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

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

Ann Moore, Postmistress of Lancaster, First Woman Appointed to Office Under the Federal Government By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XX XIV, pp. 62-3, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled "Post- masters and Postmistresses of Lancaster." In

Becker, John Hershy, Jacob Summy, John Metz, Jacob Newcomer, Andrew Kemmerer, Jacob Snebely, Jr., and John Spickler, Sr. PUBLIC-HOUSE KEEPERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY IN 1772 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, there is preserved a list of tavern-keepers who

in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biog- raphy, Vol. XLV, pp. 292-3, was placed in the home of Adam Thompson in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1842. Made of mahogany, and designed by Mr. Thompson, who got his idea from the Prime Min- ister of Great Britain, it measured seven feet long by four wide

impending evils, and to restore freedom to our commerce and pre- serve peace to our citizens." War was declared June 18th, 1812. The Benevolent Society of Paradise By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A COMMUNICATION, — dated Paradise, Pa., January 11th, 1817, — appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, Jan- uary

bestowing his name upon those who deserved the honor. He is now chiefly remembered as the patron of a political organization in New York city, called "The Tammany Society." Before the War of Independence there were Whig societies known by the names of "Sons of St. Tammany", and "Sons of Liberty." In May

. It is evident from the minutes of the Presbyterian Synod of New York and Philadelphia, that as late as May, 1762, the Presbyterian school at Chestnut Level received aid from the parent Society in London, England. It was reported at that meeting of Synod (1762) "that the fund for the German emigrants