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

the time, and only came to light a few years ago through the discovery of cer- tain legal documents drawn up at the time. Franklin had been doing much of the printing for the Ephrata com- munity before it procured its own press, and for the other religious sects in the State. Lancaster county was the

their waking hours at home. It finally dawned on some of them that perhaps Lancaster could in some way be turned into a summer resort, which would not necessitate their going else- where for rest and health, but by which an honest penny might be turned into their own pockets. True, we had no medicinal

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

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

one of the most valuable of the historical documents relating to the early his- tory of our city that we have. The New Barracks. The new Barracks, the one repre- sented on the map, was built for a two-fold purpose—to provide a place of safety for the frontier people who were driven from their homes by

Boehm's Chapel was erected on the old Boehm farmstead, at the time oper- ated by Jacob, a son of Martin Boehm. Henry Boehm wrote the following history of the building of the chapel. Boehm's Chapel is distinguished for its antiquity, It was the first Methodist house of worship in Lancaster County. The plan

South Queen Street and began a series of discussions which led to the formation of the Lancaster General Hospital. Various patriotic and fraternal orders had been invited to send representatives to this meeting and responding to the call were members of the Junior American Mechanics, Red Men, Knights of

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

first member of Congress from Lancaster under the Constitu- tion, and who served ten years, was married to a great-granddaughter of Stephen Atkinson. This first fulling mill seems to have had a long and prosperous career. In that old German newspaper, the "Lan- caster Zeitung," for October, 1789, I