The Inquirer from Lancaster, Pennsylvania • 4

4 THIS INQUIRER, LANCASTER, JULY LMi, HKIli. TOBACCO UNDER COVER. The Lancaster Inquirer THE CONESTOGA MANOR. Ili-irt llUlurf mt Du ul lit Hint Inter rsllnii Xrilkma uf Till lllg on Wiltlrn for Tim lniUlrrr" by larnrl Smllll It are. KVKHV AU' III A AT no.

so south queen street, By Km. KI.I.AVOIII) t.ttlKxT, Iioiililor. lililrtriiilril Trlrliuii 151.1. SCHOOL NOTES. The Ifitli school jear of -i tile 8.

N. S. will osn Mnnibiv, pt I. ScvchiI districts in this comity will open schools iu lines weeks fmm Monday next a very )mor lime for that purpose, Our old schoolmaster fiieml, J. I.

Turkey, gets an increase in salary for hi tenth year as instructor in I'leivx School of BusinesM, 1 'ii tici oil Klivin Brow has given up the headship of Siraslnng schools afler Ii or six years of successful Wink llirre. holds a osit mi as lunik kieier for a firm of railroad const motors. per jour in mlvum-c; ijfJ.OO if not paid in advance. it 4r wilt im cl i kfoii i lined unit) all aueanujc iiavi Ihi'ii paid, A failure imti fy ii tliwt'Minmniimt lit tin end of tit nine (or lit be considered it dcMru to CoDllllUU lit fMltlMTlpt iou. SATURDAY, JULY 80, were the Herr, the tlie Mayer, hr Shanks, the Killhavt-ix, the Funk, tin Kauffmans, the llo-itctteix, the aeglet, the Witmer, the Keiidiu, the Liutm-ix, the Wissler, the the Newemneis, the Cm rell or ('hailcse mill other.

These lirrumll familie gi initially neHleil iu Muiim' township during the half retHnry Mote tlie Revolution. A few Eiftlioh familtr Htill ictniucd laud here, the most noted being tint Wright. The of umiiy of these early Ketller Htill live on tlie laud obtained by their nil cent ms, Imt many of the otlgimil familie have become extinct. Tlie wliolo western half of the Coiietoga Manor ivmaiiinl unsettled until long after the test of thu toxv nship had been taken up. Tlie jhii tion of th-io section north of Turkey Hill, eiiihiauing about 3 INN) aeres, was retained by the Penn family.

Tin unrtlieastei section, embracing 150(1 acres, had firt been giantcd to Andrew Hamilton, eq of Pliilnlelhin, tlieu one of the most eminent lawyers of Ameiica; and ou tract embraced iu this section ground-rents are still paid to Hamiltons descendant living iu England, whither they went after the Revolution, as this Hamilton family had been Tories during the War of American 1 lidependence. Conestoga Manor was surveyed for the use of the Penns iu 1717-18, aecotding to the following order to Jacob Taylor, Surveyor-General These are to authorize mid require thee without any delay to survey or cause to he surveyed all that tract ol laud lying between Susquehanna river and Conestoga creek, from the mouth of said creek as far up the river us the land already granted to Peter Chartier, aud then by a line miming from the said river to Conestoga creek, all which tract of laud for the proper use aud KIRKWOODS GOSSIP. (oiuluctiir Blank, who run mi oni-of-towu car, lia got rid of bis Canadian half-dollar. Instead of letting it go at a discount he got double it face value. About two months ago a passenger gave him a Canadian half dollar, and lieearelessly gave lo cents in change afler deducting a nickel.

The first time he handed tile half dullar to ptsNcngcr he leal lied his mistake, for the imnscngfr jxixsed it Isiek, with the simple remark: Nix. Conductor Blank is honest, and of course wouldn't think of getting rid of the roin at its face value, after knowing it is not worth fill cents in United States money, lie kept tw coin in his pocket, however, until at list lie decided not to suffer himself to lie exposed longer to the temptation of passing tlui coin ns an American piece, with miiliuuuforeiliouglit. So one day as his car was pulling out of the luirn lie laid tlm silver uu the rail. When the ear had passed over the coin it was tlatteued out of all recognition, mid no one could tell whctluT it was American, Canadian or Chinese money. It liiude a nice jioeket-licce ami the conductor put it hack into i is clothes.

The otlierday Conductor Blank stood on the rear platform. A prosperous-looking cidcily business mail was sitting iu tlie rear seat it was mi open car and lie and tin conductor in fi iendly style talked desultorily. Tlie business mau spoke of 1'resident Roosevelt mid his passing through here ou thu fifth of July. Then the conductor hal mi idea mid he drew the flattened Canadian half-dollar out of his jacket. SjHiaking of Roosevelt somehow remind moot the day thu McKinley funeral train passed through 1ittsburg, he remarked Did you ever see one of the coius that were placed under the wheels of that train? and as he said the words he casually din played his pocket-piece.

