passage for 4 from York to Midcalfe's ... 3.80 " " Refreshments .25 $4.55 Received payment, GEORGE F. GORSUCH. Estate of Edward Gorsuch. To JOSHUA GORSUCH, Dr. 1851. Sept. 10, 11 & 12th. To expenses incurred in accom- panying him to Pennsylvania and re- turning. To fare from Colum- bia to Pennytonville

standard type very soon became known throughout the colo- nies as 'the Lancaster rifle,' and, prior to the conquest of Canada, its manufacture was practically monopo- lized by the town from which it took its name. After 1760 makers who had learned the art at Lancaster branched out for themselves and set up

AN ARTISTIC AFTERMATH I am indebted to Mr. John D. Chal- fant, artist, of Wilmington, Deh, for an opportunity to see a catalogue of the "First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Artists of the United States." which was held in Philadelphia, under the auspices of what is now the Academy of Fine

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

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

. Some day the whole of his notes will be found worth publishing—even if they never attain the classic eminence of Pepys or Evelyn. For my present purposes and your edification, I refer to them only to throw some light on a subject that should be of perennial interest to the Lancaster County Historical

A CENTENNIAL EVENT One of the oldest families and widest connections in Eastern Lan- caster county are the Slaymakers Their ancestors bought of and settled on the famous "London lands," along the old Strasburg and Gap roads, and they have illustrated the tenacity of the Lancaster county land-owner

company would set apart for- ever, and even permanently commem- orate that tenant house and lot in Sadsbury, where, sixty-five years ago. was fired the tragic shot of the flee- ing bondsman, heard 'round the en- tire land, then torn by the conflict of Freedom and Slavery. The Ramsays and Their Lancaster