. Hollinger �buildings remained. Within recent years, sponsored by Wm. Randolph Hearst, New Salem has been restored. Many of the original buildings have been reconstructed and refurnished. A very large number of the furnishings, orig- inally owned and used by New Salem families during the years Lincoln lived

, sharing its toils and trials, and if we can only get these facts sufficiently before the people, depend on it there is some chance for you." "And now," Fell continued, "Mr. Lincoln, I come to the business part of our interview. My native State of Pennsylvania will have a large number of votes to cast for

and enterprising farmer. Hav- ing a large family and believing that he could provide better for them in the new world, he determined to come to America. The fact that some of his brothers and uncles had already emigrated to Pennsylvania, some coming with Penn, induced Mr. Smith to settle in this

the fertile lands of Lancaster county ; and unless we forget the easy means of communication, daily mail, speedy travel of to-day, and the too numerous political subdivisions for most eco- nomical administration of public affairs, we do not fully understand the motives that prompted these many efforts

The Society of the Cincinnati in Lancaster By C. H. MARTIN Incorporated in the membership certificate of a society organized by officers of the American Army, at the time of its disbanding in 1783, are these words: "The duty of laying down in peace arms assumed for public defence, and of uniting in

, 1787. He was graduated from Princeton, studied law at Lancaster, moved to Harrisburg and was elected to the 14th Congress, but did not qualify, in view of a judicial appointment. He served as attorney general of Pennsylvania from 1816, to 1819. He declined an appointment as secretary of war, in the

reputed to have been about 90 years of age and Mary about 87, at the time of their death. They were given a Christian burial by Mr. Hershey, and are, so far as I know, the only marked Indian graves among the large number of Indian burials in Lancaster county. For a portion of the information of the