description left an undefined territory and a disputed frontier. In reference to the etymology of the word Acadia, it has been written in dif- ferent ways: La Cadie, La Cady, Accadie, Accadia, Arcadie, Arcadia, and Quoddy. The etymology of the word is not certain. It is certainly not from the Greek "Arcadia

. Miners and those skilled in warfare were unneces- sary; barter was the ostensible object of these voyages. If you please, con- sider the products procurable in this wonderful land—gold, silver, ivory, peacocks, apes and rare and beautiful wood, such as was not indigenous to the Orient. En passant, we are

the resolution, 47 yeas to 7 noes. The Petition. MARTICK TOWNSHIP. To the Honorable the Representatives of the freemen of the State of Pennsylvania this Memorial Humbly Sheweth : That your Memorialists are of Opinion that frequent Changes in Government have a tendency to weaken it, and to Create

widely dispersed throughout the entire country. �From all these different points of view, the old structure to which. I ask your brief attention commands inter- est and has the charm of novelty. Situ- ated in the northern end of the borough of Quarryville, perched on a slight hill, stands a large stone

are in a good state of preservation to-day. In 1845 Henry Haldeman built the Chickiswalungo furnace. This furnace and all his other property at Chickies he gave to his sons, Samuel and Edwin, on July 4, 1845. The furnace first went in blast January 15, 1846. It was originally but thirty-two feet high

CONESTOGA. REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD TOWNSHIP When we think of the treatment the Palatinates (from whom most of us have descended) received from their oppressors in their native land, when their homes were destroyed and they were compelled to flee for their lives to such parts of the world as

inquisition indented taken at Sadsbury township, in the county of Lancaster, the 11th day of Septem- ber, A. D. 1851, before me, Joseph D. Pownall, Esq., for the county of Lan- caster, upon the view of the body of a man then and there lying dead, sup- posed to be Edward Gorsuch, of Balti- more county

a n o e w o n ' t g o . " I f e e l much inclined to think the origin of the n a m e is more cl osel y all i ed t o Scotch-Irish ingeunity than to Indian- like description. After much research and many pleasant conversations with the older residents' some of whom have spent more than three score

history, her present standing in all that tends to make her grand and great, her unrivaled soil, her climate arid general environments, together with the achieve- ments of her sons and daughters, yet we must acknowledge and greet our mother �county as a worthy rival in everything pertaining to education

during the war with Mexico. Eleven officers out of thirteen were killed in that charge' two only surviving the successful and terrible onslaught. Mr. James H. Ferry has in his possession a l e t t e r f r o m G e n e r a l W o r t h , c o m - mending the bravery of Major Ferry. Two sons were born to Dr