Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in States "in a state of rebellion." From 1817 to 1825 he was the Vice-President of the United States, under President James Monroe. While Mr. Tompkins was Governor of New York, he passed through Lancaster borough, according to an article that appeared in the

The Saint Patrick Benevolent Society of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N Thursday evening, August 22nd, 1816, a number of Irish- men, and descendants of Irishmen, met at the tavern of Arch- ibald McLenegan on East King street, in the borough of Lan- caster, and formed an association

The Lancaster Journal of Saturday, December 1st, 1810. The Ship Conestoga By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IT is not generally known, perhaps, that a ship named the "Con- estoga",, so-called, doubtless, in honor of the famous Indian tribe for which the river in Lancaster county was named, once sailed

performance, the Thespian Society seems to have disbanded ; as the local papers contain no references to it, it is naturally assumed that the organization ceased to exist. Eight years later, an attempt was made to form a Thespian company. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, November 20th, 1829, printed the