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

ground assumed of defense or exculpation is, that the charter of the church does not permit English preaching, and that as the in- troduction of a clergyman to deliver an English sermon was a viola- tion of the provisions of that instrument, the preventive proceed- ings resorted to were justifiable." A

of their losses. "Resolved, That to this end we invoke the united and hearty cooperation of those in the different towns and townships of Lancaster county, who are blessed in their basket and their store, not knowing in what hour a similar catastrophe may befall them, appealing to the public

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

had charge of the post office in this city for a number of years, and was the first female ever appointed to office under the Federal government, although the precedent established in her case has since been followed in several other instances. The facts which led to her appointment were these : The

of those who insist that the present generation would not like to have its parish referred to as "St. James's" church, when, as has been clearly shown, it has been so-called and described by devout and intelli- gent members of the parish for more than a century and a half. ARCHITECT'S DRAWING OF THE

territory now included in Dauphin and Lebanon counties, as these counties were not erected until 1785 and 1816, respectively, and were formed out of a part of Lancas- ter county. Five of the applicants were women. The names are as follows : Lancaster Borough, Matthias Slough, Adam Reigart, John Feltman

could be had. Under these circumstances, charitably inclined neighbors in the vicinity of Paradise assembled at the house of David Witmer, Jr., and after deliberation, agreed to establish a Benevolent Society for the purpose of collecting rye and corn to be deposited in the neigh- boring mills for free