One of them would make a uice souvenir, said the business mau. Ah, lie remarked, as lie caught sight of wliat tiie conductor held iu his hand. Let me see that. The conductor handed it over. Is that one of fciierv flic I'laiM al lirrliiirut Xlsltou Toil MAUlKTr.t, July 21 Representative of the natioiml and state auiieultural drpait lurnls yesterday inspected the tobacco ex pcrimcntal station on Hr.

If. M. Alexnii-iler's farm here, tin piiucipal visitors being 1iofesxor (5. 1. McSesx, of Washington, and li ofessor William Freur, of State College, The tobacco being exrimented with is grown under cloth cover, half an aeie living under what is piaetically a tent.

The development of the past three weeks has been marvelous. At the time of the first visit, about July 1, the largest plants weie only fifteen niches high and the smallest a third that aie. Now no plants ate less than three feet high, while most are six feet, and a great many eight feet. Two rows of the same kind of tobacco planted outside the tent ou the same day as that inside are only about a foot high on an average. The greater heat and niois.

tine inside the tent have made the difference and demonstrate the value of tobacco grow ing under shelter. With today's visitors was a tobacco expert, who wits sent from Witshingtou especially to give instruct ions iu topping tobacco, and he topped all ready for the opciation at an average height of six feet above the ground, No tobacco worms were found iu the patch, and hut few grasshopiiers, a hen and her brood keeping the latter down. This patch hits been cultivated five times, hut is now too large for a horse to pass between the rows, and now the soil is kept ojs-n by men with hoes. Since the tobacco was planted on May there hits been a rainfall of 6.92 inches. The stalks of this patch have from twelve to twenty-two leaves, according to the size of the plant, and the government expert, who has just come from a visit to New England, says this tobacco is fully up to any iu the New England fields.

The works of the hollow ware manufacturing comp, mies here are now hoarded up, the mouldets having been ou a strike for about nine weeks. The managers have advised their meu to seek work elsewhere. A Pennsylvania Soldier. Reaching the age of 01 ou Monday, Major (5eiHT.il Johu R. Brooke passed from the active to the retired lint, lie is one of the most distinguished Uuioii veterans yet alive, a soldier of whom this, his native state, has every leason to he proud.

Since he entcied the army ax a captain at the age of 8(1 in 1'61 he has been continuously a soldier. His record is briPiaut, for he was wounded four times and brevet ted three times, coining out in 1 65 brigadier general of volunteers, and becoming a lieutenant colonel in the regular army under the army reorganization in 1 Luring the war with Spain lie was in command of the provisional army corps at Camp Thomas, (5a. Later he was placed iu command of the First army corps, and was also in command of tlie department of the gulf. He was made special commissioner under the peace protocol to nnange for the evacuation by the Spanish troops of the island of loito Rico. Gen.

Brooke has never known any other occupation than that of soldier, and throughout all his distinguished career he has borne himself with the courage, patriotism aud valor of a true American. While he has never sought political honor, preferring the duties of a soldier, his uatue has more than ouee been mentioned iu connection with positions of political importance. Iu the prime of vigorous health and manhood he pas'es to the retired list under the military laws of the government with escutcheon untarnished. iu the renter of the (itnihhip, on the land owned by the late Herr. The northern boundary of Mania t'ownelitp iva pushed about a mile unda lnr'9 imrili of tbr in ig ina I line.

Tlie four islands in the Hiisqtitlatiiim -ititbe southern end of Washington1 lir otigli were oalled The Ish' of lromb G-eoige Mmtimn, a Gri'iimil, settled on the northern end of Turkey Hill iu 1772. ilisccndantit live in ami around the present borough of Washington, whitll wax laid out alMiut 1813. Thu village of Millersville. the largest uiiim'nrpnratsd town in- Liineiister county, was laid out before the Revolution by John Miller, a blacksmith of Lancaster borough (now city). The village was laid out in tive-aere lots, only one of which remains in its original illmenntmis.

Tlie village was (list called Millerslrntg, afterwards Millers-toivn, nnd still later Millersville. being known by Hie hitter name for the last half century. A huge part of the village occupies the land first owned hy Michael Mayer. On October 16, 1738, Michael Mayer took out a patent for 217 acres, the boundaries of which formed a parallelogram. The tract was situated iu thu Conestoga Manor, ueiir its northeastern boundary, and was surveyed in May, 1737, and the original patent was given by Thomas Penn, esq, Michael Mayer nnd his wife, Elizabeth, conveyed tlie same to their son, Michael Mayer, June 22, 1715; and ou May 8, 1719, Michael Mayer, jr sold the tract to Johu Miller, a blacksmith, of Lancaster, for 600 (about On June 4, 1761, John Miller received a patent for 150 acres adjoining the aforesaid tract, ami also another patent on January 19, 1761, for 05 acres.

