ANDREW ELLICOTT, In the December number of the new magazine called the World's Work appeared an article under the title of "The Building of a Great Capi- tal." It is a well-written and hand- somely illustrated paper, and worth reading, but some of the statements made in the article do not seem to

the way, like many small to wns in New England, had a famous academy, which figures largely in its several copious histories, and the town library has a bust os Stevens to com- memorate his many gifts to it. It remains to notice the persons to whom in this letter he sends his re- gards—"Your brother

gen- eral interest, messages and addresses by prominent people under the Na- �tional or state Governments, acts of the Assembly or communications by correspondents. Then comes a de- partment of soreign news. These were copied from foreign newspapers, gen- erally three or four months old. They

Nauman and Arthur Armstrong lived was destroyed also. The property belonged to Mr. Arm- strong. This was the third fire with- in three weeks—none accidental. January 23-6:30 a. m.—The citi- zens were again called to action by the cry of fire. The stable of Mrs. Hall, property of James Evans, was set on

Atkinson, son of Mathew and brother os Stephen, married, as is �shown by the records of St. James' P. E. Church, April 24, 1762, Anna Maria Le Roy, whose younger sister, Marie Salome, later on was married to Charles Hall. The will of their brother, Abraham Le Roy, written in 1765 (Book B, p. 545), mentions

talent, and (here and there) by some acknowledged genius, such as Burns; a few communica- tions to the editors, and notices of marriages and deaths. Occasionally only a news item. We find that, "on the 7th inst. (of September, 1804), as Mr. James Coch- ran of this county was driving his team (the

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