went in turns from the East to the West. There was an effort made to orga- nize an amateur press association in Lancaster county, and the subject was well ventilated in its several papers; but the project fell through, owing, in part, to slower communica- tion in 1877 than now existing, when trolley

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

, in a building now owned by H. F. Bruner. He purchased the "Golden Fleece" Hotel, in Lancaster, and moved there. He was also connected with the stage line. Andrew Boggs, who married a niece of Mrs. Wilson, bought the hotel. After the war of 1812 they moved to Hagerstown. Some of Mr. Wilson's

remains in manuscript. I have reason to believe the map I have described and which is exhibited here to-day is exceedingly rare. I never saw one before or heard of one. No doubt the original is on file in the archives at Washington. This one possibly owes its presence here to-day to the fact that its

, whither his people had fled srom persecution. He was a min- ister, as well as a doctor. He located at Lancaster, and became a prominent citizen. He was born in 1748 and died in 1823.—Stapleton's Memorials os the Huguenots, p. 56. �in the eastern end of the county, would come to our house early in the