and be refreshed for the next day's journey than Wenrich's "Grand. View," on the northern slope of the hills above Wernersville. The Upper "Swamp." West Cocalico is the northernmost township of Lancaster county. On the map it appears to be the peak of the roof; and at its apex Berks, Lancaster and

LANCASTER IN 1777-1780. In the recently published paper by W. U. Hensel on Major John Andre's Residence in Lancaster, 1775-76, refer- ence was made to the social life in Lancaster during the period of the American Revolution, It was pretty plainly intimated, and easily to be in- ferred, that during

How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster. The casual purchase of a basketful of old books at a recent public sale threw into my possession three small manuscript volumes of rare local in- terest. They relate to an incident in the history of Lancaster city and os the public works of the

A CENTENNIAL EVENT One of the oldest families and widest connections in Eastern Lan- caster county are the Slaymakers Their ancestors bought of and settled on the famous "London lands," along the old Strasburg and Gap roads, and they have illustrated the tenacity of the Lancaster county land-owner

ardent invocation to the Muse of Poetry which it contains afford some indicia os the contents and will bear literary reproduction: �Her Title Page. POEMS on DIFFERENT SUBJECTS. To which is added, A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT os a FAMILY TOUR TO THE WEST, In the year 1800. In a LETTER TO A LADY. By SALLY

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

to Leacock, from Leacock to Donegal, in the upper end of the county; and, on the lower side of the "Mine Ridge," they occupied what was once "the great township of Drumore," stretching from the west branch of the Octoraro to the west bank of the Susquehanna, and from the Martic hills to the disputed

brother officers, indulge in vituperation against the colonists." That same Henry Dering, by the way, soon afterwards removed to Lancaster. He kept a public house, as early as 1777, at the west end of what is now Witmer's Bridge; the old stone tavern, at the corner of Conestoga Park, having been destroyed

thus he became a brother-in-law of that other famous native Lancaster countian, Rev. Dr. Samuel Stanhope Smith, of Pequea, who married Witherspoon's eldest daughter when he was President of Hampden-Sydney and before his call to Princeton. After the death of the first Mrs. Ramsay her bereaved husband

Lancaster, scarbely escaping drowning while crossing the Susquehanna river at McCall's Ferry; took a hasty look at the town, and (for some unaccountable reason) quit it for Gettysburg, where he started upon a career as a lawyer, without friends, fame, family or fortune. Begins Practice in Adams County