county. But I wish to direct attention to another point. Lancaster was almost exclusively a German community in the last century, just as it has largely been in the present one. Read over the names of the men who have published papers in this city. Miller—and he was the first of all—Al- brecht, Lahti

unutter- able horror. So late as 1763 it is recorded that "the reapers of Lancaster county took their guns and ammunition with them into the harvest fields to defend themselves from the Indi ans." An autobiographer, referring to the days of his youth, passed in the early period of our history, relates

gi nal s, or t he i r de - scendants, were willing to renew the work, and that some of them were the immediate predecessors of Henfrey's company. [TO BE CONTINUED.] �Old Mills and Country Ordinaries. The pioneer settlers in the " Upper End" of what is now Lancaster county dame from the north of