they would suffer harm. We believe, notwith- standing that argument, that we percieve no difficulty and dare to lay our proposi- tion for a third newspaper before the es- teemed public. Lancaster, where we have set up our printing press, lies not only more in the middle of the country, by which a quite

large- hearted liberality had instituted in this fair county a practice so beautiful, so praiseworthy and so poetical. For twelve successive years this revived payment has been made, with ever-increasing interest and enthusiasm. Men of high intelligence and culture have on the appointed day delivered

place of perhaps 2,000 inhabitants, while Philadelphia contained a popula- tion of perhaps 8,000 in 1730. Then, too, ours was largely a German com- munity, while Philadelphia was found- ed by English-speaking people. Lancaster has, for a half-century, enjoyed the reputation of being a lit- erary

year 1858 was to see another and different demonstration at Wabank before the close of the season. On September 8, Brigadier General Bar- tram A. Shaeffer issued brigade order No. 2, from the brigade headquarters at Lancaster, ordering the companies composing the brigades to parade and encamp for

fixtyThousand Bushels of Corn for France. When the Ambaffadore at Conftantinople asked Leave for fuch an Exportation, the grand Signior's An. swer was, that he nor only confented to it, but that it should alfo be Duty free, gladly embrace. THE FIRST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN LANCASTER, 1752. (From Sachse's German

, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1899. Peace to the Brave! They do not need our praising, For in all hearts is treasured every name; Yet for the future we to-day are raising A tablet to their fame. And while the trees put on their fading splendors And trail their banners like to knights of old

tract of land bounded by what is now Fairmount, Vine, Twentieth and Twelfth streets. Edward Shippen and James Hamil- ton were life-long friends, and the for- mer, as seems to be implied in one of the letters quoted, had promised to keep the latter informed of what was going on in Lancaster Town, which

of Lancaster city than the stone residence located on the northwest corner of North Duke and Orange streets. It was a fine specimen of the pre-revolutionary style, and even down to the day when it was torn down to make room for St. Paul's Reformed Church was admired by all who were acquainted with it

received, excepting what was paid for prizes and expenses, to the paving of the streets in the borough of Lancaster. Meetings of the Commissioners. It is to be regretted that among the many papers relating to this subject there is none giving the initial steps, the town meeting, at which the Board of

articles (new) of wearing apparel or household linen, or a donation of money constitutes membership in a branch. Men, wo- men or children may become members. The Lancaster Branch for the year 1907 collected fifteen hundred and eighty-three garments, a gain of sixty over last year, and distributed them as