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

, April 19th, 1798. General Edward Hand occupied the chair, and John Hubley, Esq., acted as secretary. An address declaring confidence in the President of the United States, and the determination of the gathering to support the government, was agreed to and submitted to the people for signature. 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

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

heights of affluence to the depths of want, be it, therefore, "Resolved, That the people of Lancaster heartily sympathise with the unfortunate sufferers in their deep affliction, and deem it one of their Chris- tian obligations to make a general public effort to contribute in some degree to the mitigation

Journal of Monday, March 24th, 1817, con- tained the following: "At a meeting of the inhabitants of Lancaster county, friendly to the protection and promotion of domestic manufactures, convened at the court house on the 17th inst., pursuant to public notice, the committee appointed for that purpose

these the lion was exhibited. The advertisement in the Lancaster Journal is dated November 9th, 1797, and is follows: "To the Curious. The African Lion, to be seen every day (Sundays ex- cepted), at the house of Jacob Stofft, in King street. This noble animal is between three and four feet high, and

. Andrew Jackson Invited to Visit Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of friends of Andrew Jackson in the city and county of Lancaster met in the court house in Lancaster on Wednesday, April 17th, 1833. Hon. John Lightner was ap- pointed president ; James Jackson, of Colerain, Moore Connell, of

bushels of wheat in eight hours, and of threshing other grain in proportion. The owner notified the public that he intended to thresh every Monday, from 10 to 11 o'clock, for four consecutive weeks, in order to give persons desirous of seeing the machine in operation an opportunity to gratify their

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