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

. Some day the whole of his notes will be found worth publishing—even if they never attain the classic eminence of Pepys or Evelyn. For my present purposes and your edification, I refer to them only to throw some light on a subject that should be of perennial interest to the Lancaster County Historical

preacher in Mercersburg on a first day had deprecated the war with England as a judgment and calamity. Whatever glory attached to Mr. Buchanan's early career—and it was certainly an illustrious one—belongs wholly to Lancaster county. None of it, we are confident, is to be shared by the "dark and bloody

shot with three bullets by a maniac named William Linnen, to whose mental unsoundness he had testified in Court. It is gratifying to find that Dr. Ramsay never lost interest in his native county and its people, among whom there was a large family re- lationship. A generation after he had settled South

Columbia. That was a most laudable, but un- successful, attempt to divert from Baltimore to Philadelphia, across this county, the river trade descending the Susquehanna, April 7, 1826 (P. L. 216), the Columbia, Lancaster and Phila- delphia Railroad Company was char- tered with $650,000 of capital, and the

(Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1903/1904 Description: [230]-236 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 8, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.8 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

- tions were entertained, and, with a cir- cumspection that the Clover Club, the Five O'clockers, or the Fellowship might well emulate, Mr. Thomas Cook- son, Prothonotary of Lancaster county, �Wm. Logan and Nathaniel Rigbie, of Maryland, "carved the meat for them, served them with cider and wine, mixed