water with thousands of their snowy forms, and later stirred the town by the din of their excited whinnyings as in small troops they circled low over the housetops in the night." "CONFIRMATION IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCHES - In St. James Church the only service held was in the morning which was pro- tracted

, 1876 The house of Jacob Lindemuth in Manheim is today the Washing- ton House on Market Square. "JAMES BLACK, ESQ. of this city at the Prohibition State com- mittee meeting in Philadelphia yesterday was chosen as a Presidential Elector for the Ninth District." —September 6, 1876 Four years previous

Library of the Lancaster County Historical Society does not have a complete file of any one single city newspaper for the year eighteen hundred and seventy six. The following newspapers were used: January through June, Lancaster Evening Express; July through August, Lancaster Intelligencer; September