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

available bound ssues of the Pennsylvania Ga- zette from June 20, 1778, to the end of the year and therefore I have made search of the files of the Pennsylvania Evening Post to supply the ommission of notes of local importance which results because the said numbers of the Gazette are missing. There are not

Springs, where one man was killed and eleven taken prisoners. Up to this date, however, her annals are chiefly of local interest; but now the "Inland City" begins to make history. From her nest, in the green hills, Lancaster had heard, as from afar, the �low mutterings of the storm which cul- minated in

, President of the Executive Council, re-established on June 17, 1777. New officers were appointed and a new seal adopted. The following is the population of Lancaster from 1790, when the first census was taken, to 1900, as furnished by the Secretary of the Interior, at Washington, who has charge of the