to their customers. I find that on the 24th of August, 1801, Jacob Ringwalt, a dis- tiller, sold the Wallace store four barrels or one hundred and twenty-seven This included the excise tax of the government at the time. The retail price at that time was 2 S. 2 P. or 52 cents a quart, a profit gallons

remembrance of what he read was a compilation of historical events from the dawn of the World's recorded time. What he read stuck to his tenacious memory and when he started to write history he had dates, causes ,events and details at his command that amazes the reader, so it seems almost improbable that a

perches and cost $78.75. The complete parsonage cost $2,400.00. At a meeting of the session held December 26, 1852, it was resolved to add two more members to the eldership and on January 8, 1853, George Russell and Henry Ranck were elected elders. Mr. Russell lived in the locality of Beartown more than

. 43, Lancaster, in 1785. The fourth and last sketch was of Barbara Frietchie, who was born at Lancaster, December 3, 1766, but moved to Frederick, Maryland, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Nicholas Hauer, when she was two years old. She lived at Frederick all her life time, and died there December

these duties was the examination of all applicants for certificates to teach, and that "he shall visit all the schools in the county during the year when they are in session." �Lancaster county had at that time between four and five hundred schools. Some of them were only open for a term of four months

government, the next question to solve was, how to convey twenty thousand silver dollars through or over five hundred miles of a roadless country. A strong box was made in which the silver was nailed in. A light two- horse wagon was procured upon which the box was securely fastened and in May of the same

ninety-two feet high. Over the pass a road was constructed by orders of Napoleon at a cost of millions. Thirteen miles west of the pass a railroad tunnel, seven and one-half miles, was begun in 1857, on the Italian side and in 1863 on the French side of the Alps. It was finished in 1870 at a cost of

Quebec and and made his headquarters at St. Catherine near Niagara Falls. Here he carried on his propaganda against the government until 1864, when he re- turned to Ohio and became the Democratic candidate for Governor. He was defeated by Governor Brough with a majority of over one hundred thousand