»‘ional char, save *h ? th Wh0 contribute nothing arrows thrown by Se* aku®®1?6 flying (Ous redskins, who infesS thogVtreacher' jPopumtion.! Sopulationer0g TThehOUS men inCrease and t0women thu tota! of this vicinity. ested the foreits of ^a|'fFH.n?tivity have left the stamp of George Sheaffer and Peter R-;Pfa tv, their individuality upon every section of to whom Halifax owes itV nrf’ - h men neither philanthrope mfn- ?nglD' were fa£c?-.eminence andc„r ,rprominence* ^ in all the^ estate speculators£ the mod1"68 QOr real I learned^ professions; they are directing- , tionofthat term Thev wel ™ accePta' large educational institutions with their 'ontrarv men nf th7ney were> upon the thearaceabmfliDfl-eilCe upon tbe future of (Jtional advani^ p'c^n ovTeTe educa' Doratlon’fl “ glgantic railroad cor- ' ambition and industry n tvf •ylhlElg 8ave Srises an’rl fin ™ Tast busines8 enter- aisi&tt wivh a ?d ?lll2g b'gb official positions

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li” “ the town of their birthTwhich has become' mms.S argely through tbeir achieve- hanna, from sour™ t«Se °\"be Susque- I ,fel|ow Citizens, aside from all this, what is the object and purpose nf ind fruitful Jailers"31 ^large I mA3vfnid Vndred celebrations except as a , method of temporarily stopping the non toOhetry and cfllingX S5sK« PThPeler^rUwVh8 'threaten the institutions of which we are ;all so proud? What can be more forting fur us than to look back over the istructions frorA ln obedience to | history and progress of our own counts during the time that has elapsed since the , event we celebrate took place Tw^t f33K^®22s.£ more encouraging than a study of the past dS™1,*;. ■%“ i centuiy s advancement and a dream ofPthe Fort next century s achievements ? What more ^ b'°"S“ WlSiafe vici-" ihiaf§ t-° a patriot than the knowl¬ edge that since the birth of Halifax this A houses are frilled with flag's and Splendid Display of Flags and Hunt-' with bunting in a lavish manner. Governor Pattison arrived this mo ing. shortly after 9 o’clock and was ' from the train in state to hisheaaq Prothonotary John Mellick accompa special to tneTELKGBArH ] Halifax, July 18.-One hundred years him, and they were seated in the cari , opposite Mr. Farnsworth, the orator is a ripe old age, but historic Halifax, aloDg the Susquehanna, which it has been said possesses “a higher morality and a thItdwis a jolly car that brought the lower death rate than any settlement o risburg G. A. R. men into town, similar size in the Keystone State ne^r stations along the line ^ere enlivened smiled more youthfully upon her ad¬ the strains of “Rally Round the Fiaj mirers nor decked herself in more gorge- and other national airs. Coroner and • ous holiday, attire than she ddfo-dayin A. R. Commander Frank Hoy was honor of the completion of a century of ceremonies. He officiated by turns the cymbals and snare drum. The coroc cycle of birthdays. ,i The county has been talking about and was a mounted aid in the parade and waiting upon the Halifax centennial for| loped around upon a dapple gray witn t weeks and it is only fair to say that when: grace of a Centaur. it came to toeing the scratch for attend The streets were dusty for the par anc^the inhabitants of Dauphin we although all Halifax labored last there They were there early. To use, with hose and barrels of water wett a common but expressive phrase, they; down the route of procession, came out hot though this morning and were there with both feet. Thej feature of the occasion, and tbe features wetting of the night before was scar were not lacking in numbers either. 1 hey perceptible. There are flags everywt poured into the5 pretty town soon after Many of the wayside towns have tb daylight in vehicles of every description, in profusion. and the heavily loaded trains Drought th Crowds from Everywhere. more distant sightseers upon the ground Perry county imigrated across t by the hundreds. . at Clark’s Ferry for the day at Madame Decca, who sang this after¬ hour this morning. noon, drove a merry coaching party from Madame Decca sang in the atte Harrisburg ou the tally-ho Valiant, i the covered pavillion erected at They started at 5 o’clock along the river j ner of Front and Market street drive, reaching Halifax about 9:30. Those save Eckert’s “Echo Song” imi who occupied seats on the coach were after Governor Pattison’s remarks, ) Madame Decca. Mrs. M. W. McAlarney, the close of the programme she Miss Martha McAlarney, Dr. and Mrs.; “The Star Spangled Banner, assis ZenasJ. Gray, Professor and Mr®-TG^S®1 a chorus of Halifax singers under Miss Laura Gause, Miss Margaret Ingel . rection of I. N. Toomey. The di._ Lexington, Kentucky, who is Madame) in exceptionally good voice, and her s Decca’s guest at the Villa Decca; Maqori ing was a marvel of power and sweetn SK c. Mi!! nilhartE ' She wore an elegant French costur Dowell, Mrs. Gnssmger and Robert E gray cloth embroidered in steel, with MacAlarney. shoes and gloves to match, and receive Among the Harrisburgers seen on the ; most enthusiastic reception. Mr. loot streets were Mr. and Mrs. H. W. TecD' j entertained Madame Decca’s party . meyer, Fred, and James Ymgst, C. S., their stay. The tally-ho “Valliant^ Seeger, Samuel Kuhn, Wm. Kelker,■ ! it© fair freight was one of the ma Metzger, Miss Edith Rhodes, Mr and Mrs. tractions of the procession. Fortney, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Freeburn, Photographer Musser, of Harnsbu Charles Cilley, Abram Breckenmaker,; took numerous pictures of the proce John Hummel, Fred. C. Frascb Jerome Hite, Mr. and Mrs. Anson H. Phelps, Mrs. j and town. Good Nature Prevails. Snone Edward Weese, Stewart Hoffman,. Benjamin Brightbill, 6. J. Brubaker and The crowd is a good natured one Squire Booser, of the county commis . up to 11 o’clock but one dog fir Oners’ office, Prof. J. H. Kurzenkaabe marred the peacefulness of the celeb H W Techmeyer and Major Sheaffer. , No cases of picking pockets have been : The county politicians werethere. .Ex- ported, and taken as a whole it is an id< Sheriff Sheesley and ex-Sheriff Wells country centennial celebration. _? s Buser rubbed elbows with the present! There are bands galore. Good, bi Sheriff Shellenberger. The Harrisburg indifferent from the neighboring ha newspapermen were Wilmer Crow and , The morning trains brought in nut Charles Straw, of the Star-Independent, fakirs and the ever present p00"1 Wm. Underwood, of the Patriot; Ellis F. hand-painted lemonade stands Mumraa, of the 0all; Zenas J. Gray, ot street corners in good old circus- the Telephone, and Robert E. MacAlarney , has been a great day for th and W. C. Riffert, of the Telegraph. beaux and their sweethearts, owns rule upon the streets, at Streets Packed. „hoss seem to hold popular favor The streets here are jammed with the it the dust. rush of sightseers. That is the two streets The Odd Fellows turned ou are. There are but two mam avenues in the parade, nearly every Walimx. hut they are pretty ones and thej April 14th 1 tq1S erected ^to a bbrou® ,speaks of it’as being- acre ^f.Ie’8 Hi3tory I the east side cf the situated oa A large fertile valley b^hanna,.river ia wago hills on the a 1 he Cone- i mountains on the north ^ and the BIue ountry, but schools of pau> laid out in lots in lwh ,Was reSuJarly oung and old drink freely from u streets which exlem/nar’n Did consists of i of liberty and thereby become F^nt, SeeondfThiTani'p thVi7er ugly attached to the institutions I tersected bv six- ntv,Ia aad Bourtb, in- ures which make the enjoyment ealled Mulberry, ChestLfV'^ a°sIes berty possible ? These are some ;nut, Locust and Pine sf^h Market- Wal- sons taught by such exercises as [twenty feet wide extend;tS’ WJ.tk an aHey which we sre now engaged, and jthrough the middle of eaehDS botl1 Ways ebrations of this character are | to the streets. f Ch sr Fox remn F SeCOndary cataract. In Millersburg Cavalcade. eve of th- removed a cataract from the 1< Millersburg baud. ye of ^patient; two years subsequently Millersburg P. O. S of A. Mahantango P. O. 8. of A. Halifax band. 1 Halifax P. O. S. of A. Uniontown P. O. S, of A. | my fellow •Clvww - lu i . Liverpool band. ^occurring almost daily in «ome partfof this w About twenty intelligent, earnest, fearing men served the church as during this time. Rarely has a been more highly honored. On July 4th, 1819, a charter was tained from the Supreme Court of State under the name of Tlxe English Presbyterian Splendid. Display of Flags congregation, to distinguish it from the ing. German Reformed congregation popularly known as the German Presbyterian church. Special to the Telioravh ] The church building becoming too small Halifax, July 18.—One was torn down in 1841 to give place to a is a ripe old age, but hist more commodious building on the same aiuugalong the Susquehanna,- whi site. The new building was dedicated said■1° possesses__ “a lii.rhprhigher me ' January 13th, 1842. After sixteen years .... 