. In 1792 Mr. Ellicott was appointed Surveyor General of the United States. In 1795 he superintended the construction of Fort Erie, now Erie, Pa., and was also employed to lay out the towns of Warren and Franklin. In 1796 his friend, Washington, appointed him United States Commissioner to determine the

pastorate; its church aisles were laid in brick, and no stove warmed the edifice. Fath- er Keenan was just beginning his more than half century at St. Mary's. In the Episcopal parish the ardent and saintly young Muhlenberg was in the flush of a co-rectorship which was later to be "sicklied o'er with the

known, went to the fol- lowing places, and the price of some is given: 1761. Lititz, Pa,, congregation chapel ( £ 40). 1767. Albany, N, Y. Bishop Hehl writes in the "Church Diary" then when this organ was finished and set up here (in Lititz), "a great many strangers from Philadelphia and Lan- caster

no civil rights that the white man was bound to respect. Mr. Buchanan sprang from a race that always respected the rights of property, as well as the rights of man. He was born of a �household and into a church wherein liberty is regulated by law, and whose children were taught obedience to au

. Samuel Evans, of Columbia, Pa. When the Bible-loving Slaymakers came To the sylvan land of Penn, Did they know they had chosen the rarest spot That ever was known to men? Did they know that this shire would be queen of the State, This State the queen of all, On this, the Solar System's best, Our own