fast-thinning ranks of the Blue and the Gray to Gettysburg in final reunion. H. G. Wells, noted authority, classes Abraham Lincoln, the central figure of that great drama, among the first six men of the world's history. If that be true, no excuse need be offered to record in the annals of this Society

site along the Susquehanna. Of many marker events in which I have taken part in Lancaster and neighboring counties, there has been none whose purpose appeals to my per- sonal appetite for local historical facts as much as does this one marking Wright's Ferry. All of us interested in history have

Thomas Jefferson. The "momentous" period to which the address refers, was the difficulty with France, to which country the Jay treaty had been very distasteful, as the French declared that it favored Great Britain and denied certain rights to them. Happily, war was finally avoided. The Dispensary of St

, Lancaster boasted of a bathing establishment, operated for the benefit of the public, and had on sale "bathing machines," as is evident from the following advertisement, which appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 5th, 1833: "BATHING ROOMS. "The subscriber respectfully informs the public in

, treasurer of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Relief fund, received the following letter : 2 The total is incorrectly stated to be $2,116.30 in the Lancaster Examiner and Herald of Wednesday, November 21st, 1855. �"Portsmouth, Va., "November 16th, 1855. "Dear Sir: "Your esteemed favor of the 12th inst. came to me

flourishing capital of Lehigh county, in this State, have recently been visited by a conflagration, which in the brief space of two hours laid waste the fairest portion of the town, destroyed more than one-fourth of the value of all its assessed real and personal property, and plunged entire families from the

any branch of home manufacture, or who, elevated above the sordid considerations of personal aggrandizement, extends his views to the ultimate welfare and real independence of his country, must feel a deep concern in the prosperity and spread of this society. The close of the late war found the United

audience listened gravely. The men and the women are segregated. Some of the elders had arm chairs, and a few of the very aged were provided with cushions. All the women, and even infants in arms, wore the traditional white caps, except the bride and her female attendants. She wore a black cap, as the

Revolutionary War Snyder discovered that Rinne was selling flour to the British Army, and raised the question with Rinne as to the consequences of the discovery by local authorities of Rinne's actions. The result of the argu- ment was that Rinne gave Snyder his freedom papers, and Snyder imme- diately proceeded

An Early Threshing Machine in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER LATE in the summer of 1806, a threshing machine, invented in Scotland, was erected at David Witmer's mill in Lancaster county, Pa. The machine was capable of threshing 35 bushels of oats in an hour, of threshing and cleaning 100