this a fable, the first cork works in Lancaster County could be established with the statement, "Once upon a time." The way of the researcher is not so easy, and it is advisable to retrace our steps a few years and lay the foundation in the conventional way. As stated earlier, a depression visited the

reading passed that body by a vote of thirteen to ten. It was then transmitted to the House where it was lost, 41 to 33; and Lancaster therefore continued as the temporary seat of the state government. In the midst of this year's agitation for removal of the Government a letter from Dauphin County

in the first square of South Queen Street (present Lincoln Hotel). It was known as the Fountain Inn. �On Monday next, will be held in the Borough of Lancaster a grand caucus of Jacobin deputies from every county of the State for the purpose of making a Governor and electors of a President and Vice

October 8, and when the tabulation was finally completed and the result published, it was found that Thomas McKean had polled 38,036 votes and James Ross had 32,641 votes to his credit. The vote in Lancaster County was 3,285 for Ross and 2,258 for McKean. "A number of Republicans of the Borough of

. When the votes were counted, it was found that McKean had carried Lancaster County with a majority of seven hundred votes which was highly satisfactory to the Democratic Republicans or the 18 John Hubley was the father-in-law of William Hamilton, owner and editor of the Lancaster Journal. �Whigs as

- ment to 1876 when the Almshouse, more commonly known as the County Home, was completed. Then all inmates were transferred to the latter place. From that time to the present day it has been used for the hospitalization of the physically ill, for office use and nurses home. The basement with substantial

executive. It originally bore a note on the back, "To James Thackara from his friend, John James Barralet." This is now believed to be the earliest known painting of the Penn Treaty Elm, The painting was exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts several years be- tween 1824 and 1828, when Thackara left as