On March 29, 176 1, lie purchased 8 aeres from John Correll (Charles) mul Magdalena, his wife, who hml received a patent for the same on July 23, 1761. These tracts contained about -162 aeres. Miller sold 103 acres to Isaac Kauffman. Iu 1761 lie laid out a towu in five-acre lots, subject to an annual quit-rent, some of which is still paid to the heirs of the Hamilton estate inEnglauil. Iu the same year he laid out a street upon the four sides of oue of his largest purchases.

The small tract of 8 acres lay ou the south side of the street, near the site of the Normal School. Some of the first of these five-acre lots were purchased hy Paul Hausmnu, who sold two of them to Abraham Peters, father of the late Abraham Peters, who was born in the ple.ee in 1791 and who remained a resident of the place until his death iu 1882 at the age of 90. The original deed is iu the possession of the Peters family, and hems date 1764, referring, however, to October 16, 1738, at which time tlie tract was purchased by Michael Mayer. The lots purchased hy Abraham Peters, with two additional ones of five acres each, or a tract containing ten aeres, bought by Abraham- Peters, from Jacob Sinn, still remain. As early as 1764 Hausman kept a tavern on the site of the present Black Home Hotel, erected by the late Abraham Peters- in 1825.

There was a store here as early as 1.769 or 1770. John Miller, the founder of the village, occupied a bouse on the present property of Elmer H. Frantz, esq. There are two buildings yet standing that were erected before the Revolution. One is a tenement house owned by Henry Lintner and built-by Jacob Sinn.

The other stands nearly opposite, on the Blue Rock road. John Lintner made an addition to the village in 1810, otherwise the boundaries are the same as at first laid out. The addition made by Lintner, and called Liut-ners Division, embraced that part of Millersville on the road from the Blaek Horse Hotel to Lancaster. Tim present Manor township emliuirew the oiiginal Conestoga Manor of almost two centuiies ago, with nr. inhlitional tract ou the north about half im extensive.

Coins loga Manor, vvneii surveyed ami laid out iu 1717-18, embraced aeres, of which l.fHKl were owued by James Logau ami John Curtligc iu the sou i hern p.ut of the township. The northern Imii mlary of tie Conestoga Manor was a line running (mm a jHiint milked by a locust-tree oil the bunks of thu ou the site of tlm present borough of Washington, iu nil easterly by northeasterly direction, to a poiut il ked by white-oak tree near the Little Conestoga, ami not far from tlie site of Bieunera mill. This I i ue, six miles in length, corresponds with the road now leading from Brenner's mill to Washington lint Hugh. The fertile tiaet north of the original Conestoga Manor, emhtacing 8,700 acres, was afterwards added to the township. Otherwise the present boundaries of the township ure the same ns the original limits Lancaster towsuhip ou tlie east, the Conestoga ureek ou tlie southeast ami tlm south, uiul the Susquehanna river ou the west anil southwest.

Manor township was tlm theatre of some of the most important occurrences in the Indian history of I.atic.istcr county. The SusquehatiMock Indians had a fort near tlm Susquehanna river, between Turkey Hill aud Blue Rock. Iu tlie southern portiou of of this great township was the famous Indian town of tlm Conestogas, the small anil inoffensive tribe of Indians which was the remnant of the once-powerful nation of the Susquehautiucks after the hitter hail beeu almost exterminated by the powerful Iroquois Five Nations, who then occupied a large part of the domain now embraced iu tlie gieat Empire and Keystone states. Tlie Indian town of the Conestogas lay to the east of Turkey Hill, about two miles west mid north of the Conestoga creek, mid about one mile west of the Lttle Conestoga on the land which afterwards came iuto the possession of the Mellinger family, and which has since beeu owned by Jacob Habecker. Here the Iudian chiefs of vari ous tribes met the whites to make the treaties which ultimately led to a peaceful ending of the troubles that had hindered the development of the early settlements in the immediate vicinity aud the county at large.

Here the sachems of the Six Nations assembled to negotiate with the provincial governors for the establishment of peace, and to complain of the various outrages committed by the white trailers, who deluded tlie aborigines. Here the first massacre of the Conestoga Indians occurred, an event which caused many atrocities aud much bloodshed. But the days of their glory and their possessions have departed, aud not a vestige remains of the Indian wigwams located there a century aud half ago. The place still bears the significant name Indian Town. The Iudian town of the Conestogas was destroyed in December, 1763, the last year of the famous French and Indian War.

