. Born to a life of obscure poverty, and handicapped by a limited education, he labored unceasingly to improve his mind and extend his knowledge. He was rewarded by being able to prepare his great work on ornithology, the pioneer of its kind in North America. Alexander Wilson was born in Paisley

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

charm- ingly reminiscent, and vividly pictures to our imagination many of the memor- able scenes and stirring events that took place during the first half of the last century in the ancient borough so delightfully situated on the eastern bank of the noble Susquehanna,—a borough that, in 1789, failed, by

frontiersman, Colonel David Crockett, Democratic representative in the Congress of the United States from Tennessee. It is said that he won the election, not by making political speeches but by telling stories. The story of his dauntless courage and intrepidity of spirit, is known to every well-informed school

and Mr. Kauffman were returning from a Democratic celebration in Carlisle, Pa., where they had addressed a large assemblage. The stop over afforded the citizens of Lancaster city and county an opportunity to meet these distinguished Democrats and extend to them a hearty welcome. On Thursday evening, a

Contribution to Portsmouth in the Fire of 1802 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N SUNDAY, December 19th, 1802, a fire occurred in Ports- mouth, N. H., which destroyed about one hundred buildings in the business district, and occasioned a loss estimated at, approximately, half a million dollars. This was the most

his education in the college of Juilly, he was called by his brother Napoleon, then the First Consul of France, and placed in the service of the French navy. He served as a naval lieutenant in the expedition under the command of General Leclerc to crush an insurrection of the negroes of Santo Domingo

II. JOSEPH BONAPARTE THE EX-KING OF SPAIN IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Napoleon, was born January 7, 1768, at Corte, on the island of Corsica. He was educated at the Colloge at Autun, in France. In 1785, he returned to Corsica, and, shortly thereafter

Population in 1800 4,292 Increase 1,116 These statistics were also published in the Lancaster Journal of Saturday, November 17th, 1810. Lancaster in 1820 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A DAM HODGSON, an Englishman, toured the United States and Canada in the year 1820. When he returned to his native