7 lower death rate than any f of service it was totally consumed by fire similar size in the Keystone IP* on the evening of March 30th, 1858. Dur¬ smiled more youthfully upof ; ing Dr. DeWitt’s sole pastorate there were mirers, nor decked herself m tiJ many reviva's, the most noted, of which! ous holiday attire than she did were in 1819, ’24, ’27, ’30, ’34 and ’43. honor of fhe completion ot ; During Dr. DeWitt’s pastorate in 1838 cycle of birthdays. the grtat division in the Presbyterian The county has been talking church of the country occurred. This waiting upon the Halifax cent church at first determined to remain inde¬ weeks and it is only fair 1° ®ay pendent, but in 1840 it was received into it came to toeing the scratch 1c the Presbytery of Harrisburg in connec¬ ance the inhabitants of Dam tion with the new school branch. there. They were there earl On account of failing health Dr. De-t a common but expressive p Witt in 1854 requested the church to give! were there with both feet, in "him~a^*colleaeue! Thli request was! feature of the occasion, and t granted, and Thomas H RobinsoD, a were not lacking in numbers ei graduate of Western Theo’ogical Seminary poured into the pretty town at Allegheny, and a licentiate of the old daylight in vehicles of every de I Presbyierv of Ohio, was called to the cod and the heavily loaded trains tt pastorate. He enter :d upon his work in' more distant sightseers upon t. October, 1854, and was ordained and in- j by the hundreds. stalled January 21s*, 1855 He was the Madame Decca, who sang % lineal descendant, of the fir-4 settlers of noon, drove a merry coaching Scotch-Irish blood and Presbyterian faith Harrisburg on the tally-ho in this region. Two forts, known as They started at 5 o’clock alo Robinson forts, one at Manada Gap and drive, reaching Halifax about one in Path Valley, were built by his an- who occupied seats on the cestors as detenses against the Indians. 1 Madame Decca. Mrs. M. W. After the destruction of the church edi-j Miss Martha McAlarney, Di ficc in 1858 a division occurred which re¬ Zenas J. Gray, Professor and sulted in the organisation of the Pine Miss Laura Gause, Miss Marg Street Presbyterian church. The present Lexington, Kentucky, who house of worship was dedicated March; Decca’s guest at the Villa A 18th, 1860. In 1854 this church had a and Mrs. J. C. Smith, Miss membership of 170 and now according to Dowell, Mrs. Grissinger and the sta'istics of the last general assembly MacAlarney. there are 77G; then a Sunday school of Among the Harnsburgers b_ 4 M) 240, now 1,789; then the contributions for streets were Mr. and Mrs. ti all causes were $2,600, now over $20,000 meyer, Fred, and Jatnes x per year. During the last forty years, j Seeger, Samuel Kuhn, Wm. , the years through which .statistics have Metzger, Miss Edith Rhodes, 1 beeil preserved, the contributions to all Fortney, Mr. and Mrs. Henry objects have been over $500,000, $100,000 Charles Cilley, Abram Br of which was to home and foreign mis¬ John Hummel, Fred. C. Fra sions. Hite, Mr. and Mrs. Anson H. Tire Effect of tUe War. 3pong, Edward Weese, Stewn The civil war had a marked influence Beniamin Brightbill, G. J. B upon this church. It affected its growth Squire Booser, of \he coun and influenced its piety The people were sioners’ office, Prof. J. D. Jvl thoroughly loyal and contributed thou H. W. Techmeyer and Maj sands of dollars to the Christian £jad sani¬ The county politicians were tary commissions. This congregation Sheriff Sheesley and ex-Sh contributed a quota of forty or fitly of its Baser rubbed elbows with yoting men to .the army of the Union. Sheriff Shellenberger. The Negotiations had begun in 1866 to heal newspapermen were Wilmer the division in the Presbyterian church. Charles Straw, of the Star-In One of she conferences between the old Wm. Underwood, of the fair Mumraa, of the Oall; Zsnas the Telephone, and Robert E. and W. C. Rifferl, of the Tbt Sr. Streets Packed; The streets here are japaim. l*““ oloi- rush of sightseers. That is the two streets The vohu bellows tu- are There are but two main avenues m ■ the parade, nearly every Haliiax, but they are pretty ones and the! J j great nation has risen from obscurity to j great country, but schools of pau> v its present proud position among the where young and old drink freely from u. ; States of the world, and that all the while fountain of liberty and thereby become our liberties have been growing deeper and more strongly attached to the institutions broader and our citizenship more sacred and measures which make the enjoyment and valuable ? That the same period of of that liberty possible ? These are some time which covers the existence of this of the lessons taught by such exercises as ! little town marks the growth of the na¬ those in which we are now engaged, and tion from three million people to upwards while celebrations of this character are of seventy millions, its wealth from noth¬ clothed in the garb of local significance ing to seven thousand million dollars and they are really purely national in import¬ the development of its industries and the ance. I multiplication of its enterprises to a de¬ It is not, however, my desire, purpose gree hitherto without a parallel in the his¬ or intention to dwell upon or discuss at tory of the world. length either of these propositions. Those The century, whose completion we are [ who will follow me are a thousand-fold - :n°w celebrating, has little significance better qualified and equipped for that | special to the borough of Halifax. We duty and my task is ended when I have are not here to receive congratulations pointed out the object of the celebration upon the building of a great city during and extended to the multitude now sur¬ the ten decades just coming to a close, nor rounding me the freedom of our little city. have we made such advancement in me¬ What we lack in size we make up in hos- chanic arts or commercial supremacy as i pitality and on this occasion we have un- j entitle us to the felicitation of our less I lacked the gates of the town and thrown fortunate neighbors. We are but one of I the keys into the river. Upon the part of [the indivisible, and I was about to say in¬ the municipal authorities and citizens of visible, parts of that grand union of States, [ this borough I bid you all welcome—thrice [Which, beginning practically with the [ welcome to Halifax and trust, as I be- | birth of Halifax, has had such a career of j lieve, that when this centennial ; triumphant progress that the whole course is over and those of you who I of human government throughout the reside in distant cities and towns i world has been literalized and improved have returned to your several homes that as a result of that experience and by force you will industriously refute that mali¬ of that example. Individual, personal cious slander, which has become his¬ liberty has become the rule rather than torical, that going to Halifax is synony¬ i the exception, and the influence of our mous with a visit to that famous brim¬ achievements upon the domestic institu¬ stone factory, which all good Christians tions of two continents is incalculable and seek to avoid. Permit me in closing to i unmeasurable. Nor is this the only fea¬ a^ain extend to all the strangers within ture of the past century's advancement. our gates a thoroughly sincere, cordial (That period has been the mo3t important beartfeff welcome to the little town [in the history of the race In all of Halifax. that goes to make life worth living, the | past one hundred years have witnessed a greater development than all the preceding The parade, which included civic socie¬ centuries back to the creation of man. ties, (J. A. R. Posts and other organiza¬ These years have been freighted with ac- tions, moved at 10:50 over the announced ! complishments of the most transcendent route m the following order: I importance and those ancient citizens now Chief Marshal—Isaac Lyter. before me, who are bowed beneath the ac- Aids—E. F. Koppenheffer, Dr. C. C. Mil¬ j cumulated snows of many winters, have had ler, C. C. Zimmerman, Harry the good fortune to live through the most Uhricb, O. C. Nace and 1 dramatically memeutous years that will I. P. Bixler. ever fall to the lotofhumau kind. Science First Division. has illumined the path of progress with Marshal—F. H. Hoy. ;the torch of marvelous discovery,and even (Aids—S. B. Fortenbaugh and W. B. Nace. religion has felt the stimulating effect of Sunbury Military Band. modern enlightenment. Education, men¬ Harrisburg G A. R. Posts. tal and mechanical, has largely increased Millersburg G. A. R. Post. the usefulness of man, and in an equal Duncannon G. A. R. Post. [ degree lessened the duration and eased the Fisherville G. A R. Post. .burden of his daily toil. The development Halifax G. A. R. Posts. ! of the arts and the refining influences of | T Harrisburg Sons of Veterans. modern civilization have added much to Distinguished guests in carriages. i our capacity for enjoyment and robbed Second Division. [ life of its stale and tedious Marshal—Major J. Frank Miller. monotony. Who is there among Aids—Chas. Moyer and Samuel Bowers. you, pausing to-day to contrast Millersburg Cavaicade. the condition of our country one hundred Millersburg band. years ago with that prevailing now, can Millersburg P. o. S of A. fail to become better citizens and stronger Mahantango P. O. 8. of A. patriots ? Whose love of country is not Halifax band. intensified and whose Americanism made Halifax P. O. S. of A. more pronounced ? And what, after all, Union town P. O. S, of A. my fellow-citizens, are these celebrations, Liverpool band. sgccurring almost daily in °ome part.'of this Liverpool P. O. S. of A. The growth of Halifax, Thikd Division. sarily slow, has been of an encouraging Marshal—J. B. Seal. character, and it is the belief that the Aids—"Valentine Lenker and John Deibler. next century holds great things in store Berrysburg band. for the town. Millersburg Knights Golden Eagle. Newspapers. Harrisburg Red Men. The first newspaper was started in 1844, Fisherville Knights of Pythias. the 221 of February, called the Halifax Georgetown band. Herald. It was Democratic in politics. Georgetown Jr. American Mechanics. Its motto was, “We aim to serve the peo¬ Fort Hunter Jr. American Mechanics. ple and to promote the greatest good to Heckton band. the greatest number.” It lived & little Jacksonville American Mechanics. | more than three years and was moved to Millersburg Odd Fellows. Liverpool. Dauphin Odd Fellows. Henry Shammo was postmaster in 1844 Duncannon Odd Fellows. and an advertisement in the Herald says: “Office open all day, but persons are re¬ 1794-1894. quested to get their mail in the evening.” After the collapse of the Herald there Some Halifax Historical Matter of Special Interest To-day. was a long period of time elapsed until Halifax, July 18.