advertised to be run over the course at New Holland, Lancaster county, Pa., for a purse of sixty dollars. The race was to consist of two mile heats3 and repeat; it was open for any horse, mare or gelding; and each horse was required to carry 140 pounds. An entrance fee of three dollars was required, if

justice to this superb lecture; that nothing like it had ever been heard in Lancaster. A week later an unusually large audience was highly enter- tained and delighted by Professor Wilson's lecture on "De Tocque- ville, the Student of Democracy." 5 The last lecture by Professor Wilson under the auspices of

letters with which to mark linens for her hope chest. When older, she learned to spin flax and wool for household use and for clothing. She pieced quilt after quilt, in the prettiest patterns she could find ; and during winter months quilting parties formed an interesting part of the social life of the

, "Maud S.," 2.08%, "Nancy Hanks," 2.04, "Lou Dillon," 1.58% and "Peter Manning," 1.56% (1922). The much honored gelding, "Peter Manning," the fastest trotter the world ever knew, is now in a stable within the original boundaries of Lancaster county, at Hanover, Pa. What a curious coincidence in the

school in Lancaster], having charge of the classics, with an allowance for an usher. As Mr. Magaw shortly removed to Philadelphia, where he took his 'A. B.' in 1757, in the 6 "Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D.D.," by Horace Wemyss Smith, Philadelphia, Ferguson Brothers & Co., 1880

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

the James H. Matthews Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was erected on that part of the venerable building now owned and occupied by The Lan- caster County Historical Society. The exercises incident to the unveiling of the tablet, were in charge of Prof. Herbert H. Beck, president of The Lancaster County

Domestic Manufac- tures and National Industry." ARTICLE II. The officers of this society shall consist of a president, two vice-presidents, two secretaries, three counsellors and a treasurer, who shall be chosen an- nually, by ballot, from among the resident members of this county; and the 2 Lancaster

Lancaster, and as for want of powers corporate, we may be subjected to inconvenience in the pursuit of our charitable objects: KNOW YE, that in pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act to confer on certain 4 Lancaster Journal, Friday, May 20th, 1831

CONESTOGA By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XI, No. 3, pp. 75-113, of the Proceedings of The Lan- Lancaster County Historical Society, appears an article entitled, "How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster." In that paper the author, the late William Uhler Hensel, Esq., de- scribed, in minute