this history: Amateur Papers of Lancaster County. A son of Judge Lewis edited and published the first amateur paper printed in Lancaster, so far as I have been able to trace. This was in the year 1849. In 1855 another paper was started by John H. Carmany, and continued for about a year. The office of

records of that Congress is an order for the arrest and detention of Louis and Michael Busch, of Lancaster, for 'disregarding the ordinance of the secret com- mittee.' "The foregoing sketch may seem a trifle digressive, but it is less so in a history of Andrew Jackson than in that of any other man. Hardly

very nearly the whole popula- tion os Donegal township. He fre- quently rode to Philadelphia to plead the cause of his people. Finally, the disputes were settled to the entire satissaction of all parties. Then Mr. �Anderson, in his own behalf, or that of his oldest son, Tames, took out a patent for a

Creek, half a mile srom the Great Road, and about a mile srom Lancaster, opposite George Ross's Mill, is now repairing and likely to be ready for Business in a short Time; where People may depend upon having their Cloths carefully dressed according to Orders, in the several Branches of Business

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

remember him well, for there was no more familiar face than his seen on the streets of Lan- caster during the fifty years pre- ceding his death on August 12, 1874. A few preliminary words, however, as to his personality will not be out of order. Matthias Zahm came of sturdy Ger- man ancestry. He was born

not with it as it is at present; rather would we call up some of the pale phantoms of the past. Between Graeff's Landing and Rei- gart's Landing, as we know them at present, was built in former days, now nearly two centuries ago, the very first mill in Lancaster county. As far back as 1718, one

McDowell, and he launched his paper with the following announcement: "The first number of The Hive is offered to the ladies and gentlemen of Lancaster and its vicinity as a speci- men. The editor or some person au- thorized by him will call in the course of a few days on those subscribers who have not yet

money received from Mr John Lightner for Mr John Kerr, late Gailor, for Lancaster County Rec. in full "Michl Pigeon per order." John Kerr,' late gailor, was probably the man who was manufacturing nails on Orange street in 1796. Standing alone, significant of its contents, on a page turned slightly Ellis

jury in- dicted (and among fifteen persons brought to justice for aiding in this escape) four persons were convicted in the Lancaster County Court—Jacob *He was, of course, Captain Andrew Lee, of Colonel Hazen's Regiment, "Congress' Own," that stout Paxtang sol- dier, who rose from the ranks, was