—The town of Hali¬ the next journalistic venture was under¬ fax was laid out July 18th, 1794, by Peter taken. In March, 1887, C. R. Shope, who Rise and George Sheafer, who had a sur-; had previously been working for the Har¬ vey map made, upon which the lots, | risburg Telegraph, started the Halifax streets and alleys of Halifax were desig- ; monthly, which he continued until 1888, nated substantially as they exist at the! when a partnership was formed with his present. The earliest deed executed for father, and the paper changed to the Hali¬ land in this vicinity was that given by fax Gazette. The Gazette has been a suc¬ Thomas and John Penn, proprietors, to cess. The firm of J. W. Shope & Son was Robert Armstrong. The warrant of sur¬ dissolved October 1st, 1893, when the vey bears date the 17th of April, 1764,and paper passed into the control of C. R. the deed the 8th of February, 1775. Shope, the present proprietor. ; --. . Robert Armstrong is supposed to be the first settler in the neighborhood. The j survey for and map of the town were made’by John Downey, and the lots were From,, sold for $20 each. Up to 1785 Halifax was a part of Upper Paxtang township, Lancaster county, Dauphin county not having been formed until that date. From 1785 to 1803 it was a part of Upper Paxtang (now called Date, PaxtoD) township, Dauphin county, at which date the township of Halifax was created by order of court. From this time j ^The new state library at Harris- it continued part and parcel of Halifax jfurg will be adorned with busts of township uutil 1875, when it was incor¬ distinguished historical Pennsylvan¬ porated as a borough. The first houses ians. The persons on whom this were erected along the river, on Water honor will be conferred are General street. Anthony Wayne, Benjamin Franklin, The pioneers of Halifax were largely William Penn, Governor(governor Mifflinivumin ana-andi^.# . of Bcotch-Irish extraction. There was General Meade. No fault can be found!; ; also a considerable sprinkling of English with this selection. They were men . and Germans. The first store started in who were tried and were not found! Halifax was probably that kept by Mr. wanting; men whom the state can Perdue. The first manufacturing enter¬ point to with pride. The list could prise; a nail factory, was started by John not be improved upon. We think we, Wood in 1800. see in it the fine hand of our accom-* Almost from the very settlement of plished State Librarian, Dr. William Halifax it has been the home of various HJjgle. i^a small enterprises. The first hotel in Halifax was opened in 1800 by George Rahn on the corner of Market and Water From, streets. There was also a public house! called the “War Office,” which originated ! from the fact that it was used as a re¬ cruiting station during the second war with England, 1812 to 1815, This stand remained open as lato as 1830. In its early history Halifax was the Date, scene of the largest shad fishery in the | . State, and sixty teams were engaged in transporting the delicious fish to market, j After the building of dams in the river j ffiis industry finally wentput of existence.! FORTY YEARS AGO Mraves ot the past, clearing away the moss, and reviving preoious memories, pastor of Paxton and Derry with Harris¬ ^One hundred years cafry us back to burg as part of Paxton. In January 1704 lf94, the data rff organized Presbyterian¬ at a meeting of the committee of the Har¬ ism on this spot. At that time large risburg congregation it was agreed to call forest trees were standing upon tne ^.^congregation tor the pur¬ pose of electing flye ruling elders Tnis greater part of the ground now occupied by the city. The town began its growth h,eld on Tuesday, February 11th, 1794, and Samuel Weir, Moses Gil- irom the region about the junction of Paxton and Front street;, and tlience ex¬ T°re’ iLd-ai7 ,?°yd’ Robert Harris and tended up the river with a width of but James Mitchell vere elected. The last two or three streets. When incorporated i two declined to serve. On Sunday, Feb as a borough in 1785 and named Harris¬ 'ruary 16th, Messrs. Weir, Gilmore and burg, there were about 120 houses, scat¬ Royd were ordained and Installed and this tered somewhat irregularly below the site church became a regularly constituted and of the present building. .There were fully organized Presbyterian church. In October, 1785, Mr. Snowden was re- FeW/Houses Above Market Street lieved of the charge of Derry and six or beyorid Third. Leaving the corner of months later relieved of the charge of Market square from the door of this Paxton and the Harrisburg Church as¬ church we might pass down Second street, sumed the entire support and the whole then ungraded ana with quite a steep de¬ of the time ot Mr. Snowden. scent truth Chestnut street to Paxton The congregation was without any fixed | creek, thence out Paxton to Front and up abode. For a time services were held in a Front to Market and we will have marched loft of the old jail. In 1798 it was granted around the greater part of the town. Ink* jthe use of a room in the court house. The log house near the corner of Front and j congregation at this time undertook to Vine were held the county courts and a short distance away was the pillory. The iprovide itseif with its first house of wor¬ ship. 1 he course taken was at that dav large stone house, recently the residence neither legally forbidden nor morally con- of General Cameron, was erected by John jdemned. The Legislature in March, 1798 Harris, the founder of the town in 1766. granted the congregation permission to The population was mixed, consisting mainly of Scotch-Irish and German. Fami¬ Raise $5,000 by lottery lies that were prominent ia the organiza¬ for the purpose of purchasing a lot and tion of this church had been resident here erecting thereon a house of worship. The for a number of years. Presbyterianism scheme was carried out and the lottery here antt dates by many years the organiza¬ i though not as successful as anticipated! tion of the church, the families of that i closed July 7th, 1803. On June 7th, 1804 ta.th being members of the venerable jthe lot on the corner of Cherry avenue Paxton church. The doctor here gave an and Second street was purchased and con¬ interesting and graphic description of the tract made for the construction of the ReV. John Eider, for fifty-seven years .church edifice. It was ready for use in pastor of the Paxton church’ prior to 1792. ionn lbTu8b not formally dedicated until The first public movement toward or¬ 1809, The pastoral relation between the ganization was made in 1786. when a pe¬ church and Mr. Snowden was dissolved tition was presented to the Presbytery of June 2uih, 1805. During the interval toy Carlisle from Harrisburg requesting that prior to the next pastorate regular services T an organisation be effected. The result were maintained, the church being sup¬ of this movement was the postponement plied by^members of Presbytery and of effecting an organization daring the others. On February 13th, 1809, after lifetime of Mr Elder. .preaching to the church for nine months A record of July 30th, 1793, states that Kev. James Buchanan was installed as its at a meeting of the Harrisburg congrega¬ pastor. He continued as such until Sep¬ tion tne following persons were chosen a tember 20th, 1815. During his brief pas¬ . committee to govern the affairs of the torate the church gained in members, in 1 church, viz: Joseph Montgomery, Sam- 'religious intelligence and spiritual power, iVi uel Weir. Moses Gilmore, James Mitchell jlu less than a year after his resignation onf and William Graydon. The fir-rj v,’ko served prior to 1790. There is scarcely Brl^:1 doubt but that the congregation was an In September, 1818, Wm. Radcliffe De- Witt by invitation preached for the congre- rotQ .‘"rganized Body as Early as 1786. gaiion,and on October 5th was unanimously £ ye; die records show that Robert Catbcart, called to the pastorate. On the 26th of Oc- id ot Toikj James Snodgrass, of Hanover- e orj ;>muel Waugh,of Silver’s Spring; Joseph tober, 1819, Mr. DeWitt was ordaiued by the Presbytery of Oarl-sle, and on the 12th “ f eudfflMii, of 0rat Conewago; Charles of the following November was installed. W(7lesbet, president of Dickinson College- This was his first and only charge, and he lobn Ewiug, for twenty-three years the wes separated' from it only by the hand of eta of fhe University of Pennsylvania- death December 23d, 1867. Until 1854 he iS|3»amuel Mil er, a professor in Princeton was the sole pastor of the church, and n-.try for thirty six years; John Mc- fijKaight, of New York city, and others from that date until his death he nad a i colleague. The heart of the young pastor ministered to the people prior to the or- r: i mizauon as a church. was cheered by a revival at the beginning ot his ministry. The church grew rapidly 7aT °Q October 2J- 1793, Rev. Nathaniel V and throughout the years of Dr. DeWitt’s -uaiV10wden wa3 ordained to the minidr/ Iministry it was the home of intelligence. 1 wei/ J. B McPherson, 01 “--—s _ x rpu; c phurcll 8bt) firSti The reception committee nasi----- sssa»isl SET* ¥K“ 8f • M», Bunion and George B-Fleming and school branch. ... health Dr. DeWitt by ^blv^neTakln from Gaul’s Holy City. On account ot tailing him a.1 ^here wiUhe a ptno duet by Mrs. David

