THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER IN LANCASTER COUNTY. It will be generally conceded, I think, by those who have given the matter any attention or who are acquainted with the facts, that there is no city of equal size in the country more given to newspaper reading than Lancaster. It is to-day sup- porting

building, which has for a long time been known as "The Old Oil Mill." It was, in its day, one of the busiest places in that section of Lancaster county. This building was built just about the end of the last century, either in 1798 or 1799, by Abram Hoover, for a woolen mill. He also built a good-sized dam

, following up the eastern side of the Susquehanna, had reached the Valley of Chiquesalunga, now in Lancaster county, where Donegal Church was organized in that year."— West's Origin and History of Donegal and Carlisle Presbytery. And again : "Application was made by Andrew Galbrath to New Castle Pres- bytery

sister Eliz- abeth and charges her with the care of his negroes, should they fail to make a living. He makes his brother-in-law, John Pawling, executor. Elizabeth Pawling died March 4, 1786. At an Orphans' Court, held at Lancaster, December 17, 1788, Henry Pawling, of Montgomery county (the grandfather

profession, except in emergencies and in consultation. He married Mrs. Ferry, the mother of James H. Ferry' above referred to, as also of Brevet-Major Joseph Ferry, a graduate of West Point, appointed from Colerain township, Lancaster county. Major Ferry was killed when �leading the charge on Molino del Ray

gi nal s, or t he i r de - scendants, were willing to renew the work, and that some of them were the immediate predecessors of Henfrey's company. [TO BE CONTINUED.] �Old Mills and Country Ordinaries. The pioneer settlers in the " Upper End" of what is now Lancaster county dame from the north of

into the hands of James Hopkins, Esq., of Lancaster city, and he took into part- nership with him his brother-in-law' James Orrick, the firm being Hopkins & Orrick. Conowingo was then a manufactory of stoves. Some of the old ten-plate stoves moulded there are still in use. The Hopkins Furnace. In 1830

, a Justice of the Peace in Chester county, who had a legal friend in Lancaster by the name of Ross. " Lancaster," says the biographer, " was remarkable for its wealth and had the reputation of possessing the best and most intelligent society to be found in America," a reputation which it is her

water course above the dam came down in the night-time and tore the dam away. The Legislature compelled Mr. Atkinson to construct a passage way in his dam to al- low the fish to ascend the stream. Mr. Atkinson died in 1739, and the mill was run by his son, Matthew Atkinson. Thomas Doyle, of Lancaster

of Lancaster county.) Samuel Steinecke, geboren in Ober- ode, Preuzen, 1743; verscheid, 1819. Anna Rosins, Tannenbergin, geboren Kernin, 1715; am Schoflatz; entscheif, 1792: Anna Christina Fraunken, geboren Bezolchins, 1710; gestorb, 1781. Anna Berkardin, geboren, Callin, 1769; gestorb, 1799. Clous