until the society con- sisted of thirty-five members, a meeting was to be held each Wednesday evening at the house of Christian Smith. The book of the organization was to be kept open for subscriptions at the store of Messrs. J. and P. Long, North Queen street. Joseph Ehrenfried was the secretary. The

Philadelphia on the night of March 4th, 1798. The next morning, President Adams informed Congress of their arrival; and two weeks later, sent to that body his startling message, declaring that the envoys could not succeed "on terms compatible with the safety, the honor, or the essential in- terests of the

general, that he has removed to the corner of South Duke and Vine streets, in the city of Lancaster, opposite Mr. Luke Brown's coach manu- factory and near the German Lutheran school house, where he has prepared suitable bathing rooms, on his newly-invented plan of using cold or warm baths, whereby the

states in which the subscribers resided. Among those accredited to Pennsylvania we find the following citizens of old Lancaster: Simon Snyder, Robert Coleman, William Hamilton, Adam Reigart, Charles Smith and Jasper Yeates. William Henry, Jr., who was born in Lancaster, Pa., on March 12, 1757, also

was contributing to the comfort of those who came to do honor to her native city through the Lancaster Fencibles. She would always revert to that occasion with feelings of gratification and joy; and whenever she recalled this mark of esteem from her visitors, it would be to remember with gratitude

country, call loudly for counter exertions on our part. "Policy, patriotism and self-interest demand effort. The ex- ample set by our fellow-citizens of New York, Philadelphia, Balti- more, Pittsburgh, Washington and other places, ought to be fol- lowed ; and it is anxiously hoped that in the county of

West- cott's History of Philadelphia, Vol. 2, p. 864.) So far as I am, at pres- ent, able to discover, it was seventy years later before a representative of this "king of beasts" was seen in Lancaster. We know that in 1797 an African lion was placed on exhibition here, although this may not have been

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

Wednesday, February 16th, 1842. It is as follows : "Died, at Baltimore, Md., on February 4th, Mrs. Ann Moore, formerly postmistress of Lancaster, Pa., in the 73rd year of her age. "This venerable lady was well known to the citizens of Lancaster, among whom she had a large circle of acquaintances. Mrs. Moore

Arnold marched to attack Quebec, 7. A Map of part of Rhode Island showing the positions of the American and British Armies at the Siege of Newport, and the subsequent action on the 29th of August 1778. 8. A Map of those parts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, & Georgia, which were the scenes