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

Presbytery. When we consider that Donegal Church was founded less than a score of years after the organization of the first Pres- bytery, the country at the time being thinly settled, the facilities for communi- cation between neighboring settlements difficult and often dangerous, organiza- tion and the

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

pupils, "John of Lancaster" ( John F. Meginness): "One of the first teachers in the Old Brick school house in Bart township was Henry Courtney. He was an irascible Irish pedagogue, noted for his liberal and violent use of the rod, but as an educator he was �not a success; he finally emigrated to the

), consequently the vertical depths of these workings varied accord- ing to the natural rolling surface. H o w m u c h , i f a n y , o f M r . H e n - frey's plans for the treatment of the "vit- riolic" waters were carried out, I do not know. Yonrs truly, CHARLES DOBLE. It wquld seem from this letter that Mr

time was found desirable for the manufacture of guns, and during the war Admiral Dahlgren publicly com- mended its excellence for the casting of efficient guns for the service. In 1868 the old furnace was blown out, it being the last of the numerous iron works of Lancaster county to suc- cumb to the