Early in the eighteenth century, while Lancaster couuty was yet a part of Chester county, James Logan, a Scotch-Irishman, aud John Cartlige, a Quaker Englishman, Tlie highest monthly salary paid to a high school priiieipil in I.incoster county, except Princijial John I. $12t jier month is the $1 lo snlmy that lrniei-al Amos E. Krnyhill will receive next term as head of the East Donegal district high school. Under the new appropriation law East Donegal will lie entitled to $(100 for maintaining a high school of the second class, one requiring three years dev oted exclusively to studies outside of the cotnimiu branches. Mr.

K. has served four years iti that position. He was born in Yoik county 25 years ago and is a graduate of Steeltun high school, aud of Millersville, taking the regular normal course hist term, lie is progressive, enthusiastic ami industrious and is pretty sure to cut a wider swath iu educational fields by and by. IVUKK OF TIIK KKG1STKU. FOLKS YOU KNOW.

Letter Grauteil by Keglxter DltTeiibaiiiili Ourlng tile Fust Week. Maigaiet Dabler, city, administrator of Michael Dabler. Johu NV. Miller, Martic, administrator of John Martin. Margaret E.

Morrisou, Drumore, executrix of G. Jaue Morrisou. Samuel Ehleman, Ieuu, administrator of Samuel B. Eshleman, Mt. Joy township.

Josiah T. Brown, Christiana, administrator of Jacob Hutton. Joseph Haefuer, city, executor of Ihilip Dassiuger. Mary B. and Milton H.

Ilottenstein, East Hempfield, administrators of Henry S. Ilottenstein. Boss C. Collins, Quarryville, administrator of Levi D. and Josephine Aaron, Again is Dr.

S. T. Davis, of this city, apiHiiuted president or the state buaiil of health. J. M.

Sprecher and family, Ephrata people, are ou a tour of Alaska, aud will return next mouth. In the prime of life, owing to ill health, Dr. G. C. Kmnid, of Lincoln, dtcides to quit tlie practice of medicine.

In Joseph Matthews wheat field, near Lexington, Sarah Rudy, aged til and blind, bound sheaves one hot day last week. In a drive from Ephrata to Asbury Park, N. ou which they started last Monday, Henry Westerhoti aud family spent three enjoyable days. I H. L.

Fenstermaeher, of Rohrerstown, formerlv a teacher and latterly a tiolley employe in Philadelphia, has entered Uncle Sam's railway mail service. The Intelligencers senior editor aud owner, Andrew Jackson Steinmau, is spending of those McKinley funeral train coius? the business man asked. The conductors attention was sharply attracted at that moment by a wagon that came up close to the car, aud apparently did not hear tlie question. At auy rate he did not answer. The passenger looked interestedly at the coin.

Ill give you $1 for it, he said. Its yours replied Conductor Blank meekly. The geutleman pocketed the coiu with a satisfied air. Ill give it to my grandson as a souvenir, he remarked, as he swung off the car. Honesty is the best policy, sighed the conductor, as he watched the old gentleman walk away, looking at the battered Canadian half-dollar in the palm of bis hand.

Honesty is the best policy. I might bave passed that on a passenger in tlie usual way, aud it would have been good for only 50 cents. Squire A. R. Witmer informs ns that he is not so old by 41 days as The I.vqitrer made it appear last week, since he was born ou the 12th of April, 1827, aud not on the 27th of February iu that year.

Amply possessed of bodily vigor and the ability to transact business (of which he has also an ample store), he bids fair to live at least as long as his father, the late Jacob S. Witmer, who died in 1890 at the age of 86, CHURCH NOTES. The United Evangelical campmeeting at Brownstown opened yesterday, to cou-1 him at Scarboro Beach, on "the coast a few weeks his family accompanying General Braggs Mistake. If a man can't trust his wife with secrets, whom can lie trust? Such must he the thought of Geueral Edward S. Bragg, who only recently was appointed United States consul general at Havana, aud has got iuto a hornets' nest through writing to his wife an unfavorable opinion of the Cubans, as to their capability for self government.

With extreme unthonghtfuluess that excellent lady allowed it to become public that her husband thinks it just as easy to make a tiu whistle out of a pig's tail as to estab lish good government in Cuba. In the resulting trouble lies a moral lesson for the guidance of the married man, aud a lesson that should not be lost upon humanity. The lessou that before a man writes indiscreet remarks to his friends at large he had much better forget that he ever learned to write has long been recognized though often forgotten. The adage Never write is universal among politicians. But it has been supposed that a mans conlidence iu his better half might be as safe aud sacred as his own private thoughts.

