gallons of foreign spirits are now annually im- ported into this country, which cost about two million dollars, clear of freight, duty and charges. If this money, instead of being sent abroad, were distributed among our farmers at home, and applied to the purchase of corn and rye, it would greatly promote

, $ 571.33 " employees in William Diller's machine shop, 12.21 " citizens in the north-east ward, 482.87 " employees in the Lancaster locomotive works, 88.75 "Miller and Fellenbaum's machine shop, 20.00 " " C. M. Howell's marble works, 12.50 " citizens in the south-east ward, 318.66 " " " " south-west ward

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

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

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

will immediately abolish the embargo and restriction upon trade and prevent the calamities of war falling upon our common country." It is also interesting to note that a meeting of the inhabitants of Manheim, Lancaster county, Pa., was held on Tuesday, June 16th, 1812, for the purpose of declaring

, forage, etc. Early in the month of September, an expedition was determined on by General Washing- ton to reinforce General Montgomery, who was then advancing into Canada by the way of Lake Champlain. A detachment was ordered and marched from Cambridge, under the command of Col. Benedict Arnold. It was