Il Wyoming, la sua storia, agitazione e incidenti di avventure romantiche . ma thewhole paese tra Wilkesbarre e Elmira, owesmuch del suo sviluppo precoce e presente prosperityto accordi commerciali e l'indomito per-indennità di Matthias Hollenback. Il colonnello Hollenback è stato impiegato da Eobert Mor-RIS, l'agente di Luigi XVI, per fornire aplace di ritiro per la casa reale a un certo se compreso posto sul Susquehanna. Questo è stato nel 1793.Ha di conseguenza acquistato dodici centinaia di acri di landlying in Bradford County, Pennsylvania e embrac-ing la località dove Frenchtown

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Wyoming, its history, stirring incidents, and romantic adventures . but thewhole country between Wilkesbarre and Elmira, owesmuch of its early development and present prosperityto the business arrangements and the indomitable per-severance of Matthias Hollenback. Colonel Hollenback was employed by Eobert Mor-ris, the agent of Louis the Sixteenth, to provide aplace of retreat for the royal household at some se-cluded spot on the Susquehanna. This was in 1793.He accordingly purchased twelve hundred acres of landlying in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and embrac-ing the locality where Frenchtown was subsequent-ly built. The unfortunate monarch, however, neveroccupied this asylum in the wilds of Pennsylvania, al-beit many of his subjects did. LouisPhilippe, the late King of theFrench, in 1795 came through theWind-Gap on horseback, and lodgedin Wilkesbarre in the old red tav-ern, on the river bank, then keptby James Morgan, and subsequentlyknown as the old Arnclt Hotel, and then made his way up to French-town. All this is true; but our soil is none the bet-. COLONEL MATTHIAS HOLLENBACK. 127 ter for having been owned by falling monarchs, oreven trod by the feet of royal fugitives. Louis Phil-ippe, like Colonel Hollenback, learned in America tosleep on the soft side of a board, a practice whichhe never wholly abandoned. Resolutions passed by the Officers of the Court and Mem-bers of the Bar: At a meeting of the officers of the court and mem-bers of the bar of the County of Luzerne, held in theborough of Wilkesbarre, on Thursday, the 19th inst., the following resolutions were submitted, and unani-mously adopted: Resolved, That we have heard with regret the deathof the venerable Matthias Hollenback, one of the as-sociate judges of the courts of this county, and that intestimony of his memory we will wear crape upon theleft arm for thirty days. Resolved, That we will attend the funeral of thedeceased on Saturday next, from his late residence inthis borough. Resolved, That we de

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