went in turns from the East to the West. There was an effort made to orga- nize an amateur press association in Lancaster county, and the subject was well ventilated in its several papers; but the project fell through, owing, in part, to slower communica- tion in 1877 than now existing, when trolley

shops all along the frontiers of Pennsylvania and the Southern colonies. Lancaster the Gunsmith's Home. "The New England people never took to the rifle in those days, and when the Revolution broke out there was not a rifle-shop in existence any- where east of the Hudson river. In 1768 Sir William

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

office, Lancaster then being the capital of Pennsylvania, Mr. Ellicott removed to this place, which was only a borough at that time. His place of residence was the house situated on the south- east corner of North Prince and Marion streets. The small store house to the south of his dwelling was used by

American or home news, from Boston, Charleston, Albany, New York, Baltimore, Richmond and other important points throughout the new Re- public, the concluding place being al- ways reserved for Philadelphia news. One of the peculiarities of the news- papers of Lancaster in those early times was, that hardly

, 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