ECHOES FROM EVERYWHERE.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9278, 2 December 1895, Page 6

ECHOES FROM EVERYWHERE.

STARS AND STEIPES. Aα order for adding another star to the American flag ■ was' issued last September- .' This brings the number up to forty-fire, end represents Utah, who will attain her, ; Statehood on the 4tt, July, 1896. Ito,:>: first legislative Act recorded relating tft *£ '; national flag for the new sovereignty WM' the resolution of the American Congress in / session at Philadelphia on the 14th Jant. 1777, which established that the colonrs of the thirteen United States should be thirteen stripes alternate red and white, and that the Union should be thirteen stars white on a blue field. The Union flag at Washing ton's headquarters at Cambridge on the 2nd - January, 1776, had the thirteen stripes a» • , now, but in place of the stars in the corner , ! there were the crosses of St. George and Andrew on a hlue ground. It is claimed,-: for Mrs John Ross, upholHcerer, of Archer ■■ street, Philadelphia, that she first made "; the flag of the Sfcars aud Stripes in Jane, , 1 1776,*fromade8iga drawn by in pencil in her back parlour. The resolution. •of the 14bh June was not promulgated until - the 3rd September, 1777, and on the 11th of : i that month the Stars and Stripes were. 1 borne at the buttle of Brandy wine. lα* ':l United States ship Ranger, Captain Jones, arrived in a French port on Depem- „ ber Ist of the same year ; and on February _•; 14tb, 1778, the Stare and Stripes receive*;' the first salute ever paid them by foreign ■. warships. The flag remained unchanged;,; , until 1795 when the number of stripe* w«* ; ; augmented to fifteen, aud ttte UniOO represented by fifteen stars. Kentucky and Vermont had been, vlded *?.-j| the Union. In 1818. fiva States had been added. Tenuesseo, Qbfajg Louisiana, Indiana, and MieeiwJpr'f