Generals Bragg's sad case illustrates that this is false confidence. With that example made public the wary mau will in future remember that when he writes to the wife of his bosom thiugs which he regards as smart, at the expense of other people, he should close his missive with the injunction, Burn this letter! and then carry out that iujuuctiou himself before the letter is mailed. having filled tlie positions of prison in- had each obtained tracts of land, of 500 specter aud county auditor. The squires acres each, in the southern part of the Con-grandfather, Herman Witmer, died iu 1829 estoga Manor. These tracts lay between at the age of 76; bis great-graudfather, the famous Indian town on the north and Michael Witmer, was also well advanced Conestoga creek on the south, and between in years when he died in 1789; his great-1 the Little Conestoga on the east and Turkey Maine.

The oldest person in Illinois is Mrs, Julia Delp, who lives in Sterling but was born in this county on July 20, 1802. She went West 51 years ago aud is said to be in good health yet. All her near-by friends helped celebrate her 100th birthday. At the age of 92, Jonas Bowman, of Philadelphia, is a visitor in Ephrata, where he was born. He has resided in the eity of brotherly love since l-35 and has a summer home at Collegeville, Montgomery county.

His health is good and his step is firm. Constable Isaac Cover, of Rapho, is a collector of antiquities. Among his cherished possessions are an English coin of 1730 that wasting np iu a neighbors garden, a lot of farthings of pre-Revolutiouary days aud a Miller almanac of 1778. President of the pension examining board for the district in which he lives aud vice president, of the state medical society is Dr. M.

P. Overholser, of Harrisonville, Mo. Twenty-three years ago his parents moved West from Ephrata and the young man, then a West Earl teacher, went along. Thirty-seven years ago Janies A. Meyers, president of the Columbia National Bank, came back from army life and bought out the Family Medicine Store, then run by the late Dr.

MeCorkle in the Odd Fellows bnilding, which pharmacy he conducted with success until he gave np the pill-making art to take hold of the money-lending business. behoof of William Penn, Proprietary and (iovernor-tn-Chiet of the said Province his heirs and assigns forever. Giveu labour hands, March 1, 1717-18. Tlie Conestoga Manor was afterwards divided nnd sold to purchasers. This survey included more than 16,006 acres.

It was afterwards sold iu small tracts anil patented. The following were the princi pal patentees: Israel Pemberton, 3(H) acres, date of patent, Oct. 1, 1723, the Messrs, Wright, 1500 acres, Dec. 13, 1735, sold afterwards iu smaller parcels to John Herr, Andrew Stinemaii (Stehmau), Daniel Llutuer, Jacob Killhaver, Rudy Herr, Jacob Frantz, Godfrey Klttgh, Matthew Oherholt-zer, Rudy Herr, no. Killhaver, Christian Hershey, Andrew Kauffman; James Iatti son (Patterson), 107 acres, Nov.

21', 1731 James- Logan, 700 acres, July I5( 173' afterwards held by George Brenner, Philip Brenner, Christian Stouffer (Stauffer) Casper Souter (Sauder), Adam Fisher, Valentine Kummel, Lawrence differ, Christian Stoke; Michael Baughman, 489 acres, Michael Mayer, 131 acres, both Feb, 20, 1738; Michael Mayer, 217 acres, Oct. 16, 1737; Abraham Steiner (Stoner) 63 acres, May 3, 1710; John Wistler Wiss-ler), 167 acres, July 3, 1711; Jacob Kuntz, 166 acres, Anna Ottila, Betty Koffer, 166 acres, Jacob Hostetter, 475 acres; John Shank, 197 acres, July 30, 1711; Edward Smout, 113 acres, June 21, 1713; Michael Baughman, 339 acres, May 28, 1752; Abra ham Hare, 421 acres, April 22, 175L; Jacob Wistler (Wissler), 125 aeres, Valentine Miller, 1 10 acres, both May 25, 1756 Martin Funk, 237 acres, Deo. 18, 1758 Jacob Wistler (Wissler), 202 acres, Jacob Shuck, 185 acres, Aug. 18, 1759; Abraham aud Johu Miller, 89 acres, Valentine Haith 29 acres, Robert Beatty, 236 acres, February, 1760; Samuel Herr, 2 17 acres, John Keagy, 188 acres, Henry Fuuk, 150-acres, Jacob Wistler (Wissler), 173 acres, Lud-wick aud Friedrich Ziegler, 209 acres, June, 1760; John Witmer, 77 acres, Abraham Miller, 201 acres, Rudolph Herr, 176 acres, Jacob Witmer, 77 acres, November, 1761; James McMaster, 217 aeres, April, 1761; Johu Keagy, 150 acres, Henry Funk, 77 acres, David Hare, 195 acres, Jno. Miller, 150aores, George Adam Dustier, 112 acres, John Correll (Charles), 209 aeres, Christian Stoner, 211 acres, all dated 17161; Michael Kauffman, 116 acres, Johu Kanffnian, 118 aeres, Jacob Kauffman, 167 acres, Christian Kauffman, 163 acres, Michael Kauffmau, 118 acres, Abraham Steiner (Stoner), 200 aeres, John Wormley, 115 acres, Jacob Wistler Wissler), 19 acres, JohnKreemer, 184 aeres.

