Lancaster city. It is as follows : "There is now being built over the Conestoga, in the vicinity of our city, a bridge 1,400 feet in length and twenty-three in breadth, standing on two abutments and ten piers. The piers rise sixty feet above the surface of the water, and are believed to be the highest in

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

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

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

, 1834, at the advanced age of 79 years. 6 months and 9 days. The Examiner and Herald of Thursday, July 10th, 1834, contained the following brief obituary: "ANOTHER VETERAN OF THE REVOLUTION DEPARTED! "Died, in this city [Lancaster], on Wednesday morning, the 2nd instant. Major John Light, a veteran of

, 1831. The Manufacturing Company of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of citizens of Lancaster was held at the house of Hugh Wilson, in the borough of Lancaster, on Wednesday evening, August 22nd, 1810. John Swar was appointed chair- man, and Samuel White secretary. The object of the

The Manufacturing Company. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N Wednesday evening, August 10th, 1814, a number of citizens met at the house of Jacob Duchman, in Lancaster, to consider the advisability of forming a company for the purpose of manufacturing and placing on the market cotton goods of a quality

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

one before us was not an exception. Both the light and the shadow of that romance fell upon the years of earnest work spent in Lancaster; and when Mr. Muhlenberg gave up his charge there, he left behind him the grave of his earthly hopes." The first version of his famous hymn, "I would not live alway