Chester Valley; and two main lines of the Under­ ground Railroad ran through Lancaster County, close to where the two lines of the great steam railway which tra­ verses it from east to west are now located. A9quiescing in this decision Pennsylvania, in 1847, re- . pealed the provisions of the Act of 1826

their business establish- ments; while older bank cashiers, like Col. Peiper, of the Lancaster County, and Mr. Brown, of the Farm- ers, kept close to their ledgers and �vaults. The proprietors of hotels were not only in, but of, their hostel- ries—the dining-room and dormitor- ies, stable and bar being

Literary Junta. Manifestly Lancaster had at that time among its young lawyers and others the very profitable and now too much disused institution of a de- bating society. Its membership and character may be gleaned from Per- sico's reply to what was manifestly an interesting and newsy letter from Mr

THE SHIPPEN HOUSE, FOREWORD. On the evening of February 21, 1910, by invitation of the mistress of the Shippen School for Girls, a large company assembled at the home of the School, the famous old Shippen house, at the northwest corner of Lime and Orange streets, in the City of Lancaster, Pa., to