Bartholomew Rntt, 40 aeres, John Graff (Graeff or GroaS), 136 acres, all dated 1762; Philip Ulweiler, 39 acres, BeDjaniin Miller, 220 acres, David Hare, 94 acres, Peter Snyelsr, 86 acres, Henry Atkinson and Adam Bigging, 49 acres, Peter Witmer, 132 acres, dated 1763; John Miller, 60 acres, Jau. Ji, 1761; John Newcomer, 109 acres, Joseph Nelson, 109 acres, Jacob Wisler, 178 acres, Mary Wright, 119 acres, 1767; John Kendrick, .558 acres, Janies Pratt, 232 acres, 1768; Henry Buck-ley, 150 acres, 1769; William Wright, 257 aeres, 1770; Ulrich licbnr, 232 aeres, John Manning, 165 aores, 1772; Jacob Asbleman (Eshleman), 310 acres, 1774; Indian Town, 414 acres; Bine Rock, 800 aores. Sparks Life of Franklin says that Thomas lenu estimated the value of Conestoga Manor, being sixty-five miles from the city of Philadelphia, acres, at 10 per. hundred acres, 5360, Pennsylvania ourrenoy. It is thus seen who took up land in Manor township during the period before the Revolution.

The lauds of the township continued to be divided among new purchasers. Farms were cultivated in every portion of the township. Turkey Hill aud the tract in the northwestern part of the township began to be settled, and grist-mills and saw-mills were erected in all parts of the township. Land was then valued at from $25 to $30 per acre. Good horses were valued at $90, and cows at $15.

Timber was cut down aud large tracts were rapidly cleared and converted iuto highly productive fields, and orchards were planted. The toil and industry of the Swiss aud German settlers in Manor soon made that township the most highly productive agricultural district in the United States. A Mennonite meeting-house was erected early of to or A POLITICAL X0TES. According to Severall EtcliBiiiges. The Ephrata Review very earnestly declares that the Lancaster beard of trade is wrong in urging the extension of the trolley line from New Hollandi to Terre Hill, in preference to an extension from Ephrata to Terre Hill.

Terre Hill people will not be nearer Lancaster by the first route than by the latter, and if Lancaster merchants will get these peoples pataonage at all they will get it just as quickly by way of Ephrata as by way of New Holland, is the argument. The Columbia Independent fiercely assails the officials of the Susquehanna Steel and Iron Company for maintaining an expensive and useless office in Philadelphia aud vows that the-managers there cant tell rolling mill loom a flooring mill or a furnace from a brewery. Very truly nemarketh ye Manheiin Sentinel: Nearly everybody who can. get away hunting the-oool spots a trout this time, but by far the- larger percentage of the population just remain at home and take the weather as it coares because they can.t afford to do. anything else.

And many of them think they are better off for it. Delaware Peach Crop. There will be about one-half a crop of peaches, which means well for growers. Where there too many peaches the fruit becomes a glut on the market aud poor prices are realized. With half a crop there is not much danger.

tinue until Thursday evening next. St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran chapel at Dillerville was dedicated on Suudav by Rev. Jacob Darmstetter, the pastor, assisted by Rev. Dr.

J. NV. Hassler, president of the Lancaster conference, Rev. Dr. C.

E. Haupt and Rev. P. George Sieger. By the will of the late Snsan P.

Reiff, of Philadelphia, which was probated Monday, her entire estate of 26,000 will be divided among several Dunkard charities. The money goes as follows: 1,000 to the Dunkard chnrch at Germantown; 2,000 to the Northern Dispensary and the residue to the Dunkards missionary societies located in India aud Smyrna. The quarterly meeting of the Menno-nite Sunday school mission was held at Paradise on Wednesday. Bishop Isaac Eby preached; there was an address on Christianity as an Aggressive Element by D. H.

Bender; a report of the Welsh Mountain industrial mission by Noah H. Mack; a missionary sermon by Rev. A. D. Wenger, of Millersville, and an address on Lighted Candles by Amos Hoover, of Kinzer.

The campmeeting at Laudisville opened ou Thursday with the Sunday school institute. Never before in its history have so many people occupied tents and cottages so long before the regular opening of the camp. The opening sermon on Friday morning was preached by Rev. B. H.

Hart, of Harrisburg. Rev. Dr. MacBurney, of Philadelphia, will preach the morning sermon tomorrow, and Rev. Dr.