a licentiate of the ol p y entered upon called to the co-pastorate. JU.^ ^ oldained his work in October, 185' jje was the1 and installed January ~ ■ • settlers of , sssssAftsg&fefctown who are expected to be present are. lineal descendant of ^®h5terian faith in Scotch-Irish Wood and Presbyter g Robi General George R. Snowden, Philadelphia, this region. Two forts, K o ^ in Path Colonel J. Ross Thompson, Ene and Hon. Samuel Gustine Thompson, of Philadelphia, vlK.eS hi, »=•»««■ » d0,enses! these three being grandsons of Rev. Na¬ thaniel Snowden the first pastor of Hie Mar Vet Square Presbyterian church. Rev. Dr. ^r&‘SK-s|in 1858 a ^vision occurred wn ^^^t Pre9by- W cl cattell, of Philadelphia, a, former pas¬ tor of the Pine Street Presbyterian church, the organization 6f the Pi^ hoageof worship; and William M. Capp, son of ^aiTaie tenan church. Jh0,?rf® 180O. In 1854 this elders of the church, together with others, are was dedicated Maichabin 0f 170 and now, church had a membership ot^ ^general, expected. according to the sta_» , a Sunday school , assembly ^en ^contributions for i&TSSSia From, , ,

°£ wt,ich *° ,“m“ fya : >' /< t v.;' • I and foreign,1A missions.IU*W‘V- The Effect of the War. . * f7 H The civil war had a marked Iniiaence upon; Date, thl church It affected its growth and m- thischurc people were thor-

fltt!hly loySalPand contributed thousands ofj dollar! to the Christian and sanitary com-) • • This congregation contributed ”r”off»iSo.>ioi>« *»« m“,°, the army of the Umoa heal the Negotiations had begun in (>ce o£ DR. ROBINSON’S ADDREi division in the Presby ^ old and new — tbe conferences b , , v during tbe ses- %- scbool assemblies was ^ly in this room Ue Tells of tlie Early Effort m May, 18o». m u an;m0U8iy adopted the Market Square Pres¬ basis of reunion the great leaders bv that assembly, ho fa this room byterians. of the two churches were here antt w resounded with their ei q chair addresses Twelve who'have hi^ ^1 Rev. Dr. Stewart, the pastor, Pr®m of moderator m the n vjz.; William last night at the historical service in t series of centennial meetings in . » let Square Presbyterian church. Afte the usual devotional exercises and ?„eSanNP^U Laurens^^ spirited singing of Hande. s^aRtlo] Chorus” by the cuoir Dr. Stewart in r Henry A. Nelson, ero commiasioners: ditchd toe speaker of the evem°u’orn bf the following were here as co ^ R H hr Thomas H. Robinson, to whom he Charles C. Beatty, V. t0r ’ Chancellor referred in the most affectionate terms, Richardson. Robert C , occasion was Sting to his beloved predecessor muct r Greene and Henry W- iu | of the success which has attended h one long to be remembered. Dl. The Past°TaI0 ®i^ch was dissolved byi Robinson and the 0hurc« tabe effect the P Re°f D, Robinson's subject was ‘‘A the presbytery of *“aT but he continued Century Plant.” He took for his test the first Sabbath of Juue'l® the last Sabbath of words of Isaiah, the prophet, recorded in to supply the ^Pttuntilthel^t^h anni. the thirtieth chapter the month whicn w to tbe congrega- follows : “Now go, write U before them £ a taliet and Inscribe-- * a book, that it maybe for the time .o c°me forever an ever.” The doctor_JClvl beganfJt/pwU withMV_ . beau., mm ceesor.' The call *i88&y the1^^ ful allusion to Walter Septus ”01d Mor- t alitv ” saving that like "Old Mortality we step softly8 and reverently among tae

a close with a social rec p -■•ae—srn*“:,‘I- r r"** its £ otnrch. / ■«- from the charge of Derrv611 7as- relea8ed (later relieved of the ,v, y and 8,x months 1785f^twS'S,«•£ and named iiom.M a^d as a borough in 'the Harrisburg0churchd»af° 0fPastoQ and support and the whole e<^-the entire 1 below20 houses the “StSreTtmfsite of f£°mew hat^ irregularly^ about Snowden. wnole of the time of Mr. There were si e of the present building. >bodh.6 Fjf'"';™ -WWIthoM „„ fixed . Few Ho«ses Above Market Street loft of the'old iT 1

for Hm EaUe *5,000 by lottery greater part of the toTa^In ar?und^ the near the corner of Front sndftv°g bouse S:sro?:“s;^r- held the county courtswere away was the piUory T a h,°rt dlsfaQce house, recently the roe^^6 arge stone r.“d “• a. ,t°z Cameron, was Erected bv n General founder of the to wn in & Harris> the Ofof CherryCheTO avem,I'‘f ’ . 6 l0t “°n tbe“» corne»,oo. was mixed, consisting ™ • Tho Population Irish and German “r1”*!? y °f Scotch- •; 'chased and contract 8treet WaS pnr prominent in the organization6^ t^at uWere tion of the church edifice6 f°Trthe construc- had been resident here for tbls (iburcb usein 1806, thou 4i n„r f. 14 ^as ready for years. Presbyterianism \f number of until 1809. The nastorai f®rfa]1y dedicated r “an/ rears the organDationAfaAed a£es by the church and Mr Snnmi; relation between I ‘he families of that faith he• f tbe church, June 25,1805 DuriS°thee?nrWaS dissolyed the next pastorate ramfi„b lnterval prior to A^hor« here VenPrabIegave an Pastoninteract; chuS™ ng^ Tphehemb doctorfS of tained the charch ,mf™ Se7Icse3 were maim Ascription of the Rev John pm graphic de¬ of presbytery and nt}f SUppbed by members afen years pastor of the p "; for i 1809, after'pTeachlng £ the ^ February A frior to 179.3. ot the Paxton church, months, Rev. James Buchanan ni°h ^°r nin« as its pastor. He cont was installed September 20, X8l5. nn“i“ A •a3l. 8uch until nation was^made^n^nle twh>Ward organi_ i ate the church gained in g bls Alef-pastor' was presented to the nratoL ben ? Petit>on gious intelligence and A;A® ,bers'Jn reli- from Harrisburg request;,ra t/7. °f Carlis]o less than a vesr a- sPlr|tnal power. In zation be effected n that an organi- Sunday school in this reetongnati°n tbe first fr *, organization durintr toeif?.- effecting an i A record of J™/3? °f^r-Eldor- meeting of the Hirrisbura ’ r *ates tbat at a following persons weL gregatl(m the to govern the a£ oCfh08en a committee Joseph Montgomery Sam,mi6 SArch- viz ■' her,oer, 1819,loiQ ^rMr.r' nDeWitt'wa°_Ur.-;;v* Awio6 zoca26th oof ©cto Gilmore, James Mitchell and w^-lr’ Moses Presbytery of Carliste ordained „uo don- The first treasurer d 7llllam Gray, ?^8bZtery of Carlisle. Td nn'fclby was Henry Fulton who no so Jar as hnown. following November’ wal °fn«?enAtb of tbe There is scarcely a’doubt hnTe^pnor to 17!'»- 111was AhisfimtZd18AMt and onlAcbara?onlyWacShareea Ue)-i, TbiaTbis gregation was an u4 that the con- separated from it onlv bv rhf t Ad be was Organlzed Body ag Eariy ^ December 23, 1867. Untif bund o{ death sole pastor of the church and^e he was the until his death he had t d ^r,om that date heart of the voun Anf * a colIeague. The York; JamlsVnodgrfss*o^ H0^ Catbcart’ of revival at the begCntog^f ?^eered by a The church grew raDidlv arfj+i118 miDlstry. I years of Dr. DeWRt^mf Athrougllout the President of Dickinson e°i’i Cbarles Hesbet, home of intelligence a ifc was the for twenty-three years the ?ee’,Jobn Ewing, gent, earnest, God-feartot UmtWeDty intelli- church as elders dartedT served the versityof Pennsvlv- ■**'?ead of the Uni- | has a church been S; A™6- Barely professor in Princetonala’ •Samxlel Miller a I On July 4 . re highly honored. ^ years; John foT thfrty- from the supreme cour^of^the^ .°btairied and others ministered to*th°f Jvew York city the name of 01 the state under \T?®SSS K°!"° The English Presbyterian Snowden was1* ordained t^ii, Nathaniel E. pastor of Paxton and n 4 the ministry as as part of Paxton Wlth Harrisburg 2«S£SSS'' «r footing 0f the^mf^ January, t794, at f “£° rasbJM,nPc°k “n"15,1”0" Vngregation it was avra^t lbe, Harrisburg oh;the congregation for tol to Cal1 a meeting mfi five ra!ing eideJVhl pUr^Se °f elect! j commodious building on th* placeto a more W •U^day- February ?i^ i^etln8 was held ™ Jeir. Moses GilmorJ aVi1 91’r,and Samuel (new building was 8it°- The After sixteen ysMg of spaA,d January 13, i842 Phe1/8 ADd James MitcheH w°yd’ ?obert !,he last two declined to wf o11 were elected. consumed by fira on th* l™00.1* was totally ;ebruary i6. «• On Sunday,’ ,18oS. Daring Dr. DeVilt’s1^ A March 3°, hyd were ordained ®lr’, Gilmore and th,e.re were many revivals toe le Pa3torate Vrch became a d adar/“Stalled a°d this 'airly constituted and ] ’dSCd£&&£• of J \ A for and its property is nciw held and transferred < Sarnnel Weir. 1794; TBoses 'Gil under that time honored title. The accounts Adam Boyd, 1791; John Stoner, of “John Kean treasurer of the Presbyterian | liam Graydon, 1820; Dr. Samuel church of Harrisburg, from December 1790,” 1820; Robert Sloan. 1820; Joseph A, inform us that the contributing members sey, 1820; John Neilson, 1825; Richard!' of tho congregation were: John Harris, John Leech, 1825; John C. Capp, 1825; James W Hamilton, Archibald M’Allister, James Weir, 1834; Alexander Sloan, 183-4; Alex Clunie, William Glass, Levi Hollingsworth, ander Graydon, 1834; Alfred Armstrong Adam Boyd, Moses Gilmore, Joseph 1840; Samuel W. Hays, 1840; William Mac Montgomery, James Dancan, J. Mur¬ lean, 1845; William Root, 1845; John A. Weir ray, H. Willson, John Dentzell, Robert 1855; Mordecai M’Kinney, 1855; Rober Harris, John A. Hanna, William Jackson Fleming, 1855; James Fleming, 1S6S Wanlass, Amos Sayers, Samuel Grimes, William 8. Shaffer, 1868; Walter F. Fahne James McNamara, Samuel Weir, David stock, 1868. The names of the present elder Montgomery, Andrew Forrest Andrew! are as follows. Gilbert M. McCauley, Johi Berryhill, Alexander Graydon, William C. Harvey, Samuel J. M. McCarrell, J. A Graydon, John Carson, James Mitchell, I Miller and J. Henry Spicer. Henry Frictou, William Crabb, Thomas horster and John Kean. The building originally constructed was at! the corner of Second street and Cherry alley, From, on the east side of the street, upon ft lot eighty feet on Second street by ninety | along Cherry alley. The cost of the land' was X400. The structure was of brick, sixty feot fronton Second street and set back forty-five feet. It was two stories in hei»ht

