it, plus chairs and a wagon, destroyed by fire at night, according to the New HoUand Clarion (2 September 1893). Arson was considered a possible cause of the melancholy event. A month later the State Organization of the Women's Christian Temperance Union held its annual conclave in Lancaster. Several

the history of Co- lumbia and the "Underground Railroad" in the days of the Fugitive Slave Act knows that a tunnel to the Wright Mansion would have been com- pletely unnecessary. Other popular stories include things that were supposed to have hap- pened in Lancaster but which did not actually occur

-assurance that covered whole pages of news- print and cured all ailments including cancer. Lydia Pinkham already was a formidable competitor for the patent medicine brewers, but the prim and proper Victorian ladies of Lancaster could not open their newspapers with- out witnessing the latest skirmish in the