himself with the Inquirer Printing and Publishing Company, of Lan- caster. The third local amateur paper was established in Lancaster, in October, 1877, and called The Monthly Budget, in the interest of the Boys' High School. H. M. D. Erisman and H. D. Gast were the editors and publishers. They also

refugees from religious persecution settled in what was then known as the 'Conestoga country' of Pennsyl- vania, but now Lancaster. It was a singular dispensation that brought this colony of rifle-makers to our soil under the auspices of the peaceful and non-combatant 'Proprietary' of Wil- liam Penn and

of the Rev. Colin McFarquhar,pastor os DonegalChurch, joined Captain Reitzel's Company, of Lancaster, and marched to Western Pennsylvania to help quell the whisky insurrection; moved to Maytown and kept the Brick Tavern in the square. From thence he moved to Columbia and kept tavern on Second street

, who is entitled to equal honor in surveying and plotting the National capital, and that man was Andrew Ellicott. He was born in Bucks county, this State, on January 24, 1754, and died at West Point, New York. on August 29, 1820. I shall present briefly the most salient points in his career, and show