ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST—FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA GA- ZETTE-1776 TO 1781, INCLUSIVE. H. FRANK ESHLEMAN —1776- NOTE:—The last prior installment of this series appeared in the• March, 1921 pamphlet of this society's publications. The most important news item of the Gazette of 1776, is one not merely

NOTES OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM PENNSYLVANIA PACKET AND GENERAL ADVERTISER FROM NOV, 29, 1777, TO JUNE 17,• 1778, COLLECTED BY W. F. WORNER SUPPLEMENTARY TO SERIES OF H. FRANK ESHLEMAN. (Read Dec. 3, 1926.) In the series of Notes from the Pennsylvania Gazette contributed by H. Frank Eshleman to the

addition to the items supra, on Ephrata we note that a series of Rev. Peter Miller's letters are set forth dated 1772 to 1790 in which he gives a great deal of interesting history of the Ephrata monastic sect and corrects several errors concernin them, and especially erroneous propaganda concern- ing their

forever remain in the people alone. Thus, the Revolution changed the world and the course of history for a century and half. It freed man from sanctioned political slavery and gave him a god-like stature. It tore off the rags of a subject and revealed him in the Grecian beauty of a citizen; and in the

down to that date from the four "Source Books" above mentioned; and also from the other several series of the Pennsylvania Archives, now published, seven or eight series in all. This local history lies hidden in a mass of our Pennsylvania History generally, as it is found in the several thousand of

, that was the spirit which saved our nation in all its great crises. Let us not be weary of this well doing. �Our local history does have virtue and we should do all we can to preserve that history. I will now proceed to read the items digested as I have said above, as the items appear in the books

and Barbara DeHuff, whose names appear on the list, have by their subscription shown their patriotism and have added a little part to that history still largely unwritten, namely the part the women played in the early life of our county and its history. It is worthy also of note that the subscriptions

more terrible than a Turkish one for besides incessant toil they are exposed to great heat and cold" in this climate so different from that of Ireland. He goes on and says, "then after being allowed no shelter from either of these extremes, all the refreshments afforded. . .is pone, a sort of bread