this history: Amateur Papers of Lancaster County. A son of Judge Lewis edited and published the first amateur paper printed in Lancaster, so far as I have been able to trace. This was in the year 1849. In 1855 another paper was started by John H. Carmany, and continued for about a year. The office of

standard type very soon became known throughout the colo- nies as 'the Lancaster rifle,' and, prior to the conquest of Canada, its manufacture was practically monopo- lized by the town from which it took its name. After 1760 makers who had learned the art at Lancaster branched out for themselves and set up