harmony with the early efforts to abolish slavery in this country, among the foremost of which was the Act of Pennsylvania of 1780, our county took advanced ground on the question. The early county Quakers, German Mennonites and others felt the insti- tution wrong from the beginning, and had practically

other parts of Germany. And indeed in Alten- burg, Switzerland, he directed his fury against all Christians, but chiefly �against Romanists. Then, in 991, the Pagan Danish hordes again poured into Germany and vexed the Chris- tians during forty years there (do., p. 249). In the eleventh century the ques

the advertisements will be " stopt" unless they proceed continuously to the delivery of the goods to their destination. The issue of July 24 states that Four Companies of Royal Americans marched from Pittsburg to Presque Isle under Colonel Bouquet; and that 3 companies of the Pennsylvania Regiment

The Public Career of John Wright, Esq. John Wright, Esq., of Columbia, on the Susquehanna, was the acknowl- edged and unquestioned "father" or Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. By unanimous consensus of authoritative opinion, and by common consent, this name and title belong to him and his memory

England, said the Quaker- German party polled over half the votes in all counties (4 St. L. 470). 1741. Political issue In Lancas- ter county this year continued to be about the same as in the previous year; but the success of the seven regiments, of the province sent by Pennsylvania to the campaign

his incumbency that a satisfactory estimate of his public service can only be ascertained by classifying it under its proper heads. We may, therefore, discuss this career under his labors in behalf of : (1) The Revenues, Finances and Fiscal Affairs of Pennsylvania, (2) The People's Rights and

Items of Local Interest from the Pennsylvania Gazette, from 1761 to 1770.1 BY H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, ESQ. 1761. The issue of January 15 recites that the French garrison at Detroit are at Lancaster, on their way to Philadelphia and also a number of the people that were prisoners there, are also in the

Society of Pennsylvania in Philadel- phia, in the Taylor Papers. They in- clude practically the whole county. Those ante-dating 1729 themselves make a good-sized list. In many cases five or ten, or even twenty-five separate tracts, are found in one con- nected draft. One who had the leisure and

�Bucks Countians lodged as follows: Isaac Van Horne at Nauman's and Ralph Stone and James Erwin at John Musser's corner of East Orange and Lime Streets and Gerardus Wynkoch at Judge Henry's. The Chester County legislators divided: Jos. Hemphill lodged at A Scott's on Orange Street; Jas. Hannum at

THE ORIGINAL "TURTLE TAUBE" OF THE EPHRATA CLOISTERS The original manuscript of the "Turtle Taube" one of the most treasured documents in the world, written by the brethren in the Ephrata Cloisters more than a century and a half ago, has been turned over to the Congressional Library in Washington