. James's Church, Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Sunday evening, September 18th, 1825, after divine service, a number of ladies and gentlemen met in Saint James's Prot- estant Episcopal church, Lancaster, and formed an organiza- tion for the laudable purpose of affording medical relief to the

Address to President John Adams from the Citizens of Lancaster Borough and County Supporting the Government in its Attitude Toward France By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN THE proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society of October, 1924, appears an article entitled, "John Marshall in

most useful article. "Henry Bachman." What this "machine" was like, is not now known. A writer in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, July 5th, 1833, called the atten- tion of his fellow-citizens to its merits, stating that were its ad- vantages known it would be considered an indispensable article in

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

Lancaster, which at that time was the capital of Pennsylvania. In a letter dated Pittsburg, February 22, 1810, and addressed to his friend and instructor Alexander Lawson, he refers to his sojourn in Lancaster in these words: 'From this first stage of my ornithological pilgrimage, I sit down, with pleasure

reported a constitution for the government of the 'American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry', which was read, approved and unanimously adopted. Every inhabitant of the county of Lancaster who feels an individual interest in the encouragement of

continued on their journey to Lancaster. The Lancaster Journal of Tuesday, February 16th, 1819, con- tains the following : "General Jackson with his suite, arrived in this city [Lan- caster] yesterday [Monday] morning at 3 o'clock, from the South, and started in about an hour after for Philadelphia." The

10th, 1832, extended an invitation to ladies and gentlemen of Lan- caster and vicinity, who had a taste for science and art, to visit Mr. King's hotel, in South Queen street, and inspect the most per- fect and beautiful astronomical instrument ever seen "on this side of the Atlantic." The

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