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

who may happen to be in town and are friendly to domestic manufactures, are invited to a meeting at Col. Slough's tavern this evening at half past 6 o'clock. "The exertions that are making by our trans-Atlantic brethren to suppress the manufacturing of every thing from a hob nail up- wards in this

members of this association, and their successors, are, according to the said act and in pur- suance thereof, incorporated and made a body politic and corporate in law and in deed, by the name, style and title of the "Society for the Promotion of Industry and Prevention of Pauperism," and by the same name

effects which are already apparent from its influence. From the report of the librarian, we are glad to per- ceive that a number of boys attend regularly every Friday evening to renew or exchange the books they had taken out the preceding week, and that they often show great anxiety to obtain particular

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

Divine. The guilt is great, the cry is loud, And justice comes when comes a shroud." PETITION OF INHABITANTS OF LANCAS- TER TO HON. JOHN PENN NOT TO GRANT REPEAL OF LAW PROVID- ING FOR A NIGHT WATCH By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the manuscripts department of The Historical Society of Penn- sylvania, 1300

interest, it may be well to review briefly the military activity of citizens of Lancas- ter city and county in connection with these hostilities. War was formally declared by the Congress of the United States against Great Britain on June 18th, 1812 ; and on the fol- lowing day, June 19th, President James

channel ; and while this force is kept up in proper order we think the British will not attack it. The people in that neighborhood have suffered much from being compelled to desert their farms and perform military duty. "Companies are fast arriving from Chester county, and the lower end of Lancaster

of Mark Grove, Jr., Stalker Coates, Martin Meixell, Jr., David Nelson and Christian Sook, Sr., reported the following resolution, which was adopted unanimously : "Resolved, That it be recommended to the citizens of Leacock township not to receive any other bank notes than those which are at par in

ground assumed of defense or exculpation is, that the charter of the church does not permit English preaching, and that as the in- troduction of a clergyman to deliver an English sermon was a viola- tion of the provisions of that instrument, the preventive proceed- ings resorted to were justifiable." A