a considerable dis- tance, and who has been familiar with the land for miles around from boy- hood, told me that within a mile of the rise of the Conestoga, half a dozen springs empty into the main stream, which, as I traced it, crosses the county line into Caernarvon township, Perks county, at a

Thornberg. Subsequently Mar- shall bought the Thornberg property also,and then owned five-eighth of the entire front on Orange street. His house was the third from the Lime street corner. It was a stately brick mansion, three stories high, with base- ment. It is still standing, but is now much changed. An

wondrous birth was developed, that are the con- cern of history and philosophy. That the Quaker and German wave of settlement halted for a time at least at the Conestoga Creek, while the Scotch-Irish pressed forward and pre- empted the fair country lying between the Conestoga on the east and the Sus

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HISTORICAL MEMORANDA, An Act of Vandalism. The following is an excerpt read by S. M. Sener, Esq., from "The Oracle of Dauphin," Harrisburg, Pa., under date of 6th of January, 1820: "The Lancaster Free Press contains an advertisement of the Trustees and Elders of the German Reformed Church in the

. September 19, 1887. The regular monthly meeting was held Messrs. Hiller and Zahm, from the Archæological Committee, reported the sites of several Indian villages and graves they had visited during the summer. Adjourned. October 17, 1887. Dr. Dubbs read and presented to the society a manuscript history of

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mean ability in pen drawing. The original is in India ink, somewhat faded by its century of exposure to light and air, yet retain- ing much of its original freshness and artistic beauty. Circumscribed Limits of the Town. That the picture was taken from a natural elevation to the southwest of the centre