1857 he went to Kentucky— if there was a Kentucky in 1857. How- ever, he left his wife and two children in Lancaster. In this act he can claim kinship with many artists and some geniuses. If one have great im- agination and can forget his canvases they can hear him talking to Shakes- peare (a genius, G

four, should ascertain the compensation Abraham Witmer should receive for his trouble and expense, and the same should be paid to him out of the treasury of the Common- wealth. At May term, 1788, of the Court of Quarter Sessions, a petition to the following effect was presented to the Court (see Road

. Dear Sir, I wish you to send me a requisition, directed to the Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, for the appre- hension of Abraham Jonson, a free colored man, who recently left Balti- more county, Md., upon the charge of having received stolen goods, the facts in the case are as follows, viz.: Said Jonson

without saying that the history of his life and works, published by this society, has quicken- ed interest in and an appreciation of him, as well as much enhanced the market value of his productions. For example, a family portrait has turned up in Denver, Colorado. It is owned by the widow of Leonard Eich

concluded here that they had been drowned in some of the rivulets of Chester county; for it was more than a month before we heard any- thing of them. Within a few days past we have ascertained that they are in the neighborhood of Church- town, Lancaster county, progressing in their surveys. They have found

stoves," made by Chris- topher Sower, of Germantown, some of which were cast at or near Lan- caster. They were, it is probable, the first stoves cast in America, and are described as similar in construc- tion to the box form of the old ten- plate stove which superseded them, but they were without a pipe

AN ITALIAN ARTIST IN OLD LANCASTER. (LUIGI PERSICO-1820) With all of its many distinctions Lancaster has never been notable for lavish patronage of the fine arts. It has neither a public gallery nor pri- vate collection of famous and mer- itorious paintings or attractive sculp- ture. It would be