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

, Lancaster boasted of a bathing establishment, operated for the benefit of the public, and had on sale "bathing machines," as is evident from the following advertisement, which appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 5th, 1833: "BATHING ROOMS. "The subscriber respectfully informs the public in

number of the rioters were arrested. AID GIVEN TO NORFOLK AND PORTS- MOUTH IN THE YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC OF 1855 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the summer of 1855, the scourge of yellow fever was epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia. Business was paralyzed, much suffering ensued from a lack of

occurred in Zion German Lutheran church this city, the cause of which, as we look back through the mists of nearly a century, seems childish and unwarranted. The Examiner and Herald of Thursday, January 29th, 1835, contained the following account of the event, which occurred on Saturday evening, January

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

measures eight feet from nostril to tail; is of a beautiful dun colour, nearly 8 years old & weighing 450 weight. He is tame as any domestic animal whatever, and is really worth the contempla- tion of the curious. "Price of admittance, for Ladies and Gentlemen, One quarter of a Dollar— Children half price

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

that paper it is stated that Ann Moore served as postmistress of Lancaster, Pa., from July 1st, 1798, to April 11th, 1829, a period of 31 years. Since that paper was published, my attention has been called to the obituary of Mrs. Moore which appeared in the Lancaster Examiner and Democratic Herald of

from his excellency, the Commander-in-chief, a general court-martial was held at Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, when Henry Mansin (who confessed himself an officer in the British army) and Wendal Myer, an inhabitant of the county, were brought before the court and charged with being spies, carrying on a

them. The Pennsylvania Gazette of Thursday, May 20th, 1762, published the numbers that were good for prizes. The erection of the steeple was completed in the spring of 1762. From March 22nd to the 27th of that year James Bick- ham, liquor dealer and member of the parish, furnished 13 1/2 gal- lons of