signal. It was ra- pidly relayed that the parade was on the move. The boy stationed at the old brick chapel of the Lancaster Cemetery was Wil- liam Frederic Worner (who later became the librarian of the Lancaster County His- torical Society), and he signaled to the lookout at the window of the third

demanded $95,500. The claim was finally settled in 1810 by the payment of $1,314.20. See ibid, vol. 2, pp. 113, 114. 4 This and following quotations were taken from the work of Catharine Van Cortlandt Mathews, "Andrew Ellicott: His Life and Letters," New York, 1908. Copy in Fackenthal Library. �exertions

had an extensive practice in Lancaster, and was a member of the Lancaster City and County Medical Society from its founding in 1844. Always in advance of his times, he practiced magnetizing (hypnotizing) at the home of Judge Alex- ander Lawes Hayes and elsewhere, according to the diary of Mat- thias

Baron " Stiegel and the Muhlenbergs By M. LUTHER HEISEY In February, 1762, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg visited Heidelberg, Tulpe- hocken, Lebanon (in dreadfully cold weather), Ephrata and Canestoge; all points within the early bounds of Lancaster County. He was engaged in visiting and consoling the

, 111. 17 History of Chester County, Cope, 1881, p. 670. 18 Rupp's History of Lancaster and York Counties, p. 551. 19 Ellis and Evans' History, p. 363. �58 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOHN CHRISTOPHER DRAENKEL (TRINGLE) #38, 51 was a member of Trinity Church, and presented to the congregation in

postal service: "Nothing in the government of the United States is calculated to excite more admiration, nothing in itself is more stupendous, than the immense machinery of the Post Office establishment, and its widespread branches. Over this prodigious space, the post routes extend, diverge and traverse

A CENTURY OF PROGRESS ALONG LIME STREET, LANCASTER, PA. By M. LUTHER HEISEY The logical starting point of our sketch of Lime street, from its begin- nings, and of some of those who at one time had, or now have, their homes on this thoroughfare, is East King street. There, on the northwest corner

there were some Jewesses who had not long since come from New York, that made a tolerable appear- ance, being well-dressed and of an agreeable behaviour." The dances were concluded about twelve o'clock. In 1797 Mr. Baconais advertised in the Lancaster Journal that he has opened a school for dancing, and