himself with the Inquirer Printing and Publishing Company, of Lan- caster. The third local amateur paper was established in Lancaster, in October, 1877, and called The Monthly Budget, in the interest of the Boys' High School. H. M. D. Erisman and H. D. Gast were the editors and publishers. They also

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

of the Rev. Colin McFarquhar,pastor os DonegalChurch, joined Captain Reitzel's Company, of Lancaster, and marched to Western Pennsylvania to help quell the whisky insurrection; moved to Maytown and kept the Brick Tavern in the square. From thence he moved to Columbia and kept tavern on Second street

office, Lancaster then being the capital of Pennsylvania, Mr. Ellicott removed to this place, which was only a borough at that time. His place of residence was the house situated on the south- east corner of North Prince and Marion streets. The small store house to the south of his dwelling was used by