dollars from 1808 to 1839, on the quarter dollar from 1815 to 1839, and on the dime and hadf-dime from 1809 to 1839. Robert Scott is supposed to have engraved the dies. In the old Mint there was a plaster model bearing the name E. Luigi Persico. It was of a Liberty head that very much resembled the head

"blown out" after a blast was called a campaign; the length of a campaign always attracted much attention. In the days when a furnace could go bad in a day or two, an endurance record of two years was a newsworthy event. Lacking modern knowledge of chemistry, early ironmasters and their employees tended

puddlers until it became a "spongy, plastic mass impregnated with the liquid slag.'" Quality of the iron depended on the skill and experience of the puddler— the "aristocrat" among rolling mill employees) The pasty iron was gathered into a large ball after one and three-quarter hours of puddling, and put

also in the art of horticulture, for who does not remem- ber that we must not plant certain kinds of vegetables under unfavor- able signs, lest they run to seed or do some other undesirable thing? Every now and then we come upon a relic of this kind, which shows to how great an extent signs controlled

Governor considered him as an obstrudtionist; and a person un- faithful to the government. This is why Wright resigned. The last court he held he gave a splendid charge to the grand jury, on the right of private citizens; and touched upon the sub- ject of the dispute between him and the Governor, which

Early Items of Lancaster County History A great deal of interest naturally attaches to the primitive affairs in our county and that is at present very rare—that is, because items have al- ready been written up. It is only by gathering up certain items that we can eventually expect to put together

ought to have a record of its early facts. The article of December, 1910, brings the "items" down to 1738, and we shall now proceed with a narra- tion of the same down to the discon- tinuance of the paper. It is evident that the Proprietors had great difficulty in collecting their quit rents. In the

. Caroline and Mary A. Barnett, as per deed dated December 14, 1895, record- ed in the Recorder's office at Lancas- ter, in Deed Book E, volume 15, page 407, became the owners. The Old Cider Mill. The farm was now rented, and, as a consequence, many changes have been wrought to the place. Our story would not

suitable road. In this early day, roads which were known as "King's Highways" were laid out by the Governor and the Provincial Council, and the other roads were laid out under statutes by the Courts of Quarter Sessions of the respective counties. As the projected new road was intended to be a main artery

England, and prompt- ly sent a fleet against the Dutch pos- sessions in America—an expedition the latter were unable to resist, Or. the 20th of August, 1664, the flag of New Amsterdam was lowered, The hostile ships soon appeared there- after in the Delaware, and, after some show of resistance on the part