publi- cation was in a small house back of the old Collector's office, at the corner of Duke and Chestnut streets, Mr. Car- many being at that time clerk in the office of his father, who was Collector of Tolls on the Pennsylvania railroad at this point. This paper was issued at short intervals and

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

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

connected with his more eminent brother, Andrew, in his vari- ous works, especially in surveying and plotting the city of Washington, and in running the boundary line between the States of Pennsylvania and New York. In 1797 he connected himself with the Holland Land Company and was for several years

All Early Letter by Thaddeus Stems, In an address on "Thaddeus Stevens as a Country Lawyer," which I pre- pared sor the Pennsylvania State Bar Association last June, and subsequent- ly elaborated and illustrated sor publi- cation in the Lancaster County Histor- ical Society proceedings, I avowed

Lancaster borough in 1778-79, 1780-81- 82 and 1783. When Baron Heinrich Wilhelm Stiegel feli into financial diffi- culties and his estate of 729 acres os ground in and around Manheim was sold by the Sherisf, on March 30, 1779, Dissenderffer bought the property, which he later sold to William Haus- man. In

, 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