. In 1792 Mr. Ellicott was appointed Surveyor General of the United States. In 1795 he superintended the construction of Fort Erie, now Erie, Pa., and was also employed to lay out the towns of Warren and Franklin. In 1796 his friend, Washington, appointed him United States Commissioner to determine the

not pay the bond he had given sor the purchase money, and Franklin in 1754 put one William Dunlap in charge. He rented the establishment to the latter from February, 1754, to April, 1757, at the rate of £20 per annum, then ceased. Those were the days os small things in the newspaper world, as well as

- dent. The number of votes was 2,000. This was the first Presidential election held on the same day throughout the United States. November 22—City meeting at the Court House in reference to lighting the city with gas. December 23—The tavern at the northwest corner of North Queen and �Orange streets sold

Margaret Atkinson, signed by mark, September 7, 1798, witnesses Jacob Moyer and John W. Kittera, proved August 4, 1803 (Book H, p. 345), she directs that "the house and a certain Plantation in tenure of George Ross, in Lampeter township," be sold, and on the deed recorded (Book T, p. 44) it states that

whoever found was to deliver to the printers and receive the re- ward; and, in another, Mr. Bernard begged "leave to inform the ladies and gentlemen and the public in general that he had for sale at the house of Mr. William Ferree, Sign of General Washington, in East King street, an extensive assortment

An Old Receipt Book. It is always interesting to make comparisons, and when you have a hundred years as a dividing line and you know what is on this end of the line, curiosity, such as the fisherman possesses under such circumstances, leads us to wonder about the other end. The old book in question