8. O. Logan, D. D. Memorial Services. Twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization of the First Presbyterian Church of Boranton, Pa., Sabbath, November 18, 1878. 108 pp. 12 mo., Scranton, Pa, Republican office, 1878.

HALL, A. J.-Sketch of the Wyoming Valley, Wilkes-Barre, Soranton, Ŭarbondale, and Kingston, Luzerne County, Pa., A. J. Hall, Syracuse, N. Y., 84 pp., 12 mo. B. Herman Smith, general job printer, Syraouse, N. Y., 1868.

[About % of each page is given to advertisements.]

KIEFFER, Rav. H. M.-The Old Sullivan Road. A series of articles published (beginning November, 1886,) in The Guardian, a monthly magazine, etc. Philadelphia: Reformed Church Publication Board.

MILLER, REV. ADAM.-The Presbytery of Montrose. A historical discourse delivered before the Presbytery of Lackawanna at Pittston, Pa., April 17, 1872, by Rev. Adam Miller, pastor of the church in Harford, Pa. Published by request, 80 pp. 12 mo. Harrisburg, Pa., Benjamin Singely, printer. and binder, 1872.

NEFF, JACOB K., M. D.-The Army and Navy of America, containing a view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents, and glorious achievements in the cause of freedom, from the period of the French and Indian wars to the close of the Mexican war; independent of an account of warlike operations on land and sea; enlivened by a variety of the most interesting anecdotes, and embellished with engravings. By Jacob K. Neff, M. D. "Concordia res parvae oresount discordia maximae delabuntur." 8 vo. 684 pp. Lancaster, Pa., John H. Pearsol, printer, 1852.

[Chapter XVII contains an account of the Wyoming Massacre.]

REPORT of the committee appointed to investigate the railroad riots in July, 1877. Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878. 8 vo., 1000 pp. Harrisburg, Lane S. Hart, State printer, 1878.

ROGERS, REV. JOEL.-History of the Susquehanna Association, (Baptist) by the late Rev. Joel Rogers, of the Wyoming Valley. Published in pamphlet form in 1832,

[See Baily's Abington Association, p. vii. The Baptist Historical Society, Philadelphia, has a copy of this, not perfect, however.]

WALLACE, MBS. SABAH 8. T.- The Boys of Wyoming Valley. One of Life's True Tales. By Mrs. Sarah 8. T. Wallace. Author of "Julia's Visit," "Rosalie's Les

sons," etc. 18 mo., 164 pp. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1880. [It is in no sense a "true tale."]

WILKINSON, J. B.- The Annals of Bing. hamton, and of the country connected with it. From the earliest settlement. By J. B. Wilkinson. Opus gratum posteritati. 16 mo. 258 pp. Binghamton: Cooke & Davis, printers, 1840.

[Chapter II. contains much_concerning Wyoming, the Susquehanna, Brandt and Sullivan's expedition.]

WINSOR, JUSTIN. 1779- Sullivan's Expedition against the Indians of New York. A Letter from Andrew McFarland Davis to Justin Winsor, Corresponding Secretary Massachusetts Historical Society. With the Journal of William McKendry. 8 vo., 45 pp. Cambridge: John Wilson & Son, University Press. 1886.

Contains list of thirty-two journals of the Sullivan Expedition.]

I find the following in a catalogue of government publications:

MEMORIAL RELATIVE TO WYOMING CLAIMSCitizens of Pennsylvania: Dec. 27, 1837

Ex. Docs., No. 52, 28th Cong., 2d Sess., Vol. 2, 8 pp., 8vo. In behalf of the sufferers by the invasion of the Wyoming settlement by the British and Indians, during the Revolutionary war, praying for a grant of land to the survivors and to the heirs, of those who are dead.

RESOLUTIONS RELATIVE TO CLAIMS OF WYOMING SUFFERERS-Pa. Legislature, April 16, 1838-Ex. Docs., No. 358, 25th Cong., 2d Sess., Vol. X, 2 pp., 8 vo.

[In favor of the passage of a law granting compensation to the sufferers by the Wyoming massacre during the Revolutionary War.]

