prospect and convenience. 3. North and South lines, intersected by others running due East and West, make the distribution of the City into Streets, Squares, &c., and these lines have been so combined as to meet at certain given points with those diver- gent Avenues, so as to form on the Spaces "first

announces to the ladies of Lancaster that she will make habits, caps, chapeau, &c., aster all sorts of sashions. He lived at the widow Newman's. Lancaster must have had some reputation as a literary center even at that early period, and earlier still. In the Maryland Journal, of August 20, 1773, published

in 1789, and lived to the patriarchal age of eighty-five years. He was one of a family of five brothers, all of whom lived here, I believe. Race suicide not yet having become a fad, he be- came the father of four sons and four daughters, many of whose descend- ants are still living in this com

, he, being destitute os a place to dwell in, was allowed fisty acres for him to dwell on, on the north slde os Conestoga Manor, during his life, he paying rent yearly to the Pro- prietary." (Penna. Archives, third se- ries, volume 1, p. 99). He and Ste- phen may have been brothers, but this is pure

know much about this publication, though some of the volumes have been carefully preserved. Messrs. Ferd A. and Henry C. Demuth have the only full file which I have seen; but,of the second volume, one copy belongs to Miss Sue Jeffries, having come to her from Miss Susan Hambright, a daughter of William

seven- teen gallons. We don't know whether Steinman & Company were selling copper kettles then or not, or whether our purchasers simply preferred Schaum's, bust he did buy at Stein- man's as well, for several receipts prove that, including the f ollowing: 3Ellis and Evans, p. 245. �"Received May 7th