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i^ffizsssgjgsiz ifarJ*ithTed tbe r00m and was near her he- ifore she perceived him. “Sir William iiinff’ IHPrel£Um1” Said Mrs‘ Graydon business H* b°W,ld: ,She made knowa her iSV mother’s feelings doubtless ffimsmr frentpH6 0qu^nce to ller speech—and en- U'eated permission for her son to go home dlstewT Par0le' “And then® imme- centennial WEEK of mark FT a^ f to take up arms against us, I sun- I SQUARB ^RESBTTERIANS will ! P°se! said the General. “By no means begin to-morrow. '•win ^ s®ticithis release upon parole- that iGpn^eSitram him Until exchanged.’’’ The ® Exercises to be Ina„eurate(1 a „(“b”eUrp?SC of being trans- iniscenceg Concerning the P After a. tiag-vessel to Elizabethtown Vepy Earliest History i reachedeacneo Philadelphia,Ph^def^111 where^63’ thevthe trdined^e!en of the Church. Pres.dent Hancock’s: He had7 oppose Gra,ydon’s scheme of going to Ne' her Nueces‘h°Ugmapparently Phased witt diallv r« C-ou, d n°t be supposed cor-

g ve yfogthUfle i by an event which mighi - -f*ye I0 tpL adverse cause any reputat?or organized one hundred « f th® Church for clemency. Such is the po icy o war ' -itably inaugurated by8 ;S * UntnSt,Kn a. tbing is patriotism7 Pev- Dr. John DewJt „T by untii the close of the Revolution Mrs church history in ‘ n .professor of Sfd whneCH?tlnued ut0 rCside at Reading; logical seminary nr r> ty-Cet°n th°o- hosnitalitw h T hf llouse was the seat o‘ [hospitality and the resort of numernn wffl be “The Beginnings of pi n’® SUbject jin the Middle Colonies''” 7 enanism wa8Soft0endthtillCti0u The Baron DeKall j i ,and oetween her own an fitted that he should bemn « emiaently ^General. Mifflin’s family there was icounty'of nmaT existinS- When th< md reverend pastor of ti, b honored po n’ment tf Pu m WaS orSanized, the ap font, hto ■bility is an assurance it! ! eminent torrow will be of-"hp *. ^iS a^^ress to- [much "dev& toS1‘to’'fLi,* “ ■ cter. The seyLw char- ‘ the Sunday *obcol wIllT^m21151™81'7 of fKsSTSi or the btate, she da,,swas nfprominent the C*P““' in deeds ®?y ?ng. The eentenni^ cicmt 3 in„the even- tnronghout the week 0 l f Wl11. continue bmi°VTerd Chaority- 8hfi died at hS! People of the Pr.l ! eacb evening. Of heWahu1? 23, 18°7, and there buried Of her chilaren, Alexander of whon *tho erne hundredth annfversary^/'"1! °f nation as an independeut n y for- jyeaf aTeouem beenfstatud’ wa-c in later fEiOT readers are herot^h;0Dgresati0n. PA. J jyeatjB a frequent contributor to literary .reminisceuses of its th presented some i'Wf Political journals. In 1816 be re Jn referring to dates it^n^i1654 SQPP°rters -that Harrisburg „s S, h/‘ .reaembered , -E? ° PhwaC!f-lpIlia- Where be died 3lWilliam,18 18 another son. born ('nine years after thS-th« ded 1Q I7S5’ and to be a part of that Cea2ed dfiirfi “be* 4f.1759> was educated in Phila- delpbia, studied law, and the author of jseveral iaw books. He died at Harris j'Sjnare Preg8rblterHnfchur h’h-ich the Market formed in 1786 b” t was nc? -T Krown burg, October 13, 1840. He was a man of ™ (the death of Bev, John' Elder lTpfihd U°tU i fine literary tastes, highly esteemed a 1;04, a church was organized J!,rebn'^ •j gentleman of the old school, in his man- elders Adam Boyd SamiieTwr • cb°osmg aa | ?e.rs refined andana courteous,courteoas, of unblemished mor.withEev N ' s“!l?eir’Moaes Gil- integrity, and a worthy son» n of such a dis (first church building wasS^1'4?0-1' The itinguished matron of tbe RevpEn and opened for servfcM Jam?Jmen,cad lu 1802

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regiment--- March, 1761. At the time of her mar¬ the Gerr anc riage Mrs. Graydon was considered the gestures and expressions of indij finest girl in Pennsylvania, “having,” ac- but imperfectly understood, ab¬ cording to the celebrated Dr. Baird, _thc bot a little. manners of a lady bred at court. ” i^elt She supported herself as wed thus early in life a widow with four chil¬ could under this inauspicious introduc dren, the eldest being scarcely nine years into the hostile territory, and of age, the estate being encumbered, it horse led to the quarters became expedient for her to remove to General who commanded in Philadelphia, where there were greater op¬ wick, where she alighted and portunities for “widows reputably brought shown into a parlor. Weary and up,” not only to obtain a livelihood, from fatigue and agitation, she parte but also to educate her children. In this some refreshment offered her, and she succeeded, and when some fourteen went to deliver a letter of introduc years later, Mrs. Graydon found that her she had received from Mr. Vanhorn boys were nearly all able to take care or Boundbrook, to a gentleman m . themselves, sife removed prior to the wick. Five of the Misses Vanhor: breaking out of the Involution to head¬ nieces, were staying at the house, s ing, where, during the contest for liberty, with them Mrs. Graydon became well_ she continued to reside. Two of her quainted, as they avowed Whig prmcip children became prominent in their lives, Their uncle had been compelled to le and it is of these, that in this connection, Flatbush on account of his attach men we essay to refer. Alexander, tlie oldest, the American cause, but permitted was born at Bristol, Penna., April 10, long afterwards to return to his k< 1752; educated in the academy at Phila¬ there, accompanied by Mrs. Vanhornc a delphia, he studied law, but the War ot her daughters. the Revolution coming on, he accepted a After a detention of a week or commission as captain m the Ihird Brunswick, Mrs. Graydon embarked i Pennsylvania Battalion, Col. John sloop or shallop for New Yor*. 1 he iShee','"' January 5, 1776. He served gel was fired upon from the snore, with distinction at the battle ot one was injured, and she reached m i Long Island, but taken at the surrender !lie destined poit. She was allowed of Fort Washington the 16th of Novem¬ occupy a part of Mr. Suydam’s bouse i ber 1776. He was confined some time at nig her stay at Flatbush. Here Flatbush, and while there a prisoner, we society of her son her accustomec have the account of the efforts made by good .aLj,, his most excellent mother to effect ms re¬ 'or two tea drinkings to the. lease on parole. As it exhibits not only and “learned from Major I !the strength of maternal affection, but the •7 . , art of making Johnny ca fortitude and patriotic spirit worthy of Maryland fashion.” These an American matron, we herewith give not interfere with the obje it as condensed from that most excellent 'dition, nor could her son dis work of Capt. Graydon, “Memoirs of a ■ from her purpose of proving the Life Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania ” ' an application. When she calle Addressing a letter to General Wash¬ York on Mr. Galloway, who was supp ington, who could do nothing to accom¬ v to have much influence at head qua* plish the release of her sou, she resolved he advised her to apply to Sir Wi on going herself to New York, notwith¬ Howe by memorial, and offered to standing the opposition of her friends, on up one for her. In a few minutes 1 account of the difficulties of traveling, duced what accorded with his ideas c tor the purpose of soliciting his freedom subject, and read to her what he on parole from the British commander. written, commencing with “whereas, She accordingly set out for Philadelphia, Gravdon has always been a true and f and on her arrival in the city, a distant ful subject of His Majesty George relative was over officious in tendering Third, and, whereas, her son, an his service to drive her to N w York. perienced youth, has Deen deluded t_ The offer was accepted, but when they arts of designing men—” “Oh, sir,_ nearly reached Princeton they were over¬ the mother, “that will never do ! taken, to their great astonishment, by a I cannot obtain his releas.'on those detachment of American cavalry, the gen¬ “Then, madam,” replied that gentlei tleman being a loyalist. Found in such * somewhat, peevishly, “I can do nc* [ : company she also was takeu into custody for you 1” and obliged to retrace her way to Phila¬ Though depressed by her first delphia, under an escort of horse. When pointment, she would not relic quis they reached Bristol on their return, means object; but continued to advise were found for the prisoner to go on, every one she thought able or while Mrs. Graydon was accompanied by assist her. In accordance with the an old friend, to the headquarters of the sel received from a friend, she American Army, where proper measures ; resolved upon a direct application to w|were taken for proceeding within the Tal Howe. British lines. After being thence con¬ After several weeks of delay, i ducted, she was committed to the courtesy (and disappointment, through w1' ot some Hessian officers. It happened. 5 perseverance was unwearied, tl during tne ceremony or the flag, that aj mm was somewhere discharaed on the . intemperateandiutoxicatedsoldiers, i 4jrisburgersinthatbodybeingWm,Step¬ ? .foremanOf*.!