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

, and as the important benefits which the members are capable of deriv- ing from it are not so well understood as they ought to be, it is proposed to make a public exhibition of their usual routine of exercises, the nature of their institution, to give a statement of their library, and to thank their

con- tains many statements that are not in accordance with facts. For example, on page 5, it is stated that Rebecca Gratz, the original of Rebecca, in Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe", is buried in the old Jewish Ceme- tery on East Liberty Street, Lancaster. There is absolutely no truth in this statement

"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

objects, articles, and conditions therein set forth and contained, are lawful. In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand, the 14th day of May, A. D., 1832. S. Douglas, Att'y Gen'l. Pennsylvania. S. S. We, the Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, severally certify, that a Supreme Court held

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

repaid some time; and then our farmers and mechanics will be better able to count the cost."14 In order more fully to complete the outline of the part taken along military lines by citizens of the borough and county of Lan- caster during the War of 1812, the following extracts are taken from Vol. 34, pp

destroy Elkton, if it should cost him a thousand men. Our troops are now collecting there in considerable numbers. Their force is now about eight hundred. A French letter of marque (a schooner) mounting twelve guns, lays at Elk landing. They have two breastworks erected, which have a good command of the

of Mark Grove, Jr., Stalker Coates, Martin Meixell, Jr., David Nelson and Christian Sook, Sr., reported the following resolution, which was adopted unanimously : "Resolved, That it be recommended to the citizens of Leacock township not to receive any other bank notes than those which are at par in

form part of the community in which we live, to give prefer- ence to articles of foreign workmanship—even though they may be superior to those which are manufactured by our own citizens, and at prices fully equal—yet, in justice, we are bound to condemn the principle as a public wrong, and the policy