not enter into the purposes of this article. Nowhere does the author give credit to any other man in surveying or design- ing the Capital City of the United States. While half a dozen handsome illustrations accompany it, the plot or survey of this French engineer, if he ever made one, is nowhere in

German and English ten shillings, French $2; he to provide the firewood to heat the school rooms. On the same day also appeared the advertisement of Peter Audirac, lately arrived from France. /le announces that he will keep a school to teach the French language. In the same advertisement his wise

, which came along later. The first turnpike in the county and the first one in the United states was what has always been known as the "Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike." That road was built by a company that was charter- ed by the General Assembly of the State on April 9, 1792. It was not a state

city is left to conjecture. How long he remained in the river town and when he came to Lancaster is unknown. The first contemporary notice we have of Mr. Armstrong dates back to December, 1849, which reads as fol- lows: "We were very much gratified with a recent visit we paid to the gal- lery of Mr

Canada, and depended upon the precarious chase for my subsistence for months successively." In Business in Illinois. Recurring again to Evans & Ellis' history, I rind that he was, as he says, �with the detachment of troops sent to the Illinois country to set up a form of civil government. Indian traders

DATE STONES. As a rule, the early German settlers in Pennsylvania were not much given to self-laudation or praise- They were too busy in cutting down the forests, tearing out the stumps and carting off the stones that often covered their lands to give much attention to less material things

liberty associations and held themselves ready to march at a moment's notice. It is believed that nearly every able-bodied male member of the Donegal Church was a soldier either in the French and Indian War or the War of the Revo- lution. The Continental Congress provided �for the appointment of

, making a total for city and county of 275, a rec- ord which, I believe, exceeds that of any community in the United States, �having no larger population than ours, say, 160,000 souls. The more immediate purpose of this paper, however, is to bring into promi- nence the German press of the county, and its

discover, but as Lancaster, from as early a period as soon after the Revo- lutionary War, was accounted the largest inland town in the United States, and held that record until into the nineteenth century, it is only rea- sonable to suppose that strolling play- ers found their way to this ancient borough