The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A NUMBER of citizens of Lancaster met at the house of Wil- liam Cooper on Wednesday evening, February 6th, 1822. Dr. Samuel Fahnestock was appointed chairman, and Nathaniel Lightner secretary. The

constitution: "Article 1. This association shall be called 'The Lancaster County So- ciety for the Encouragement of American Manufactures'; and shall consist of such persons residing therein as shall subscribe to these articles, and pay to the treasurer the sum of fifty cents. "Article 2. The officers of the

permanent fund, a sum at least equal to the amount of the original subscription of all the members on the books of the society. Persons donating five or more dollars became honorary members of the organization, and such donations were to be added to the permanent fund. All persons desirous of becoming

SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF INDUS- TRY AND PREVENTION OF PAUPERISM By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER I N the autumn of 1821, a few philanthropic persons in Lancas- ter met weekly for the purpose of giving instruction to a num- ber of uneducated adults. Hearing many of these learners com- plain of the

mechanics complain of the want of employment; and give, as a reason, a fact, which is too well known to everyone, that almost every article of mechanism that can [be secured] con- veniently, is now imported from Philadelphia, or elsewhere ; which, as a matter of course, not only deprives many persons who

who may be found within the borough. The safety and peace of the community are supposed to be materially interested in remov- ing all vagrants and suspicious persons from amongst us. "The citizens composing the nightly patrol are hereby author- ized and enjoined to take up and confine in the common

THE TIMES OR WEEKLY PORCUPINE By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N January 3rd, 1798, Johann Albrecht und Comp. (John Albright and Co.) established a German weekly newspaper in Lancaster borough, the title of which was "Der Deutsche Por- cupein und Lancaster Anzeigs-Nachrichten." The Library of Con

"To Dr. F. A. Muhlenberg, Wm. B. Fordney, Esq., E. C. Reigart, Esq., Hon. Ellis Lewis, N. Ellmaker, Esq., Geo. W. Ham- ersly, Esq. and others." It will be recalled that Major Reynolds became a distinguished officer in the Civil War, and was killed at Gettysburg, where he commanded the left wing of

Wednesday last, two companies of light artillery, of the new army of the United States, were marched from this place for the northward, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Fenwick, by Captains Gibson and Mc- Intosh; each company consisting of about eighty fine, hardy-looking young men, having in train