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

put him in charge of the new and larger one. However, the person finally agreed upon was a Mrs. Ann Haines, widow of Captain Frederick Haines, of Donegal, who had previously, or was at that time, cohducting successfully a hotel in the borough of Columbia. She was a member of the Guy family, of

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

cannot be put into the book and that something more important may have taken the place of what we sought, and that the history is better than we are willing to allow. Then, again, history is not a com- pleted thing. It is continuous, pro- gressive, and never will be finished. There is here and there a