incidents in our local history. As matters of ac- curate record, they are fit to be pre- served in our annals and to be chron- icled with the transactions of the So- ciety. On page 20 of the "History," in describing the Gorsuch homestead and estate, it is stated that certain of the slaves attached thereto

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

supplemented the painter's method of transmitting through time the lineaments of the loved and lost and of the honored dead, miniature and portrait painting and the silhou- ette, through nearly two centuries of this town's history, have always had exemplars here. I am disposed to think no form of historical

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

State magistrates could not be required by Federal law to perform any duties involving the recapture and return of the escaped or escaping human chattel. This de- cision—which is quite as monumental in the history of slavery as the more famous Dred Scot case—practically enabled every State and community