they would suffer harm. We believe, notwith- standing that argument, that we percieve no difficulty and dare to lay our proposi- tion for a third newspaper before the es- teemed public. Lancaster, where we have set up our printing press, lies not only more in the middle of the country, by which a quite

means for the preservation of records incomplete, and also the turbu- lent and unsettled state of the country,the paucity of data becomes obvious. The aim of the historian should be to present facts, such as can be substantiated by documentary evidence, and such as have been derived from personal

building, which has for a long time been known as "The Old Oil Mill." It was, in its day, one of the busiest places in that section of Lancaster county. This building was built just about the end of the last century, either in 1798 or 1799, by Abram Hoover, for a woolen mill. He also built a good-sized dam

pupils, "John of Lancaster" ( John F. Meginness): "One of the first teachers in the Old Brick school house in Bart township was Henry Courtney. He was an irascible Irish pedagogue, noted for his liberal and violent use of the rod, but as an educator he was �not a success; he finally emigrated to the

), consequently the vertical depths of these workings varied accord- ing to the natural rolling surface. H o w m u c h , i f a n y , o f M r . H e n - frey's plans for the treatment of the "vit- riolic" waters were carried out, I do not know. Yonrs truly, CHARLES DOBLE. It wquld seem from this letter that Mr

time was found desirable for the manufacture of guns, and during the war Admiral Dahlgren publicly com- mended its excellence for the casting of efficient guns for the service. In 1868 the old furnace was blown out, it being the last of the numerous iron works of Lancaster county to suc- cumb to the

or over 500 acres, and the warrant shall be ready." And Taylor, the Surveyor, un- der date of June 17, 1720, says : " I have agreed with Jenkin Davis for 1,000 acres on or near the Conestoga Creek." (See Taylor's Papers in Historical Society Rooms, at Philadelphia.) Both these surveys were made, as