Earliest Reformed Church in Lancaster County. The early history of Lancaster county gathers around its ancient churches. In colonial days, far more than at pre- sent, the church was the centre of so- cial life; and those who would study that life in its more recent develop- ments should not fail to

the present, to recall facts which are recorded in general history, it has been said that "history needs to be continu- ally rewritten and retold," and to re- late the main events of a career whose splendor our forefathers desired to perpetuate cannot fail to prove inter- esting in these latter days

- cational history. It had defects, espe- cially in prosody, but these were sub- sequently in great measure removed, especially in the revised edition, is- sued about sixty years ago, by Dr. N. C. Brooks, of Baltimore. There is a fashion in text-books, as in every- thing else, and the old Grammar,which was

follows: BRUDER JAEBEZ, EPHRATA, 178-. The name is in German characters and the place in Roman. The second of the Miller plates is also entirely destitute of ornament, and is in the unmistakable style of the Ephrata press. The name is printed in large Roman and the stanzas in German characters. It reads

THE FLIGHT OF AN EMPRESS, The flight of the Empress Eugenie from Paris, and her subsequent escape to England, is probably the most ro- mantic episode of the Franco-Prussian War. It will be remembered that when her husband, Napoleon III., departed for the seat of war,the Empress assum- ed the

WILLIAM STOY. The text of my present paper is an old letter which I have found among my half-forgotten collections. It was written to Judge Jasper Yeates, who was one of the most eminent men in the early history of our city. The let- ter has never been published, and, though its contents are not