subscribers from our own Lancaster county. From this list we are able to get some idea of the literary people of that day, and of those who, in all probability, were among the most influential in the community. The little town of Columbia, Pa., is represented as having seventeen sub- scribers, as follows: J

DID LOUIS XVI. OF FRANCE PRESENT A RUG TO GEORGE WASHINGTON? By William Frederic Worner. At a meeting of the Lancaster County Historical Society held in April, 1908, a booklet was received entitled: "An Illustrated Handbook of Mount Vernon; the Home of Washington," issued by the Mount Vernon Ladies

Mcllvaine. It ceased to be a tavern more than one hundred years ago. (See History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, by Judge Charles I. Landis, pages 24 and 25). "June 4th, 1773. Breakfasted at the Sign of the Bull, 13 miles from the Ship; dind at Lancaster, 19 Miles further, and lodgd at Wright's

, Lancaster county, Pa., October 6th, 1798, �and died June 15th, 1851. In 1820, he opened a studio in Marietta, Pa., and there began his career as artist and teacher. In 1849, he opened a studio, and a gallery for exhibition of paintings, in Mechanics' Institute, Lancaster; and, later, had a large studio

The Rev. Mr. Davie then delivered an able and eloquent ad- dress, very forcibly exhibiting the destructive consequences of the continued use of intoxicating drinks, and concluded with a solemn and affectionate appeal to the good sense, morality and patriotism of a respectable auditory, well

establishing a political society, to be styled 'The Washington Association of Lancaster.' "It is not our intention to conduct the business of this Asso- ciation in the dark, for we will be proud of declaring our prin- ciples and exhibiting our conduct to the world. It is not our in- tention to give personal