address was as follows: TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE ADDRESS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, PA. At this alarming crisis in our political existence, we approach you, Sir, to express our cordial approbation of the measures adopted by the Executive for the preservation of the

ALEXANDER WILSON IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner The name of Alexander Wilson, pioneer ornithologist in America, should be familiar to every well-informed school boy in the land; yet doubtedless many of our local high school students who turn to Wilson's books for in- formation on birds, do

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

place, yet the execution of Major Andre, another spy and also a British officer, is world-known. It is also a singular coincidence that Andre had his residence in Lancaster for a time. The account of the court martial and execution appeared in the Con- necticut paper as follows: "In pursuance of orders

which General St. Clair wrote to Wayne, it is stated that a number of troops were obliged to pass through Lancaster on their way to York. While in Lancaster, they were to be supplied with pro- visions, and General Wayne was directed to give attention to this matter in order that the march might not be

sweep chimneys was abolished in England. Chimneys were constructed on scientific lines, and mechanical devices were invented for the purpose of keeping them clean. Our own fair town of Lancaster also had its problem in connection with keeping its chimneys clean, as is evidenced by the following article

Collections for the Poor in 1795 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of the "Association for the Relief of the Poor," of the borough of Lancaster, was held at the house of Chris- topher Brenner on Monday, November 2nd, 1795. John Joseph Henry occupied the chair. The committees appointed to collect

controlled, the tavern and the dwellings of John Gonter, Jr. and Mr. Briggs, were destroyed. A committee was appointed in Lancaster to receive donations for the unfortunate individuals whose property was thus destroyed. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, November 22nd, 1822, stated that a total of $400.75 had

paper, or papers, for each individual sufferer, to afford to each �contributor an opportunity of distributing his or her donation as he or she may think proper, an estimate being first incorporated. by said committee in each paper of the amount of the loss of each sufferer." In the Lancaster Journal of

George H. Krug, Bernhard Haag, Alexander Miller and John Myer, through the medium of the Lancaster Journal, thanked "the citizens in general for their indefatigable exertions in protecting their property from destruction." At a meeting of the citizens of Lancaster held in the court house on Tuesday