and posts set along them as heretofore in Philadelphia. I mean King and Queen. There are very few pumps on the streets and rarely trees. There are several vaults under the pavement as in the city. The Court House stands as above mentioned in the junction of the two chief streets, viz., King and Queen

. Jeremiah Mosher, in the 50th year of his age." 7 "Old Lancaster: Tales and Traditions," pp. 172-3. Lancaster's Contribution to Ireland in the Famine of 1847 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER EARLY in February, 1847, the "Hibernia" steamship brought news of the terrible ravages of famine in Ireland. The Eng- lish

members and membership certificates, time may explain. Franklin and Marshall College Its Sesqui-centennial By M. LUTHER HEISEY. The Lancaster County Historical Society salutes and congratulates Frank- lin and Marshall College on the attainment of the grand old age of a century and a half. The progress, in

known, as subsequent issues of local papers do not refer to the subject. Coffee Houses in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A CENTURY or more ago, coffee houses occupied an important position in the life of populous cities. In London, England, it was at the coffee houses that leading literary and

GRAVEYARD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT LITITZ* By HERBERT H. BECK OR nearly a century the burial place of the 110 Revolutionary soldiers who had been interred in Lititz was a mystery. At least Abraham R. Beck, former archivist of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, who was born in 1833 and who

, shows a cabin built north of Kreutz Creek along the river and identifies it as "first settled by John Grist, afterwards by Captain Bewer, an Indian." Grist's name appears on the first tax list for Lancaster in 1718. Later this cabin came into the possession of the Hendricks family. The map also shows

by the Swedes on the Delaware. The speaker was George L. Heiges, of Manheim, Pa., member of the Marker Committee and an author- ity on "Baron" Stiegel and Lutheran Church history. During the course of the meeting, recitations were given in the Swedish language by Elaine John- son, who appeared in