official court records of Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D. C. Autographs-16 rare papers in the handwriting of Lincoln valued at $10,000. Autographs of hundreds of Lincoln associates. Pictures—Hall collection of about 1700 different items. Metallic Lincolnia—a wide

possibly remember seeing me at the Phila. Convention, introduced to you as the lone Whig star of Illinois. Since the adjournment, I have remained here, so long, in the Whig document room. I am now about to start for home; and I desire the undisguised opinion of some experienced and sagacious Pennsylvania

David M. Sensenig A Famous Local Mathematician By C. H. MARTIN David M. Sensenig was born in 1840 at Goodville, East Earl Township, Lancaster County, son of Michael and Barbara Martin Sensenig. When a young man he worked on his father's farm. He was greatly interested in mathematics even as a boy

DOLLAR Coin of 8 Real value. Originally coined for South American trade. Also called Peso and Pillar Dollar. This is the coin of pirate fame and circulated widely in the American colonies. STIVERS Small coin of Netherlands and Germany of about 2c value. �THIRTY PIECES Rev. McFarquhar, of Donegal, in

to the value of $200.00 exclusive of that exempt.' (Lancaster Journal 4-14-1815.) 8 The War of 1812 was very unpopular. Some poet or near poet of Lan- caster about election time, in Nov. 1815 wrote the following lines: TAXES—TAXES The election's o'er and now they come Sound the trumpet, beat the drum

Electors equal to the whole number of the Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Con- gress, and whereas the Legislature of Pennsylvania has omitted to direct the manner in which this state shall appoint the Electors, etc., etc., I have issued this Proclamation." The fact

peculiar architecture of this house has attracted many. I now wish to present to you a few highly interesting bits of information not recorded in any history of Hans Herr's settlement that have come to my attention, and I have scanned all of which I have any knowledge of. One informant, Mr. David Huber

FEDERAL REVENUES OF LANCASTER COUNTY, PA., FROM ABOUT 1850 to DATE By C. H. Martin, June 1, 1923 The critical period in American History about 1835 to 1840 has been com- memorated in a rather lasting manner by striking coins, known as 'Hard Times Tokens' bearing inscriptions of reference to the

exchange and to the dearth of money of whatever form in the early days of our colonies, that of Pennsylvania in particular. During the heydey of Spain at which time her influence held sway over at least two-thirds of the Western Hemisphere, the Spanish "Piece of Eight" so named on account of the prominence

ground prior to the time when the early settler's axe blazed the way on to these fertile acres. Such papers have primarily treated on the history enacted at and about the Susquehannock Indian town and capital in the Manor of Conestoga and the extinction of the tribe. If I am able to present to you some