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himself with the Inquirer Printing and Publishing Company, of Lan- caster. The third local amateur paper was established in Lancaster, in October, 1877, and called The Monthly Budget, in the interest of the Boys' High School. H. M. D. Erisman and H. D. Gast were the editors and publishers. They also

records of that Congress is an order for the arrest and detention of Louis and Michael Busch, of Lancaster, for 'disregarding the ordinance of the secret com- mittee.' "The foregoing sketch may seem a trifle digressive, but it is less so in a history of Andrew Jackson than in that of any other man. Hardly

of the Rev. Colin McFarquhar,pastor os DonegalChurch, joined Captain Reitzel's Company, of Lancaster, and marched to Western Pennsylvania to help quell the whisky insurrection; moved to Maytown and kept the Brick Tavern in the square. From thence he moved to Columbia and kept tavern on Second street

much of the printing for the Ephrata community besore it procured its own press, and for the other religious sects in the State. Lancaster county was the home of these people. He wished to retain �their patronage, and, not caring to wait until it came to him at Philadel- phia, he resolved to go to It

, which came along later. The first turnpike in the county and the first one in the United states was what has always been known as the "Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike." That road was built by a company that was charter- ed by the General Assembly of the State on April 9, 1792. It was not a state

, but, as he was good natured at heart, everybody was his friend. For more than forty years he was the crier in the Lancaster Courts. Prior to becoming such he had been a tipstaff, and, in consequence, he had been an officer of the Court for a full half century. He was rarely sick, and never absent from

must have been, for it is also noted (p. 23) that "there was paid to Stephen Atkinson, 5th month, 30th day, 1722, £2 for' two wolss." It is of this man, and of the fulling mill which he built, with a few notes concerning others os the same name, gathered srom the old deeds, �records and wills os a long