REPORT ON PETITION OF HEIRS OF THE WYOMING VICTIMS-July 2, 1838. Reports of Committees, No. 1032, 25th Cong., 2d Sess., Vol. IV., 2 pp., 8 vo.

[House Revolutionary claims from the reports adversely to allowance of compensation for loses sustained use.]

PETITION RELATIVE TO INDIAN DEPREDATIONS -Citizens of Wyoming. February 18, 1889 -Ex docs No. 203, 25th Cong. 3d sess., Vol. IV, 40 pages 8 vo.

[Praying compensation for losses and sufferings occasioned by the attack of the Indians on the towns of Wyoming during the Revolutionary war.]

There might perhaps be added also the State Mine Inspectior's Reports; Reports Secretary Internal Affairs, Geological Survey Report, etc., and Luzerne County Prison Reports, also the Coal Trade, a compendium relative to Coal Production etc., published anunally by Frederick E. Saward, New York City.

INCIDENTS OF THE MASSACRE

As Related by a Daughter of Dr. William Hooker Smith-Horrible Atrocities of the Indians.

[We reprint the following narrative, not because it is historically accurate, for it is not, but simply because it is a contribution to the history of the Massacre of Wyoming. It is only fair to say that the liquor incident of that bloody day has been greatly exaggerated in this and other accounts.-EDITOR RECORD.]

Sarah, daughter of Dr. William Hooker Smith, became the wife of James Sutton, one of the pioneers of Wyoming; and James Sutton, grandson of the foregoing now residing in Honesdale, remembers hearing his grandmother say that they lived up the creek about two or three miles from the fort, back of where Kingston now is. It had been arranged that a signal gun should be fired at the fort in case of danger. One day they heard the gun, and as Mrs. Sutton was sick she was carried into the fort on a litter. She says that Col. Z. Butler did not intend to leave the fort, but the officer who came up from below with reinforcements taunted him with being a coward, threatening to withdraw his forces if he did not go out, and he finally concluded to go. Before they started a table was placed in front of the fort and whisky and water was set on it in buckets, with tin cups, and the men marched around the fort three times in single file, and helped themselves freely before they started out. One man, by the name of Inman, was so full that he fell down beside the road on Swetland's farm and fell into 8 drunken sleep, while the rest of the men passed on and were ambushed and overcome by superior numbers and defeated. The Indians showed no mercy but killed all the prisoners that fell into their hands. They seated a number of prisoners in a circle and amused themselves by seizing them by the hair and killing them with a tomahawk. One of the men thus seated asked them if they were going to kill them all, and the Indians told him, yes. The man thought he might as well dié one way as another, so he nudged his companion with his elbow, and they both sprang up and jumped the board fence near by and started for the fort. The Indians had stacked their guns and had nothing but their tomahawks in their hands. These they let fly at the runaways but fortunately without effect, and they succeeded in reaching the fort. After the surrender of the fort an Indian recognized one of these men and

slapped him on the back and said, "Good fellow, good fellow." After the defeat many fled through the wilderness and some for the fort. Two men were thus fleeing, hotly pursued by two Indians and they passed where Inman lay just as he was awaking from his drunken stupor, and they called upon him to shoot the pursuing Indians. His gun lay beside him loaded just as he had started out to battle and he fired and killed one of the Indians and joined the two fugitives and they entered the fort together. There were about 40 old men and a number of women and children in the fort, and the Tory Colonel John Butler; told them to destroy all the whisky otherwise he could not restrain the Indians; conseqnently they put ropes around the barrels and four men bore them on poles out into the river and Mr. Sutton waded in and knocked the barrel heads in, but some of the old men thought that they could not get along without some whisky, so they hid some in bottles and demijohns and of course the Indians found them and made a night of terror for the prisoners. The Indians put red paint on the prisoners' foreheads, cheeks, chins and noses, and this sign was respected by them; still they kept the women screaming all night by seizing them by the hair of the head and drawing their heads back, and with uplifted tomahawk make them think they were about to dash their brains out; or they would seize an infant by the legs and swing it out as though they were about to dash it against the wall. When the women screamed they laughed. All night long this horrible deviltry was going on, but no one was killed. The Tories left in a short time but the Indians remained for several weeks.-R. M. Stocker in Honesdale Independent.