>_•gv..u1jury,theinnerHar- r :perate.”ThelateW.Boyerwas * i jgr‘which.renderedthembarbarousanddes- CWMwjor Fosterofthe internalaf-' in atHarrisburg takes 8thAPhlladelbhi^Papersto taskfora the Lementmadeinanaccount ofthe fairsjoval oftheoldLiberty bellfrom | quorto-thetroops,andtotheliquorsell¬ ■5-S- ; jury’sattentiontothemenwhosoldli- bate, jdfcnJZl ’ tobelievethatwearedividedinopinion state ofmindthirty-twoyearsago. and sentimentscalculatedtocreatedis¬ unique document,valuableasshowingthe affection tothegovernment.”Itisa r:citizeus fortheirkindnessinsupplying fteer troopsinourcity,andpraisedthe tenced formorethansixmonthsshould From, --"-re supporttntheadministration,and and recommendingthatprisonerssen¬ loyal citizenstoyieldcoedial,heartyand be senttothepenitentiary,calledupon it thenewspapersthat“spreaddoctrines ;heir patrioticteaching,andtookawhack after tellingthattheprisonwascrowded, Rhoades andWm.Trullinger.Thejury, hen, VaLB.Hummel,C.Sehriver,Daniel ualadelphia to AllentownbyFrede- committed weretraceabletoliquorsold caution, sayingthatmanyofthecrimes ers themselvesheaddressedawordof >y someHarrisburgcitizenstoforget the wantsofsoldierswhohadsuffered from wantoffoodanddelayin receiving theirpay.Hecalledthegrand tribute tothegoodbehaviorofvolun- consummation.” Thejudgepaidahigh sity ofcarryingitonwithvigortoafinal on thesubjectofwar,orneces¬ [cost $23,05953.Fromthesubjectof tract thepubliccouncilsorleadenemy abstain fromdoingthatwhichmaydis¬ ;court^ househerein1794,which jpaid fortheerectionoffirst thought thepressoughttobeloyal“and triotic citizenowedtohiscountry.He teresting dissertationonthedutypa¬ that ofthecivilwar,andgaveaveryin¬ new courthouseJudgePearsonturnedto cided differenceinpricefromthat the buildingwas$67,37112,ade¬ teresting figuresandfacts.Thecostof the newedificeatgreatlength,givingin¬ court house,andJudgePearsonrefersto ^as leTcTfnrthViirstfi. [Leiser in1777. Inthe‘account [nental congressgave toLeiser a then convulsingthenation.Thejury w politicsinthefaceofgreat said that“for hisservicesthe J.eplored thedispositiondisplayed ■ x Itherewas threatened ageneralIndian P p whereRachelwaswell educated.She’ . i.war hewasColonel ofthe associated® G thoroughly patriotic,andin1747,when |i£ r • Buckscounty,Penn’a, He wasagentle-L i manofconsiderable prominence,was Ay i Glasgow,Scotland.Attheageofseven- i anativeofLoDgford,Iieland; doingbasi- ness atthattimeintheoldtown ofBristolfe about theyear1750,Alexander Graydon’ 11 utelybythetermsofdivesting formed theacquaintance and marriedv years herparentsremovedto-Philadelphia gaged intheWestIndiatrade,wa3of j yearwasconfirmedtothemabso-1 German birth—hermotheranativeof Pennsjdvania. Herfather,whowasen¬ jujtion wassurveyedMarch27,1769,for some ofthemostinfluentialfamiliesin- through marriage,wereconnectedwith:j eldest, offourdaughters,allo.whom, of Barbadoes,bornin1734.Shewasthe flHj .. , mUK vania, andhavingbeenreturnedinto then theproprietariesofPennsyl¬ pf thisdepartment.” the landofficeinMayofsame Thomas PennandRichardPenn, Allegheny includingFortPittand the townofPittsburg.Thisreserva. hela andonthesoutheastside-of !any person,howeverusefulandpatri¬ jlimitsof Pennsylvaniatogrant (that theContinentalcongresshadno {he says,“mayhavebeenvotedto | tionoftheland.“Agrantland,’ lying onbothsidesoftheMononga- reservation containing5,766acres ,at theplaceIndicatedforreason | atleastsofarasrelatestothesitua- I 1hisMajorFostersaysisanerror ;he tractisonfileamongtherecords? let of1779.Theoriginalsurveyof, Date, l/l/F.lJ'.U.d'i../C£J?, Cd,r""s whereFMsbat* otic hisservicestothecountrymay tion oftheriversmentionedwasa have been. itionof theAlleghenyandMononga- land anywherewithinthethenknown Rachel Marxwasanativeof(heIsland Leiser, butsurely,itwasnotsituated grant oflSOacresoflandatthejunc- MATROX OFAyMTREVOLUTIO “At thattimethelandatjunc¬ Rachel MarxGraydon. <

J ■ 'iV' v ' I i ard movements for the relief of his jpartment, but until this moment From, •me strange influence has invariably ocked his plans. It is a species of istiuacy and indifference that cannot > longer permitted to place such im- irtant interests upon a footing so in- / l Date, J- :cuaably precarious. Ml COL.. JAMES BURD.

A Hero of the French War and a Patriot A neru u th0 Revolution. in | Ta the^Forbes’ expedition of 1758 for This day, aT hundred yearTago, one of the reduction of Fort Duquesne, three e most prominent actors in Provincial-, 'battalions were raised, of the second nes connected with the history of Penn hattaUion of which James Burd Ea passed out irom before men and was commissioned Colonel, Comman - is meet that such a character should be ant May 28th, 1758. He took oneriv remembered as the years roll ! part in the various skirmishes '—especially for the good work accom- I with the French and Indians, and to him ished by him in the olden time, rhat | is the credit due for the magnificent vic¬ ■pc of the pioneer and military states- tory at the Loyalhanna, and which com¬ an was Col. James Burd V pelled the French army to evacuate their Tamtcs Bukd was the eldest son ot La ' fort at the confluence of the Ohio, and ard Burd and his wife, JeanhSJrttlder’ made Gen Forbes’ expedition so emi¬ -bom at Ornnston^in nently successful. Iu 1760 we find Cob ■“'Burd again in command of Fort Augusta, elongedto the Scotch geltry ^nd^the ■the most important post on the northern ^'■frontiers ot Pennsylvania. During tne Sand aanpdothenr notableTwhich would I Pontiac conspiracy of 1763 he was with the gallant Bougnet in bis expedition for the relief of Fort Pitt, and in the follow¬ k^Dahle to even allude to it. James 1 ing year accompanied that commander on turd received a good education, came to his inarch to the Muskingum, where he compelled the savages to sue for peace, 'hant in Philadelphia. About the year 1 and which virtually ended the Indian [?51 he went to Shippensburg where he war. For his services in that war, 001.; > « manager for his father-in-law. Mr. Burd participated in the land grant by f!L ■ Burd had married May 19. ’ at Philadelphia, Sarah Shippen ,thUDpr„rfsSSr» from U»t vigotoj daughter of Edward Shippen, ot i Indian campaign, ^ving previously war- SSSr. who owned ^ Wantedranted a tract of01 landlauuim on the^ busquehanna,’ trading houses at the town reterreu fivefiwo milesmiipK above the bwatara,Bwatara, he erected a to In 1755 Mr. Burd first entered the stone house, which until a few years since Provincial service when he was appointed remained as originally built. T be en^ as a commissioner with George Croghan, graving accompanying was taken belore *8 hn° Armstrong, William B-hanan^nd the remodeling of “Tinian, tbatbeing lam Hoopes to lay out a road Goni Ha the designation of his elegant country Ferry on the Susquehanna, to the seat, and where for many years were hos¬ do river. During the Braddock cam- pitably welcomed and entertained many iflrrTi7 was commissioned a captain, ana of the prominent men of the Revolution.- ■ffair to presume that he had received a At the outbreak of the struggle for in¬ dependence Col. Burd was active in his efforts in behalf of the patriot cause. On MM the 8th of January, 1774, he was chair- ,pral montns. ne»«u wv.— Iman otof a meeuugmeeting held at Middletown, Xside 5?SSand was at“ “SIFort AugustaA-. duringdaring where resolutions written by him were 56 and succeeded Col.Wilham Clapham adopted endorsing the position taken by that America in command of post cm December America m its100 opposition to the tyrannical h 1756, being then lieutenant c _ ' nroceedingsproceedings of Great Britain. These re-re¬ solves antedated any concerted action taken by the Whigs in Pennsylvania. In sis 1774 and 1775 he was on the committee ot k observation for Lancaster county, and.. when beleaguered_ Boston askedk ,tora ;0mmand of that important post aT | help, none gave„atrpI assistance more cheer*cheer- avear. On December 3d, 17o7, h ful y than Col. Burd aud his neighbors, Colonel of the regiment. Y ...... W. * *? _ _ , the money first given, and there is every There seems to be precious li ttle conscfenc reason to believe that the people of the State in the management of the World’s Pair oi never will be given any reliable information 1 the part of the Chicago people, but the old upon this point. Public criticism has been fashioned method .is not yet played out it aroused, and an investigation demanded. this part of the country, and the members o Surely Pennsylvania doe3 not want to ap¬ the Legislature should endorse the Governor pear in any such discreditable light. This! action. He is entirely right in' this matter great State went through the Centennial Ex¬ and it is to be hoped that the stand he ha: hibition with lasting honor. The entire taken will be maintained to the end. Then management of the World’s Pair of that year are men connected with the State Board win was without reflection upon any public will make large sums of money in conse official. The State gave $1,000,000, which was | quence of the advertisement of their business expended in the erection of Memorial Kali. I at Chicago this year, and they are at libertj The honor of the Commonwealth is involved | to pay their own expenses and spend a: in the present instance. The State Board is I much more as they like; but it is the height o the creation of the law-making body. Its acts j assurance to make the people bear any addi are part of the historical record of the time. | tional burden. In indicating so plainly hi: Its President is the Governor, and he is bound determination to veto any World’s Fair gral to see to it that nothing is done which wiil . the Governor has gone outside the usua not bear the utmost scrutiny, and, above