volumes, from which the children each Sabbath are furnished with a book. The school now numbers 216 scholars and 28 teachers; and from the efficiency of and the great interest manifested by the teachers, it is to be presumed that the number of scholars and the prosperity of the school will not

informed men I ever knew were the crudest thinkers I ever met. Some men who can throw chunks �of information at you big enough to floor you, throw them in chunks and do not know how to dissect or to discriminate their parts. Some men, full of knowledge, are so full that they cannot move; their minds are so

grove south of Landisville. John C. Landis and a few others, how- ever, did not take much interest in those transient exhorters from other parts. John C. Landis, Jacob H. Hershey, George Dingler, Henry Eshleman, Jacob H. Smaling, Jacob Minnich and S. D. Druken- brod were among some of the early

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

profane cursing and swearing and many other enormities—which most of the inhabitants witnessed with great pain, we wish and purpose to use our endeavors to prevent. We presume this inti- mation will be sufficient to prevent persons of character from assembling in this place in future, for the above

East Conestogoe and Pequea townships was as follows: "To the worshippfull his Majesties Justices of the Peace at the Court of General Quarter Sessions, held at Chester ye 30th day of August, 1726. "The Humble petition of Hans Grove & William Clark most Humbly showeth: "That the Taxable Townships or

Lancaster Journal of Friday, January 2nd, 1824, in which this information was found, does not give the names of the officers and members of this fine charity. The second annual report was published in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, December 24th, 1824. The receipts of the organization, including

was contributing to the comfort of those who came to do honor to her native city through the Lancaster Fencibles. She would always revert to that occasion with feelings of gratification and joy; and whenever she recalled this mark of esteem from her visitors, it would be to remember with gratitude

, as the country became developed. It is not known when the first horse-race was run in Lancaster borough and county? Information on the subject is quite meager; and most of the 1 In a paper entitled, "Historical Sketch of Rural Field Sports in Lan- caster County," written by Herbert H. Beck and

for the right. For now the child and sire of time demand the deeds of earnest men, To make it better than the Past, and stretch the circle of its ken." —Anon. QUAINT TAVERN SIGNS IN the good old days, when taverns were known by quaint old names and were often under the management of people of the best