Early Wilkes-Barre Papers in Kansas, Harold T. Ohase sends the RECORD & Copy of the Topeka, Kansas, Capitol, which says: F. E. Jerome, of Wilson, Kan., the John Brown singer, has presented the State Historical Society with five original copies of the Gleaner and Luzerne Advertiser, published at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The dates range from October 11 to November 29, 1811. The first page is devoted exclusively to advertising. One prominent one starts out: "Old line mail stage from Philadelphia to Easton and Wilkes-Barre." On the same page is: "Eloped from my bed and board my wife Comfort." Among the important news items is the information that "John Quincy Adams has declined the judgeship offered him in the United States Court."

LAPSED AFTER 150 YEARS.

A Title from the Penns, Based on a Curlous Condition for which the Easton People Ought to have Looked out. The mayor of Easton on July 14 received from a Philadelphia lawyer the following letter, which was published in the Free Press and caused quite a stir in that place:

DEAR SIB: Mr. William Stewart, of London, England, the present head of the House of Penn, in England, and the holder in fee in remainder of the Penn estate, in Pennsylvania, has forwarded me a power of attorney to enter upon, claim and recover lot of ground in the Centre Square of Easton, containing in length north and south 80 feet, in breadth east and west 80 feet, conveyed by Thomas ahd Richard Penn to Trustees of Northampton County for the erection thereon a court house, and for no other purpose. The condition upon which this was held having been broken, the title reverts to the Penns upon entry. I shall be pleased to hear from you or your counsel prior to July 23, 1888, on which day I shall make entry. Very truly yours,

C. B. TAYLOB.

EASTONIANS THINK IT A HOAX.

EASTON, July 16.-Many of the old citizens of Easton claim that the letter received last Saturday by Mayor Chidsey, purporting to have come from a Philadelphia lawyer, in which the writer says that William Stuart, of London, England, and the holder in fee in remainder of the Penn estate, in Pennsylvania, gave him the power of attorney to claim and recover a lot of ground in Centre Square, in this city, does not disturb them. They look at it as if the mayor was the victim of some practical joker. In all the old maps and doouments the ground is mentioned 88 Pablic Square, and if the letter was written from data furnished by the Penn heirs, the word public instead of centre, in designating the square, would have been used. I have the best authority for saying that the "Penn heirs," if there are any, have no right to land in Pennsylvania, all such having long since been conveyed to the Commonwealth, by whom the deeds are granted for unoccupied lands upon settlement.

Some years ago a young member of the Northampton County Bar, who is now a resident of Philadelphia, bethought himself what a good speculation was in store for

whoever could secure the rights of the Penn heirs to the title to the land in question. He wrote any number of letters to England, asking for information, but was unable to get any encouragement. He finally gave up the job, saying there was nothing in it. About fifty years ago men claiming to be Penn heirs came here and served notice on many residents of South Fourth street that the title by which they held their properties was defective. After a time they offered a compromise, but the late Joseph Sigman and a few others said they preferred litigation to a compromise, when the claimants left and have never been heard from since.

A FORMER KINGSTONIAN. Mr. Charles Belding, Now a Prominent Citizen of Stockton, Cal., was an Old Boyhood Companion of Mayor Sutton, Mayor Sutton was found by a RECORD reporter in a retrospective mood. He showed the reporter a copy of the Stockton, Cal., Commercial Record which contained likenesses with biographies of several of Stookton's prominent citizeus. Among those mentioned at length is Charles Belding. He came with his parents from Massachusetts to Kingston, when but six years of age. Eight or ten years thereafter he and Mayor Sutton used to attend the Wyoming Seminary as stadents, and they used also to hoe broom corn together on Kingston flats, Mr. Belding's father being engaged in the manufacture of brooms.

