allowed to go to bed, where he remained all day and night. When about to set out on the following morning an express rider rode up, who told the guard hav- ing Connolly in charge that a rescuing party was awaiting them. After some conversation with the officer in charge he was released and returned home

Sutcliff, who practiced medicine at Sheffield, England, until his death, about the year 1800. Robert was born at Shef- field, and was educated in the reli- gious Society of Friends. He became a merchant and had many American connections, on account of which he made two voyages to America. The second voyage

of civilize. tion in pursuit of this desirable trade. For a time the Indians themselves carried their peltries to Philadelphia, but after a while, not willing to await their arrival there, men in the fur trade began to take out licenses to pursue the business in the interior, and soon the frontier

discover, but as Lancaster, from as early a period as soon after the Revo- lutionary War, was accounted the largest inland town in the United States, and held that record until into the nineteenth century, it is only rea- sonable to suppose that strolling play- ers found their way to this ancient borough

arrested in his own House, and remov'd from. thence & put under Confinement we appointed a Committee to wait upon him, in order to satisfy ourselves by what authority he was made a prisoner, what charge had been brought against him, whether he had applied for a hearing, and whether a hearing had been

The Last One, Where Cocalico's clear waters Past the mill, and 'neath the willow, Ripple o'er their pebbly bed. —Mrs. M. N. Robinson. Archaeologists tell us of a stone age, an iron age, a bronze and other ages, but these have long since passed away and we have fallen upon other times. There are so

, but declined the honor, in order to accept the appointment of President Judge of the Judicial District compris- ing the counties of Dauphin, Lebanon and Schuylkill. This position he also resigned after a while, having been appointed Attorney General of the Commonwealth by Governor William Findley

contained herein, "On motion,the Electors proceeded to vote by ballot, for a person to take charge of and to deiiver to the Presi- dent of the Senate at the seat of gov- ernment, before the first Wednesday in January next, one of the certificates and other enclosures, directed to the said President (Francis

histor- ical importance, it is, nevertheless, in- teresting, for various reasons. First, because it was written 108 years ago by a man who at that time and for more than a quarter of a century be- fore was one of the best-known citi- zens of this city; because of its bear- ing on the building of the best

authority and the village and the pulpit, and to God alone be the honor, else mankind no more. Anno the year 1759." One of the worst specimens of Pennsylva- nia Dutch on record was recorded by an ear-witness as follows: "Ich habe mein Haus geshingled and geclap- boarded." Although anybody who knows some