this history: Amateur Papers of Lancaster County. A son of Judge Lewis edited and published the first amateur paper printed in Lancaster, so far as I have been able to trace. This was in the year 1849. In 1855 another paper was started by John H. Carmany, and continued for about a year. The office of

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

common. They had be- come much mixed with negroes, and, in the Nat. Turner insurrection, about 1833, were treated as such and driven off. Captain John Smith, in his History of Virginia, 1629, spells the name "Ac- cowmacke," and says "they use jave- lins, headed with bone, instead of stone, and dartfish

reproduced. All have been enlarged about one-third. �history, derived from Dr. Seidenstick- er's "First Century of German Print- ing," may not be amiss. It was the third German newspaper published in Pennsylvania. The first number was issued on August 7, 1787. The pub- lishers were Steiner, Albrecht and Lahn

thought it of sufficient interest to have a copy made of it for presentation to our society, which was done by Mr. Kelker, he having refused all compensation for the work. About one-third of the names to the petition were written in German, and these were also Englished that they might be intelligible to

- munity. Although everybody knew "Grand- pap" Zahm fifty years ago, if you go out into the city and make inquiries as to his history about the only thing you will learn is that he was court- crier for an unremembered number of years. As the writer knew him only by sight, he is unable to add any per- sonal

owners / by Mrs. Mary L. Robinson. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Atkins family. Mills and mill-work--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [24]-29 p. ; 23 cm. Series

know much about this publication, though some of the volumes have been carefully preserved. Messrs. Ferd A. and Henry C. Demuth have the only full file which I have seen; but,of the second volume, one copy belongs to Miss Sue Jeffries, having come to her from Miss Susan Hambright, a daughter of William

An Old Receipt Book. It is always interesting to make comparisons, and when you have a hundred years as a dividing line and you know what is on this end of the line, curiosity, such as the fisherman possesses under such circumstances, leads us to wonder about the other end. The old book in question

- ventory is interesting, because it gives in detail what a well-to-do farmer had on his premises in those early days and the value of the different articles at that time- The Inventory. An Inventory of the Goods and Chat- tles, Rights & Credits of Leonard Hol- stein, late of Heidelberg Township, in the