as it touched Lancaster County. The area at that time was served with four local dailies and it may be of interest to look at the political complexions of these newssheets. The oldest was the Intelligencer which had its beginning in 1799. During the years that James Buchanan was aspiring to the

Judicial Branch of the Government ; but all will yet be well. "Your friend always, "James Buchanan." 1 On the 4th of March, 1861, after Lincoln had taken the oath of office as President of the United States, citizen Buchanan and President Lincoln entered a carriage, and a military procession escorted them

extended sketch os Donegal township and its early settlers, who took the text-oath besore James Bayly, which is on record in the Recorder's office. Rev. Colin McFarquhar's name is not among them. -------------------------- ALEXANDER LOWREY. BY MRS. SAMUEL EVANS. In Donegal, in Erin's Isle Stern Scotia's

archives and property from Corydon, the then capital, to Indianapolis, and lived in Indianapolis until his death, about 1855. Aster leaving the office os treas- urer he helped to organize the State Bank os Indiana, and was its presi- dent sor many years, and during the later years os his connection with

, 1739, recorded April 21, 1765, conveys to his son, Matthew, this property, subject to a mortgage to the Trustees os the General Loan Office, sor £1,737, dated March 8, 1737. The witnesses are Samuel Reed, Thomas Thornbrugh and Thomas Cookson. Around him were the "lands os Jacob Lundis (Landis

AN OLD TILE AND ITS OWNER. The old-fashioned, baked, clay-tile, which I take pleasure in presenting to our Society, was taken from an old bake house in Heidelberg township, Lebanon county, several weeks ago, on property once owned by Leonard Holstoner. The house to which it was attached is a very

officers, the appointment of committees to pre- sent addresses and a series of resolutions, some of which criticized Masonry while others called for unity, and the establishment of committees of cor- respondence.24 In October 1828, "the party put forth a candidate for Con- gress, William Hiester of

its obscurity, and has given to us the only out- line, so far as known, of the original building of St. James's church. LETTERS OF JAMES BUCHANAN By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN 1908, the J. B. Lippincott Company, of Philadelphia and Lon- don, published, in twelve volumes, "The Works of James Buchanan

, January 4. 1842. �Elizabeth Huber Reigart. Mr. Reigart was postmaster of Lan- caster from 1853 to 1856; he with Dr. Fahnestock were among the first to notify James Buchanan of his nomination for the presi- dency, driving to the latter's home at Wheatland for that purpose on June 6, 1856. Dr. Fahnestock

application could construct from them a map of our county, in 1729, showing where all the inhabitants owning land lived at that time. The correspondence as to the early taking up of land, finding of min- erals, conflicts of claims, the move- ment and activities of the Indians, etc., is also preserved in the