Church Journal was established at Lancaster in 1879, and published in the interest of St. John's Lutheran Church. Rev. Sylvanus Stall, A.M., edited this neat, eight-page monthly in 1882. The Criterion was put forth by Her- man E. Hoch, its editor of this city, every two weeks, for a period of months, in

records of that Congress is an order for the arrest and detention of Louis and Michael Busch, of Lancaster, for 'disregarding the ordinance of the secret com- mittee.' "The foregoing sketch may seem a trifle digressive, but it is less so in a history of Andrew Jackson than in that of any other man. Hardly

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

office, Lancaster then being the capital of Pennsylvania, Mr. Ellicott removed to this place, which was only a borough at that time. His place of residence was the house situated on the south- east corner of North Prince and Marion streets. The small store house to the south of his dwelling was used by

consequence to, and establish the reputation of, the most capital teacher at the first court of Europe. After all this one can't help but wondering who were the "several Ladies eminent sor literary accomplishments" in Lancaster in 1773. As a matter os interest I give the Philadelphia prices for some os the

, 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