appears on page 631. Captain Reitzel's ser- vices and his command are shown here also. His command was in the United States Service. Volume 9 contains pension lists of the War of 1812. Volume 10 contains rolls of the Mexican War Soldiers furnishel by Penn- sylvania. There are about 200 pages of names

Denmark (do. p. 246). By 950 the current which the Danish King start- ed reached Slavonia, whose ungodly, tyrant King persecuted defenceless Christians there; and by the end of the century, religious war was in progress by the Vandals against the non-combatant Christians of Ham- burg, Brandenburg and

CRESAP'S WAR The Lancaster County Border Struggle. Cresap's War was simply a series of campaigns beginning in 1735, in a struggle which at that time was about fifty years old—the border struggle between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The difficulty began as early as 1684, and was the chief cause which

religious." (3 V. 45). They originated the religious exemption from bearing arms in the United States, together with the Quakers, and at least to as great an extent as the latter did. (3 V. 46). In latter day wars those who cannot for conscience sake bear arms can be made as efficient in war as those who

activities as the same appears in the volumes now being examined, in chronological order. 1613 In 1829 Nicholas Biddle, president of the Bank of the United States, in his address upon the opening of the Chesapeake and Delaware canal said, "More than two centuries have passed since this work was contemplated

, Mrs. Charles Bohm and Barbara DeHuff, whose names appear on the list, have by their subscription shown their patriotism and have added a little part to that history still largely unwritten, namely the part the women played in the early life of our county and its history. It is worthy also of note that

Brecknock Town- ship, four teams, a repeating eight day clock, a repeating watch, nine hogs- heads of cider-royal and sundry sorts of household goods." HENRY WEAVER In the issue of April 9, there is set forth the great United States lottery created by resolution of Congress of November 18, 1776, for the

The Birth of Lancaster County The earliest human beings who have left us any evidence of their residence in what is now Lancaster county were those ancient Indians who carved the pictures upon the rocks of the Susquehanna River and on the rocks in and about adjacent streams. The United States

and Barbara DeHuff, whose names appear on the list, have by their subscription shown their patriotism and have added a little part to that history still largely unwritten, namely the part the women played in the early life of our county and its history. It is worthy also of note that the subscriptions