, Committee of Distribution for the Cumberland sufferers." Seven days later, Mr. Mayer received an acknowledgment, as follows : "Cumberland, Md., May 29th, 1833. "George Louis Mayer, Esq., Lancaster, Pa. Dear Sir : "Your generous favor of the 23rd instant, came to hand in due time, and has been laid before

Conestoga, at one dollar a ton, which will be the amount of the toll, supposing the distance from Hostet- ter's mill to the Susquehanna to be 15 miles. It is said coal has been brought from Philadelphia to Lancaster, for the use of our smiths, the cost of which is from four shillings and six pence to four

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

Lancaster city. It is as follows : "There is now being built over the Conestoga, in the vicinity of our city, a bridge 1,400 feet in length and twenty-three in breadth, standing on two abutments and ten piers. The piers rise sixty feet above the surface of the water, and are believed to be the highest in

having thrown Baltimore into a state of intense excitement, sailed to the mouth of the Susquehanna river. The presence so far inland of a British force numbering scarcely five hundred men, soldiers, sailors and marines all told, does not seem to be creditable to the men of Maryland and Vir- ginia ; but

passage apply to John Hemphill, 42 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa." Society for the Support and Protection of Indigent Orphans By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER 0N Friday, July 19th, 1822, a number of ladies met in the Sun- day-school house of Saint James's Protestant Episcopal church for the purpose of forming

confidant on many matters personal, political and legal. Lancas- ter county has not produced his equal ; died full of years and of honors, in his 92nd year. The last year he lived with his step- daughter, at 341/2 South Duke street, Lancaster, Pa., where he died, at three A. M., Friday, December 12

total of $456.64 was spent for materials and labor during the year 1825. The fourth report was published in the Lancaster Journal on Friday, December 22nd, 1826. It covered a period of only three months—from January 3rd to April 3rd, 1826. During this brief time the society expended $182.51 for labor

which it may be in the power of any person to give relative to the manufacture of all articles made within the county, may be furnished the society. "With regard to the quantity and value of any article manufactured, the capital engaged, the number of hands employed, their sex and ages, and every other