succeeding issue of the Lancaster Journal, dated Friday, March 1st, 1822, contained an announcement that a meeting of the society would be held on Wednesday, March 6th, at the house of Christian Smith. How long the society continued to exist and who were the officers and members of it is not now definitely

with the French Republic." Similar meetings were held elsewhere and popular indignation at the conduct of France was rapidly in- tensifying. Following the example of Philadelphia, "a large number of respectable inhabitants of the borough and county of Lancaster" met in the court house on Thursday

, 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

subscribed for this valuable work, though at the time he was living, I think, in Northampton county, where he had been commissioned in 1788 a justice of the peace, and judge of the courts of common pleas and quarter sessions. The name of Benjamin Smith Barton, M. D., who was a son of the Rev. Thomas Barton

Lancaster, where so many useful manufacturing establishments are in opera- tion, the citizens will not be backward in giving countenance to the exertions of their brethren in other sections of the United States." In response to this appeal, a number of persons friendly to domestic manufactures, met at Col

The following description of the Dunkard Monastery indicates that Mit- telberger is mistaken in stating that the third road "runs to the left hand toward Lancaster and Bethlehem." Obviously, he meant Ephrata. At the latter place there was "a monastery and nunnery of Dunkers," described by

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

citizens as to the legislature, which then held its sessions at Lancaster, that, on the decease of her husband, she was proposed as a candidate for the vacant place. Although the appli- cation was a novel one, the government was at length induced, by the urgency and respectability of those who pressed the

darkness of the night to its progress, the sun was still shining brightly over the orange groves of California. It is also an interesting fact that while the death of Henry Mansin (or Marson) who claimed to be a British officer, has left no memory even in Lancaster, where all of its tragic details took

Lancaster on Monday, May 14th, 1781, accord- ing to the following entry in Christopher Marshall's diary: "May 15th, 1781. Gen. Wayne, with his suite, came to town last evening, on his route to the southward." The General remained here several days. We have no means of knowing where he stayed. In a letter