The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

, the heart will dilate with rapture from the consciousness of having done a good action. The money received for admittance, will be paid to the treasurer of 'The Society for the Promotion of Industry;' a society more actively engaged than any other in our city in works of usefulness and benevolence—a

, battered and half disabled, with three feet of water in her hold and every pump working, made her way back to Hampton Roads. Early on the morning of the 23rd, information reached Norfolk that the Chesapeake had been attacked at sea. About two in the afternoon, she was reported at anchor in the Roads

Carpenter, Esquires, were appointed a general committee to re- ceive the money collected and distribute it in proportion to the respective losses. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, August 22nd, 1823, informed the public that the following sums had been collected : North-east Ward $285.28 North-west

"Pepper come rent" originated during the Middle Ages. Webster defines it as follows : "A rent consisting in supplying a certain amount, usually a pound, of black pepper cornes, at stated intervals ;" also "a nominal rent in kind operating to keep alive the paramount or dominant title to a property

in the borough and county of Lancaster, in order to encourage industry, frugality and American manufactures, formed an association known as "The Lancaster County Society for Pro- moting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts." Mr. F. A. Muhlenberg was chosen president. �The objects of the

stock for the purpose of making the Conestoga nav- igable from its mouth to Abraham Hostetter's mill. "The importance of this water communication from a place so near the borough to the river Susquehanna, must be obvious to all acquainted with the superior advantages of water carriage. The utility it

Journal, Friday, October 8th, 1819. 2 Lancaster Journal, Friday, November 5th, 1819. �"PREAMBLE. "The wealth of a nation is derived from the labor of the people who com- pose it; and as the general revenue will be great or small according to the quantity of productive industry that is set in motion, it is

society whose moral conduct (not less than their theoretical [theological?] opinions) is well adapted to promote 'Peace on earth, and good will toward men'. "Accept, my friends, a cordial wish for your happiness individually, and for the general prosperity of the society to which you belong. "Thomas