women to make into garments, for which sewing they are paid, and the garments clothe the poor of the 'Dorcas' or the children of the `Children's Aid.' A pathetic scene occurred the day before last Christmas, when a woman was paid seventy-five cents for some sewing she had done at nights, after hard days

, June 10th, 1808, contained the following communication, dated "Strasburg village, June 2nd. 1808": "Agreeably to notice, a large number of the inhabitants of this village assembled this day at the house of Mr. Michael Rine, with a view to adopt measures for preventing what has been usually called a

years, the distinction rested upon a school found in the opposite direction of the county, old Sandstone School of Strasburg Township. Since 1815, and continuing at the present time, it holds an unbroken record of one hundred and twenty-one years of service to the children of that community. In the

. Collections in Aid of the Poor By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE Lancaster Journal of Friday, January 8th, 1830, stated that the committee appointed in the south-east ward of Lancaster during the winter for the purchase and distribution of wood among the poor, had left an account at the office of that paper of

to many who were desirous of it. The want of which is a subject of general complaint among the poor of this city in the winter season. "Many idle children are permitted to roam the streets, and solicit charity, a practice which this Society thinks ought to be discouraged ; and sincerely regrets that

Lancaster Journal of Friday, January 15th, 1830, contained a statement of donations received by Mayor Michael Carpen- ter from October 7th, 1847, to January 13th, 1849, for dis- tribution among the poor of the city of Lancaster. The statement is as follows : RECEIPTS. Received from Hon. James Buchanan, in