upon our country- man. But I have a few additional facts to relate concerning the career of Mr. El- licott. In 1792 he was appointed Sur- veyor General of the United States. In 1795 he superintended the construction of Fort Erie, at Presque Isle, now Erie, Pa., and was also employed to lay out the

the high School os Turin, Master Chirurgie of the Faculty os Balenz, �and graduate of medicine in the Faculty of Padua, has the honor to in- sorm his sriends that he will shortly be located and can be found in the house on Queen St., lately occupied by Frederick Mann." Dr. Du Fresne was a doctor of

, which came along later. The first turnpike in the county and the first one in the United states was what has always been known as the "Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike." That road was built by a company that was charter- ed by the General Assembly of the State on April 9, 1792. It was not a state

singular in the light of the after reputation he made for himself. His education was, no doubt, that which the local schools of that day could offer. That he was a very well informed and intelligent man the writer can testify, having seen and heard him frequently a year or two before his death. The

died—the mother in 1755, he earlier. Mr. Connolly was elected a vestryman of St. James' Epis- copal Church October 3, 1744. Upon the death of his mother, James Wright, of Columbia, was appointed the guardian of the young lad, who was given all the advantages in the way of education which Lancaster at

of Lancaster city than the stone residence located on the northwest corner of North Duke and Orange streets. It was a fine specimen of the pre-revolutionary style, and even down to the day when it was torn down to make room for St. Paul's Reformed Church was admired by all who were acquainted with it

an age-long custom. History does not record a time when monuments were not the customary means of commemorating great events, historic occasions and distinguished services. Standing in the midst of your people, on a central and commanding site, in the shadow of your ancient church, this shaft will

. Governor Pennypacker's collec- tion of Ephrata imprints is the largest known. He has told me within a year that it numbers 150 different exam- ples. However interesting the story of the Ephrata press may be—and its �history is of exceeding value to the student of our early German litera- ture—it forms no

Plays." He also laid it before the Pro- vincial Council,where it was not favor- ably received, it being alleged "that the prohibition of plays was a most unreasonable restraint on the King's subjects, from taking innocent diver- sions, and that such an Act of the Province was passed in the Eighth Year