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

MASSACRE OF THE CONESTOGA INDIANS BY THE PAXTANG BOYS-A POEM By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XVIII, pp. 169-185, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster 1 County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled, "Mas- sacre of the Conestoga Indians, 1763: Incidents and Details." In this paper the

, Henry Keffer, Henry Brenner, Joseph B. Myres, Thomas Logan, Emanuel Schaeffer and William Frick.5 In this paper the reader will observe that no attempt has been made to write a history of the Mechanics' Society (an organization which is still in existence and which contributes books to the A. Herr Smith

1841. The year following, the receipts amounted to $136.27 ; the expenditures, to $148.79. 11 Appended to the report for the year 1842 was the following : "We cannot but think, that were the object of this society, and the plan of its operation, more generally known, it would receive a more hearty

84. WISE, ANDREW LANCASTER EXAMINER AND HERALD, Wednesday, March 29th, 1848. "Died, in West Earl township, on the 16th instant, Andrew Wise, a sol- dier of the Revolution, aged 88 years, 4 months and 8 days." 85. WISLAR, MICHAEL LANCASTER JOURNAL, Friday, October 15th, 1824. "Died, on the 15th

the honor and fame, hand in hand with a band of patriots, which never die. It was in his after conduct, in times of peace and in the bosom of his family, that the virtues of the private citizen shed a lustre on the character of a soldier. "Be assured, Madam, that the memory of the companion of your

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

jail, for the time being, all vagrants and disorderly and suspicious persons found in the streets at an unusual hour, who cannot give a satis- factory account of themselves. "Published" by order of the corporation and consent of the citizens. "Adam Reigart, Jr. "John Bausman, "Burgesses." 1 Printed in

me of an earlier opportunity of acknowledging the favor of your address. But a testimony of kindness so flattering to me, and a display of philanthropy so honorable to yourselves, will be forever remembered with gratitude and respect. "The great objects of a free government must be to establish