the loiterer meets Some strange historic lore. "Thy sons in valor bore their part, And many a noble name Endeared unto the Nation's heart Lives on the rolls of Fame!" Prior to 1708 or 1709, there were no settlements in what is now known as Lancaster county, then forming a part of Chester. A few whites

- ruary, 1798, by the Rev. Mr. Meltz- heimer, Bartram Galbraith, of Lan- caster county, to the amiable Miss Harriet Hiding. daughter of John Huling, of Lycoming county." I copy a few of the obituary records: July 8, 1796. Died, in Philadelphia, on Sunday, the 26th ult., and on Mon- day following was

JOHN LANDIS, PAINTER. The first of a series of historical papers bearing on early Lancaster portrait painters, as arranged for by a joint committee of the Lancaster County Historical Society and the Iris Club, which is planning for the portraiture exhibition in November, were submitted at the

lo- cality. The article alluded to gives in detail the list of his possessions, real and personal, seized by the Pro- vincial Government, sold, and the proceeds turned over to the new State Government by the acting agent and received. The records at Harrisburg, as well as the Colonial records, were

county was formed, "Cow Pas- ture Manor," of 3,063 acres, was set aside for them, in 1763, and two years later, in 1765, "Tulpehocken Manor" of 7,510 acres, was granted to Rich- ard Penn. Volume 4, Penn. Archives, 3d series, pp. 3, 4 and 5. In consideration of the fact that it was always "a red rose

Chamber. These courts held aloof from politics, but decided matters of feudality and set- tled questions of appeal on the parts of the States from decisions of minor courts in favor of the Emperor. As at this date the Canton of Neufchatel was a Prussian tributary, it came under the laws of that country

horrid and' �short-sighted! It is not to us that es- sential injury will be done by these wretches, but to the Mexicans them- selves. Did ever a sane government do such a thing? The foreigners in the city have re- ceived us with great kindness and at- tention. They seem to have been much persecuted, and

"Patty," Bare- foot, daughter of Samuel and .Jean Barefoot, she having died on Decem- ber 24. 1865, at Morgantown, aged over one hundred and six years. She was born in Amity township, Berks county, on February 15, 1749, and was baptized at Douglassville, on September 13, 1778, when in her thirtieth year