has lived in the house for a century. A pleasant feature of the program was the rendition of a num- ber of Moravian chorales, by the Trombone Choir of the Lititz Moravian Church, under the direction of John W. Keehn. Some of these hymns were written by Count Zinzendorf, and are in popular favor with

flying beetle. Both were men of highest scholastic attainments, both were devout and devoted pastors of Lutheran parishes. The Rev. Henry Ernst Muhlenberg, of Lancaster, was a botanist; the Rev. Frederick Valentine Melsheimer, an entomologist. There were times in those early days when Muhlenberg walked

Lancaster, and followed watch and clock making the balance of his active life, dying July 21, 1816. George Hoff, by deed from Adam Simon Kuhn and wife and William Bausman, jointly, dated December 30, 1769, recorded in Book No. 1, page 610, bought a property on West King Street, first door west of the old

Lancaster City shall rendezvous in Lancaster City. Each citizen shall provide his own arms and ammunition until a sufficient supply of arms reaches this department, also his own rations for three days to be carried with him. Also intrenching tools, either an axe, shovel or pick. Officers will be assigned to

owned by John H. Musselman, of Lancaster, Pa. �Capitol of the State at Sacramento was adorned with his life-size portrait, and so while his whole purpose in coming to California was to advance his personal fortune, it is as a public and political figure, whose influence is being recognized more and more

of the earliest and most ardent collectors and observers of nature, a resident of Darby, then Chester County, Pa., contributed many papers on entomology which appeared between the years 1746 and 1751. Timothy Mattlock, born in New Jersey but a resident of standing in Lancaster, presented in 1780 an

, scattered about the city, could be * Historical Sketch of the Union Fire Company, No. 1, by Alfred San- derson, 1879, p._31. THE WATER SUPPLY OF LANCASTER 3 told. William Blickenderfer, a grocer, located at 310 North Queen Street, impelled by humane motives, was one who erected such a fountain in 1874. The