detail, the trials and difficulties that attended the building of the first railroad through Lancaster city. Since Mr. Hensel's paper was published, I have discovered �in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, September 17th, 1830, a de- scription of the bridges erected over the streams to the east and west of

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

deeper into our honorable past and to encourage the por- trayal of many other historical scenes." MAYOR ROSS'S RESPONSE In his reply to Mr. Garvin, the mayor said: "To receive the painting so generously donated to the city by you, Mr. Garvin, is a pleasure. I accept it for the people of Lancaster, and I

County Historical Society. 1 Lancaster Journal, Friday, January 16th, 1829. 2 In a letter, dated Lancaster, Pa., January 14th, 1829, and addressed to John Reynolds, editor of the Lancaster Journal, Major John Getz stated that he was present at the meeting of the mechanics of the city, but that he with

this city by a very handsome military parade of the Volunteer Battalion, and Captain Ringwalt's company of Washington Grays. A beautiful standard, painted by Lieut. Armstrong, was presented to the Grays, accom- panied with a very neat address by Mrs. Armstrong, to which an appropriate and patriotic

reported a constitution for the government of the 'American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry', which was read, approved and unanimously adopted. Every inhabitant of the county of Lancaster who feels an individual interest in the encouragement of

The references to the organization in the local papers are few, and little information concerning its activities can be obtained. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 3rd, 1815, contained an announcement that the trustees of the "Juvenile Library Society" were requested to meet at the house of

governor, through the following letter : "Lancaster, Pa., "May 25th, 1812. "To His Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief: "During the long space of time wherein other nations, under the scourge of ambitious and profligate princes, have been the victims of destructive wars, 1 Pennsylvania Archives, Second