An Interesting Relic Discovery of Part of One of Baron Stiegle's Stoves. The late Mr. John F. Sehner, who resided at No. 120 North Prince street, this city, a number of years ago un- earthed a very interesting relic, prob- ably the oldest-known or well-authen- ticated piece of iron casting made in

application could construct from them a map of our county, in 1729, showing where all the inhabitants owning land lived at that time. The correspondence as to the early taking up of land, finding of min- erals, conflicts of claims, the move- ment and activities of the Indians, etc., is also preserved in the

The Attitude of James Buchanan (a Cit- izen of Lancaster County) towards the Institution of Slavery in the United States It is the happy and appropriate function of an historical society, with even the local limitations of ours, to fearlessly explore and faithfully chron- icle the events of general

TheBeginningsofArtificialRoadsin Pennsylvania. Some time ago I came across an article published in the Pennsylvania Gazette of February 20, 1772, signed " Clericus." It indicated that the first move looking towards the building of a turnpike from Philadelphia to Lan- caster had originated among the

Benjamin West Henry, A Lan- caster Artist, The ancestors of Benjamin West Henry were Robert and Mary A. Henry, his wife, who emigrated from Scotland to Pennsylvania in 1722, and settled in Chester County. They were accompanied by their three sons, John, Robert and James. John, the eldest son

A BIT OF ASTROLOGY. It may be surprising to such per- sons as have given very little attention to the subject to find that considerable superstition still exists among even the enlfghtened people of Eastern Pennsylvania. Signs of the moon are observed not only in the planting of fence-posts, but

of cours,e impossible, as Mr. Lincoln pointed out, for the republic to endure forever half slave and half free -to run a geographical marker through a great and compli­ cated moral, economic and political issue -especially in 1 1 �2 TIIE CHRISTIANA RIOT, view of the far flung border line and the

A CLUSTER OF ROSES. Were any of you to take a morning stroll, say to the banks of the little river which winds its tortuous way through the fruitful lands of this, our county, you might go with some defin- ite object in view. It might be your intention to seek the uncertain site of Stephen

anything amusing in the verbosity and precision of these formal legal documents, and yet from our point of view, it is there. There is not only much that is entertaining, but much that is curious, and so, from a careful study of the old wills, still on record, this paper has been compiled. Naturally, while