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

Johnson induced several skilled gunsmiths to migrate from Lancaster, and they set up shops at Esopus, Schenectady, Johns- town and Canajoharie. But the main spread of rifle manufacture from Lan- caster was south and southwest. By the outbreak of the Revolution there were rifle-shops at Baltimore, Cumber

Anderson (No. 2) gave the serry and farm to his son. William Ellery, signer os the Declara- tion of Independence srom Rhode Island, in his journal or diary, records as follows: "1777, Nov. 14, stopped at Lititz and on the 15th crossed at An- derson's Ferry at noon and reached York in the afternoon. James

dream of that time and of later times also. It would have taken as much money to build a ship channel in the Susquehanna from the Juniata to the sea as to build the Panama canal. Hardware and "Wet Goods." Under date of November 18, Chris- topher B. Mayer announces that the firm of Mayer & Steinman

, 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