, half year or quarter. Those wishing to become subscribers will please apply to A. Thomas, librarian, at the library, [South] Duke street, opposite the [Trinity] Lutheran church. "Gentlemen of the city and county of Lancaster are respect- fully invited to call and examine the library." In the Lancaster

annum, for board and tuition." This school became quite celebrated, and was attended by a large number of students from Lancaster county and other parts of Pennsylvania; also from Maryland and Delaware. In an advertisement in the Lancaster Journal, April 2nd, 1803, the public was informed that "the

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

between the old world and the new. Yet such was the case, accord- ing to an advertisement in the Lancaster Journal of Tuesday, June 15th, 1819, which was as follows: "From Londonderry direct and back to Philadelphia. The ship Conestoga, William Marshal, master, will sail in about two weeks. For freight or

The references to the organization in the local papers are few, and little information concerning its activities can be obtained. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 3rd, 1815, contained an announcement that the trustees of the "Juvenile Library Society" were requested to meet at the house of

and died June 15th, 1851. In 1820, he opened a studio in Marietta, Pa., and there began his career as artist and teacher. In 1849, he opened a studio, and a gallery for exhibition of paintings, in Mechanics' Institute, Lancaster; and, later, had a large studio, built by himself, in Orange street

concert, our efforts have not been crowned with success. With a view of remedying this obvious disadvantage, societies have been formed in several of our sister States and in the eastern and western sections of our own State, the objects of which are to embody the public sentiment on the subject of the

The editor of the Lancaster Intelligencer and Journal stated that William Michael and Adam Reigart, and perhaps one or two more, were all that remained in 1841 of that goodly company, and were the only witnesses left. The petition, if presented to the Legislature, was not acted on favorably at that