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

AN EARLY ROAD PETITION. It is hardly necessary for me to say to this audience that the earliest roads used by the first settlers in this country were probably the paths trav- ersed by the Indians in going to and fro over the country, and that when real wagon roads were "laid out," as it was called

earliest record of his artistic life that I have found dates back to about the year 1820, when, at the age of twenty-two years, he opened a studio in the bor- ough of Marietta, where the late Judge John J. Liebhart became one of his students, acquiring no little pro- ficiency in portrait painting, and one

DATE STONES. As a rule, the early German settlers in Pennsylvania were not much given to self-laudation or praise- They were too busy in cutting down the forests, tearing out the stumps and carting off the stones that often covered their lands to give much attention to less material things

- onies. The Scotch-Irish were trained to recognize the authority of the church and to do homage to it. Buckle assures us the church exerted more in- fluence in Scotland and Ireland than in any other European country. The log cabin church was erected about 1720, very near the spot on which this church

steady suc- cession of both German and English newspapers ever since, until the total number started in Lancaster borough and city up to the present time has been about 175. That, mind you, takes no account of those published in Lan- caster county, outside the city limits, which number 100 or more

in New York, where he remained seven years, coming to Philadelphia in 1803. He was connected with the Chestnut Street'T heatre for a period of twenty- seven years, except for brief visits to neighboring cities and towns. He was regarded as the first comedian in the country. His manner was free from

occurrence is laid in Lan- caster nearly three-quarters of a cen- tury ago, it is presented here as a proper supplement to the articles on "Early Lancaster Playbills and Play- houses," published in our proceedings for November, 1902. When I first read the story as told by Mr. Murdoch, I confess I was

manuscript diary In the library at Harrisburg, will serve to show how we appeared in the eyes of the foreigners and what they had to say about us: Lieutenant Anbury's Account. "December, 1778. At Lancaster met with a curious reception. Story afloat that the country round about was to be given to Baron

in the year 1804. Lancaster being then the Capital of Pennsylvania, the electors met in this city, "in the Senate Chamber," in torn down in 1853, which stood on the the old Court House, built in 1787 and site of the monument now erected on the public square. The session of the Board lasted two days