all course of Executive action, but he has beer things, that there should be no occasion for [ uore than justified in doing so. The dis- charges of financial recklessness, extravagance, edit is not upon him, but upon those whe Jtf-J ordishonesty. GovernorPattisonhas had many | e his action in this respect necessary. unpleasant things to bear in connection with 1 his position as the head of the State Board. IMPHOVE THE CAPITOL. His official visit to Chicago at the dedication A visit to Harrisburg must strongly ceremonies was made the occasion of an un¬ impress the observer with the need of seemly racket, followed by the bitterest criti¬ the speedy enactment of the bill to en cism, chiefly from partisan factional sources. large and improve the state capitol, For some weeks past various reports have Not only is the present structure out of reached the public, in mysterious fashion, all consonance with the dignity of this that the Board was financially embarrassed. commonwealth; it is clearly inade¬ The Governor promptly stated that this could quate, as well. Documents valuable in not be the case, and he took the trouble to the extreme; state records and papers, show why, explaining the disposition of the the loss of which would, as State Librar¬ money under the plan of subdivided manage¬ \ ian Egle tersely remarks, “bankrupt ment agreed upon. Still it was evident that the | the state,” are at present kept in stuffy Legislature was to be asked for an additional ( quarters which a fire would find the appropriation; and at the meeting of the easiest kind of It is the3 worst of Board the other day a resolution, offered by . j/alble the Governor himself, which was entirely all p noLoftl'or econom alesdhefr within his province, and, under the circutn- 2 tend that because in other sta have been scandals connected with the stances, clearly his duty, declaring ■ that the \ $300,000 originally given was sufficient for all construction or enlargement of public needful purposes, was defeated. Thereupon buildings we should not take measures the Executive frankly declared that he should for the proper development of our own make it Ms business to see that no more depositories. money was appropriated. Another reason for the passage of Immediately a great hue and cry is raised, this modest appropriation bill is the in- from interested sources, that the Governor is ft calcuable need of more commodious exceeding his prerogative; that he has been i quarters for the state library. Volumes guilty of an attempt to bulldoze the State |j?; are accumulating at the rate of five Board and the Legislature, thus bringing a thousand per annum, yet the limit of grave scandal upon the State. This kind of convenience was exceeded years talk is simply absurd. More than that, it is Manuscripts unique and inval anything but creditable, in public journals or I state papers that could never he public men, to insist that Pennsylvania shall placed, single treasures in book fo; be compelled to foot bills incurred by those [ who have exceeded their powers, or done of which no duplicate copies are kne anything to make necessary an additional to exist are forced to be content draft upon the public Treasury. The sum of such shabby adjustment among $300,000 should be ample to cover every legit¬ and rubbish as'.the overcrowded sheb imate expense of the State Board, and Gov¬ and overflowing cases and gallerl ernor Pattison should exhaust the resources render unavoidable. The literal at his command to prevent the success of any valuables brought together in this soli scheme having for its object the increasing tary and ill-arranged room a this amount. He is in a position to know all easily thrice the space and many that has been done, and is not only personally the protection now afforded. Dr. interested in protecting his own good name, has been indefatigable in pus! nbut it is incumbent upon him to protect the '■nor of the State. fruits was a Pennsylvanian. In the war of effort to extinguish the smouldering ^“.e rebellion, after we had made the first trial of strength with the opposing forces embers. It was found necessary to run and had lost, the President of the° United a sand barge under the bridge, and the hlS Labinet safc in the city of Washington awaiting that attack from firemen played upon the blaze from be¬ neath. It is said the fire was started in airnrohahVrbt1 arm^ which would «e4;7>r,Pr rbi b t^,.1iave g!ven them pos¬ by some boys who were smoking session of tlie capital. Think for a mo- cigarettes. ” ,u of what would have been the result ft home and abroad from such a catas trophe. Within a few days sixteen thou¬ sand Pennsylvanians were there to man T ,e^nt+rnnC1'0elUS and the Peril passed From, These things are not due to accident. They are the result of character. They S!’fibhout because of the mental and mo flit ibre of the stock. And in my judg- 1 mnn+Vi,ment the manvne ast0CK nr? nwot- mmyjad^_ *? ' of th^n« TnLand great achievements ' Pe°Ple of Pennsylvania, cut in bold letters upon every tablet of American history, from the time when Pastorius in . iul“pde, hls Dfave Protest against the wKf^d(,mtoth8tlate time THE GOVERNOR AND THE FAIR. oV r^fHMassachusetts did much to bring abo ut the ’ It depended upon the results of battles to Revolutionary struggle and in the war be fought. It was gained by courage and that ensued she bore her part; but in persistence in war. At most the Declara¬ the war of 1812, which may be tion of Independence was an, event looking regarded as the final effort to to the breaking down of a government. maintain our independence, she m A re¬ Constructive work is much more serious. tailed. She refused recruits, and there To establish a government which will was organized in New England that no’ stand the test of time is a more difficult torious convention which set the keynote' task than to destroy one already created, for the pernicious doctrine of secession. as the experience of all nations has In the building up or this great country shown. We know how the problems that no State was more earnest in her'exertions confronted the statesmen who assembled or bounteous in her < > '.tributions thru. in Philadelphia in 1787 were met,_ how the Virginia. She gave the Commander- differences of interests and opinion were in-Chief of the Army, the Chi. f Jus¬ reconciled, and how the reluctance of the tice who interpreted the Constitution, smaller States was overcome. After the and in her generosity the lands out or Constitution had been framed it was still which have been carved the common¬ a matter of grave doubt whether it would wealths of the West, but later she fell in be accepted by the States. Tit! is generally the wake of South Carolina and did what conceded that the adoption of the work of lay in her power to destroy the govern¬ the convention was due to the early action ment she had aided so much to establish. taken by Pennsylvania. She was the first But Pennsylvania has always been true. of the great States to declare in - When the people of the nation, grateful favor of it. When the question of the for the public blessings conferred upon adoption of the Constitution arose in the them, want to see Independence HaH, b>- / Pennsylvania Assembly there was the to learn how and where their government, greatest diversity of views and the contest was formed, or to gather inspiration front became heated and earnest. In that event¬ the battlefield of Gettysburg, they come to ful crisis the very earliest effort in behalf j Pennsylvania. It is her peculiar gio, of the new government came from the that she has them all. Germans. The Constitution was signed by The winter of 1776 was the most I .win the members of the Convention on the ? period of the Revolutionary wai. Dpt 17th of September, 1787. On the 24th of (that time every effort had resulted in September there was presented to the failure and hope was alp-iost lost. Pit- Pennsylvania Assembly tills petition from iftriots who had been faithful were making two hundred and fifty inhabitants of the their peace with the ene ay. The town of Germantown: flof Washington was reduced to three “To the Honorable the Representatives •^thousand men and he was considering the of the freemen of the Commonwealth of necessity of retreating to the westward of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, the Alleghenies, there to maintain a the petition and declaration of the inhabi¬ sultory and doubtful struggle. At tants of Germantown respectfully showeth . crisis fifteen hundred recruits ca:nc * that your petitioners have seen with great rescue. With this addition to his pleasure the proposed Constitution of the he fought and won the battles-of T. T-pited States, and as they conceive it to ’ and Princeton and the tide was cu.. be wisely calculated to form a perfect '• Every ma,n of those fifteen hundred

