, Baltimore county. On this twenty-fifth day of December, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, personally appeared be- fore the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, of the State of Maryland, in and for Baltimore county, Elias Mat- thews and solemnly, seriously , and truly declared

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

pays tribute to one of our indefat- igable members when he says: "In the 'Proposals for a Second Settle. ment' on the Susquehanna river Wil- liam Penn, in 1690, says that a 'way' by land had been 'laid out' between the Delaware and the Susquehanna rivers 'at least three years ago,' and that

voluminous correspondence which is still care- fully preserved in the fire-proof de- partments of the Pennsylvania His- torical Society, and there are many evidences of the Italian painter sculp- tor's gratitude to Mr. Buchanan. It appears that his Lancaster friend of old times secured thirty-eight of his

AN OLD TIME WORTHY Jacob Hiltzheimer was a native of Manheim, Germany. He left there when nineteen years old, and arrived in Philadelphia September 5, 1748. He was apprenticed to a silversmith, but, after he had completed his trade, he very wisely preferred horse dealing, farming and open air to

our society's proceedings. At the time Mr. Samuel Evans wrote his history of our county, the assessments of several townships prior to 1750 were here, because he has copies of some of them in his book. But it is very probable that some of these lists were taken out for the printer of that work and