known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and

address was as follows: TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE ADDRESS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, PA. At this alarming crisis in our political existence, we approach you, Sir, to express our cordial approbation of the measures adopted by the Executive for the preservation of the

perfected or not is not known, as subsequent issues of local papers do not refer to the subject. Seven years later, citizens of Donegal and Mount Joy town- ships met for much the same purpose at Elizabethtown, Lancas- ter county, Pa. On their recommendation, and public notice hav- ing been given, a largely

nurses, and many inhab- itants died. Subscriptions for the relief of sufferers were solicited in the principal cities of the country. Lancaster city and county, never behind in deeds of mercy and charity, responded to the call for assistance from the afflicted inhabitants of the two Virginia towns. A

ALEXANDER WILSON IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner The name of Alexander Wilson, pioneer ornithologist in America, should be familiar to every well-informed school boy in the land; yet doubtedless many of our local high school students who turn to Wilson's books for in- formation on birds, do

County, the Eden Spot of Pennsylvania." This was briefly responded to by a member of the Lancaster com- mittee. It would be interesting to know what became of this pitcher. If it is still preserved, it should have an honored place in Lan- caster's museum, when that fire-proof structure is erected. THE

Journal of Monday, March 24th, 1817, con- tained the following: "At a meeting of the inhabitants of Lancaster county, friendly to the protection and promotion of domestic manufactures, convened at the court house on the 17th inst., pursuant to public notice, the committee appointed for that purpose

perils and hardships, his vessel en- tered the Thames at London and Mittelberger landed safely on the same day on which, four years before, he had trod the soil of North America. An African Lion in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A S early as 1727 a lion was exhibited in Philadelphia. (Scharf and

. Andrew Jackson Invited to Visit Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of friends of Andrew Jackson in the city and county of Lancaster met in the court house in Lancaster on Wednesday, April 17th, 1833. Hon. John Lightner was ap- pointed president ; James Jackson, of Colerain, Moore Connell, of

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