and Weekly Advertiser of Saturday, Novem- ber 18th, 1820, contained an announcement to the effect that the inhabitants of Lancaster inclined to unite in the organiza- tion of an agricultural society, were requested to meet in the court house in Lancaster city, on Saturday morning, December 2nd. A full

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

Alexander von Humboldt in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N March 7th, 1804, Alexander von Humboldt, who had been traveling in the New World, left Vera Cruz, Mexico, for Havana, on board a royal frigate, to secure collections left there by him for safe keeping in the year 1800. After a stay

threshing machine lately erected by Mr. David Prentice, at Mr. David Witmer's, in opera- tion, do hereby certify, that, in our opinion, the workmanship is well executed, and that the machine will answer the purpose for which it is intended, to the fullest extent. "Henry Witmer, James Crawford, Thomas Evans