bright spot to re- pair to — and that was the "public soup house," maintained by the city government in the Grant Street police station, where pails of hot soup were ladled out to the needy. The ordinary workingman of the earlier days received low wages and as a rule lived near his place of employment

, than Major Ellicott always appeared to me to be in the faithful execution of the public business committed to his charge." Andrew, son of Joseph Ellicott, was born in Bucks County, January 24, 1754, and became famous as a surveyor, astronomer, scientist and mathematician. While yet a young man, he and

good order and ready to do business. The wagon is as good as new. Those wishing to follow a pleasant business will please call on the under- signed, residing in New Holland, Lancaster County, Pa. HENRY RAEZER. H Daniel S. Von Neida, born December 23, 1844, son of Jacob and Catherine Swartz Von Neida

Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and

, and an upright citizen. The modern novelist who would defame or vilify such a character and would picture him a common philanderer, to make a book salable, deserves the condemnation of such or- ganizations as the Lancaster County Historical Society, and more, deserves a reproof, even a legal one, from

named as com- missioners for the Lancaster County section. For a score of years, 1773 to 1793, Zantzinger was a speculator in land, personally holding 3500 acres in eight different counties, and an additional 2500 acres in Northumberland County in the name of Paul Zantzinger and Company. His services as

grandmother told her, tells us in her "Journal" that the farmers on the Susquehanna about 1730 did not de- pend on wheat and corn, but on hemp and hops to make a living. (See Journal Hist. Soc. Pa,) To tell the number of people who lived here when the county was or- ganized in 1729 is a difficult matter. In