Mr. Belding is remembered by many of the older residents of Wilkes-Barre and vicinity, as a young man of ability and energy. He removed to Mauch Chunk in 1847 and entered the employ of Asa Packer. Soon after this he removed to Stockton, Cal., where he has since resided. He has been for more than a third of a century been identified with the growth and development of that city, and has filled several positions of responsibility and trust in the city and county. He engaged largely in real estate speculation, and became immensely wealthy. His residence in Stockton is considered the finest in the city. He was married in 1859 to M188 Josephine Latimer, of Calaveras County, and is the father of four children. The many friends of Mr. Belding, who have not heard from him in years, will be particularly gratified to know of his recognized position of power and influence in his adopted State, and to know the high regard in which he is held by his fellow oitizens.

VOL. II.

REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. The Old Soldiers Make a Clean Sw.ep in the County Convention-The Candi. dates.

Republican nominations August 21, 1888:

CONGRESS.

Edwin Sylvanas Osborne, the Republican nominee for Congress, was born in Bethany, Wayne County, in 1839. He is descended on both his father's and mother's side from ancestors who have had their home in America for nearly two hundred and fifty years. Receiving a liberal education at the University of Pennsylvania and at the New York State and National Law School, graduating in the class of 1860 with the degree of LL. B. Gen. Osborne in 1860, at the age of 22 years, was admitted to practice at the Luzerne County bar, having also studied in the office of Hon. Charles Denison. Within a few months Osborne enlisted, and shouldered his musket as a private in Co. E, 8th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Among his comrades were E. H. Chase, Esq, and Hon. D. L. Rhone. Gen. Osborne speedily came into notice for his energy and faithfulness, and the next year was authorized to recruit a company which was mustered in with himself as captain. He won many honors while with the Army of the Potomac, was commissioned major of his regiment, and after the surrender of Lee he was appointed judge advocate on account of his recognized legal ability. He was the principal in drawing up and prosecuting the charges against the fiend Capt. Wertz, who starved to death so many union prisoners at Andersonville. At the successful termination of this trial he resigned his military honors and returning to Wilkes-Barre re sumed his legal practice.

When the National Guard was organized 1871, Mr. Osborne was appointed Major General of the Third Division, occupying the north eastern portion of the State.

About this time a miner named Kearns was accused of the murder of two men during the strike troubles. He was brought to trial and the case became famous through Gen. Osborne's able and successful defence of the prisoner. As commander of the two regiments of National Guard sent into the striking region at Susquehanna in 1871 Gen. Osborne displayed such firmness and good judgment that all collisions were

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avoided and all property fully protected. General Osborne was chosen commander of the Department of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1883; and was elected Congressman-at-Large to the Fortyninth Congress in 1886 receiving 476,240 votes against 401,042 votes for W. H. H. Davis, Democrat, 9,684 votes for Atwood, Greenbacker, and 10.471 votes for Black, Prohibitionist. The vote of Gen. Osborne was the largest ever cast for any candidate in Pennsylvania, and exceeded Blaine's by 2,536.

STATE SENATE.

The following sketch of Senator Williams is reprinted from the RECORD of Sept. 20, 1884:

Morgan B. Williams, the Republican candidate for the Senate in this district, was born in Rhandirmwyn, Carmarthenshire, South Wales, Sept. 17, 1831. In March, 1855, he left the land of his birth, bound for Australia, where he made considerable money working about the gold mines of that rich country. In 1861 he started for Soranton, where he lived until 1865, when he came to Wilkes Barre and has been here ever since. From 1865 till 1877, a period of twelve years, he was the inside foreman at the Hollenback shaft. His employer, Charles Parrish, Esq., states that he was one of the very best bosses ever employed by him, and the miners, loaders and drivers, who worked under him stand ready to testify to the humane and honorable manner in which he always conducted the inside workings of the Hollenback mine. Those who are acquainted with the history of the Whip poor-will mine,now known as the Red Ash, are well aware that for years it stood idle, owing to the act, that it was known as a condemned property. Mr. Williams did not believe in this imputation, and for the faith that was in him gave his reasons to the owners of the estate. An arrangement was made at once by which the property could be worked. Mr. Williams risked all that he had in it, and on receiving the aid and encouragement of the Parrishes, opened up the mine in 1878 in first-class shape. Success followed him in every move he made, and, as the result of his foresight and experience, he is to-day the largest stockholder in one of the most productive collieries in the Wyoming Valley. The Red

Ash mine is noted for its excellent fuel, big shipments and fine management.