ko \ 1 ( ' A: _. y '1 a M — ! over to Amsterdam to " have Mier confes¬ Jvniptlii'lie Ennahming, printed by Saul* sion of faith printed in 1712. It was in 1738. Of That broadside there are. but afterward printed again by Andrew Brad¬ two known Copies in existence, and this ford, in Philadelphia, in 1727. That was which I show you is one of them. The 1 the beginning of their literature. It is first book he printed I have also brought I quite extensive. Among their printed along with me. It was called the “Ziom j books is one consisting of verse and hymns j concerning the persecutions to which itischer Weyrauchs Huegel.” It appeared they had been exposed, and detailing the in 1739 and was the first book printed in j,martyrdoms and sufferings of those who German type in America. It contained a i had been their leaders abroad. That book, collection of the hymns of the Ephrata ! the Ausbund, which was first printed in brethren. Another book of importance j Germantown, in 1742, has been through, from his press was “Christopher Dock’s i in Pennsylvania, no less than eight editions, Schul Ordnung,” an original essay on and is still used as a hymn book among school teaching, written in 1750 and pub¬ the Mennonite churches in Lancaster lished in 1770, absolutely the first treatise county and in the West. There is pub¬ upon that subject which appeared in lished with it in all of these editions a America. series of biographical sketches of Swiss In this old leather bound box I have a families, a book utterly lost and much collection of 331 tickets that may be sought for in Europe. Another work, termed Sunday-school tickets. You have and one of the most serious importance, all probably read that Sunday-schools is the Martyrcr Spiegel, of Van Braght. were first started in England in 1780 by This great historical and biographical Robert Raikes. These tickets were printed work of the Mennonites had been written by Saur in 1744. Practically they are un¬ in Dutch. Peter Miller made a German known, and this is a complete collection of translation of it here. Heinrich Funclc them. On every card is printed a text of and Dielman Kolb, in Philadelphia, now Scripture and a religious verse, and on Montgomery county, undertook to super¬ Sunday afternoons the children met to¬ s vise the translation, and it was published gether, and as each drew a card from the in Ephrata in 1749, a folio volume of 1500 box, he read aloud what appeared upon it. ipages, which was the most extensive out¬ At Ephrata, in Lancaster county, there come of the literature of the American were printed, during the last century, prob- ; I colonies. It took thirteen men three years ably one hundred books. They are, for i to do the printing. The paper was made the most part, made up of hymns written at Ephrata; the binding was done there, there and they contain a system of music, i and there was nothing anywhere else in original in that community, different j the colonies to compare with it as an illus¬ from the music then taught; and which tration of literary and theological zeal. was elaborately desoribed by Conrad Beis- i wan; to call your attention to another sel in the preface to the Turtel Taube in sect, the Schwenkfelderp, who came to 1747. Pennsylvania. They were the followers Almanacas appealed strongly to the ; of Casper Schwenki'eld, and the doctrine tastes of the early Germans. Of course, j that was taught by him was almostidenti- almanacs were not at all confined to the | cal with that since taught by the Quakers, Germans, but while the English almanac j They Came in 1734. Their'literature was was generally an octavo limited in its j extensive and interesting. It is repro- literary contents to accounts of the wea¬ duced for the most part in manuscript in ther and trivial matters, the Gorman J huge folios, written often upon paper almanac was an ambitious quarto of from j made at the Kitten house paper mill, on 40 to 48 pages, oftentimes with continued the' Wissahiekon, the earliest in America. historical and philosophical treatises, and | These volumes sometimes contained even attempts at artistic illustration. At 10_00 pages, bound in stamped leather, the time of the capture of Quebec, the with brass corners and brass mountings. Saur almanac gave a plan of the Among the notable facts connected with city, with a portrait of Wolfe. I their history is that they prepared here a brought with me a specimen of these written description -‘of all the writings of almanacs, printed at Lancaster in 1779. ) 'Schwenkfeld and their other authors, and Its special interest consists in the fact that j it is, as far as I know, the first attempt at in it for the first time General Washington j|, a bibliography in this country. They are was called “The Father of His Country.” j also remarkable in this respect. They Mr. "VV. S. Baker, our learned authority on landed in Philadelphia on the 24th of Sep¬ Washington literature, has found no other tember, 1734,. and, thankful for their early reference to this title before its ap¬ Ic.-cape from persecution abroad, they de¬ pearance in a book called “Hardie’s Re¬ termined to set apart the 24th of Septem¬ membrancer,” published in 1795. You ber as a day to be religiously observed for will see, upon the title page of this Ger¬ all time thereafter. Their GedachtniS' man almanae, a representation of Fame. j Tag, as they term it, is still maintained, She is holding in one handaruda portrait, j and a record of each annual observance Tinder which is inserted the name of Wash¬ 1 from the beginning is preserved. ington; with the other hand she With the establishment of the printing is holding to her mouth a trum¬ ] press, by Christopher Saur, in German- pet from which she blows with i town, in 1738, there began an immense flood a loud blast, “Des Landes Vater.” of German literature. In fifty years there _ It would be impossible, in the short mnsthave been produced two hundred time allotted to me for an address, to do and fifty books at that place. I feel that I anything more than to touch upon a few do not overestimate it, because I myself points in the literature of the Pennsyl¬ have one hundred and eighty of them. vania Dutch. They produced, as I have' Of course, it would be impossible for me to before said, the largest and most ambi¬ j give to any extent a description of that: tious work that appeared in the American literature to-day. The first, outcome of colonies. The Bible was printed in Ger¬ - V press was a broadside entitled E'nie man in America three times before it was lUl ../tothe r- t the English Governor, — — - -—-> an expedition to the sett,#nent destroyed it, as he says, ^ t0 a « Tlockhoy, who was the founder a»dlea - of that settlement, published m 166-^ account of it, descriptive of the U - (^iv-VX.fCv .and the regulations of the colony, a little Dutch tract printed Amsteid, "I Thinking it would he oi interest -o you, and as Relieve this is the only copy of in Pennsylvania, and as it is ot .uc I^ooi. v 4, unique importance in Pennsylvania hi true, I have brought it along in order -. you might see it. What became of Ploch- W for thirty years afterward remains a rovstery. But, in 1694, blind and de h- 5 i1P came with his wife to the settle ment in Germantown, and the Mennonites their EAELY literature there built him a little house, placed for him a garden and a tree, and toere ne AXDcA cm ETEMEETS. died. The story, from the remote past, pathetic and interesting. P Francis Daniel Pastonus who came Adless of Judge Samuel W. Penn y over to Germantown in loS3, one of th pficlser Before the Pennsylvania most conspicuous figures of that settle ment, but not the organizer of the mo German Society at Harrisburg- ment; as has been sometimes said a m of the most scholarly attainment., w Mr President nnd Gentlemen of the Pennsy Tead and wrote in the German, bpai English, French, Italian, Greek vania German fcie^: invitation of Latin languages, and whose learning Although, when the d t me to probably not equalled m any^ colon your Committee was extended to that time, devoted very much of his 1 deliver an address before y®u> the pursuits of literature. He produced a number of books, many of which were at I the time printed. Among them we ■some controversial pamphlets in Keith controversy, m opposition Keith, and an “ITmstandige G graph ische P,e3chrcibung, oi a uc ' scription of the colony of Pennsylvania, the first edition of which appealed in 1 h-.. iB^iXrrn“tryr|ct Jn 1690, there was printed, ostensibly at Germantown, but probably abroa'l. a u ork from his pen called his lour L causes. It was a discussion of philosophical and n n olomcal subjects, and. although there ■what I shall say to you 1 *al1 Q been before produced a ,ehe -works of the Hollanders, the oe in English, this may be said to tore been scendantsthe , off *v,pthe DutchJdutc emigrantsa who,0 the first attempt at serious literature in settled along the Delaware, £ the peop ^ Pennsylvania. I regret to say that it do... not appear in the bibliography of il . * ! - G~t^Aho Swigs who deburn, an invaluable work covering the literature of Pennsylvania during the nrs one hundred years. PaMonus also *>ot> a number of books, never l>«t mtopi mt, among them a large lolio cahcd rhe Bee, 'become welded together ,in . „ yor which included poetry, lexicography. aphorisms and dissertations—a g^at m the JSt *«• bide to his learning, and is still presen a • The first Germans who came to l®n ment of that people, and m jh ^ sylvania were either Mennonites, or ■ ie% were people of that sect converted to the reproach, it any, may <■ ; exclude the Quakl? cfoctrines by the Quaker preachers I want to b^X Clianders, would be who traveled through ™y. The .ieseendants of the K(>arin<* the names Mennonites were followers ofdcnno ”US£§5T-~5& Sfi the scattered AcabeptieM, most of became known as Alennon des. They were opposed to warfare and to the takm "7 of oaths and refused to baptize infan. The Mennonites were very much peise-; cuted, and there were more people or tha., sect who were put to death in. onc citv Antwerp, in one year, man them were martyrs in all England during the tl a leader of a colony of Mennonites, time of Queen Mary. Penn mvued them over here and many of^them Id' some Gd^an0cethbei?wlaphnadSplda. Germantown and in Philadelphia, caster and other counties. They

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