E. J. Gray, president of Dickinson Seminary, the afternoon sermon. Rev. W.

H. Powick will conduct the morningfamily worship daring the campmeeting, and Rev. O. E. Stodgen will lead the childrens services.

The president, Rev. Dr. William Bennett, will have charge of the young peoples meetings. Fully 10,000 people attended the exercises held on Sunday at Rocky Springs in connection with the seventh annual convention of the Christian and Missionary Alliance of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware and' the District of Columbia. The convention closed that day after being in session for one week, during which time two recruits to the force of workers were secured, Miss Laura Landis, of Lancaster, for the Japan field, and Miss Florence Dayton, of Wilmington, for the China missions.

The principal speakers were Rev. Dr A. B. Simpson, of New York; Rev. W.

E. Blackstone, of Chicago; Rev. Dr. Walter H. Whiteside, of Pittsburg, and Rev.

F. H. Senft, of Philadelphia. The contributions received for the mission cause amounted to nearly $10,000. Three contributions of each were received, Lancaster alone giving 2,500.

1ittsburg gave the largest contribution, $6,300, of which colored folks contributed $600. Wilmington gave $620. At the Sunday evenings meeting a large amonnt of jewelry was contributed, men giving their watches, sleeve buttons and shirt studs, and women their bracelets, watches, earrings and other jewelry. Very Cnrlons. M.

M. Breneman owns a cat that doesnt own a tail, but does own three kittens none of which own tails. This tale of the tailless is retailed from Manor township. More than a score of the leading city and county superintendents of schools are graduates of the First Pennsylvania State Normal School at Millersville. great-grandfather, John Witmer, was only the prime of bis life when- his end came in 1728.

The last-named was one of two cousins who- came from Switzerland, the tiist persons ei that name to settle in William Demis- (Iwminmns. It is worthy of note that all ot the ancestors named above lived anil died in Manor township; anil in the persons of Sqiuire Witniers grandchildren the seventh generation of that family are found residing in tlie same township today. They are practical living illustrations of the fact that, those who Dumber of generations of ancestors born native to the soil entitles them to be classed as thorough tite Pennsylvania Germans rank among the first. The Witmers are therefore among the oldest as they are among the most numerous, of the families whose ehief habitat is Lancaster couuty. The present summer is the IS-Tth to roll along in rain and dew and sunshise and heat since John anil Benjamin Witmer settled here in Lancaster (then called Chester) oounty 16 years before the birth of Washington.

Benjamin settled in East Lampeter, and among his descendants was the Abraham Witmer whose monument is Witniers Bridge, I milt by him back in 1799-1880. All the Witmers in Paradise and other townships east of the Conestoga are, probably, descended from this Benjamin. His oonsin John settled ou a tract that is now bouuded on the north by the Columbia pike and the lands of A. B. Kreaily and Henry Witmer; on the east by the Susan C.

Kready farm on the south by John F. Charles laud aud ou the west by certain lands of John F. Charles and A. B. Kreaily.

Tlie Witmers in Manor, West Hempfield, East Donegal aud Rapho are among Johns descendants, as also the the numerous Whitmers, Wittmers, Wit-mores, Whitmores anil Witmers who are fouund in Juniata, Perry, Snyder, Northumberland and Dauphin counties, and the Witmers who are more or less numerous in the vicinity of Niagara Falls and Buffalo, N. Y. The Witmers helped to pimple Manor many years before it was called Manor, aud it is quite likely that there will still be number of them there when Gabriels tramp shall sound for the great roll call which all the living of that day and the dead of other davs must answer. Kirkwood. Hill ou the west, a little northeast of the site of the present Safe Harbor.

Both these tracts were bounded on the south by the Conestoga. Logans 500 acres formed the more easterly tract, the southeastern point touching the Conestoga at an elm tree at the mouth of the Little Conestoga. Cartliges 500 acres lay to the west of Logans tract, the southwestern point of his land touching the Conestoga at a black oak tree on the bank of the creek, at the first beDd of the stream just above the present Safe Harbor. Logan afterwards obtained the northern part of Cartliges traet, about 200 acres, thus leaving Cartlige only 300 acres. These tracts were exceedingly billy.

Two whites who were celebrated as Indian traders had obtained grants of laud on the northwestern border of Conestoga Manor. These were Pierre Chartier, a French Canadian Jesuit, aud James Patterson, a Scotch-Irishman. Chartiers land lay on the east bank of the Susquehanna, on and east of the site of the upper or northern part of the present borough of Washington. Pattersons farm of 200 acres lay directly east of Chartiers traot, and his estate, after several generations, descended to the late Jacob B. Shuman, a prominent citizen of Manor township for the last two generations.

