that proper persons may be appointed to view and lay out a road for public service, from the town of Lancaster, till it falls in with the high road in the county of Cnester, leading to the ferry of schuylkill, at High street, and that a review may be had of the said public road in the county of Chester

an age-long custom. History does not record a time when monuments were not the customary means of commemorating great events, historic occasions and distinguished services. Standing in the midst of your people, on a central and commanding site, in the shadow of your ancient church, this shaft will

EARLY LOCAL HISTORY. Although we may sometimes be in- clined to think we have well-nigh ex- hausted the sources of our history, and that there is little left for pres- ent and future gleaners, the truth is, that is altogether an erroneous and sho rt - sigh ted vi ew of the ca s e . Be - cause there

have a de- cided value of their own, inasmuch as they throw new light on some points in the history of the Ephrata Brother- hood. The Letters. "The gentleman at whose house I am entertained is one of the people called Quakers, and a wealthy merchant in this city, to whom I had a letter from Mr. L . of

persons in his new settlement of Christina. Wil- liam Penn was not yet born when the Swedes began this settlement. It is true this colony of New Sweden did not long continue, but it marks a notable era in Pennsylvania history.³ These Swedes appear to have been more liberal in their dealings with the

GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE. In thumbing over "Rupp's History of Lancaster County" several weeks ago for, perhaps, the five hundredth time, I once more came upon the Gen- eral Wayne letters, printed on pages 412 to 420. Like a good many more persons, I had never questioned the fact that as they bore the

these were widely known, and most of Iii\� � them were connected with important events in her early history. The names and erection of a few of them may be Iii\� ,trJ, given : Hickory Tree, on East King street, 1722; Cross Keys, 1730; Lancaster County House, 1754; Shober's Iii\� I Hotel, 1757; Fountain

village of New Holland, Lancaster county, offering a reward of $100 for the discovery and conviction of the person or persons concerned in entering the church about the 15th or 16th of December, 1819, and destroying the new organ of the church, by re- moving and despoiling the pipes thereof, and taking