Collections for the Poor in 1795 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of the "Association for the Relief of the Poor," of the borough of Lancaster, was held at the house of Chris- topher Brenner on Monday, November 2nd, 1795. John Joseph Henry occupied the chair. The committees appointed to collect

, as the purpose of the organiza- tion was a most worthy one. The Lancaster County Society for Promoting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser of Wednesday, March 25th, 1800, states that a large and respectable number of citizens

church building, but in this Miss Ayres was mistaken, for he was still in deacon's orders when the ceremony of consecration was performed. On December 2nd, 1820, the Rev. Mr. Muhlenberg, then in his twenty- fourth year, entered upon the cure of Saint James's, Lancaster. On Christmas Day, following, there

just described, another theatrical entertainment was given in Lancaster borough, being what we are led to believe was the third performance by Mr. M'Grath's company. The Neue Unpartheyische Lancaster Zeitung and Anzeigs Nachrichten for Wednes- day, December 7, 1791, contains the following advertisement

, as the purpose of the organiza- tion was a most worthy one. The Lancaster County Society for Promoting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser of Wednesday, March 25th, 1800, states that a large and respectable number of citizens

would be "instructed in the polite art of riding, and managing their horses, either for the road or field: and horses of every denomination broke." The Lancaster Journal of Saturday, August 19th, 1797, informed the pub-4 lic that "for the benefit of Master Franklin" one of the actors, Ricketts' new

Wagon Loads of Gold in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE late William Uhler Hensel, a former vice-president of our Lancaster County Historical Society, and widely known as a leader of the Lan- caster bar, would, when in a reminiscent mood, often sigh for "the days of yore, when taverns were

controlled, the tavern and the dwellings of John Gonter, Jr. and Mr. Briggs, were destroyed. A committee was appointed in Lancaster to receive donations for the unfortunate individuals whose property was thus destroyed. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, November 22nd, 1822, stated that a total of $400.75 had

. A portion of the upper part of the rod was melted and the remainder so much heated as to retain its warmth for a considerable time. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, May 16th, 1823, stated : "The dust or smoke which was observed to issue from the upper part of the steeple, which is of wood, induced a