THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER IN LANCASTER COUNTY. It will be generally conceded, I think, by those who have given the matter any attention or who are acquainted with the facts, that there is no city of equal size in the country more given to newspaper reading than Lancaster. It is to-day sup- porting

, following up the eastern side of the Susquehanna, had reached the Valley of Chiquesalunga, now in Lancaster county, where Donegal Church was organized in that year."— West's Origin and History of Donegal and Carlisle Presbytery. And again : "Application was made by Andrew Galbrath to New Castle Pres- bytery

building, which has for a long time been known as "The Old Oil Mill." It was, in its day, one of the busiest places in that section of Lancaster county. This building was built just about the end of the last century, either in 1798 or 1799, by Abram Hoover, for a woolen mill. He also built a good-sized dam

sister Eliz- abeth and charges her with the care of his negroes, should they fail to make a living. He makes his brother-in-law, John Pawling, executor. Elizabeth Pawling died March 4, 1786. At an Orphans' Court, held at Lancaster, December 17, 1788, Henry Pawling, of Montgomery county (the grandfather

profession, except in emergencies and in consultation. He married Mrs. Ferry, the mother of James H. Ferry' above referred to, as also of Brevet-Major Joseph Ferry, a graduate of West Point, appointed from Colerain township, Lancaster county. Major Ferry was killed when �leading the charge on Molino del Ray

gi nal s, or t he i r de - scendants, were willing to renew the work, and that some of them were the immediate predecessors of Henfrey's company. [TO BE CONTINUED.] �Old Mills and Country Ordinaries. The pioneer settlers in the " Upper End" of what is now Lancaster county dame from the north of