Mr. Williams was the first citizen of Wilkes-Barre who invested money in real estate on Brewery Hill. The books of the late Augustus C. Laning prove the truth of this statement.

In 1872 he was elected school director from the Third Ward and in 1866 was chosen councilman-at-large from the Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Wards. Thus it is seen that in the progress of the city Mr. Williams has always been active and earnest. He has been a resident of the city for sixteen years, and in all that time his character has been above reproach. Those who know him best yield him the honor due a careful, industrious, honest and moral man. From his boyhood he has earned his bread by the sweat of his brow. When he was but sixteen years of age his father died. He was the oldest of seven children at the time. Those who have been compelled to support 8 widowed mother and younger brothers and sisters must know the responsibility is not a light one-such a condition of life requires a good heart and an unselfish regard for the blood that is thicker than water. Although doomed to hard work and the influences surrounding long hours of toil, Mr, Williams found the inclination and the time to improve his mind. He has read, conversed and studied until to day he is well versed in the history of his adopted country, and in perfect sympathy with the spirit of its institutions. Always being identified with our mines and mining, he appreciates the wants of the workingmen. At Harrisburg he will maintain the integrity of the tariff, and insist that his vote and voice shall ever be recorded against free trade and its delusions. He is not in sympathy with any sham revenue reform, which calls for incidental protection, or a tariff for revenue exclusively; he is an out and out tariff man and in perfect accord with the platforms adopted at Harrisburg and Chicago. A man who sprang from the lower walks of life, and one who has earned a competency by industry and economy, is the Republican candidate for the Senate in the Twenty-first District. The those who take pride in honoring useful and deserving citizens vote for Morgan B. Williams next November.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

Capt. Alfred Darte was born in Dundaff, Susquehanna County, Pa. His father, Alfred Darte, now deceased, was a lawyer at Carbondale, for many years and was twice elected judge of the mayor's court of that city. His grandfather, Elias Darte, was a native of Bolton, Conn., and with six of his brothers, was a soldier in the revolutionary

war, he being wounded in the attack upon Fort Griswold. Mr. Darte's maternal grandmother, Mary Curran, was a native of County Cork, Ireland. His mother was Anna E., daughter of Dorastus Cone, of Ulster County, New York. The Cone family were from Connecticut. Capt. Darte was educated in the common schools and at Wyoming Seminary, where he met and afterwards married his wife, Caroline Sealy, a native of Kingston and a graduate of the Seminary. He studied law with his father and was admitted as soon as he was old enough. Daring the war he was first lieutenant of Co. K, 25th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry in the three months service, the regiment in which were the first soldiers in Washington from any State. When the three months men were discharged he at once began reoruiting another company for three years, and on the 13th of August, 1861, was commissioned second lieutenant of 'M' Co., 4th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was in 1863 promoted to captain of the com. pany. He remained in the army until the 19th of September, 1861, when he was discharged for disability arising from wounds received in action at Trevilian Station. Va, June, 1864. In 1879 Mr. Darte was elected district attorney of Lazerne County on the Republican ticket by a majority of 2,057 over J. T. Lenahan, the Democratic candidate, (brother of his present opponent) and 3,578 over James Bryson, the Labor Reform candidate. He performed the duties of the office during his time in a manner which won the admiration of all good citizens, and was above criticism. There has never been a time when the laws of the Commonwealth were more vigorously enforced, without fear or favor, or with greater intelligence and integrity, than under Capt. Darte's administration.

In local matters he is the good citizen, taking an active part in the public affairs of the borough of Kingston, and is justly looked upon as one of the "town fathers," and does not scorn to serve the public in any capacity required of him.

PROTHONOTARY.

Christopher Wren, the candidate for prothonotary, was born at Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., 35 years ago. He was educated in the public schools of Pennsylvania, and at the age of eighteen went into his father's foundry and learned the trade of iron molder, at which he worked for about ten years. Seven years ago he went into the insurance and real estate business, and by energy perseverance and strict attention to business he has successfully established himself at his home in Plymouth. Mr. Wren is a son of Capt. John Y. Wren, and has lived at Plymouth nineteen years.