During the early years of the eighteenth century many German aud Swiss emigrants accepted William Penns offer aud took np lands in the rmh limestone valleys of the Pequea and Conestoga regions, which were a part of Chester oounty until 1729, when Lancaster county was organized. These emigrants were Meanonites, as the followers of Menno Simon, a worthy eo temporary of Luther, were oalled. The Meuuonites of the Palatinate aud Switzerland led simple and religions lives as peasants. Their peculiar customs, simplicity of dress aud mauuers, aversion to the use of law and to military service having subjected them to rigorous persecution in their native homes ou the banks of the Rhine and among the Alps, they came to seek a refuge from persecution in the Euglish Quaker province of Pennsylvania. Many of them settled in the Conestoga Manor and took np lands therein, after Hill, Norris and Logau hail issued a warrant directed to Jacob Taylor, Surveyor-General, to survey Conestoga Manor, in 1718.

Among the early German Mennonite families who settled in the Conestoga Manor Lancaster Uncle Sam Dead John Buckley, a well known resident of Lancaster, died ou Monday at the age of 72 years. Mr. Buckley had the face and figure of the typical Uncle Sam, aud he was a familiar fignre in parades, arrayed in the custoiue of that character. United States Senator Foraker declares emphatically that President Roosevelt will be nominated and re-elected for a second term. Hanna's colleague does not wax warm for Hanna.

The Democrats of Oregon elected their candidate for governor by the narrow margin of 276 votes. Superintendent- of the Mint Landis has appointed a number of men from different counties of the state to positions in the United States Mint They are mostly in the unclassified service, which means that they can be named without going through the formality of passing a civil service examination. Six of the new appointees are from Lancaster county. 1 Senator McLanrin of South Carolina has refused tlie appointment to the vacant place on the bench of the U. S.

Court of Claims, because a prominent newspaper stated that the Senator had sold himself for office. The appointment would have been for life, aud the position a desirable one. Judge Peunypacker has resigned from the bench. His resignation takes effect August 1st. He is thus enabled to give his time aud attention to the gubernational campaign.

The Last of the Burt Case. The last chapter in the famous case of Rev. O. C. Burt, the Methodist preacher at Quarryville, who was whipped by Franklin Slienk, of that place, with whose daughter the preacher had planned to elope, was completed when the suits growing out of the encounter were settled.

Slienk hail sued Burt for assault aud battery aud Burt had brought a similar charge against his assailant. Fiiends who think Burt will have sufficient punishment otherwise induced Mr. Slienk to withdraw his suit. A McKinley Monniuent The entire sum necessary to erect ill memorial to the late President McKinley at Canton is about completed, and the next important step will be the raising of an endowment fund of $200,000, the interest of which will be used to care for the memorial. UapiMiiMMi ill a Saloon, of Several hundred soldiers surrounded a resort in Leavenworth on Saturday night and demolished the doors, windows and furniture, in revenge for the fatal stabbing of Eli Loucks, a member of the Sixth cavalry, by a colored mau iu the resort.

The cl.asses graduating at the First Pennsylvania State Normal School at Millers-ville this year include two in the Scientific course, five in the Regular Normal course, thirteen in the Regular course, 148 in the Elementary course, one who received a State Certificate iu the Scientific course and three who received a State Certificate in the Elementary course. The catalogue of this famous institution is well worth examining. It is sent free to auy one who asks for a copy. Reduced Rates to Sau Francisco and los Angeles On account of the biennial meeting, Knitrhi Pythias, at San Francisco, August Jl 22, 1W2, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will sell excursion tickets to 8an Francisco or Los Ainrelos from all stations on its lines, from August 1 to 9, inclusive, at greatly reduced rates. These tickets will be good for return passage until September 30, inclusive, when executed by joint agent at Los AugeU San Franeioo and payment of 50 es nta made for this service.

Forspectfic information regarding Rites and routes, apply to ticket agents. Jul2n-2t One of the marked literary snix-csses of the day is Charles Majors Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Ha'l (The Macmillan N. 100,000 copies of which were sold before it was in print. Well written from tint page to last, this novel is worthy to rank as one of the best pieces of American fiction, and as literature. Dorothy is an Elizabethan maid, but there is in her a suggestion of wilful young womanhood as it reveals itself through the ages, atouehoftbe eternal feminine in her defiance of authority for tlie sake of the mail she loves.

She is not a historic figure, interesting on account of its distance from the woman of today; she is flesh and blood of tiiis twentieth eentury, ail gentleness and love and strength and fortitude under persecution and opposition, a living, loving, lovable girl ready to risk all for tlie sake of him; a living woman of tixlay. An Infant Fonnd Dead. At Elam Bucher's home near Kissel Hill a 4-months-old child was fouud dead in its crib ou Monday morning. The Roof Garden is drawing big irowds. pleasant place to spend an evening..