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

: "Washington being President of the United States, could not receive a present from any foreign power. Consequently, the rug was sold. Judge Jasper Yeates, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, then living in Lan- caster, Pa., bought it and laid it on the parlor floor of his house (now occupied by The Inquirer

Compassville, a short distance east of the line that divides Chester and Lancaster counties. It was , kept for many years by John Miller. In the survey of the old King's Highway made by order of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania in �The Sign of the Bull, Compassville, Chester County

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

without the badge. Section 3. If any person, after being duly elected by the Stand- ing Committee, shall neglect to attend within three successive stated meetings of the society, unless prevented by sickness or absence from the county, his name shall be struck off the minutes, and he shall not be