was contributing to the comfort of those who came to do honor to her native city through the Lancaster Fencibles. She would always revert to that occasion with feelings of gratification and joy; and whenever she recalled this mark of esteem from her visitors, it would be to remember with gratitude

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

large towns, — owing to frequent emigrations, and the coming in and the going out of transient persons, — offences against the criminal laws, become more frequent than in the country. By reason whereof the time of the Court of Quarter Sessions is consumed in the trial and punish- ment of petty offences

Saturday, November 14th, 1801, contained the following: "A set of complete quarter races, of considerable consequence, will be commenced on Saturday next, the 21st instant, at Wallace's lane, on the Horse- shoe road, ten miles from Lancaster and two miles from New Holland. All honest sportsmen are invited

failed, and thousands were dying of starvation. Several vessels had touched at the Islands, and, going to other ports, reported the suffering heart-rending in the extreme. Cries of "Send us bread !" were heard from every quarter. It was estimated that 10,000 people of the Island of Fogo would perish

LIEUTENANT CORNELIUS VAN CAMP By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER L IEUTENANT CORNELIUS VAN CAMP was born in Lancas- ter, Pa., November 24th, 1833, a son of John C. Van Camp, Esq., a prominent citizen of the community, and his wife, Mary Bowen. He attended the local high school and old Franklin Col- lege

—paraded in grand procession, under the charge of their several teachers, a committee of citizens, and the board of common school directors. They left their several school buildings about half past ten in the morning and walked to Trinity Lutheran church, where the ceremonies, as settled upon by the

duty of this officer to take charge of all the books, papers, prints, maps, engravings, models, or any other property, which may be obtained by purchase, or presented by individuals, to the Mechanics' Society of the City and County of Lancaster, for the use of the Apprentices' Library ; and keep a

The editor of the Lancaster Intelligencer and Journal stated that William Michael and Adam Reigart, and perhaps one or two more, were all that remained in 1841 of that goodly company, and were the only witnesses left. The petition, if presented to the Legislature, was not acted on favorably at that

the county seat and the site upon which Lancaster city later was to be built) was formally unveiled and presented to the people of Lancaster by Milton Thomas Garvin, prominent merchant, philanthropist and civic leader, in recognition of the sixtieth anniversary of his entrance into business. At a