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

in 1719. He was an Indlan trader, and had sons, John, Thomas, William and Peter, all of whom were also Indian traders. He gave the farm at the river to his son William. In the summer of 1726, the Rev. James Anderson received a call from old Donegal Church, which he accepted, and located in the

land car- riage, which became heavier through the want of suitable roads for car- riages to pass. That there are no public roads leading to Philadelphia yet laid out through their county, and those in Chester county through which they now pass, are in many places incommodious. And therefore praying

AN OLD DIARY (INTRODUCTORY.) The brief paper which is to follow this introduction consists of a series of extracts selected from a diary kept by Matthias Zahm, beginning in 1835, and ending in 1849. Although Mr. Zahm died thirty-two years ago, there are, no doubt, a number of persons present who

cost of labor was somewhat different from the present day, if we judge from the following items: One contains the date March 26, 1798, when Jacob Miller acknowledges the re- ceipt of "144 Pounds, being for four years Wages viz., from March 26, 1794, to March 26, 1798." Some years later Jacob Snyder was

at the edge of the county, on that great broad green which still spreads itself in front of the Compass tavern, No doubt after he had a drink —or possibly two—he sauntered down �to the old church yard of St. John's, of Pequea. The present church build- ing was not there then, but the ever- lasting

- came the friend of Mercer and Wash- ington. He published a sermon upon Braddock's defeat in 1755. John Penn, the proprietary Governor, was an admirer of Thomas Barton, and said, "He deserved the commen- dation of all lovers of their country." In 1759 he was elected pastor of St. James' Church

, vol. 3, pp. 171- 175. �thirty miles up from hence" (Phila- delphia).' December 2, 1701, James Logan wrote to William Penn: "The Sus- quehanna subscriptions go not briskly on, as at first, chiefly through the un- dertakers' want of time, because or the fair, eto., but it is intended to be pressed

-grandfather. Said Eberle had a son, by the name of Cassimir, who was apprenticed to a gunsmith in Prague to learn that trade. After he had finished his apprentice- ship he went traveling (as was cus- tomary) through Germany, Switzer- land and France, and worked in many places, in particular in Paris, for sev

Steel Association, and editor of its publications. He is our highest authority on matters per- taining to the iron and steel industry in the United States: It is a curious fact that the exist- ence of the buffalo in Pennsylvania in colonial times or at any time before the coming of the white settlers