a brief account of the 75th anniversary of one of the world's most decisive battles, the dedication of a cemetery on that field, and reference to the few remaining who participated therein, nor for any information or reference to Lincoln whenever his shadow may have fallen across old Lancaster. The

1748, he sold land in New Jersey, which had been willed to him by his father. The recital in the deed shows that John Lincon (note spelling), "weaver" of "Carnarvin" township, Lancaster county, son and heir of Mordecai Lincon, deceased, sold 300 acres of land on Cranberry brook to Wm. Dye, yeoman, of

her husband shall have been a member thereof at least five years, and shall have paid his fines and contributions agreeably to the true intent and meaning of the articles and fundamental rules of the association. "The widow of every deceased member as aforesaid, shall have paid to her out of the funds

, John Caldwell, Nathaniel Lightner and Jeremiah Brown, reported the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : "Whilst the farmers of Lancaster county have ever been, and still are, willing to encourage domestic manufactures, the time has now arrived, they think, when efficient

"her friends and pitcher." The company retired to the dinner table, where in reply to a toast from Captain Findlay in favor of "our friends and pitcher," Mr. J. J. Snyder, of Baltimore, "made some very neat and eloquent remarks delivered in a very handsome manner." He concluded by toasting "Lancaster

States a thriving manufacturing people. Factories of great variety and value were set on foot in different sections of the country. The talent, enterprise and capital of the nation were, to a considerable degree. 1 Lancaster Journal, Wednesday, March 5th, 1817. �embarked in the patriotic struggle of

AN AMISH WEDDING THREE VIRTUES — FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY — EXEMPLIFIED BY SOLEMN CEREMONY High noon neared and a solemn hush fell upon the two hundred and fifty relatives and guests asembled in the home of Benjamin Esh, at Mascot, Lancaster county, Pa., to witness a solemn wedding ceremony. To

over to work it out. This man Rinne owned and operated a mill near Roland's Church, Lancaster County. He was one of the Committee of Observation, the purpose of which was to seek out those persons who maintained a traffic in goods of foreign origin to the detriment of local products. Early in the

curiosity. That the machine would serve the farmers in Lancaster county satisfactorily is evident from the following testimonial which ap- peared in The Intelligencer and Weekly Advertiser of Tuesday, September 9th, 1806: "Witmer's Tavern, "September 3rd, 1806. "We, the subscribers, having seen the

Ann Moore, Postmistress of Lancaster, First Woman Appointed to Office Under the Federal Government By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XX XIV, pp. 62-3, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled "Post- masters and Postmistresses of Lancaster." In